Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (4)

“It is interesting reading, and is, of course, excellently written.
The book is of only temporary interest, however, and from the
standpoint of historical study will be of little or no value.”

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 100w

“His shrewd, quick-glancing political insight, his wit, his sense of
the picturesque, his fundamental common sense views of life and the
smooth, even flow of his style are all illustrated at their best in
his little book on ‘Mexico in revolution.’”

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 320w

“Señor Ibáñez owes a great deal to his translators. They had an
inspiring task, for Ibáñez is a born journalist of the highest type,
and the swift rush of his narrative, the power of terse description,
the characterization, the wit to ‘make you see it,’ should be a spur
to any translator.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 25 ’20 3800w

“Ibáñez will seem to the friends of the Mexican people to have erred
as badly in going to the opposite extreme [from the radical position].
Yet Ibáñez’ picture, even if overdrawn, is an honest one. It is a
depressing picture if one accepts it as it stands. But the artist has
overcharged his canvas.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:212 S 8 ’20 800w

“Señor Blasco Ibáñez is gifted with a ‘nose for news’ and an unusual
ability to give literary form to his observations and impressions. In
short, he is a first-rate reporter. He employed his time in Mexico to
good advantage.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 140w

=BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, VICENTE.= Woman triumphant (La maja desnuda); tr. from the Spanish by Hayward Keniston; with a special introductory note by the author. *$1.90 Dutton

20–7292

“The central theme concerns the intimate tragedy of a great painter,
Renovales, who, beholding the loveliness of his young wife, persuades
her to pose for him, promising that the picture shall be destroyed.
But when his inspired hand has added the last brush-stroke, Renovales
knows that this is his master piece, and when exhibited will bring him
fame. The wife, however, in a sudden revulsion of outraged dignity,
flings herself on the picture and slashes it into ribbons. Her act
cleaves asunder the artist’s two-fold worship. Meanwhile, a blight has
fallen upon the wife’s former beauty. With pitiful futility she admits
to herself that he might freely paint and exhibit her if only it would
bring back her vanished charm. Yet she clings to life until the day
when she becomes aware that even his technical fidelity is at an end.
But when the prematurely old and faded wife is dead and buried, the
memory of her comes back to haunt Renovales with the elusive charm of
her girlhood. And it is borne in upon him that while pursuing
unattainable desires he has missed the best life had to offer, and
that now it is forever too late.”—Pub W

* * * * *

“‘Woman triumphant’ is, if one may say so without sounding dogmatic,
one of the three great novels by Blasco Ibáñez that will endure. There
are power, irony, depth and greatness in this novel. Josefina is one
of Blasco Ibáñez’s few convincing portrayals of women, and Renovales
is not merely an artist type, but a flesh and blood creature. The
atmosphere is vibrant with interest, there are admirable pages of
art-criticism, and the ever attractive scenes out of Bohemia.” I:
Goldberg

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 1300w

=Dial= 69:102 Jl ’20 130w

“It shares the vivid pictorial quality, the sweeping rhetorical
strokes characteristic of his fiction, but the slightness of its
structure, tenuity of its philosophy and a certain morbidity of theme
relegate it to the secondary rank among his novels. There is too much
in the book that has this charnel-house atmosphere, and while it has
unmistakable power, power does not redeem it.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w

“Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is the great storyteller of today. In sheer
ability to narrate, to make even the minutest analyses of the
thought-processes of his characters part of his action, he stands
peerless. ‘Woman triumphant’ only serves to emphasize those traits
which have brought him enthusiastic homage before. The translation,
like the original, is far above the average.” T. R. Ybarra

+ + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 950w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

=Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 450w

“What moves us in it is that for all their blundering and wantonness
something real and abiding has sprung from the union of Renovales and
his maja.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 500w

“Despite an inherent tendency to sensationalism, ‘Woman triumphant’
may be enjoyed for keen interpretation of human nature, sustained
romantic creation, strong plot and vigorous action.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 500w

=BLEYER, WILLARD GROSVENOR.= How to write special feature articles. *$2.25 Houghton 070

20–5605

“A handbook for reporters, correspondents and free-lance writers who
desire to contribute to popular magazines and magazine sections of
newspapers.” (Sub-title) “The book is the result of twelve years’
experience in teaching university students to write special feature
articles for newspapers and popular magazines.... The success that
these students have achieved leads the author to believe that others
who desire to write special articles may be aided by the suggestions
given in this book.” (Preface) A careful analysis of current practices
is the basis of the methods presented and an effort has been made to
show the application of the principles of composition to the writing
of articles. The book falls into two parts of which the second is
devoted to a collection of typical newspaper and magazine articles,
with an outline for the analysis of them. Part 1 contains: The field
for special articles; Preparation for special feature writing; Finding
subjects and material; Appeal and purpose; Types of articles; Writing
the article; How to begin; Style; Titles and headlines; Preparing and
selling the manuscript; Photographs and other illustrations. There is
an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:47 N ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 240w

=BLISS, DANIEL.= Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss; ed. and supplemented by his eldest son. il *$2.25 Revell

20–20532

“Daniel Bliss is not a name of resounding fame, and yet the man who
bore it lived a long and useful life, reaching well into its ninth
decade, and this long life was for the most part spent in doing good
to his fellowman. This book is largely an autobiography written, it is
believed, wholly from memory, in his eighty-second year. His life was
the life of a missionary, a teacher and the founder and president of
the Syrian Protestant college at Beirut. He was born in August, 1823,
in Vermont, the son of a farmer of the olden time. In his own language
Mr Bliss records many incidents of his childhood. He follows these
anecdotes with the story of his school life, his apprenticeship to a
tanner, his course later at the academy and at Amherst, where he was
graduated in 1852. It was during his college course that he became
interested in missions and resolved to become a missionary. Soon after
his graduation he received ordination to the ministry. Three years
later he was married, and with his wife sailed for his lifework in
Syria.”—Boston Transcript

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 340w

=N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 120w

=Outlook= 126:421 N 3 ’20 1450w

“Exceedingly readable book. There is something extremely restful and
benign in the manner and matter of the narration.”

