Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (5)

“Although the vocabulary of the book is more or less technical,
nevertheless the lay reader may pursue it with comfort and
understanding.” I: Lippincott

+ =Am Econ R= 10:588 S ’20 410w

“There is certainly nothing strikingly new in Dr Bosworth’s book, and
one further perceives in the work a strong undercurrent of bias to
prevalent American opinion. For the rest, the book certainly contains
some useful features.” H. B. Milner

+ − =Nature= 105:608 Jl 15 ’20 750w

=Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 160w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 S 30 ’20 60w

=BOUCICAULT, RUTH BALDWIN (HOLT) (MRS AUBREY BOUCICAULT).= Rose of Jericho. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam

20–6707

Sheelah Brent was literally picked up by a traveling theatrical
company and pressed into their services as substitute for a sick stage
child, when she was only seven. For six weeks she thus tided over,
with her earnings, a crisis in her family while her widowed father was
ill from overwork. Later, when she came to choose her own course, it
was the theater. She made good in her profession and in due time
became an artist. Towards this latter development her love experiences
as a woman helped. But it meant struggle and heartache for Sheelah and
defiance of all conventions. Heart solitude once more overtakes her
when her son Michael, the fruit of her first girlish and illicit love,
is sent to school in England under the guidance of his English father.
It is then that she finds so much solace in a book that she writes to
the author for more spiritual help. With the coming of the war both
Michael and his father volunteer and the latter rescues his son at the
cost of his eyesight. The usual thing follows but not before Sheelah
has turned to religion, Michael has been killed and she has discovered
in her former lover the author of the helpful book.

* * * * *

“A good deal of the novel is well written, particularly the first two
‘books,’ but it drags badly toward the close.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 350w

“The beginning is cleverly human, but the close is strongly-presented
pathos of the type commonly classed as ‘sob stuff.’”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 190w

=BOUCKE, OSWALD FRED.= Limits of socialism. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 335

20–7869

After having made it clear that he considers socialism as neither a
chimera nor a crime the author makes an attempt at a sympathetic
examination of its various tenets with a view to laying bare its weak
points and demonstrating the necessity for amendments of the original
creed. “Revision is a step in the onward march of civilization.
Science itself is nothing if not continual growth and redefinition of
terms, whose finest fruit is the advancement of humanism.” The book
falls into two parts. Part 1, The limits in theory, contains: The
problem; Karl Marx and the economists; The economic interpretation of
history; Justice. Part 2, The limits in practice, contains: The limits
in production; The limits in distribution; The limits in consumption;
The limits in government; A petition. There are seven statistical
tables and an index. The author is professor of economics at
Pennsylvania state college.

* * * * *

“In regard to the program of socialism, the author makes a worthy
contribution to a much neglected subject in that he points out the
difficulties which socialists will encounter in trying to realize
their ideals, and the limited success which they are likely to
attain.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Am Econ R= 10:860 D ’20 780w

=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20

“When he leaves the field of economics he is less convincing. The book
will prove rather stiff exposition to the general reader, who will be
annoyed at the needlessly scientific vocabulary.”

+ − =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 340w

“The book is stimulating to thought because it is itself thoughtful, a
model in manner and temper, a better antidote to socialism’s errors
than denunciation or denial of the evils it seeks to cure.” E: A.
Bradford

+ =N Y Times= p12 S 12 ’20 2000w

“There is much good stuff in the book, some shrewd ideas, and some
sound generalizing, which if turned into language understanded of the
people would be valuable.”

+ − =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 320w

=R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 20w

=BOULENGER, JACQUES.= Seventeenth century. *$3.50 (2c) Putnam 944.03

20–26872

This work forms one of the volumes of the National history of France.
It is preceded by “The century of the renaissance” by L. Batiffol,
published in 1916, and is followed by “The eighteenth century,” by
Casimir Stryienski, also issued in 1916. Contents: The youth of Louis
XIII; Richelieu; The preponderance of France (1630–1643); The kingdom
under Louis XIII; The beginnings of society and of classic literature;
The Fronde and Mazarin; The “Roi-soleil”; The glorious years,
1661–1678; Decline; Religious matters; Sunset; The kingdom under Louis
XIV; The great age. References come at the end of the chapters and
there is an index.

* * * * *

“Distinctly a readable book.”

+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20

“This new presentation of the greatest period in the history of France
is brilliantly written.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w

+ =Ind= 104:217 N 13 ’20 50w

“Boulenger has undertaken a difficult task, and he has done it well.
Though treating the general history of a whole century in some detail,
he is neither superficial nor tiringly technical. One feature of his
book is especially commendable; the author’s desire to be
non-partisan. It may be well to bring out the fact that, for the real
or quasi-specialist, Boulenger treats his subject too much from the
outside, and thus fails to emphasize sufficiently at least one feature
of much importance for the proper understanding of the epoch he
treats.”

+ − =Review= 3:503 N 24 ’20 1900w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w

“His portraits of Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert and the great King
himself are vivid and unforgettable. M. Boulenger is a learned
historian but, like so many French scholars, he wears his learning
lightly.”

