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THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST

SIXTEENTH
ANNUAL CUMULATION

REVIEWS OF 1920 BOOKS

EDITED BY
MARY KATHARINE REELY
AND
PAULINE H. RICH

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY
EMMA HELLER SCHUMM
AND OTHERS

THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
NEW YORK
1921

Contents

Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Reviews of 1920 Books
List of Documents for Use in the Smaller Libraries
Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
Subject, Title and Pseudonym Index To Author Entries, March,
1920—February, 1921
Directory of Publishers

THE BOOK REVIEW DIGEST

Vol. XVI February, 1921 No. 12

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
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Entered as second class matter, November 13, 1917 at the Post Office
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month. Smaller space and contract rates furnished upon request.

The editorial staff for the year has consisted of Mary Katharine Reely, Pauline H. Rich, Emma Heller Schumm, Elsie Jacobi, Wilma Adams and Selma Sandler. Acknowledgments are also due to Miss Corinne Bacon who contributed the classification numbers for the first months of the year, and to Miss Eleanor Hawkins who succeeded her; to Miss Mary E. Furbeck of the New York Public Library for the list of documents for small libraries; and to the Applied Science reference department of Pratt Institute Library for the quarterly list of technical books.

In addition to the periodicals listed on the reverse side of this page the following magazines have been drawn on for occasional reviews: Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Social Hygiene, Mental Hygiene, Socialist Review, Nation [London], Theatre Arts Magazine, Drama, World Tomorrow, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, and a few other technical journals. The literary supplement to the New York Evening Post, now issued under the editorship of Professor Henry Seidel Canby of Yale University, is an important permanent addition to the list of periodicals. During the year the magazine which began its career as the Review, changing later to Weekly Review, has been listed under its original name.

The year just past has been notable for a number of novels of unusual quality. Among them is a group of books by and about women: Clemence Dane’s “Legend,” Catherine Carswell’s “Open the Door,” Miss de la Pasture’s “Tension,” and Mrs Holding’s “Invincible Minnie.” Three others are novels of the Middle West: Sherwood Anderson’s “Poor White,” Floyd Dell’s “Moon-calf,” and Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street.” Zona Gale’s “Miss Lulu Bett” might be named in either class.

“George Santayana has recently spoken of the barbarian realities of America. ‘The luckless American who is born a conservative, or who is drawn to poetic subtlety, pious retreats, or gay passions, nevertheless has the categorical excellence of work, growth, enterprise, reform and prosperity dinned into his ears: every door is open in this direction and shut in the other; so that he either folds up his heart and withers in a corner—in remote places you sometimes find such a solitary gaunt idealist—or else he flies to Oxford or Florence or Montmartre to save his soul—or perhaps not to save it.’ That is and has been the traditional conception of aesthetic fate in barbaric America, especially in the hinterland beyond the Hudson. But the past ten years, and particularly the years since the war, have shown new possibilities to the present literary generation. The Bohemian immigrant in Nebraska, the local dentist in Wisconsin, the doctor’s wife in a small Minnesota town, the young newspaper man in Iowa, the co-educated farmer’s daughter in Ohio—all these figures can be seen with the same meditative zeal, the same creative preoccupation, as the ripened spiritual personalities of Europe.”—New Republic.

We now have anthologies and year books for the short story, for the best plays, for magazine and even for newspaper verse. The annual volume of the Digest might be added to the list as the year book for book reviews. Without entering into elaborate summaries and statistics we may say that the two most reviewed books of the year are Keynes’s “Economic Consequences of the Peace” and Wells’s “Outline of History.” And without attempting to create a new category of “best” reviews we may suggest that the following will be found well worthy of reading: Richard Burton’s review of “The Ordeal of Mark Twain” by Van Wyck Brooks in the Bookman of January, 1921; W. S. Braithwaite’s review of “Smoke and Steel” by Carl Sandburg in the Boston Transcript of October 16, 1920; the reviews of Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” by Carl Van Doren in the New York Evening Post, Nov. 20, 1920, and by Francis Hackett, in the New Republic, Dec. 1, 1920; and J. Saywyn Shapiro’s review (with footnotes) of Wells’s “Outline of History” in the Nation of Feb. 9, 1921.

Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

Am. Econ. R.—American Economic Review. $5. American Economic
Association, New Haven, Conn.

Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company, 66
Fifth Ave., New York.

Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.

Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.

Am. Pol. Sci. R.—American Political Science Review. $4. Frederic A.
Ogg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $5. 39th St. and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $6. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.

Ath.—Athenæum. $5.60. 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C. 2.

Bib. World—Biblical World. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.

Booklist—Booklist. $2. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 78 E. Washington
St., Chicago, Ill.

Bookm.—Bookman. $4. G. H. Doran Co., 244 Madison Ave., New York.

Boston Transcript—Boston Evening Transcript. $5.50. (Wednesday and
Saturday). Boston Transcript Co., 324 Washington St., Boston, Mass.

Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $9. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.

Cath. World—Catholic World. $4. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.

Class J.—Classical Journal. $2.50. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.

Class Philol.—Classical Philology. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.

Dial—Dial. $5. 152 W 13th St., New York.

Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., care of
G. H. Doran Pub. Co.

Elec. World—Electrical World. $5. McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., 10th Ave.
at 36th St., New York.

El. School J.—Elementary School Journal (continuing Elementary School
Teacher). $2.50. Dept. of Education, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Ill.

Engin. News-Rec.—Engineering News-Record. $5. McGraw-Hill Company,
Inc., 10th Ave. at 36th St., New York.

Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green & Co.,
4th Ave. and 30th St., New York.

Freeman—Freeman. $6. The Freeman, Inc., 116 W. 13th St., New York.

Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. LeRoy Phillips, 124 Chestnut St.,
Boston, Mass.

Ind.—Independent. $5. 311 Sixth Av., New York.

Int. J. Ethics—International Journal of Ethics. $3. Prof. James H.
Tufts, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Int. Studio—International Studio. $6. John Lane Co., 786 Sixth Av.,
near 45th St., New York.

J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.

J. Home Econ.—Journal of Home Economics. $2. American Home Economics
Assn., 1211 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.

J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy. $4. Sub-Station 84, New York.

J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. $4. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.

J. Religion (Bib. World and Am. J. Theol. merged under this title Ja
’21) $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $4. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 354–360 Fourth Ave.,
New York.

Modern Philol.—Modern Philology. $5. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.

Nation—Nation. $5. Nation Press. 20 Vesey St., New York.

Nature—Nature. $14. Macmillan Company, 66 Fifth Ave., New York.

New Repub.—New Republic. $5. Republic Publishing Co., Inc., 421 W 21st
St., New York.

N. Y. Times—New York Times Book Review. $1. N. Y. Times Co., Times
Square, New York.

No. Am.—North American Review. $5. North American Review, 9 East 37th
St., New York.

Outlook—Outlook. $5. Outlook Co., 381 Fourth Ave., New York.

Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $5. (including supplement).
Academy of Political Science, Columbia University, New York.

Pub. W.—Publishers’ Weekly. Zones 1–5, $6; 6–8, $6.50. R. R. Bowker
Co., 62 W. 45th St., New York.

Review—Weekly Review. $5. National Weekly Corporation, 140 Nassau St.,
New York.

R. of Rs.—American Review of Reviews. $4. Review of Reviews Co., 30
Irving Place, New York.

Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $5.60. 9 King St., Covent Garden, London. W.
C. 2.

School Arts Magazine—School-Arts Magazine. $3. Davis Press, Inc., 25
Foster St., Worcester, Mass.

School R.—School Review. $2.50. Dept. of Education, Univ. of Chicago,
Chicago. Ill.

Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $6. Science Press, Garrison. N. Y.

Spec.—Spectator. $7.80. 13 York St., Covent Garden, London. W. C. 2.

Springf’d Republican—Springfield Republican. $10.50. The Republican,
Springfield, Mass.

Survey—Survey. $5. Survey Associates, Inc., 112 E. 19th St., New York.

The Times [London] Lit. Sup.—The Times Literary Supplement. $7.40. The
Times, North American Office, 30 Church St., New York.

Yale R., n.s.—Yale Review (new series). $3. Yale Publishing Ass’n.,
Inc., 120 High St., New Haven, Conn.

In addition to the above list the Book Review Digest frequently quotes from New York Call; New York Evening Post; Bulletin of Brooklyn Public Library; Cleveland Open Shelf; N. Y. Best Books; N. Y. Libraries; N. Y. City Branch Library News; New York Public Library New Technical Books; Pittsburgh Monthly Bulletin; Pratt Institute Quarterly Book List; St. Louis Monthly Bulletin; Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Book Selection Dept.), and the Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books chosen by the Pratt Institute Library.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations of publishers’ names will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of this number.

An asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books.

The figures following publisher’s name represent the class number and
Library of Congress card number.

The descriptive note is separated from critical notices of a book by a
dash.

The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazine indicate
the degrees of favor or disfavor of the entire review.

An asterisk (*) before the plus or minus sign indicates that the
review contains useful information about the book.

In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume,
the next to the page, the letters to the date and the last figures to
the number of words in the review.

Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Reviews of 1920 Books

A

=ABBOTT, MRS JANE LUDLOW (DRAKE).= Happy House, il *$1.60 (2c) Lippincott

20–26557

When Anne Leavitt is invited to spend the summer with some hitherto
unknown relatives in Vermont, she is just starting to Russia to teach.
But there is another Anne Leavitt in her college class, whom she
persuades to take her place. So Nancy comes to Happy House, a misnomer
for the gloomy old mansion where Miss Sabrina, Miss Milly and B’lindy
spent their embittered lives. The story tells how Nancy brings
happiness to them, but how her sense of guilt at the deception she is
practising keeps her from perfect contentment herself, until finally
unexpected events clear up the situation, and all are happy together.
Meanwhile a part of Nancy’s joy has come from friendship with the
“hired man” next door, who proves to have been sharing the general
deception and to be a very desirable suitor.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 110w

“Girls from twelve to seventeen will like it as well as older women
who like a sweet, pretty story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

“Girls in their higher teens will enjoy this book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 320w

“We regret that deception plays such an important part in the plot.
Nevertheless, and setting this aside, the story is well told and
interesting, and will amply repay the reading.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:258 N ’20 170w

“It is possible that its maple-sugarish, sweet cake flavor may cloy
the reader who enjoys more invigorating fare, but, as a sample of the
‘good’—‘goody-goody’ is perhaps a better word—style of story which has
taken on added popularity of late, there is nothing to criticise in
the offering.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 530w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

=Pub W= 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 280w

=ABBOTT, MRS JANE LUDLOW (DRAKE).= Highacres, il *$1.75 (2½c) Lippincott

20–20318

The author of “Keineth” and “Larkspur,” etc., has written another
story for girls. Jerry Travis is the heroine of “Highacres.” She is a
little girl of the mountains, who finds John Westley when he has lost
his way. He recognizes that she is a child who should have
opportunities for education and offers to send her to school with his
own nieces and nephew. Then follows an exciting year for Jerry,
working and playing with Gyp and Graham and Isobel and Tibby, and
going to school at Highacres. Jerry is an unspoiled little girl, and
the end of the year does not find all the benefits on her side. There
is an element of mystery in the story, which works out to Jerry’s
advantage, and she looks forward to another year of school with her
new friends.