+ =Spec= 125:674 N 20 ’20 300w

“One of the most interesting biographies of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 19 ’20 700w

=BLOCKSIDGE, ERNEST WALTER.= Ships’ boats. il *$9 (*25s) Longmans 623.8

20–13582

“The first detailed text-book on this important subject. It follows
mainly the requirements and classification of the British Board of
trade and aims to deal essentially with practical applications and to
avoid all abstruse theory. Form, stability, strength and capacity are
carefully considered. Constructional details of the various classes
are given and there are chapters on timbers, pontoon boats,
motorboats, nested boats, and sail-boats; lifting and lowering
appliances, buoyancy air-cases; miscellaneous equipment; galvanizing
methods, painting, repairs and maintenance, fire and boat drifts, and
stowage and transporting arrangements. The book is illustrated with
photographs and line details. The author is ship surveyor to Lloyd’s
register.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

“Mr Blocksidge presents for the first time a complete and
authoritative work on a very important branch of naval construction.”
C. M. Peabody

+ =Int Marine Engineering= 25:774 S ’20 1700w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p31 Ap ’20 100w

=Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p109 F 12 ’20 60w

=BLOOD, BENJAMIN PAUL.= Pluriverse; an essay in the philosophy of pluralism; with an introd. by Horace Meyer Kallen. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 191

20–9219

“In 1874 Blood wrote and circulated a pamphlet entitled ‘The
anaesthetic revelation and the gist of philosophy,’ which brought him
into correspondence with Tennyson and Gurney, Emerson and Sir William
Ramsay, Stirling and James. In the last years of his life he returned
to the topic, and the result is ‘Pluriverse,’ posthumously published.
The central point of the book is simple enough. It is that philosophy
is ‘of all our vanities the motliest,’ and that the ‘satisfaction’
which it seeks, the sense of security through insight into the mystery
of being, is not to be obtained through argument and reasoning but
through the illumination or revelation which comes under the influence
of anaesthetics.”—New Repub

* * * * *

“Another obscure volume is added to the literature of philosophy. And
this will have to be acknowledged despite the fact that the diction of
the author is in many places very beautiful, and his thoughts very
often exceedingly suggestive.” F. W. C.

− + =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 570w

“Blood, in thorough keeping with the best in American philosophy,
thinks waveringly and writes excellently.” E. P.

− + =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 200w

“Even Dr Kallen’s interesting and sympathetic introduction does not
convince me that the aftermath was worth gathering in.... At any rate,
most sane and reasonable men do not gather their religion in the
obscure by-ways of abnormal experience, and one cannot help feeling
that Blood’s memory would have been better served had it been allowed
to live only through the pages of William James.” R. F. A. H.

− + =New Repub= 24:332 N 24 ’20 1250w

=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. Selected articles on modern industrial movements. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 330.4

20–1961

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:363 Je ’20 40w

+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20

“The selection on the whole is a fair and representative one. There is
an exceptionally complete bibliography.”

+ =Nation= 110:774 Je 5 ’20 220w

“The editor seems to have been able to detach himself from any bias in
making his selections. An excellent bibliography is presented, and an
index completes what is, on the whole, a very useful documentary work.
If the other volumes in the series maintain the standard set by this
one they will prove valuable as a source of reference and study.”
James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w

=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“As in all compilations of broad scope and limited size, the judicious
but fallible editor has included things that he might have left out,
and excluded things that he should have put in, and none of his
readers will be altogether satisfied; but for all that, he has set
before them some good material, for which those who have appetite for
industrial problems should be truly thankful.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 230w

“The compiler has made a discriminating selection of material. Papers
on Bolshevism give a much needed insight into that creed, and tend to
check the trouble-breeding application of the term to all radicals.
Both the student and the man of business will find here ample material
on which to base intelligent conclusions.”

+ =Scientific American= 122:476 Ap 24 ’20 130w

“Throughout an attempt is made to treat controversial subjects from
various points of vision. Least successful in this respect is the
chapter on Bolshevism, particularly as it relates to the achievements
of the Soviet government. On the whole, however, the cream of the
literature on both sides is impartially presented.” H. W. L.

+ − =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 70w

=Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 100w

“The reader is left free to make his own deductions from the fund of
valuable information contained therein. The selected bibliography
which starts the volume is a real contribution to literature on the
subject of industrial relations.”