+ =Spec= 125:344 S 11 ’20 150w

“M. Boulenger’s subject is relatively simple, but it is a big one, and
it has the disadvantage of being hackneyed. The best praise that can
be given to his book is to say that it is on a level with M. Madelin’s
‘French revolution,’ and superior to any other volumes in this
attractive series.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 700w

=BOULNOIS, HENRY PERCY.= Modern roads. il *$5.75 (*16s) Longmans 625.7

(Eng ed 20–9208)

“The author was a member of the British Advisory engineering committee
appointed in 1910 as a result of the increasing dust nuisance due to
poorly constructed roads. Much information regarding British
conditions was obtained and standard specifications produced. This
book covers in a comprehensive way the subjects of motor traffic, the
various kinds of roads and details of construction, waves and
corrugations, slippery streets, with appendices relating to traffic
regulations.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w

=Spec= 122:145 Ja 31 ’20 420w

=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.=[2] History of a literary radical; and other essays. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 814

This collection of essays, reprinted from various magazines, is edited
with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. The latter is a sketch of the
author’s intellectual development which is corroborated in the first
essay, “History of a literary radical.” What Bourne stood for, says
Van Wyck Brooks, was a new fellowship of the youth of America, a
league of youth, for the purpose of creating, out of the blind chaos
of American society, a fine, free, articulate cultural order. “He, if
any one, in the days to come, would have conjured out of our dry soil
the green shoots of a beautiful and a characteristic literature: he
knew that soil so well, and why it was dry, and how it ought to be
irrigated!” (Introd.) The essays are: History of a literary radical;
Our cultural humility; Six portraits; This older generation; A mirror
of the Middle West; Ernest: or Parent for a day; On discussion; The
puritan’s will to power; The immanence of Dostoevsky; The art of
Theodore Dreiser; The uses of infallibility; Impressions of Europe;
Trans-national America; Fragment of a novel.

* * * * *

“The essay which gives its title to the book is a piece of
intellectual biography which is worth the careful study of everyone
who is puzzled by the open revolt of the choicest intellects in our
undergraduate bodies against the ideals and discipline of our
universities. In ‘The Puritan’s will to power’ and in ‘Transnational
America’ Randolph Bourne’s feelings were perhaps too deeply involved
to permit him to attain the complete clarity and cogency usual with
him. But the gently whimsical ‘Ernest, or Parent for a day’ would be a
sufficient compensation for any imperfections there might be elsewhere
in the book.” Alvin Johnson

+ =Freeman= 25:293 F 2 ’21 880w

“It is impossible, in spite of all that makes it valuable, to read
this book without a final sense of disappointment. Randolph Bourne’s
interests were as wide as the world; his views were true and tempered;
his style is simple, and it is effective chiefly because the words he
uses are wise and exact rather than original; but his appeal, after
all, is very narrow. He is the pure intellectual addressing the
‘younger intelligentsia,’ and his exclusiveness gradually becomes
slightly tiresome even as the phrase quoted becomes irritating.” Freda
Kirchwey

+ − =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1050w

=BOURNE, RANDOLPH SILLIMAN.= Untimely papers. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 320.4

20–26319

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Written during America’s war preparations, these papers are well
named untimely, for they question with the rigor of a clear minded,
uncompromising pacifist and idealist, America’s attitude in combating
the spirit of the war lord with war. They are an interesting portrayal
of the courage in his belief of the author.”

+ =Booklist= 16:219 Ap ’20

“Dying just when he should have come into his own, Randolph Bourne
left behind him a set of brilliant essays on the political life of
yesterday. These have been gathered and edited by James Oppenheim with
a foreword perhaps a thought too laudatory. Yet much can be said for
Mr Bourne’s keen insight and flashing style. His sentences are diamond
cut, his reasoning clear even to the most undiscerning.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 240w

Reviewed by E. C. Parsons

+ =Dial= 68:367 Mr ’20 1500w

“They are courageous papers in that they represent an unwincing
defence of an attitude which can never have been at all popular. They
are turned from protest into positive statement by a long and
unfinished essay on the state, in which Mr Bourne was clearly
searching to vindicate the ultimate rights of personality against the
demands of authority outside. The whole essay is a superb cry of anger
against a tyranny which he felt to be grinding. Yet I venture to think
that the essay is in fact largely devoid of realistic basis. It has a
specialized motivation which makes it valuable as the record of a
personal experience, but impracticable as a contribution to political
science.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Freeman= 1:237 My 19 ’20 1150w

“It is the book of a too sensitive spirit, dying brokenhearted in a
world that seemed hopelessly insane and misdirected. Whatever we may
think of the substance of these essays there can be no question of the
delicate beauty of their expression or the evidence they give of the
patrician dignity and courage which marked the author’s personality.”

+ =Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 100w

“No educated, honest, able-bodied man can read the war essays of
Randolph Bourne without some degree of admiration for their dead
author and some sort of shame for himself. What we say now without
being either brave or original he said then, not, perhaps, with the
maturity of a Bertrand Russell or a Romain Rolland, but at least with
fine courage and imagination. It may turn out that the cleanest
picture of ourselves when we were not ourselves is here in these two
hundred and thirty pages.”

+ =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 380w

“The unfinished fragment on the state, which was to have been so great
a book, is still a keen and impressive analysis of social
psychology.... And after the self-styled peace what would Randolph
Bourne have added, what doubly bitter denunciation, to the temperate
ironies of these searching papers? Perhaps nothing but the tolerant
smile of one who foresaw.” Marion Tyler

+ =Socialist R= 8:251 Mr ’20 550w

“Academically, his arguments may have been right, but it is obvious
that they were uttered at a time when they must have proved the
reverse of helpful. They may now be read with the dispassionate calm
to which they are entitled, and they well repay careful
consideration.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 220w

“He proved right in many of the pronouncements which can now be
weighed against actual happenings; and for this reason there is hope
that a kindly hearing may yet be given to the essays here reprinted.”