* * * * *

“This new juvenile by the author of ‘Keineth’ is full as it can hold
of the things dear to the heart of normal girlhood.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 98:1202 O 16 ’20 350w

=ABBOTT, KEENE.= Wine o’ the winds. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday

20–10311

A story of the plains in the days of pioneer settlement and Indian
warfare. Dr Harry North, because of a professional error, feels
himself dishonored and goes West to hide his disgrace. He leaves
behind him the girl he loves and is resolved never to practise
medicine again. But the new country puts new life into him. He meets a
typical daughter of the prairies who attracts him greatly and
thereafter there is an unexpressed conflict between this girl and
Alice Arden, who, still true to her old love, has come West to be near
him. The scene changes from place to place and many glimpses are given
of the varied aspects of life along the frontier.

* * * * *

“In subject matter and in treatment it differs from the large numbers
of new books. There is a power in the author which allows him to mold
his material and to invoke an atmosphere which stirs and interests
us.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1000w

“‘Wine o’ the winds’ possesses the worst of faults—it is dull. This is
partly because the plot is neither well presented nor well put
together and partly because the characters, with the single exception
of the minor one of little Matt, the hunchback, lack that vitality
which wins a reader’s interest, his liking or disliking. Now and then,
it is true, there comes a moment which seems to hold out promise of
better things in future, and the last scene of all is not without a
certain degree of impressiveness.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 350w

“Magic there is in this narrator’s vivid style, above all in the
visual quality of his descriptions, which always remain a part of the
narrative.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:372 S 29 ’20 560w

=ABDULLAH, ACHMED.= Man on horseback. *$1.75 McCann

20–363

“A tale of a gold mine taken in exchange for a poker debt, and of
results which bring the American cowboy owner of the mine into
international complications and make him an actor in the great
war.”—Outlook

* * * * *

“The excessive simple-mindedness of the hero, combined with the
heroine’s complete failure to win the reader’s liking, does much to
injure an otherwise interesting book.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:64 F 1 ’20 500w

=Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 40w

=ABDULLAH, ACHMED, and others.= Ten-foot chain. il *$1.50 Reynolds pub.

20–17407

The sub-title, “Can love survive the shackles? a unique symposium,”
indicates the trend of the book. The unnamed editor, in the
introduction, states the circumstances of its writing. At a dinner
where four distinguished writers were present, the question was
raised, “What mental and emotional reaction would a man and a woman
undergo, linked together by a ten-foot chain, for three days and
nights?” The writers differed in their solution to this problem,
according to their individual interpretation of human nature, and the
result was that each consented to present his conclusions to the
public in fiction form. This book comprises the four stories, which
are: An Indian Jataka, by Achmed Abdullah; Out of the dark, by Max
Brand; Plumb nauseated, by E. K. Means; and Princess or percheron, by
Perley P. Sheehan.

* * * * *

“Interesting as an editorial jeu d’esprit, the experiment has also
brought out four short stories of high quality.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 190w

=ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.=[2] Inflation and high prices; ed. by Henry Rogers Seager. pa $1.50 The academy 338.5

20–26746

“A series of addresses and papers among which are: Causes and progress
of inflation, by E. W. Kemmerer; Treasury methods of financing the war
in relation to inflation, by R. C. Leffingwell; The relation of the
federal reserve system to inflation, by H. P. Willis; Remedies for
inflation with special reference to the French situation, by M.
Casenave; Remedies for inflation with special reference to the Italian
situation, by B. Attolico; Inflation as a world problem and our
relation thereto, by P. M. Warburg.”—Am Econ R

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:848 D ’20 80w

=Booklist= 17:8 O ’20

=ADAM, H. PEARL.= Paris sees it through; a diary, 1914–1919. il *$4 (4c) Doran 940.344

(Eng ed 20–4569)

Mrs Adam was an English resident in Paris before and throughout the
war. Her book describes her Paris just before and at the outbreak of
the war and follows its course in its reactions on the city until the
signing of the peace. She gossips intimately about the effect of the
war on the daily lives of the people and of the people’s interest or
lack of interest in the political events. Among the contents are: The
onslaught (1914); Endurance (1915); The distant guns (1916); The long
wait (1917); Rationing (1917–1918); Boloism; Some war Parisians; Paris
under fire (1918); Armistice; Paris in 1919: the making of peace. The
appendix describes the Paris of today: a chapter for visitors. There
are illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 70w

=Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

“This book by a lady who spent the period of the war in Paris writing
for English newspapers is much better reading than many works of
higher authority and greater importance.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p760 D 18 ’19 1000w

=ADAM, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.= Whither? a human fragment of contemporary history. (1906–1919). *$5 Dutton 354

(Eng ed 20–6770)

“‘Whither? or, The British Dreyfus case,’ by Maj. W. A. Adam, is the
story of a British officer who fancies that his case parallels that of
the unfortunate Capt. Dreyfus of the French army. Maj. W. A. Adam, a
staff officer of the British army, is practically dismissed from the
service on secret evidence, which is not shown to the accused. After
vainly seeking to be reinstated the author finally sues various
officials of the British war office in a civil court and is awarded
damages. In spite of it all, during the great war this ‘British
Dreyfus’ is relegated to obscure positions in the army. In his
opinion, he should have been leading divisions and army corps. This
volume throws light on the circumlocution and red tape of the British
bureaucracy—and, it might be added, of most government officialdom the
world over.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Major Adam’s statements are carefully documented. The book, as Major
Adam has framed it, is undoubtedly an absorbing fragment of human
history.”