+ =Textile World= 57:30 My 15 ’20 160w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 50w

=BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL=, comp. and ed. Selected articles on problems of labor. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 331.8

20–9366

This is volume 3 of Mr Bloomfield’s series of books on industrial
relations following “Employment management” and “Modern industrial
movements.” The compiler has selected for reprint the best of the
recent material on the subject, grouping this material under the
headings: Causes of friction and unrest; Cost of living; Methods of
compensation; Hours of work; Tenure of employment; Trade unionism;
Labor disputes and adjustment; Limitation of output; Industrial
insurance; Housing; Methods of promoting industrial peace;
Occupational hygiene; Women in industry. Bibliographies have been
provided for each subject and there is an index. Meyer Bloomfield
writes an introduction.

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:607 S ’20 50w

Reviewed by R. W. Stone

+ =Am J Soc= 26:242 S ’20 200w

“All phases of the labor problem are ably and concisely treated.”

+ =Am Machinist= Jl 8 ’20 120w

=Booklist= 17:10 O ’20

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 200w

“This series has become indispensable for those who, unable to
maintain a large filing system of their own, wish to keep important
articles on industrial topics that appear in the periodicals.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 140w

=BLOUNT, BERTRAM; WOODCOCK, WILLIAM H.; and GILLETT, HENRY J.= Cement. il *$6 (*18s) Longmans 691.5

20–13877

“The present volume forms one of the series of Monographs on
industrial chemistry which is being edited by Sir Edward Thorpe,
F.R.S., and published by Messrs Longmans. The book contains an
introduction, thirteen chapters, and five appendices. In the
introduction it is explained that, although cements may vary in
chemical nature from casein to iron oxide, yet, by common consent and
because of the enormous practical importance of calcareous cements,
the term cement, used without qualification, is restricted to them;
and it is of calcareous cements alone that the book treats. There are,
as Mr Blount points out, numerous varieties of such cements, but they
all fall into two groups, (1) the calcium silicate group, and (2) the
calcium sulphate group, the first being typified by Portland cement
and the second by plaster of Paris. Strictly speaking, it is with the
first group alone that the author is concerned.”—Engineer

* * * * *

“This is a welcome addition to what may be described as the ‘popular’
literature on cement. There is indeed much in the book that should
cause the cement manufacturer of today to think.” S. G. S. Panisset

+ =Concrete= 17:130 O ’20 640w (Reprinted from British Chemical
Industry)

“One has become accustomed to connect Mr Blount’s name with novel and
interesting points of view on a variety of matters and we are not
surprised, therefore, to find that he has in large measure treated his
subject in a manner quite different from that adopted by any previous
author.”

+ =Engineer= 130:280 S 17 ’20 2250w

“Rather fuller references to continental and American methods would
have been welcome. A very useful book.” C. H. Desch

+ − =Nature= 106:3 S 2 ’20 820w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p48 Jl ’20 100w

=BLÜCHER VON WAHLSTATT, EVELYN MARY (STAPLETON BRETHERTON) VON.= English wife in Berlin. *$6 Dutton 940.343

21–600

“Evelyn, Princess Blücher, English wife of the great-grandson of the
famous marshal of Waterloo, lived throughout the war among her
husband’s people, mainly in Berlin, and set down a record of what she
heard, saw, thought and felt. As one of that strange colony of
distinguished internationals who were war-bound in the German capital,
she met everybody of note and enjoyed exceptional advantages for
seeing what was going on behind the scenes during those eventful and
tragic years. She saw the war also as the country-folk saw it, for she
was frequently at the Blücher family seat in Silesia; and at the same
time she played a useful rôle in the care of the British prisoners and
wounded.”—Freeman

* * * * *

=Ath= p107 Jl 23 ’20 520w

“There is nothing stale or war-worn in this account.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 70w

“Remarkably shrewd and impartial record.” C. R. Hargrove

+ =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1000w

“Almost alone of the chronicles that have come out of the enemy
country, her diary presents a portrayal of events that is neither
envenomed by partisanship nor warped by propagandist intention.” Amy
Loveman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 D 4 ’20 1050w

“Takes high rank among the really worthwhile books of the war.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 920w

“Princess Blücher’s book adds hardly any fact of importance or of
permanent historical value. The author saw German life during the war
from only a few angles. The attraction of the book for the general
public lies almost wholly in the appeal which it makes to persons who
are interested in people of title for the title’s sake.”

− + =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 90w

“This book, simply written by an English lady, with a decided sense of
humour and deep religious faith, is far more amusing and informative
than the many documented narratives of the famous war correspondents,
because it is written from the centre of things in Germany, and has no
political or partisan object.”

+ =Sat R= 130:73 Jl 24 ’20 1050w

+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 2400w

“Its tone is moderate, neither violently pro-English or anti-German.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 25 ’20 980w

“This is not exactly an important book, but it is one of the most
interesting of those that have been written about life in Germany
during the war. Princess Blücher writes with ease, sympathy, and
charm, but no special distinction.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 2250w

=BLUNDELL, MARY E. (SWEETMAN) (MRS FRANCIS BLUNDELL) (M. E. FRANCIS, pseud.).=[2] Beck of Beckford. *$2 Kenedy

(Eng ed 20–23029)

“The Becks of Beckford were baronets—alternatively Sir John and Sir
Roger—and through an honest endeavour to repay money that had been
embezzled by a member of the family they have come down in the world
and live as hardworking farming folk. Young Sir Roger, the Beck of
Beckford of the story, after school and Oxford, comes back to the
farm; and instead of marrying an American heiress with whom he fell in
love, wins through his hardships and difficulties by hard work.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The book is wholesome and pleasant enough, but seems best suited to
readers who are still at the naïve and unexacting age.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:550 Ja ’21 100w

“This is a simple, pretty tale, but saved from insignificance by the
skill which never fails this novelist.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 120w

=BODENHEIM, MAXWELL.= Advice; a book of poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811

20–16518

Among the titles are: Advice to a street-pavement; Advice to a
buttercup; Foundry workers; Rattlesnake mountain fable; Advice to a
butterfly; Fifth avenue; Boarding house episode; Steel mills; South
Chicago. Some of the poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Smart
Set, New Republic, Touchstone and other magazines.