+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 150w

“These papers are overshadowed by the war; and as the war figured in
Bourne’s outlook as a tragic impertinence which had rudely choked the
young shoots of a new life in America with which his dearest hopes
were bound up, there is a steady undertow of resentment which disturbs
the balance of his thought. But all the same, these papers were worth
printing as a historical document to show the generations to come how
the war struck a profound and honest mind that had enthroned the
spirit of life and was already seeing afar off the triumph of life
over the forces of death.” R. R.

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 160w

“He could write—there is no question about that—and he could think,
but these two fine qualities do not excuse the fact that his first
principles are nearly always wrong.” M. F. Egan

− + =Yale R= n s 10:188 O ’20 380w

=BOWEN, WILLIAM.=[2] Enchanted forest. il *$2.50 Macmillan

20–20549

In this series of fairy tales a forest is turned into paper, its
brooks petrified and the voice of the birds stilled by the bad temper
of a king. How the forest was redeemed by Bilbo the woodcutter’s son,
who thereby won the princess; how the pair cured the old king’s temper
through an “Interrupter” and his “Encourager”; and how little Prince
Bojohn and his playmate Bodkin had many adventures with elves and
fairies, is all told in these tales with delightful humor. The book is
illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.

=BOWER, B. M., pseud. (BERTHA MUZZY SINCLAIR) (MRS BERTRAND WILLIAM SINCLAIR).= Quirt. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–8857

Lorraine Hunter lives in Los Angeles and has absorbed her ideas of the
“West” from the movies. She has never known her father, a rancher in
Idaho, but she pictures him as a cattle king and sees herself in the
rôle of cattle king’s daughter. She finds the Quirt, Brit Hunter’s
ranch, a very different place from her imaginings. It is one of the
few small ranches allowed to survive in the shadow of the great
Sawtooth cattle company’s holdings. Other small owners have been
absorbed or have met “accidental” deaths, but Brit and his partner, as
two highly respected old-timers, have remained unmolested. On the
night of her arrival Lorraine loses her way and finds herself mixed up
with one of the “accidents” referred to. She talks, and talk is
dangerous to the Sawtooth. In the fight that follows Lone Morgan lines
up with the Quirt but it is Swan Vjolmar, the seemingly innocent
Swede, who plays the final card.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“The tale begins interestingly enough, but what with deeds of
violence, and thunderstorms of a like violence, soon passes into the
realms of mediocrity.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 300w

=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w

“The story moves briskly, with plenty of sensational incident, while
all its detail, as always in B. M. Bower’s novels, is colorful and
convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 370w

=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 200w

“A story of western life that is both fresh and plausible.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 160w

=BOWMAN, ARCHIBALD ALLAN.= Sonnets from a prison camp. *$1.50 Lane 811

20–8620

The author, professor of philosophy at Princeton university, says of
these sonnets written in captivity that they “stood between my soul
and madness,” and hopes that what has meant so much to him under one
of the heaviest blows that can befall a soldier will have some general
human interest. They are grouped as follows: In the field; The nadir;
On the march; Rastatt; Hesepe; Thoughts of home; Influences;
Watchwords and maxims; England and Oxford; Home thoughts once more;
Interlude; England.

* * * * *

“When he begins to write of those reflective themes to which the
sonnet form is fitted, Mr Bowman reveals himself as an interesting and
talented writer. Mr Bowman’s chief defect is a certain stiltedness and
overnobility of language, which sometimes leads him to talk of prosaic
or trivial things with a pomp which does not become them.”

+ − =Ath= p429 Mr 26 ’20 180w

“Benvenuto Cellini also wrote sonnets in captivity: and they are as
perfunctory and uninspired as are Professor Bowman’s.” R. M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 70w

Reviewed by Marguerite Williams

=N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w

=Sat R= 129:110 Ja 31 ’20 200w

“Grave and eloquent sonnets, a little sententious and here and there a
little prosaic.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 D 11 ’19 80w

=BOYER, WILBUR SARLES.= Johnnie Kelly. il *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–16092

Johnnie Kelly is a red-headed Irish boy of thirteen when he makes his
debut at Public school 199, Amsterdam ave., the Bronx. The teachers
regard him as a terror, but one instructor, Daniel Parks, takes enough
interest in him to try to show him how he can be a leader. His various
escapades fill the book, culminating in his being elected
vice-president of the Amsterdam Republic, and receiving the wrist
watch which is offered to the pupil who sells the most liberty bonds.
Incidentally, he plays no small part in the romance that develops
between Mr Parks and the pretty new teacher, Helen Bouck.