+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 120w

+ =Spec= 124:175 F 7 ’20 1650w

“Reading between the lines of his book, one gains the impression, that
the gallant major is one of those unfortunate persons who ‘seize the
hot end of the poker,’ or, in other words, are their own worst
enemies. But this volume is interesting.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 210w

=ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS; ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, jr., and ADAMS, HENRY.= Cycle of Adams letters: 1861 to 1865; ed by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 2v il *$10 Houghton 973.7

20–21411

The editor of these two volumes of family letters has selected them
from many others for their description of social conditions,
discussion of public questions and contribution to the social,
military and diplomatic history of the War of secession. With the
great conflict as a back-ground, they supply “no little new history,
much untold detail, much discussion, many rumors and predictions,
expressed with individuality and in a literary form.... It is an old
story, but the manner of telling it is new, all the more remarkable
because unstudied and spontaneous.” (Introd. note) The books are
illustrated and indexed.

* * * * *

“The two volumes are not merely interesting, but fascinating. Of their
contributions to history, aside from the personal views here quoted or
described, there is not space to say anything, but they are important
and valuable. No better book about the war of secession has come out
in many a year.”

+ =N Y Times= p6 N 28 ’20 2000w

“The editor of these letters would have enhanced the value of the
collection for the general reader if at certain points (not many) he
had added a brief note indicating the event out of which the letter
grew or to which it referred. The reader gets from these letters a
much pleasanter portrait of Henry than from his autobiography.” Lyman
Abbott

+ =Outlook= 127:149 Ja 26 ’21 2150w

“It would be difficult for a master hand at fiction to devise for his
own purpose a better stage setting, and a more ingenious relationship
of leading characters to the end of developing the intricacies of a
big international drama.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 470w

+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 170w

“The ‘Cycle of Adams letters’ is all very interesting, if only as
correspondence, and parts of them will add authentic material to the
history of the Civil war—all the more so that the letters were
probably written without idea of future publication.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 1150w

=ADAMS, FRANKLIN PIERCE.= Something else again. *$1.50 Doubleday 817

20–7285

“The editor of the Conning Tower, New York Tribune, amuses himself
writing verses in the styles of Horace, Longefellow, Amy Lowell and
others and by writing desk copy for the tragedies which formed the
subjects of some famous old ballads.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Good fun.”

+ =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 50w

=ADAMS, HENRY.= Degradation of the democratic dogma. *$2.50 (3½c) Macmillan 901

19–18407

Brooks Adams has edited some of the literary remains of his brother
Henry and published them with a long introductory essay on The
heritage of Henry Adams. In introducing the work he writes: “I want to
make it clear, once for all, that I am not proposing to write anything
approaching to a memoir of my brother.... Nor do I suggest any
criticism of his essays which are annexed.... I am seeking to tell the
story of a movement in thought which has, for the last century, been
developing in my family, and which closes with the ‘Essay on phase,’
which ends this volume.” The essay in which this purpose is embodied
is devoted to the principle of democracy which John Quincy Adams
upheld and which in the estimation of himself and his descendants
received its death blow with the triumph of Jackson. The writings of
Henry Adams included in the volume are: The tendency of history
(1894); A letter to American teachers of history (1910); and The rule
of phase applied to history (1909).

* * * * *

“The title seems ill suited to the papers that make the substance of
the volume. The degradation of the democratic dogma which is here in
question is thus far from being a general movement of thought; it is a
movement within the Adams family, exemplified chiefly in Brooks and
Henry.” Carl Becker

− =Am Hist R= 25:480 Ap ’20 1500w

“Readers of this volume are advised to omit the essay at the end,
entitled ‘The rule of phase applied to history.’ Henry Adams had all
the virtues of the great amateur—penetration, aloofness, style. It is
sad to record that in the end he did not escape the pitfall of most
amateurs. He began taking himself seriously, and that as a prophet!”
E: S. Corwin

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:507 Ag ’20 1000w

=Ath= p665 My 21 ’20 2000w

+ =Booklist= 16:189 Mr ’20

“Whoever takes up this book in the expectation that he has been
invited to a sort of second table of the wondrous banquet spread
before the readers of ‘The education of Henry Adams’ will soon learn
his mistake. Not that it is not as marvellous in its way, but that it
is a separate and distinct production of a mind as varied as it was
powerful.” L. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 2100w

“Of interest to historians, scientists, and educationists.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:89 F ’20 50w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=New Repub= 22:162 Mr 31 ’20 1800w

“Why have they been resurrected, and why are they published at the
present time, with this preposterous introduction and with a misfit
title? The uninitiated will say that the popularity of Henry Adams’s
‘Education’ furnishes the answer.”