* * * * *

“Mr Bodenheim uses words in a cryptic, esoteric fashion, attaching to
them meanings of his own, as though they were his private property and
not the common possession of the race.”

− =Ath= p614 N 5 ’20 140w

“Mr Bodenheim has proved himself a very capable artist. Once the
reader is willing to lend a bit of sympathy to his theory there is
much to enjoy in his poems. The clew to their virtues may be a little
difficult to get, the harmony may seem discordant, the images a trifle
confusing and fantastic, but careful discernment will bring unity out
of the picture, and with a vivid phase of imaginative suggestion.” W:
S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 1050w

“His unfailing sentiment for things leads him at moments whimsically
to indulge both word and thought with frantic gestures, even
occasionally with unworthy figures of speech. Such tricks, although
they often steal distinction from surprise, wear out the power of the
brain to respond and eventually develop a resentment toward the kind
of verse that leaves us jaded. But it must be observed that Mr
Bodenheim has not made a habit of these literary capers; as occasional
lapses, his can be condoned.” Stewart Mitchell

+ − =Dial= 69:645 D ’20 1100w

“There is not a single piece in the volume that fails to possess a
fresh outlook, a precious intellectual attitude; but these are labored
over and strained at so painstakingly that whatever poetry existed in
the original concept has long left, and only dry intellectual husks
remain.” Clement Wood

− + =N Y Call= N 21 ’20 440w

“‘Advice’ is indubitably one of the important books of the year, as it
is one of the books most compact with beauty, actually worthy of
frequent rereading. It is a book small only in size, for behind its
lines tremble the multitudinous vibrations of a world of beauty and
thought.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 26 ’20 920w

=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of Americanization. $1.50 (3c) Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los Angeles, Cal. 325.7

19–12739

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“The book is written in splendid spirit and should be of good service
to foreigners and to untrained Americanization workers. The chapter
dealing with Democracy and the square deal, one of his four
Americanisms, is the best in the book. It is much better than the
other three. The chapter on the negro is very good but inconclusive.”
A. E. Jenks

+ − =Am J Soc= 25:651 Mr ’20 280w

=Booklist= 16:153 F ’20

“On the whole, the book is a valuable contribution to a subject in
which there is much interest at the present time.”

+ =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 180w

=BOGARDUS, EMORY STEPHEN.= Essentials of social psychology. new and enl ed $1.75 Univ. of Southern California press, 3474 University av., Los Angeles, Cal. 301

20–11686

This is a revised and much enlarged edition of a work published in
1918. “In this edition the problems have been re-stated and increased
in number.... The subject matter has been re-written and elaborated.
The original eight chapters have grown into fifteen chapters.”
(Preface to 2d ed) Contents: The field, development, and literature of
social psychology; Psychological bases of social psychology; The
social personality (three chapters); Suggestion-imitation phenomena
(three chapters); Invention and leadership (two chapters): The nature
of groups; Group conflicts; Group loyalties; Group control; Social
change and progress. Problems and references follow the chapters.
There is a general bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“The volume makes no particularly new contribution to its subject; its
value lies in its outlining of the field in its differentiations, and
its opening up to the student of volumes of pioneer inquiry.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 Ja 29 ’21 160w

=BOGART, ERNEST LUDLOW.= Direct and Indirect costs of the great world war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 336

19–18454

In this volume of Preliminary economic studies of the war Professor
Bogart of the University of Illinois presents a discussion, with
tables and estimates, of the war costs in each of the countries
concerned. The foreword says: “In the following pages the direct
outlays of the governments, which are matters of usual financial
procedure, may be said to be fairly accurate; the attempt to estimate
the indirect costs of the war, however, is attended with a
considerable amount of conjecture and must be regarded merely as the
best guess which is possible at the present time.” The work closes
with a bibliography of thirty pages and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Am Econ R= 10:377 Je ’20 140w

“It is not as an accurate summary of the costs of the war, but as an
outline of the financial history of the great powers, that the book
will prove permanently useful.” Alzada Comstock

+ =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 420w

“This book by Professor Bogart is the most complete and authentic
account now in print of the losses of the war, stated in terms of
dollars. The work bears the mark of painstaking cautions and scholarly
method. An extensive bibliography and good index adds to its value.”
C. J. Bushnell

+ =Am J Soc= 25:650 Mr ’20 280w

=Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 100w

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

=Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 380w

=Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 350w

“Professor Bogart has produced a careful, sober, and thoughtful
analysis of the cost of the war to the world at large, so far as the
items can be stated without over-indulgence in ‘estimates,’ and with
all proper caveats.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 80w

=BÖHME, JACOB.=[2] Confessions of Jacob Boehme; with an introd. by Evelyn Underhill. *$2 Knopf 189