* * * * *

“Many schoolmasters are of a cut-and-dried sort, who cut circles in
deep ruts and see nothing in life beyond the daily routine of the
schoolroom. But Mr Boyer sees beyond this and has made a natural study
of the boy and his characteristics. Not this alone, but he himself has
a rare gift of humor, and the two are combined in ‘Johnnie Kelly.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 190w

“The efforts of a ‘Bronix’ policeman’s son to attain popularity in a
Manhattan public school are amusing enough, and he and his young
associates are human and healthy.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 150w

=BOYNTON, PERCY HOLMES.= History of American literature. *$2.25 Ginn 810.9

20–3784

Omitting authors of minor importance the book has been written “with a
view to showing the drift of American thought as illustrated by major
writers or groups and as revealed by a careful study of one or two
cardinal works of each.... The growth of American self-consciousness
and the changing ideals of American patriotism have been kept in mind
throughout.... As an aid to the student, there are appended to each
chapter (except the last three) topics and problems for study, and
book lists which summarize the output of each man, indicate available
editions, and point to the critical material which may be used as a
supplement, but not as a substitute, for first-hand study.” (Preface)
Beginning with the 17th century, the contents contain chapters on the
earliest verse, the poetry of the revolution and the early drama, all
our American classics as: Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson,
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs Stowe and
Holmes, the later poetry and Walt Whitman, the rise of fiction and
contemporary drama. There are also two maps, three chronological
charts, an appendix characterizing the most significant American
periodicals and an index.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 28 ’20 750w

“The style throughout is marked with a crispness and vivacity that are
missing in too many textbooks in the same field. The author’s
scientific knowledge and scholarship are winningly displayed on every
page of his book.”

+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 220w

=BRACKETT, CHARLES.= Counsel of the ungodly. *$2 (3c) Appleton

20–13703

When Peter van Hoeven, scion of an old and wealthy New York family,
lost his fortune at the age of sixty-two, he determined to earn his
living as a butler. Luck brought him into a newly rich family, mother
and daughter, of whom the mother is exuberantly vulgar and the
daughter sensitively aware of their short-comings. Jacob Smith, alias
Peter van Hoeven, becomes Mary’s guardian angel and she relies on him
and confides in him more and more. When it is subsequently discovered
that Mary is not Mrs Davison’s daughter, as the long lost husband with
the real daughter turns up, Peter resolves to adopt Mary as his niece,
trumping up a story of a lost brother Richard whose daughter she is.
That she really is his niece becomes probable later. He now makes
himself known to his family to whom he introduces his niece. He also
undertakes to cure her of an undesirable love affair by first
engineering her into and then out of an engagement by ungodly counsel.
As the right fellow is waiting just around the corner it all ends
well.

* * * * *

“Light and fairly amusing.”

+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“It is a delightful atmosphere into which you are led in this swiftly
moving story, where almost every one is pleasant to know.”

+ =Lit D= p92 O 23 ’20 1550w

“The author’s flexible style and skill in drollery, distinctly above
the average, makes one regret that he has not employed his literary
ability in a less inconsequential plot.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 330w

=BRADFORD, GAMALIEL.= Prophet of joy. *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–14773

This tale in verse relates the career of a millionaire’s son, a
golden-haired vision of a boy, imbued with a faith that it was his
mission to redeem the world with the gospel of joy. His first convert
was a spinster cousin, Theodora, who undertook to stand between him
and his stern father, to be ever his haven of refuge and to smooth the
way for him generally. His exploits are many and fantastic. He meets
all manner of people, the lowly and the artists, the pious and the
rich, and he meets them all alike with laughter, gaiety, and love.
With this love and joy in life he at last undertakes to assuage a
striking mob and meets his death. The woman agitator whose method,
unlike his, had been to stir up hatred and revenge as a means of
salvation, but who had long loved the boy, vows before his body that
violence must die and dedicates herself to “joy’s pure torch” and to
love as the “Star of immortal hope to mortal men.”

* * * * *

“Characters, incidents and beauty of telling combine to make an
interesting story and a poem of wide appeal.”

+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“What fun the author must have had composing all this! He has not only
worked with his subject, he has played with it. He keeps up his own
and the reader’s courage, sometimes by whistling. It is one of the
most original contributions to literature that I have seen, and I know
nothing in American literature which it resembles. And it is written
in the American, not the English language.” W: L. Phelps

+ =Bookm= 52:170 O ’20 1400w

“When the ‘prophet of joy’ is killed in an attempt to mediate between
a band of strikers and their employer, there is little sense of pathos
because the character has been largely a creature of fancy and as such
has engaged the reader’s attention rather than his affection. But Mr
Bradford is fluent and dexterous and the rhymes carry one along
through one hundred and ninety-three pages of easy and agreeable
reading.” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2: S 29 ’20 300w

“He takes pains to show what it is that he is not talking
about—Christian Science, Sunday school morality, silly altruism—but we
are never sure what it is that he is talking about, and never sure
that his is not the nambiest-pambiest of palliatives.”

− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 230w

“Mr Bradford is a poet, and a good one. Much of the present poem shows
a deftness and a skill that place him high among writers of light
verse. But in all fairness he must leave his ivory tower and acquaint
himself with causes he dislikes before writing unfairly of them. The
book, barring this one capital fault, is a capital one, and as such
may be recommended.” C. W.

+ − =N Y Call= p10 S 12 ’20 700w

“It seems to the present reviewer, indeed, the most stimulating and
absorbing volume that has appeared in American poetry since ‘The
Congo’ and ‘Spoon River.’ It is not an imitation but a vital
incarnation of the Byronic satire, proving that modern life may be
dressed in an ancient mode at least as effectively as in the fashions
of the hour. The ‘Prophet’ should find an audience for many years to
come; should even, one is tempted to say, win a permanent place among
the classics of lighter American verse.” C: W. Stork

+ =N Y Evening= Post p5 O 23 ’20 1150w

“Nothing can be gayer, idler, saucier, easier, more winningly devious
and desultory than his treatment of the eight-line Italian epic
stanza. The story is agreeable, and the only point of failure is the
point in which in a poem of this kind failure is most forgivable and
least important—the nature and handling of the thesis.”