− =N Y Times= 25:323 Je 20 ’20 950w

“We took it up anticipating pleasure if not profit in getting Henry
Adams’s views on democracy. We have been disappointed. Whatever views
on this subject Henry Adams may have elsewhere expressed, he expresses
none here. He discourses on views of the universe in general, and the
philosophy of history in particular, but he has nothing to say of the
degradation of the democratic dogma, or of the democratic dogma
itself. Nor do we find that Mr Brooks Adams increases our knowledge of
these subjects.” D. McG. Means

− =Review= 2:255 Mr 13 ’20 2400w

“A curiously interesting and depressing series of historical papers,
which serves to explain some of the author’s pessimism. Henry Adams
makes some rather unwarranted historical generalizations. His papers
are a remarkable example of the method by which an unscientific mind
may apply scientific conclusions to unrelated data.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 15 ’20 600w

“‘A letter to American teachers of history’ is a brilliant
achievement. It is single and swift and passionate, as an exclamation
or a command. Nervous and mordant in style, it rises often to
eloquence and is illuminated by flashes of ironical humor.” C: A.
Bennett

+ − =Yale R= n s 9:890 Jl ’20 2350w

=ADAMS, HENRY.= Letters to a niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres; with A niece’s memories by Mabel La Farge. *$2.50 Houghton

20–19770

These letters are introduced by “A niece’s memories” which together
with the letters, reveals a side of the heart and mind of Henry Adams
veiled to the world and to the readers of the “Education,” but poured
forth to the young. “To them all he was the generic Uncle, the best
friend—to whom they not only could confide their innermost secrets,
their perplexities, hopes and aspirations, but also at whose feet they
could sit endlessly, listening to the most thrilling talk they had
ever heard, or were likely to hear again.” The table of contents is:
Henry Adams: a niece’s memories; Letters to a niece; Prayer to the
Virgin of Chartres. Under the last heading is included: Prayer to the
dynamo.

* * * * *

+ =Dial= 70:108 Ja ’21 40w

“A book of undeniable savor. The Adams pickle is everywhere. They are
very kind letters—lazily, unconcernedly, uncommittedly kind. That he
writes very good English will surprise nobody, and his faculty is
brought out by a certain waywardness in its exercise.”

+ =Review= 3:564 D 8 ’20 320w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 50w

=ADAMS, KATHARINE.= Mehitable. il *$2.50 Macmillan

20–21185

To Mehitable in her Vermont home comes the opportunity to go to school
in Paris. Mehitable has just passed her sixteenth birthday and it all
seems to her like a dream, so quickly is she whisked away from
familiar scenes to find herself in a strange land. In spite of the
little home-made frocks with which Aunt Comfort and the village
dressmaker have fitted her out and which make her look old fashioned
and quaint to the other girls, she makes a place for herself in the
Chateau d’Estes and finds friends. Irish Una is the dearest of them
and Mehitable spends a happy vacation at her home. The story ends with
the outbreak of the war.

* * * * *

“The book is singularly pleasing, the heroine a living creature good
to know, and there are many interesting characters and situations. A
book all girls in their late teens will delight in.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 70w

“Her school life near Paris, her trips to other lands, and her fine
love story form a superior kind of story for older girls.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 60w

=ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS.= Wanted: a husband. il *$1.75 (4c) Houghton

20–7140

This story falls into two parts. The first tells of the transformation
of Darcy Cole from a peevish, spoiled, unhealthy, unhappy girl into a
radiant and captivating bit of womanhood. Physical culture plus grit
does the trick. In the old days Darcy had been so unattractive that
she had had to invent a fiancé and the second part of the story is
taken up with the adventures into which this mythical person leads
her. He is a certain Sir Montrose Veyze, selected from Burke’s
Peerage. Fortunately he never appears in person and the attractive
American lover who acts as his substitute proves perfectly
satisfactory as a permanent feature.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 110w

“Of course he does the thing well, but it hardly seems worth the doing
when the author is capable of so much better things.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w

“It is by no means as good an example of its type as his earlier book,
‘The unspeakable Perk,’ but it is entertaining in its way, and
presents a fervent plea for athletics.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 480w

“Its humor and gaiety compensate to some extent for the lack of
plausibility.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 350w

=ADE, GEORGE.= Hand-made fables. il *$1.60 (2½c) Doubleday 817

20–4894

“The studies in American vernacular which comprise this volume first
appeared in the Cosmopolitan Magazine.... Although the period in which
these fables appeared enveloped the great war and lapped over on the
great unrest, the author has proceeded upon the theory that old human
nature continues to do business, even during a cataclysm.” With this
introduction Mr Ade proceeds to his fables, which are in his old
manner and are accompanied by John McCutcheon’s pictures.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

“Barring his treatment of this arid topic [prohibition], the rest of
the book is sheer delight.” G. M. Purcell

+ − =Bookm= 51:568 Jl ’20 340w

“Here Mr Ade once more demonstrates that the American slang vernacular
has capacities for clearness, force, and (yes!) elegance that quite
escape the base-ball reporter.”

+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 80w

“Isolated and perused at the rate of one a month, they yield a sharp
and pungent flavour; bunched thus for permanence, they are flat.” L.
B.

+ − =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 230w

“A great deal of it is amusing, poking fun in a way provocative of
chuckles, and giving new point to the old saying that there is many a
true word spoken in jest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 350w

+ =Review= 2:402 Ap 17 ’20 120w

+ =Review= 2:461 My 1 ’20 1050w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 150w

=ADLAM, GEORGE HENRY JOSEPH.= Acids, alkalis and salts. il $1 Pitman 661

20–11164

In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries series,
the author has endeavored “to give prominence to the commercial and
domestic importance of the substances dealt with.” He has also
“included some considerations of a theoretical nature which may well
be taken as a first step towards the continuation of the study of
chemistry.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Sulphuric acid and
sulphates; Nitric acid and nitrates; The halogen acids; Carbonic acid
and carbonates; Phosphoric, boric, and silicic acids; Organic acids;
Mild alkali; Caustic alkalis; Electrolytic methods. There are diagrams
and other illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

“This book aims at being not only instructive, but also interesting.”
C. S.