“Mr Scott Palmer has done a valuable piece of work in getting together
in a small volume the more personal utterances of Jacob Boehme. It is
a book that will appeal to many people who have felt an interest in
the great mystic, but, at the same time, have found his writings, when
presented to them in mass, heavy and difficult reading.”—Freeman

* * * * *

“Mr Scott Palmer has been wise in keeping as far as possible to
William Law’s eighteenth-century translation, the simple language of
which is so admirably adapted to the profound meditations of this
homely tradesman. Quite apart from their speculative and philosophic
value, certain sentences in this volume have about them the intense
and innocent beauty of really great literature.” Llewelyn Powys

+ =Freeman= 2:357 D 22 ’20 840w

“We are grateful to Mr Scott Palmer and Miss Evelyn Underhill for
their help in faithfully elucidating Böhme’s doctrine and revealing
the man himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 1350w

=BÖHME, JACOB.= Six theosophic points, and other writings. *$3 (1½c) Knopf 189

20–4124

This book, written in 1620, has here been newly translated into
English by John Rolleston Earle. In addition to the Six theosophic
points, the contents are: Six mystical points; On the earthly and
heavenly mystery; On the divine intuition.

* * * * *

“Valuable for helping to clarify a book written four hundred years ago
in a very difficult vocabulary. Too obscure and special for any but
the student of the question.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

“These new translations have something more than the face value of new
translations of an old and more or less inaccessible author. Students
of German mysticism are indebted to the scholarship of John Rolleston
Earle as a commentator as well as a translator.” G. H. C.

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

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w

=N Y Times= p15 S 12 ’20 130w

“In the ‘Six theosophic points’ one will wander long unless one is
provided with some chart. Page after page record the wanderings of a
puzzled, ever-searching, ill-equipped, penetrating spirit, with no
compass or chart; often over-stepping, it would seem, the bounds of
sanity, but from time to time letting fall a pregnant saying. Even in
his incoherences are gleams of light.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 Ag 5 ’20 2650w

=BOJER, JOHAN.= Power of a lie. *$2 Moffat

“The novel tells the story of two men living in a small Swedish town
or village, tells what the power of a lie did to them, to their
families, and to those persons who came in contact with them—and it.
Knut Norby, a wealthy farmer, has indorsed a note for a friend, Henry
Wangen, a note for 2,000 kronen. Three or four years later Wangen
becomes a bankrupt and Norby denies his signature, denies that he ever
saw the paper, or ever signed one for Wangen. The witness is dead;
Wangen is convicted of forgery and sent to prison, while Norby is
given a banquet by his fellow-townsmen. The innocent man is punished;
the guilty man is fêted.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Here is a novel of compelling power and dignity, illuminated by a
bleak beauty like that of the aurora borealis.”

+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 60w

“Bojer does not allow himself the luxury of beauty except where it
aids his story. He strips his narrative bare, trims it exquisitely to
the least detail, and lets it glide straight before the wind. Johan
Bojer is undoubtedly a great artist, although by no means a luxuriant
and happy one. He has been aided in his American venture by the
admirable translation of Jessie Muir, which deserves the highest
praise.” R. L. Duffus

+ =Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w

“The novel is indeed admirably written, the author indulging neither
in verbal fireworks nor in splashes of black, white or scarlet. One
reads it with the feeling that it is the truthful account of a real
occurrence, but of an occurrence seen from all sides. ‘The power of a
lie,’ in short, stands head and shoulders above the average
contemporary novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:708 Jl 7 ’20 750w

“The idea is presented with fine suggestiveness and artistic
vitality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 50w

=BOJER, JOHAN.= Treacherous ground; tr. from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir. *$2 Moffat

20–4783

“Young Erik Evje has two characteristics; he is a man whose former
immoral aberrations weigh heavy on his conscience, and a man imbued
with high ideals in connection with social reform. By putting into
practice his ideals he hopes to atone for his sin. He can find no
solace in religion, and he makes of his philanthropic work his
crucifix. The little colony that he plants on a hillside is the only
tangible evidence of his ideals, and at the same time his atonement.
But he is told that his house is built on sand, that a landslide will
carry it away. It is too necessary as his last grip on the best part
of himself for him to give it up. The landslide occurs and wipes out
several families.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“A story with interesting characters, a pleasant background and well
sustained suspense, that is thoughtful without a touch of heaviness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20

“Its trenchant clearness is almost frightening, like transparent glass
where one expected wooden walls; its teaching is both true and
tragic.” R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 100w

Reviewed by R. L. Duffus

=Freeman= 1:524 Ag 11 ’20 360w

=Lit D= p93 Je 26 ’20 1800w

“The tale has the bite and ‘follow through’ of an Ibsen play, a ‘Wild
duck’ or an ‘Enemy of the people.’ It lacks, accordingly, the rich
sympathy of ‘The great hunger.’” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 420w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 120w

“The theme is peculiarly and very strongly developed. Johan Bojer
employs a very realistic style and presents a vivid picture of the
Evje farm.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 31 ’20 250w

=BOK, EDWARD WILLIAM.= Americanization of Edward Bok; the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after. il *$5 Scribner

20–17333

In writing his autobiography the author has treated himself
objectively, which accounts for the title. It is with the editor and
publicist that the book deals, not with the author’s private self. Not
until he retired from the editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journal, did
he cease to be two personalities and become simply himself. The book
abounds in reminiscences of editorial experiences and of famous men,
contains facsimiles of autographs and manuscripts, a list of
biographical data, illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“Mr Bok has done more than merely carry the reader with him along the
pleasant paths which he has trod. He has thought deeply upon the
problem of the immigrant and the result is a valuable contribution.”
H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:362 D ’20 540w

