Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (6)

A work by a professor of education, Teachers college, Columbia
university. “The purpose of the book is to present the facts, so far
as they can be ascertained, concerning the newly established junior
high schools, or intermediate schools, and at the same time to set
forth a constructive program for the reorganization if it is to be
educationally effective.” (Preface) The author states that he has
visited personally more than sixty junior high schools, that he has
supplemented the information thus obtained by a study of the
literature of the subject, by questionnaire returns, conferences and
correspondence. He has also acted as educational advisor of the Speyer
experimental junior high school in New York. Contents: The need of
reorganization of schools; The development of the junior high school;
Claims and objections; Organization; Special functions of the junior
high school; Curricula and courses of study; Methods of teaching;
Teachers and salaries; The administration of the schedule and of class
units; Social organization and control; Buildings and grounds; Costs;
Results; In conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 260w

“The book will serve a moderately useful purpose as a textbook for
classes of beginners who need to be taught some definition of the
movement, but will probably do little to influence practice in the
present or the future.”

+ − =El School J= 21:70 S ’20 600w

=BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY.= Cape Cod and the Old Colony. il *$3.50 (6c) Putnam 974.4

20–14826

The book considers the Cape in its entirety: geologically,
geographically, and historically. We are told of its relation to the
glacial invasion, of its changing shoreline, due to the corroding and
depositing force of the waves, and “how the first colonists and those
who followed them have adjusted themselves to the mobile conditions of
nature and of man.” (Preface) Contents: The Pilgrims around the bay;
The origin of the Cape; The changing shoreline; Old Colony names and
towns; On the land; The harvest of the waters; Roads and waterways;
Three centuries of population; The environment of the sea;
illustrations, index and maps.

* * * * *

“Clear, informative, and without distinction of style. Good
photographs and charts.”

+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20

“It is sort of glorified geography, with a good deal that is both
interesting and instructive.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 50w

“One thing at least is certain—he has presented science in a garb that
does not repel the layman, and that in itself is always in the nature
of an achievement.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w

+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 120w

=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Marbeck inn. *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–3713

Sam Branstone’s cradle had stood in a laborer’s cottage. Through a
deed of heroism in his boyhood he secured a grammar school education
and his face was set towards success. A loveless marriage to an
extravagant woman emphasizes the necessity for money. The means he
employs for getting it are not of the highest. To business he adds
politics and the ambition for power. Then in the capacity of his
secretary, comes Effie, the woman of beauty and charm and a talent for
self-sacrifice. She loves Sam and resolves to sacrifice herself for
him by putting the beauty, that has never found a place there, into
his life. During a week at Marbeck inn together, she changes his
outlook and as he sinks in the social scale he rises spiritually.

* * * * *

=Ath= p573 Ap 30 ’20 850w

“A book full of clever detail but somehow without any final
whereabouts. For myself, I am unable to like or believe much in either
Sam or his Effie, and can’t feel that I ought to have been bothered
with them, despite the craftsmanship of their sponsor.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 150w

“‘The Marbeck inn’ is, as far as we know, Mr Brighouse’s first novel.
In it may be found certain of the characteristics discoverable in all
his plays, a shrewd knowledge of and a censorious attitude towards the
life and the people of his own section of England, and a contempt for
the ruling powers of both city and nation. The basis of Mr Brighouse’s
art, both as dramatist and novelist, is character.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 1550w

“The unregenerate Sam and his world have a magnificent solidity and
lifelikeness. His formidable and admirable mother, his moral slattern
of a wife, the Rev. Peter Struggles, George Chapple, and even Mr
Alderman Verity—these people are authentic, vivid, and memorable.”

+ − =Nation= 110:393 Mr 20 ’20 380w

“As a study of certain phases of life in and about Manchester, this
English author’s new book is to be commended for its faithfulness.
That the story is decidedly sordid in tone may be the consequence of
its environment. Certainly there are few pleasant people among its
characters.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 340w

“The action of the story is rapid and free. It has a dash that savors
somehow of the movies, and the characters are perhaps equally
moviesque—bold in outline without much delicacy of shading. One feels
that one has to take the author’s word for their third dimension—all
except Anne, the watchful mother, and Peter Struggles, loved pastor of
St Mary’s.” Marguerite Fellows

+ =Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 260w

“One agrees with the author that Sam is worth staying with until the
moment arrives when he is to discover that he has a soul. On the other
hand, exception will be taken to Mr Brighouse’s method of showing Sam
his soul.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 100w