+ =Nature= 105:706 Ag 5 ’20 190w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p47 Jl ’20 60w (Reprinted from Nature
105:706 Ag 5 ’20)

=AGATE, JAMES E.= Responsibility. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–7651

An English novel in which the author discourses at large on matters of
art, morals and life. The scene is laid in one of the northern
industrial towns and it follows the hero’s story from childhood on,
depicting his escape from business into letters as a profession. In
his early manhood he has a love affair with a young dancer, who when
she sees that his love is waning writes to tell him she is to bear a
child and disappears out of his life. Twenty years later he is
confronted by his son, who is on the point of enlisting for the war.
Both recognize that the usual parental relation is not to be looked
for, but they become friends. The son is totally disabled in the war,
the father partially so.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1304 D 5 ’19 100w

“It is a brave theme, but the author’s treatment of it is a deal too
confident to be successful. He cannot resist his hero’s passion for
display. And this passion is so ungoverned that we cannot see the
stars for the fireworks.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p79 Ja 16 ’20 750w

“Not for the average reader. Good work but not remarkably good.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

“The novel as a whole is excessively chaotic and immature, an obvious
attempt at a youthful smartness which seems incapable of artistic
restraint. Mr Agate has been a wide reader, but he shows at the
present moment little power of assimilation.” E. F. E.

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 900w

“A first and promising novel.”

+ − =Dial= 69:102 Jl ’20 90w

“Undoubtedly Mr Agate has both talent and promise. Today he is not an
ageless portent but a beginner with very much to learn.”

− + =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 850w

=New Repub= 23:235 Jl 21 ’20 550w

“It is a sober-minded book, this novel of Mr Agate’s. But it is also a
very rich book, rich in character, in thought, in understanding, in
comment upon life and art, original in style and treatment. We are
much mistaken if Mr James E. Agate has not definitely ‘arrived.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w

“The book is a hodge-podge.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 370w

“The genius of the book might as well be a grown man’s as a boy’s—it
is ageless as genius always is. But the faults—and they are grave—are
a young man’s or at any rate a young writer’s, faults. We should plump
for Mr Agate being, say, in the early thirties. We profoundly hope
that we are right, because we want many more books from him. We do not
ask for them to confirm our judgment, but because English literature
is starvingly in need of a new and still young first-rate performer.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:535 D 6 ’19 1700w

“A novel which bears clear traces of models so diverse as Wells and
James and, perhaps, even the author of ‘Tristram Shandy.’ But such
strength as the novel possesses lies in what is simple and
straightforward. There are good glimpses of character.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 300w

“The great quality of the book is a manly and vigorous brilliance,
which is enough to supply ten ordinary novels; the chief faults are a
rhetorical exuberance of style and an inability to see that the reader
wants time to appreciate the really good passages, such as the page
where Edward’s father sends him to school or the illegitimate son’s
explanation of what moved him to join the army.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p629 N 6 ’19 750w

=AIKEN, CONRAD POTTER.= House of dust; a symphony. *$2 Four seas co. 811

21–968

A series of poems defining the delicate shadings of sense perceptions.
They correspond to the so-called “tone poems” of music. Among the
titles given to individual pieces are: The fulfilled dream; Interlude;
Nightmare; Retrospect; The box with silver handles; Haunted chambers;
Porcelain; Clairvoyant. Parts of the book have appeared in the North
American Review, Others, Poetry, Youth, Coterie and the Yale Review.

* * * * *

“Mr Aiken possesses many poetical merits. He has a flow of language
that is refreshing in this age of meagrely trickling springs. He has
vivid sensations and a felicitous ease in exactly expressing them. But
he has the defects of his qualities. His facility is his undoing; for
he is content to go on pouring out melodious language—content to go on
linking image to bright image almost indefinitely. One begins to long
for clarity and firmness, for a glimpse of something definite outside
this golden haze.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p235 Ag 20 ’20 440w

=Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 100w

“He is not easy to understand, and some minds would doubt whether a
drift of phenomena so irrational as this, however delicately and
imaginatively it is described, can be worth describing, except from
the point of view of scientific interest. That Mr Aiken’s work is both
delicate and imaginative, there is no question.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 170w

=AIKEN, CONRAD POTTER.= Scepticisms; notes on contemporary poetry. *$2 (3c) Knopf 809.1

19–17334

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Mr Aiken is not quite a good enough talker; his gossip is
entertaining, but he has not the knack of telling a story well, of
putting an idea into a forcible and convincing form. A certain
diffuseness—it is noticeable, but to a lesser degree, in his
poetry—takes the edge and point off what he says; a fact that is the
more regrettable, since we believe his psychological methods of
criticism to be fundamentally sound and fruitful.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p10 Ja 2 ’20 500w

“At times rather technical for the lay reader but worth while for all
interested in contemporary poetry.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:160 F ’20

“It makes good sedative reading after you have got tired of Mencken,
Cabell, Powys and some few others of the real brains of America—in the
matter of the essay, I mean.” Mary Terrill

− =Bookm= 51:194 Ap ’20 600w

“The poets and the books that he makes an intellectual flourish of
judging in the re-printed reviews which make up this volume have, for
the most part, their fundamental purposes and qualities befogged and
perverted by such critical charlatanry, no matter how brilliant the
execution may be. Often Mr Aiken makes a most convincing case for or
against a poet, but the average reader will be inclined to discount
his own agreement because he cannot be sure of the critic’s motives.”
W. S. B.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1300w