+ − =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 310w

=BRADLEY, ARTHUR GRANVILLE.= Book of the Severn. il *$5 Dodd 914.2

(Eng ed 21–834)

“The ancients had river gods; we too have them in our minds and feel
their qualities. For rivers are things of life and personality, of
soul and character.... Some of our river gods are men and some are
women.... Father Thames has proclaimed his sex for all time; but the
Severn has been a lady since literature began.” (Chapter 1) The author
shows his readers not only the scenic but also the historic Severn and
conducts him from its cradle in Plinlimmon to Gloucester with sixteen
color plates to mark the way. There is no index.

* * * * *

“The author tells the story in ample detail and with full knowledge.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w

“In brief, this is a most entertaining volume. The coloured plates do
not add much to its attractions.”

+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ’20 210w

“Mr Bradley has a mingled zest for scenery, for history, and for the
humours and graces of life, which makes him one of the best of
all-around companions on such a series of excursions, either afoot or
in an armchair.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 Ap 1 ’20 950w

=BRADLEY, GLENN DANFORD.= Story of the Santa Fe. (Frontiers of America) il *$3 Badger, R: G. 656

20–6283

“The [story of the] railroad known as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe describes the beginnings and development of one of the most
extensive of American railroad systems. Projected by the vision of
Cyrus K. Holliday, and developed by the energy and financial support
of other farseeing Americans, this railroad was built to develop the
business which was originally conducted in primitive fashion from the
Missouri river across the Kansas prairies and through the mountains to
the old mining centre, Santa Fe. It is an account of what real men by
the exercise of push and profanity have been able to accomplish, even
in the face of tremendous obstacles and hindrances, both natural and
those presented by the devilish ingenuity of man.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The story as written by Mr Bradley is very complete. The author has
done his work very well.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 800w

=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w

=BRADLEY, MRS MARY (HASTINGS).= Fortieth door. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton

20–2264

A romantic adventure story staged in Cairo, Jack Ryder, altho young
and good to look at, has managed to evade the society of girls and
devote himself wholly to the fascinations of Egyptian tombs. He is
bored unspeakably at thought of the masked ball to which his
compatriot, Jinny Jeffries, is dragging him. But at the ball he meets
Aimée, the alluring veiled figure who is to lead him so far on the
road to romance. It is only when the dance is over, his heart already
well lost, that he learns that her attire is no picturesque disguise
donned for an evening, that she is a high born Moslem escaped for a
few mad moments from the haremlik. Fate and ancient custom are against
him, but he learns by accident that Aimée is of French birth, and
youth, daring and good luck conspire on his side to bring all to a
happy end.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20

“Here is a ‘romantic incident’ carried through from start to finish
without a false note, though some of the harmony toward the end is, as
is were, a trifle close.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 220w

“Mrs Bradley transports us to the realms of romance. We realize that
we are not moving among scenes of reality, but we do not greatly
care.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w

“The story is well thought out and interesting. And it has the merit
of being smoothly written and vividly as well.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 60w

“Cleverly told with plot of interest and original details well
sustained throughout.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 280w

“A good adventure story.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 90w

=BRADLEY-BIRT, FRANCIS BRADLEY.= Bengal fairy tales. il *$5 (7½c) Lane 398.2

20–22478

These fairy tales have been collected by the author from the natives
of Bengal by word of mouth. They breathe the spirit of the East and
are unlike any of western tales, as are also the six full-page
illustrations in color by Abanindranath Tagore. The contents are in
three parts, the first of which consists of the stories told by
Bhabaghuray, the traveller.

* * * * *

“The really ideal illustrator of this kind of literature is, of
course, the artist who is himself a product of the land which has
given birth to it, and from this point of view the book illustrated by
Mr Tagore is of special interest.”

+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w

=BRADY, LORETTA ELLEN.= Green forest fairy book. il *$2 (4c) Little

20–18407

A book of new fairy tales into which the author has put much of the
true fairy-land atmosphere. Some of the titles are: Dame Grumble and
her curious apple tree: A tale of the Northland kingdom; The little
tree that never grew up; The tale of Punchinello; The strange tale of
the brown bear. The illustrations are by Alice B. Preston.

* * * * *

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 70w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Anthology of magazine verse for 1919; and Year book of American poetry. *$2.25 Small 811.08

Mr Braithwaite who omits from this annual volume his usual critical
introductory essay takes occasion to call attention to Edwin Arlington
Robinson’s “The valley of the shadow,” as a poem demanding careful
attention and study. Other notable poems are Leonora Speyer’s “The
queen bee flies,” Sara Teasdale’s “August moonrise,” Vachel Lindsay’s
“The empire of China is crumbling down,” Lola Ridge’s “The everlasting
return”; also poems by Witter Bynner, Scudder Middleton, Edna St
Vincent Millay, Louis Untermeyer, Maxwell Bodenheim, Amy Lowell, and
others.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20

Reviewed by H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 50w

“Taken as a whole, the ‘Anthology of magazine verse for 1919’
possesses distinct merit as a collection of contemporary verse. As a
stepping-stone in the steady advance of American poetry it is even
more interesting.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 14 ’20 1700w

“All in all the anthology is valuable not only as literature, but as a
barometer of the spirit of the times.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w

“There is poetry here of a grade we like to boast of being able to
find every day in the magazines, that of Conrad Aiken, Sara Teasdale,
Clement Wood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and sundry others. There is
singing here that is something more than verse, and there is verse
that is something less than poetry.” R. P. Utter

+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 100w

“The year book is, if anything, more representative and satisfactory
than its predecessors. The critical material at the back is more
restrained than hitherto, and gains thereby. For those who wish to
keep up with the best of the new poetry, the book is indispensable.”
C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w

“Critics have often told Mr Braithwaite that his collections of
magazine verse can never have the highest value because the best
American poetry is not published in magazines. This year, at any rate,
that would seem to be untrue. It is doubtful whether anything better
than Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Valley of the shadow’ has been
published in any of the books of the year.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 360w

“Mr Braithwaite’s annual ‘Anthology of magazine verse’ improves from
year to year. The present volume is no exception to this rule.
Particularly to be commended is the elimination of Mr Braithwaite’s
usual attempt at rating the verse of the year according to merit.”