“This autobiography of the ex-editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal is
likely to produce upon the sophisticated reader that impression of
exasperated amusement which I have noted in more or less civilized
Britons when they have undergone a course of the Saturday Evening
Post, at my suggestion, in order that they might become familiar with
that microcosm of the United States.” E. A. Boyd

− =Freeman= 2:355 D 22 ’20 2550w

“This is an extraordinary array. In all the account of it there is not
one gleam of intellectual speculation, not one sign that Mr Bok ever
heard of the world of ideas, or that he understood any passions
stronger than sentimentalism. His criticism of the America in which he
lived and which he seems to have understood so well, is always merely
trivial.” I. B.

− =Nation= 111:783 D 29 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by A. M. Jungmann

=N Y Evening= Post p2 O 23 ’20 1400w

“Considered in every aspect, ‘The Americanization of Edward Bok’ is an
affording and a significant book. In style it is as simple and
perspicuous as Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis,’ which was also written in the
third person and by a man of shrewd common sense who trusted his
instincts.”

+ =No Am= 213:134 Ja ’21 2000w

“There is a great deal that is stimulating to energy, originality, and
resourcefulness in this autobiography, as well as much that is amusing
and agreeable reading.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 126:514 N 17 ’20 1600w

“It is pleasant reading and happily stimulating to wholesome
ambition.” R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

“All in all, this is a remarkable book. Edward Bok is as compelling a
writer when telling his own story as when writing on other themes, and
this ought to be one of the ‘best sellers’ of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 100w

=BOLTON, GUY, and MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Light of the world. il *$1.75 Holt 812

20–19671

The scene of this three-act play is Oberammergau, the village of the
Passion play, just previous to a new performance; the time, between
the choosing of the actors and the opening of the play; and the theme,
the disparity between the teachings of Christ and the daily life of
Christians. Anton Rendel, the chosen Christus, discovers, on the eve
of his friend Simon’s wedding, that Simon has betrayed the girl Anton
had loved. Anton forgives but advises confession to Ruth, the bride,
and is left under the impression that it was made. The girl and her
baby seek refuge and find shelter in Anton’s house. His rivals among
the actors throw suspicion on Anton and insist that he drive out the
girl or give up his rôle as Christus. He does the latter and before
the play is to open a mob comes to set fire to his house. At that
moment the truth of the situation has just been revealed to Ruth. She
exacts open confession from Simon as the price of her love, whereupon
the rôle of Christus is once more offered to Anton.

* * * * *

“In no sense is this a play that will live, but it is a workmanlike
performance with a creditable motive—defence of the unfortunate and
misunderstood.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 220w

“Guy Bolton and George Middleton have made a real addition to the
literature of our contemporary stage. Yet curiously, perhaps, the
illustrations interspersed through the published play serve as a check
rather than a spur to the reader’s enjoyment.” Dorothy Grafly

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w

=BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE, and MARSHALL, THOMAS MAITLAND.=[2] Colonization of North America, 1492–1783. il *$4.25 Macmillan 970

20–16766

“A solid treatise (arranged in headed paragraphs) by two American
history professors, giving a comprehensive survey of the colonization
of North America from 1492 to 1783, and providing a more complete
account than previous works have done of the colonies of nations other
than the English and of English colonies other than those which
established their independence. A special attempt has been made to do
better justice to Spanish achievements in North American colonization.
Of the three sections into which the work is divided the first deals
with the founding of the colonies, the second with their expansion and
the international conflict (Anglo-Spanish and Franco-Spanish as well
as Franco-English), and the third with the revolt of the English
colonies. Numerous convenient maps elucidate the text. Index 53
pp.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 240w

“A convenient and readable sketch of the whole subject.”

+ =Spec= 125:823 D 18 ’20 110w

“The style of the work is far from distinguished, and it is a
text-book rather than a work of history; but it shows just that
breadth and firmness of treatment which will aid the student to
acquire a true perspective of past events. The excellence of the idea
should have considerable effect on the elementary teaching of
history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 4 ’20 120w

“Because of this comprehensive character, from the point of view of
our present interests instead of from that of the original thirteen
states of the union, it will be particularly appreciated by those of
us who feel the importance of intelligent acquaintance with our
historical backgrounds but have not the time to specialize in colonial
history.” Lilian Brandt

+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 120w

=BONI, ALBERT=, ed. Modern book of French verse in English translations. (Modern books of verse) *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 841.08

20–8026

“‘The modern book of French verse’ covers the whole field of French
poetry from Guillaume de Poitier’s writing in 1071 to Jules Romain’s,
who was born as late as 1885. All the famous figures of French poetry
are generously included, the book being starred with the names of
Villon, Marot, de Ronsard, Du Bellay, Chenier, De Beranger, Victor
Hugo, De Musset, Gautier, De Lisle, Baudelaire, Prudhomme, Mallarmé,
Verlaine, Samain, Laforgue, De Régnier, Jammes, Paul Fort and Vildrac.
Among the translators may be casually noted Jethro Bithell, Robert
Bridges, Chaucer, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, James Elroy Flecker,
Andrew Lang, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, John Payne, W. J. Robertson,
Rossetti, Swinburne, J. A. Symonds, Arthur Symons and Francis
Thompson.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“Mr Boni’s admirable compilation of English translations of the best
French poetry makes a delectable volume. There are very few false
notes in this varied chorus.”