“One’s quarrel with Mr Aiken will be with his limits, not with his
accomplishment within his limits. What in most instances he sets out
to do, namely, to particularize (he says illuminate) with a careful
casualness, he certainly does well. It is because he has done so much
carefully that dissatisfaction arises at the incomplete significance
of the whole work.” C: K. Trueblood

+ − =Dial= 68:491 Ap ’20 2250w

“In so far as Mr Aiken’s lucid and discriminating opinions may offset
the mawkish and meaningless eulogy of ‘poeteering’ journalists, we may
be unqualifiedly grateful to him. He does, however, invite
disagreement with his critical principles by announcing them with
excessive candor.” G: F. Whicher

+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 800w

“Mr Aiken’s book shows a nicely adjusted intellect at work, weighing
and measuring contemporary achievements, with whatever degree of bias
human nature can never escape, as he admits himself, but with some
degree of impartiality. He is chiefly interested in aesthetic values.
His style is adroit and sharp and restrained.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= 25:59 F 1 ’20 1050w

=ALBERTSON, RALPH.= Fighting without a war. il *$1.50 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 947

20–4690

This “account of military intervention in north Russia” (Sub-title) is
given by a Y. M. C. A. secretary assigned to work with the army
landing at Murmansk, November 1918. He took part in every phase of the
campaign from the northernmost to the southernmost points of the
expedition and was the last American to leave. He is scrupulously
careful in handling army rumors and most of his matter is based on his
own personal observation and knowledge. On the whole he considers
intervention as a “bad job” on the part of the governments who
undertook it. “We organized civil war in Russia. The Russians were not
fighting the Bolsheviki—not our way. They did not want to fight
them—in our way. We made them. We conscripted them to fight for their
own freedom. It was difficult, but we had our army there and the army
made the peasant patriotic—our way.” Contents: The expedition; The
Archangel government; Management; The fall campaign; The winter
campaign; Kitsa; Fighting without a flag; “America dobra”; America
exit; The new British army; The new Russian army; Making Bolsheviki;
The white man’s burden; Atrocities; The mutinies; The debâcle;
Military intervention finance; Propaganda; Concerning military
intervention; Concerning Russian peasants.

* * * * *

“Settles any lingering doubt about military intervention in Russia.”

+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

“So amazing is the story of British arrogance, tactlessness, and
brutality in northern Russia, revealed by Ralph Albertson that it
would be well nigh impossible to accept it, if the trustworthiness of
the writer was not in a striking manner vouched for by the two
citations which he gained from the British.”

+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 650w

Reviewed by A. C. Freeman

=N Y Call= p11 Ap 18 ’20 550w

+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 120w

“This little book of 140 pages, read at a sitting, but unforgettable
for many a day, is full of valuable information, all the most vital of
which was from his own personal and careful observation.” W. H. Crook

+ =Socialist R= 8:380 My ’20 650w

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 100w

“The reading of the book helps to an understanding not only of the
Russian problem but of what British imperialism—or American—always
means in countries where a foreign army is in control.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 400w

=ALDERSON, VICTOR CLIFTON.= Oil shale industry. il *$4 Stokes 622

20–14240

The book heralds the birth of a new industry: the extracting of oil
from oil shale, which, in the face of our growing demand for oil, the
diminishing supply of underground oil, and the almost inexhaustible
supply of raw material in the form of oil shale, promises to be one of
paramount importance. Contents: The dawn of a new industry; Nature,
origin, and distribution of oil shale; The history of oil shale;
Mining oil shale; Retorting and reduction; Experimental and research
work; Economic factors; Summary; Opinions; The future; Bibliography,
index and illustrations.

* * * * *

“Not a finished work as far as statistics are concerned, but a good
survey of a comparatively new industry.”

+ =Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

“For a scientific work it is too uncritical and in such remarks as
‘mountains of shale’ it is reminiscent of a promoter’s prospectus. In
fact, the whole book is written with too much apparent intention to
see all the favorable points and to disregard the at present
unfavorable ones.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 230w

=ALDON, ADAIR.= At the sign of the Two Heroes. il *$1.75 (3½c) Century

20–16500

The scene of this story for boys is laid on South Hero island, one of
the two islands in Lake Champlain that are named for Ethan and Ira
Allen. The old Frenchman, Pierre Lebeau, suggests to the three boy
campers, Christopher, Andrew and Howard, that they spend a night in
the deserted old inn that commands a view of the bay and surrounding
islands. He is under the stress of emotion and obviously has a purpose
in making the suggestion. Their curiosity aroused, they take his
advice and what they see and hear convinces them that smuggling on a
large scale is going on. They also learn the cause of old Pierre’s
emotion, for his scapegrace grandson is one of the smugglers. The
story tells how the three boys, animated by the spirit of Ethan Allen,
put an end to the law breaking.

* * * * *

“Keeps the interest and is not too improbable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20

“The background is well laid in and the story is full of ‘thrills’
having some really dramatic situations. A good tale of its type.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 50w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

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

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 70w

=ALDRICH, LILIAN (WOODMAN) (MRS THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH).= Crowding memories. il *$5 Houghton

20–19664

These reminiscences of the wife of a poet center about her celebrated
husband but are rich in pictures of other great personages that she
has intimately known, notably Edwin Booth, William Dean Howells,
Samuel L. Clemens, Robert Browning, James McNeill Whistler, Julia Ward
Howe, Charles Dickens. The book is well illustrated and has an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“Mrs Aldrich’s memories are of superlative interest because of both
their subject matter and the great intimacy of their manner.” E. F.
Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 1500w

“The author’s stilted phrasing, trite similes, and thinly veiled
snobbery offer a melancholy contrast to the easy-flowing naturalness
and genial democracy of her gifted husband. Nevertheless, ‘Crowding
memories’ is a valuable book because of the deep and abiding interest
of many of the figures who appear in it.” A. R. H.