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 100w

“Mr Braithwaite has done his work with knowledge, with discernment,
and with a liberality which sometimes compromises his discernment.”

+ − =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 9 ’20 750w

+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w

“He is too generous in his appreciation, including much that is
excellent but not significant. As with every anthology, we quarrel
with the selections. Though the book would gain by omissions, the
general level is a high one.” E: B. Reed

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w

=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Book of modern British verse. *$2 Small 821.08

20–1984

“A collection intended to acquaint American readers with contemporary
British verse in the period which ‘began with an assault upon reality
and a shock of symbols’ to be disturbed and perhaps re-directed by the
forces of war.” (Booklist) “John Masefield’s ‘August, 1914,’ is
included, and G. K. Chesterton’s booming ‘Lepanto,’ also favorite
poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Walter de la Mare, J. C. Squires,
Ralph Hodgson, Joseph Campbell, James Stephens, Thomas MacDonald and
many others. William Butler Yeats, probably the greatest of all living
makers of lyrics, is not represented. But it is generally understood
that his work seldom appears in anthologies.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

“It has Masefield’s ‘Biography,’ ‘August, 1914,’ and ‘Cargoes’;
Belloc’s ‘South country’; Brooke’s five splendid sonnets; Julian
Grenfell’s ‘Into battle’—finest of all the ‘war poems’; de la Mare’s
‘The listeners.’ And these are only a few of the memorable things
included.” H: A. Lappin

+ − =Bookm= 51:211 Ap ’20 700w

“Due to something more incomprehensible than his taste he has failed
signally. ‘The book of modern British verse’ begins as a misnomer; it
ends as a misrepresentation.” L: Untermeyer

− =Freeman= 1:69 Mr 31 ’20 1100w

“It exhibits the period fairly enough without characterizing it, and
with this book as with other anthologies, even the best, the critical
reader will miss old friends and make new ones.” R. P. Utter

+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 80w

“A pleasant and interesting little book. Mr Braithwaite has
over-emphasized the importance of Cicely Fox Smith’s verse.... Nor do
the ‘Songs from the evil wood’ represent Lord Dunsany’s poetic talent
as well as would a passage from his imaginative and often beautiful
prose.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 160w

“The sheer beauty and spontaneity of these poems must surprise
pleasantly those who have believed this period of social unrest and of
war incapable of producing art of the highest order.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w

=BRAND, MAX.= Trailin’! *$1.75 (3c) Putnam

20–6637

A wild-west story that opens in Madison Square garden, where Anthony
Woodbury accepts a challenge and rides a man-killing horse. Shortly
after, the man Anthony has always regarded as his father is killed and
Anthony goes West to follow the trail of the slayer and learn the
secret of his birth. With the foolhardiness of a tenderfoot he takes
unrealized risks, but his skill and daring always carry him through,
and he is successful too in winning a western bride.

* * * * *

“The story undeniably grips.”

+ =Ath= p118 My 28 ’20 100w

+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

=BRANOM, MENDEL EVERETT.= Project method in education. (Library of educational methods) *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 371.3

19–15249

In his first chapter on “The nature of the project method,” the author
discusses the term “project” and the different meanings assigned to
it, saying, “There is no fundamental difference of opinion concerning
the meaning of the word, but the difference lies in the degree of
elasticity that should be permitted. In every case a unit of
purposeful, intellectualized activity is involved.” The chapters that
follow take up: The evolution of the project as an educational
concept; The relation of the project method to instincts; The social
basis for the project method; The significance of motivation; Teaching
by projects; Learning by projects; The project-question; The
project-exercise; The project-problem; Manual or physical projects;
Mental projects not involving manual activity; The project method in
history; The project method in geography; The reorganization of the
course of study; The preparation of the teacher. There are twelve
pages of references and an index.

* * * * *

“A valuable discussion of the project method.”

+ =Cleveland= p19 F ’20 20w

“The author sets forth in clear terms one of the existing needs in
education, namely, to get away from the ‘bookish, theoretical
education of former days.’ There are times, however, when his
distinctions are not exactly clear to the reader.”

+ − =School R= 28:234 Mr ’20 900w

=BRASOL, BORIS L.= Socialism vs. civilization. *$2 Scribner 335

20–4141

As indicated by the title, the object of the book is to prove that
socialism is the most dangerous enemy to civilization and that
socialist agitation “threatens to ruin not only the existing order but
also every attempt to improve it and to insure social progress and
general prosperity.” The author claims to be a close student of Marx
whose economic and social theories he attempts to explain and to
refute. Professor Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard university writes an
introduction, and the contents are: Modern socialism—its theories and
aims; Criticism of the Marx theory; The great socialistic experiment
in Russia; Socialist explanations of the failure in Russia;
Socialistic agitation in Europe and America; Social revolution or
social reconstruction.