+ =Cath World= 111:834 S ’20 170w

“An excellent anthology of translations. Should be valuable in courses
in comparative literature.”

+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 100w

“The wealth of material at Mr Boni’s command must have made his
editorial task a pleasure as it has undoubtedly made the resultant
book invaluable. In future editions, however, Mr Boni should fill a
few very obvious gaps.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 950w

“His anthology has many gaps, judged as a selection of French verse.
However, it is useful and interesting to have this collection of
translations, not only for a better idea of French verse among those
to whom the originals are sealed, but for a study of poets of the
whole subject of translation.” W. P. Eaton

+ − =N Y Call= p11 Je 13 ’20 620w

“It must have been a labor of love on Mr Boni’s part, and, like all
labors of love, it vindicates itself by its completeness and high
average of value. The book will be found invaluable by those who do
not read French easily.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 600w

“The quality of the verse is comparatively high; none of it is high
enough to dissuade a sensitive reader from learning French.”

+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 250w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 230w

Reviewed by E: B. Reed

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 360w

=BONJOUR, FELIX.= Real democracy in operation: the example of Switzerland. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 342.4

20–9847

The author of the book, a former president of the Swiss national
council, outlines and explains the constitution and the workings of
the Swiss federal republic, which he considers to be in the vanguard
of democratic evolution. The twenty-five more or less autonomous
states comprising this confederation are political laboratories which
borrow one from another those forms of government which appear to
succeed best—a practice which insures continuous democratic growth.
Contents: Federalism in Switzerland; The evolution of democracy in
Switzerland; The Landsgemeinde; The referendum; The results of the
referendum; The popular initiative; The results of the initiative; The
election of the government and officials by the people; Democracy in
the communes and the churches; Compulsory voting and woman suffrage;
Proportional representation; Democracy in the army and maintenance of
neutrality; The future of democracy in Switzerland; Appendix; Index.

* * * * *

“Written in a pleasing style and admirably translated.” R. C. Brooks

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:514 Ag ’20 330w

=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 40w

=N Y Times= p19 Ag 22 ’20 3000w

=Outlook= 126:558 N ’21 ’20 180w

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w

“We recommend those who are interested in the theory and art of modern
politics to read this volume of Mr Felix Bonjour with attention, even
though they may be bored occasionally with its inevitable
parochiality.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:119 Ag 7 ’20 750w

“A book such as M. Bonjour’s was much needed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Jl 1 ’20 950w

=BOOK= of Marjorie. *$1.50 (6½c) Knopf

20–4704

The book is an idyl of married life told by the husband. It begins
with that night in spring when he first told Marjorie that he loved
her and makes the reader a confidant of all the intimate details that
lay between then and the time when they both bent over Peter’s
bassinette and knew that they “should live forever in Peter and
Peter’s children.”

* * * * *

“The book offers no unusual problems and its reactions are simple and
happy.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 800w

=Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 250w

“The telling is graceful and natural; the little autobiographical
fragment is a thing to cherish.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p11 My 16 ’20 180w

“‘The book of Marjorie’ is a simple description of a happy marriage by
a writer whose main charm is simplicity.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 650w

=BORDEN-TURNER, MARY.= Romantic woman. *$2 (1½c) Knopf

20–15390

The story of a Chicago heiress who marries into the British
aristocracy. It opens in Chicago, here lightly disguised as
“Iroquois,” with the heroine’s own account of her democratic and
rather hoydenish girlhood and an introduction to the childhood
friends, Louise, Phyllis, Jim Van Orden and Pat O’Brien, who play a
part in her later life. Perhaps she should have married Jim and
settled down to a conventional and comfortable American life, but
traveling with her father in India she falls romantically in love with
a handsome cavalry officer, not knowing that he is heir to a dukedom.
He, on his part, tho genuinely attracted to the girl, is not
unconscious of her wealth. Marriage brings disillusionments and
introduces the naïve American into a society whose standards are quite
incomprehensible. There is considerable analysis of the two
contrasting points of view and the story ends with a glimpse of the
war.

* * * * *

“If you can find either constructive idea or positive personality in
this book, I cannot; and therefore it remains for me, despite its
clever elaboration of detail, that thing which Mr Hewlett rightly
dismisses as not worth the name—a string of anecdotes, and no more.”
H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:71 S ’20 560w

“Her picture of that city [Chicago] and its people is one of the very
brilliant things in recent literature. Its temper is not harsh, but it
has an edge and the edge cuts clean every time. Always she conveys the
richness, the distinction, and the vigor of an arresting character and
mind.”