+ − =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 290w

“She has not produced a quite independent volume, for she quotes from
Mr Greenslet’s book at considerable length and uses excerpts from
Aldrich’s semi-autobiographical writings to complete the structure of
her narrative. Nor has she the special gift of the great memoir
writer, that easy command of detail which gives its solid reward in
social documentations. But as a casual record of certain trivialities
‘Crowding memories’ is something of a social document.” C. M. Rourke

+ − =New Repub= 25:175 Ja 5 ’21 1300w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p6 O 31 ’20 2300w

“Even in unskillful hands the result would have been useful, and Mrs
Aldrich has handled the rich material with good judgment and much
insight, making a total that is always interesting, and often
enlightening, entitling it to a definite place in our literary
chronicles.”

+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 13 ’20 940w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 80w

=ALEICHEM, SHALOM.= Jewish children; authorized tr. from the Yiddish by Hannah Berman. *$2 Knopf

20–26870

“Nineteen stories by one of the best known of contemporary Hebrew
novelists and journalists, the Russian Shalom Rabinowitz (‘Shalom
Aleichem’): picturing with a vividness and intimacy which has gained
him the name of ‘the Yiddish Dickens’ the life of Jewish children in
the villages and small towns of the Russian pale.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup F 26 ’20

* * * * *

“They are written with a terse, beautiful simplicity. An especial
appeal for those who recognize the truth of the picture.”

+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“Undoubted power of camera-like observation, the God-given genius for
interpretation of the sorrows and sadness of life so surely a heritage
of Jew, Irish or Russian, help make this little volume a delight.”

+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 120w

+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w

“Studies at once tentative and precocious, executed with a rare
economy and a vivid understanding. Moods are evoked as if by the
striking of a chord; the effect is instantaneous and sharp, yet
softened with queer overtones of feeling.”

+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w

“‘Shalom Aleichem,’ speaking generally is a humorist, and often
broadly so. Instances could be cited in which a verbal audacity,
almost a horseplay in phrasing, stands out as his most striking
characteristic.” C. K. Scott

+ =Freeman= 2:45 S 22 ’20 500w

“Perhaps the best quality of these stories is their humor, and such
characters as Isshur the Beadle and Boaz the Teacher do, indeed,
allowing for less breadth and vigor, justify the comparison of
Rabinowitz with Dickens that has been made.”

+ =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 180w

+ =Spec= 124:588 My 1 ’20 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 50w

“It is difficult to determine whether without the species of prestige
conferred by unfamiliarity of subject and idiom, the spice of
strangeness imparted by the mere fact of translation, the book would
arouse much more than curiosity. It is a collection of incidents in
the lives of Russian Jewish children, told with perhaps too
unrestrained a fluency, as the matter is usually of the slightest, but
with a pervading kindness, an unshakable good humour, a pleasant if
not inspired drollery, that enlist one’s sympathy.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p264 Ap 29 ’20 290w

=ALEXANDER, HARTLEY BURR.=[2] Latin American [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) il *$7 Jones, Marshall 299

20–16109

“The present volume follows the general plan [of the series]. The
author has aimed at a descriptive treatment following regional
divisions, directed to essential conceptions rather than exhaustive
classification.” (Booklist) “The book includes the Antilles, Mexico,
Yucatan, Central America, the Andes (North and South), the tropical
forests, the Orinoco and Guiana, the Amazon and Brazil, and finally,
the pampas to the Land of fire. The notes and bibliography comprise
almost a fifth of the volume. More than forty illustrations add to the
interest of a text that really illustrates itself.” (Bookm)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:47 N ’20

“The book is more than a succinct history. It embodies the poetry of
ancient days and the cruelty and the splendor of ancient ways, without
abandoning the calm attitude that wards the scientist from hasty or
sentimental judgments.” I: Goldberg

+ =Bookm= 52:365 D ’20 560w

=ALLEN, ARTHUR WATTS.=[2] Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and practice. il *$3 McGraw 622.7

20–6647

“The book aims to supply a handy and practical vade mecum for millmen
and engineers, covering in condensed form the various stages in the
mechanical handling and preparation of ore for metallurgical
treatment. Good drawings and half-tone illustrations. Bibliography of
86 references.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p62 Jl ’20 40w

=ALLEN, FREDERICK JAMES.= Advertising as a vocation. *$2 Macmillan 659

19–17750

“This book by Mr Allen of the Bureau of vocational guidance of Harvard
university is intended to place the subject of advertising as a
vocation especially before that part of the public concerned with the
choosing of a vocation. It is an extensive exposition of the field of
advertising, the emoluments, the qualities needed for it as a
vocation, and a thorough investigation of the various fields. It
considers advertising as a business rather than as a profession, since
in the main it is connected with the trades, and it aims to show the
future of advertising as an important element in the choosing of a
life work.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Sets a high standard. Excellent bibliography.”

+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 250w

=Brooklyn= 12:100 Mr ’20 30w

=ALLEN, NELLIE BURNHAM.= New Europe. (Geographical and industrial studies) il $1 Ginn 914

20–4490