* * * * *

“Mr Brasol’s book gives a just though not a neutral estimate of the
character and aims of modern socialism.” J. E. LeRossignol

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:624 S ’20 800w

“Brasol’s treatise is a valuable criticism of radical socialism, it
fails to meet in a convincing way, the issue as raised by Laidler,
Spargo, Vandervelde, Rauschenbusch and others, although the
constructive proposals given in the last chapter might to some extent
at least mitigate the admitted evils of the present system.” L. M.
Bristol

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w

=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20

“He makes out his case by infinite omissions, by a near-sightedness
that throws the whole subject out of proportion, and by a plentiful
use of epithets like ‘soap-box agitator’ and ‘parlour Bolshevist’; and
his constructive suggestions are of an incredible banality.”

− =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 240w

− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w

“The chief moral to be drawn from the volume is that he wastes his
time who tries to interpret present-day social movements without being
at least sympathetic with the spirit of social unrest and demand for
change.” H: P. Fairchild

− =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 850w

“His book is full of ammunition for those who feel a call to oppose
propaganda to propaganda, and of reassurance to those who consider the
facts disquieting.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 920w

=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 650w

“In offering opinion on his book a sharp distinction should be drawn
between the first four chapters and the last two; the book would be
twice as good with the last two eliminated.”

+ − =Review= 2:491 My 8 ’20 380w

“While it cannot be recommended to the opponent of socialism as an
altogether reliable armory of arguments, the book, nevertheless, often
hits the nail and should prove stimulating and useful to the convinced
Socialist and the impartial student.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 200w

=BREARLEY, HARRY CHASE.= Time telling through the ages. il *$3 Doubleday 529

20–1749

“When the Ingersolls of watchmaking fame desired to celebrate the
quarter-century of their experience in that industry, a book relating
the evolution of time-keeping devices was adopted as a fitting
memorial and as an anniversary contribution to horological art and
science. The anniversary occurred in war time and the book had to wait
until the establishment of peace. It is a handsomely illustrated
volume, ‘Time telling through the ages,’ and bears the name of Henry
C. Brearley as author, although credit is given Miss Katherine
Morrissey Dodge for the research work necessary. The book relates the
development then of watchmaking in England, France, Switzerland and
America, past the days of the guilds and of handmade watches to the
era of machine made standard parts at a price within the reach of
everybody. Among the illustrations are many photographs of rare and
curious old watches in the museums of the world. There is also
included as an appendix forty-two pages of encyclopedic dictionary,
defining and often illustrating all the terms pertaining to
watchmaking and all the names of people identified through the ages
with the progress and perfecting of the art.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= p23 Je 27 ’20 720w

“Most ingenious compilation. The illustrations are numerous and
interesting.”

+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 200w

=St Louis= 18:243 O ’20 50w

“The story is interesting and valuable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 550w

=BREASTED, JAMES HENRY, and ROBINSON, JAMES HARVEY.= History of Europe, ancient and medieval. il $1.92 Ginn 940

20–5789

A work based on the authors’ “Outlines of European history.” “Chapters
1–20 have been completely rewritten, simplified, and condensed; and
more space has been given to Roman history and less to that of the
ancient Orient.... As for the rest of the work, much condensation has
been effected and the details of presentation have been reconsidered
from beginning to end.” (Preface) The bibliographies have also been
revised. Part 1 of the book, Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and
Rome, is by Professor Breasted. Part 2, Europe from the break-up of
the Roman empire to the French revolution, is by Professor Robinson.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21

“The writer sees no reason why the book should not meet with immediate
success, for it is without question one of the best in a somewhat
barren field.”

+ =School R= 28:475 Je ’20 250w

=BREBNER, PERCY JAMES (CHRISTIAN LYS, pseud.).= Ivory disc (Eng title, Gate of temptation). *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield

20–10366

Dr Bruce Oliver had, until nearly his fortieth year, found women only
an interesting study, and had not regarded them sentimentally. But
when Estelle Bocara came into his life, his heart awakened. She felt
and responded to his love, but she was already married to an eastern
professor and mystic. As their acquaintance grew and their intimacy
developed, Dr Oliver found Estelle at times to be under the strange
mesmeric power of her husband, when she committed crimes of which she
had no knowledge. Thinking her mental condition due to physical injury
received in her childhood, Dr Oliver performed a successful operation
on her brain. In an effort to complete the cure, Oliver put himself in
Bocara’s power, with almost disastrous results. Fortunately for him,
another victim of Bocara’s cruelty freed them both, and the obstacle
to marriage with Estelle was removed. The ivory disk of the title is
the amulet, the gift of Estelle which Oliver believes saved him from
death.

* * * * *

“To become an adept in the craft of storytelling sometimes means
advancement in literary style; had it been so in Mr Brebner’s case he
would not have opened one of his chapter-sections with such a passage
as ‘The crisp air of the morning had not yet let go of the world.’”

+ − =Ath= p750 Je 4 ’20 160w

“‘The ivory disc’ will furnish the reader with a harmless kind of
diversion and will make no extortionate demands either upon his
attention or upon his intellect.”

+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 360w

“The book can be recommended to lovers of sensation and cheap
sentimental versions of occultism.”