+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 900w

“Miss Borden is not a little pretentious. She does not avoid trying to
take more soul out than she has really put in. At the same time, she
has a rich theme and she knows her theme. She has a real Englishman in
hand and she knows him; and she has a vitality almost as good as the
vitality of art. Hers is not the detachment of art or the sincerity of
artistic self-expression. It is the drive of emotion, the sincerity of
a personal confession told in provisional terms.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 22:290 Ap 28 ’20 1650w

“Except where it becomes too involved the book is well written. Where
its author has been most successful is in the atmosphere of dull
discontent, of poignant disillusion, which she evokes throughout.
There are neat characterizations, epigrammatic bits of phrasing and
some passages written with unblushing frankness.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 600w

“It is a book worth reading slowly and must be so read, for it is told
in that peculiar manner practiced by Conrad. It is a taxing style, but
it has its fascination.” M. K. Reely

+ − =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 300w

“The work is characterized by contrasts, there are times when the
climaxes and the description are vivid but between these there are
pages where the writing is labored.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w

=BOSSCHÈRE, JEAN DE.= City curious. il *$3 Dodd

20–18755

A fantastic fairy tale, retold in English by F. Tennyson Jesse. Smaly
and Redy, husband and wife, who live in a charming little white house,
regret that they haven’t three daughters to occupy their little
bedrooms. They wished for them and said a magic verse, but nothing
happened. Then they set out to look for them. The story follows their
strange adventures and describes the very curious people they meet.
The grotesque pictures by the author are in keeping with the text.

* * * * *

=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 30w

“The Belgian turns of thought and imagery have been kept, but not at
the expense of good English, as is sometimes the case in a
translation.”

+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 260w

“It is really ingenuous of M. de Bosschère and his admirers to imagine
him as qualified to draw for children. We should hide all his pictures
from them.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 330w

=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Librarian’s open shelf; essays on various subjects. *$3 (3c) Wilson, H. W. 814

20–26990

“The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a
librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional
career, although the influences of it may be detected in them here and
there.” (Preface) The book forms a companion volume to “Library
essays” and like that volume is composed of collected papers and
addresses prepared for various occasions. Partial list of contents: Do
readers read? What makes people read? The passing of the possessive: a
study of book titles; Selective education; The uses of fiction; The
value of association; Modern educational methods; Some economic
features of libraries; Simon Newcomb, America’s foremost astronomer;
The companionship of books; Atomic theories of energy; The
advertisement of ideas.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20

=BOSTWICK, ARTHUR ELMORE.= Library essays. *$3 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 020

20–26991

The author celebrates his twenty-fifth year of librarianship with the
publication of this volume of collected essays and addresses. They are
arranged chronologically and “reflect to a certain extent the progress
of library work during the past quarter century.” (Preface) Among the
subjects covered are: Pains and penalties in library work; How
librarians choose books; The work of the small public library; Lay
control in libraries and elsewhere; The whole duty of a library
trustee, from a librarian’s standpoint; Library statistics; The love
of books as a basis for librarianship; The library as the educational
center of a town; The librarian as a censor; How to raise the standard
of book selection; The library and the business man; The future of
library work; The library as a museum; The library and the locality.
There is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:91 D ’20

=BOSWELL, A. BRUCE.= Poland and the Poles. il *$4 (4½c) Dodd 943.8

20–26318

The book is based on a study of Poland extending over many years and
on personal contact with Poles during a five year’s residence of the
author in their country. It is rather a series of essays than a
continuous narrative and aims to treat Poland ethnically rather than
politically and to describe all the region where Polish civilization
is an important element. The contents are: The land; The people:
National characteristics; The past of Poland; Divided Poland;
Political parties; The country-side; Commerce and industry; The
Ukraine question; Work at the foundations; The capital city; The great
romantic poets; Modern currents in Polish literature; Education and
science; Art and music; The war; Three maps, numerous illustrations
and an index.

* * * * *

“A valuable contribution to the literature dealing with a country of
which too little is known by the English reader. The Polish national
characteristics are very clearly described.”

+ =Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 70w

“We would draw attention to Mr Boswell’s able summary of the Ukrainian
problem.... On the other hand, although he devotes a whole chapter to
Polish affairs during the war, his treatment of the Teschen question
is, in our opinion, neither adequate nor correct. The purely
informative sections of Mr Boswell’s book are accurate and thorough.
His treatment of ethnographical matters is particularly good, while
the two chapters he devotes to Polish literature cover a large amount
of fresh ground.” P. S.

+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 700w

+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

“One of the foremost impressions made by the book is that of the
earnest effort of the author to give a truthful delineation of the
country and the people of whom he writes. This after the long years of
propaganda on the part of both Germany and Russia is too important to
be overlooked.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 600w

=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 50w

+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w

“A readable and instructive book by a competent authority. The
concluding chapter gives a useful sketch of Polish policy during the
war which was very perplexing for western readers.”

+ =Spec= 124:21 Ja 3 ’20 140w

“Unlike some supporters of the Polish cause he has no need to make up
in sentiment what he lacks in knowledge; on the contrary his knowledge
saves him from an unqualified and undiscriminating enthusiasm. The
historical and political side is naturally the most important at the
present time, and it is in regard to this that Mr Boswell’s work is
most illuminating.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 850w

=BOSWORTH, THOMAS OWEN.= Geology of the mid continent oilfields. il *$3 Macmillan 553

20–26532

A work covering the oil fields of Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas. A
bibliography of four pages following the introduction shows the
sources on which the author has drawn. The sections of the book are
then devoted to: Geographical and geological situation of the mid
continent oil region; History of the development of the mid continent
oil region; Geological structure of the mid continent oilfield region;
Geological history of the oil bearing deposits; Stratigraphy and the
oilfields; The oil accumulations and their relation to geological
structure; Character of the oil; The natural gas; Production of
gasoline from natural gas; Salinity of oilfield waters; Some general
conclusions. There is a folding map showing the region under
consideration, with additional maps and drawings and eight
illustrations from photographs. The book is indexed.

* * * * *