− =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 90w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w

“A distressing story. Apparently the author wants to make our flesh
creep. But, somehow, he does not.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 110w

=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= Great war and the R. A. M. C. *$6 Dutton 940.475

(Eng ed 20–285)

“‘The great war and the R. A. M. C. takes up the work of the Royal
army medical corps on the western front during the first months of the
war and relates with full detail the whole story of its efforts,
failures and achievements, with especial reference to the service of
its field ambulances.” Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 50w

“His succinct accounts of the various actions and manœuvres are just
sufficient to support the main thread of the story without diverting
the interest from it.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 1 ’20 1400w

=BRIDGE, SIR FREDERICK.= Westminster pilgrim. il *$8 Gray, H. W.

19–14604

“This bulky but entertaining book recounts a great deal more than
the story of a pilgrimage to Westminster. It might excusably claim
to be the history of the Abbey itself during the last
half-century—coronations, funerals, choral functions, musical
services, etc., having all the prominence that the organist would
naturally consider their due. First and foremost, it is an
autobiography of the chatty gossipy order; the life-story of a
singularly busy musician who rose from the ranks, who came into
contact with many of the leading men of his time, and who by his own
showing never lost an opportunity for profiting by his talents or
his peculiar fund of ready wit and jocularity. But in addition to
this it deals now and again with serious musical topics, more
particularly, of course, those which have come within the orbit of
the author’s own wide professional experience.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“On the whole, however, the book suffers from those very excellences
which make Sir Frederick so eminently suited to his office.”

+ − =Ath= p396 My 30 ’19 600w

=Brooklyn= 12:67 Ja ’20 40w

“The Illustrations are of exceptional interest, and the whole book is
excellently got up.”

+ =Sat R= 127:508 My 24 ’19 1200w

“The emeritus-organist of Westminster has led a full and successful
life, and the record of his professional activities makes excellent
reading, for Sir Frederick Bridge is an admirable raconteur.”

+ =Spec= 122:665 My 24 ’19 1350w

“He records meetings with a few great men outside his
profession—Dickens, Tennyson, Browning; but it seems that the organist
of the Abbey is most likely to meet great men at their funerals. His
friends who were not great in the worldly sense are much more
entertaining.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 1 ’19 1100w

=BRIDGE, NORMAN.= Marching years. il *$2.50 (3c) Duffield

20–18955

The above title is given to the autobiography of a noted physician of
New England origin, the eighth generation in direct descent of Deacon
John Bridge, to whom a bronze statue has been erected near Harvard
university. Dr Bridge was graduated from the Chicago Medical college,
served on the teaching staff of Rush Medical college for two decades
and is the author of many publications on medical subjects, a list of
which is appended to the text.

=BRIDGES, ROBERT.= October. *$1.50 Knopf 821

“‘October, and other poems’ does not bring anything particularly new
to bear on Mr Bridges’s poetry. Its principal value is to show the
poet laureate’s reactions to the war.” (N Y Times) “The best that we
get is a quiet sound to arms in ‘Wake up, England,’ a tribute to
victory in ‘Der tag: Nelson and Beatty,’ a ghostly dialogue between
the victorious admirals of the past and present, some stanzas on
‘Britannia victrix,’ in the orthodox tradition of rehearsing the
spirit of England’s greatness, some tributes to personal friends who
were lost in the war, laurel-verse for the great soldier Lord
Kitchener, sonnets to America in joining the fight for liberty, praise
for the dominions for throwing in their lot with the mother of the
brood, and other such occasional verses.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“The disappointment, if we may call it disappointment, of this small
book is that so much of its room is taken up by poems of a more or
less official inspiration. Nothing he writes, be the occasion never so
official or the inspiration tenuous, is marred by a touch of shoddy;
the dignity of poetry is safe in his hands. This dignity has no
pomposity. It is only a name for the austerity and candour that mark
the true artist.”

+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 640w

Reviewed by S: Roth

+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 160w

Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 1150w

“The collection is hardly representative of Mr Bridges’ best work, but
at its least, it is good verse.”

+ =Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w

“Mr Bridges was created to do small things in poetry, and to do them
very well.”

+ =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w

“The one drawback to Mr Bridges’s poetry is a lack of fire. It all
seems conscious, coldly worked out to a well-defined formula. He
carves carefully and with meticulous skill the clever cameos which he
offers the public.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= p13 Ag 29 ’20 950w

“The name ‘October’ which the poet laureate has given to his new book
of poems is exceedingly appropriate. There is the perfection and
completion of autumn about them, the sense of something rounded and
finished, a matured and considered beauty.”

+ =Spec= 124:557 Ap 24 ’20 320w

=BRIDGES, VICTOR.= Cruise of the “Scandal,” and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Putnam

A volume of short stories by an English writer who introduces them
with graceful apologies to “the countrymen of Edgar Allan Poe and O.
Henry.” Mr Bridges is author also of “The lady from Long Acre” and the
stories are written in the light-hearted manner of that novel. Among
the fifteen titles are: The cruise of the “Scandal”; The man with the
chin; Tony and his conscience; With the conquering turkey; A bit of
Old Chelsea; Full-back for England; The bronze-haired girl; His
reverence.

* * * * *

“A cluster of very delightful short stories.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 400w

“Here is an English author who is satirical, keenly observant and
above all humorous.”

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 60w

“Most of the tales are amusing, the author’s style is light and
readable, and several of the stories reflect pleasantly the easy-going
existence of the well-to-do young English bachelor as it was before
the war.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 450w

“The short story which gives this book its title is charming and gay.
Some of the others are flippant or rummy.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 200w

=BRIGGS, THOMAS HENRY.= Junior high school. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$2 Houghton 373

20–13790