=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Three Lancashire plays. $2.50 French, S. 822

20–13324

“The first of the three plays, ‘The game,’ proposes to be about
football. The true subject of the play is parents and children. The
daughter of the ‘gentleman’ rebels against her father and wants to
marry the footballer; the footballer clings to his stern old mother
and will not marry the girl unless he may keep his mother. And
naturally the girl realizes that that would never ‘work’ and gives up
her lover. ‘The northerners’ is a play about the introduction of
machine-looms and the new tyranny of the masters of labour in the
Lancashire of 1820. ‘Zack’ is a character comedy.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The first two plays in the volume are hardly adaptable to use in
America, but ‘Zack’ will be a valuable addition to the repertory of
amateur groups.”

+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 170w

“His plots are neither simple and exact, nor, on the other hand,
marvels of good carpentry. They are either too weak or too strong,
invertebrate or too dependent on situation. But ... we have here three
plays in which Brighouse’s keen sense of good stage-humour, and his
knack for observing character are applied to a people and a life that
he could know honestly at first hand.” K. M.

+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 650w

“Mr Brighouse’s touch and temper are equally uncertain. In ‘The
northerners’ his action is ingenious in the bad and artificial sense,
and flares into the noisiest melodrama in the last act. ‘The game’ is
a far sounder and less pretentious play than ‘The northerners’; ‘Zack’
is negligible.” Ludwig Lewisohn

− + =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 200w

“‘The game’ is, perhaps, a trifle too local, with an appeal to a more
specialized audience whose chief interest lies in the fair play of
organized sport. It is a relief to discover in the last play, ‘Zack,’
amusement for its own sake.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 580w

“As for ‘Zack,’ it cries out for acting. But the dialogue and the
situations go for little in print.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p121 F 19 ’20 900w

“All show a sense of the theatre, good situations, lively talk (and,
one might exclaim, ‘What more could you ask, in Heaven’s name?’), but
for all this they are at best but commonplace.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:350 O ’20 140w

=BRINKLEY, FRANK, and KIKUCHI, DAIROKU.= History of the Japanese people. il *$4.50 Doran 952

This history dates from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era
and has been compiled with the collaboration of Baron Kikuchi who also
contributes the foreword. He claims that among the many books on Japan
there has not yet been a history of Japan so essential to the proper
understanding of Japanese problems. Besides that part of the contents
devoted especially to dynastic and political history there are
chapters on: The historiographer’s art in old Japan; Japanese
mythology; Rationalization; Origin of the Japanese nation; Language
and physical characteristics; Manners and customs in remote antiquity;
The capital and the provinces; Recovery of administrative authority by
the throne; Manners and customs of the Heian epoch; Art, religion,
literature, customs, and commerce in the Kamakura period; Foreign
intercourse, literature, art, religion, manners, and customs in the
Muromachi epoch; Christianity in Japan; Revival of the Shintō cult;
Wars with China and Russia. The appendix contains: The constitution of
Japan; The Anglo-Japanese agreement, 1905; and the Treaty of
Portsmouth, 1905. There is a list of Japanese works consulted; an
index; 150 illustrations engraved on wood by Japanese artists;
half-tone plates and maps.

* * * * *

+ =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 460w

=BRINTON, REGINALD SEYMOUR.= Carpets. $1 Pitman 677

20–14784

This volume of Pitman’s Common commodities and industries series
comprises the following chapters: History; Materials; Dyeing;
Hand-made carpets; Brussels; Wilton; Axminster; Chenille; Tapestry;
Ingrain; Design and colour; Statistics; Employers and employed;
Conclusion. There are thirty illustrations and an index.

=BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS.= Naturalism in English poetry. *$3 Dutton 821.09

20–20661

“These studies deal with that reaction from artificial and
conventional poetry of the eighteenth century which began with
Thomson, grew through a transition period of some fifty years
(1730–1780) into the ‘naturalistic’ poetry of Burns and Cowper,
reached its height with Wordsworth, and died with Shelly, Keats, and
Byron. They are based on the Ms. of a course of lectures delivered by
the late Stopford Brooke at University college, London, in 1902. The
later chapters of the book are also printed from Mss., except two,
which appeared after the author’s death in the Hibbert Journal.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“There was, perhaps, no great originality in Stopford Brooke’s
criticism; and in reading his particular book one sighs occasionally
for a page or two of precise discussion of the keyword in the title.
On the other hand it has the redeeming salt of a genuine humanity, an
enthusiasm which, if it attaches sometimes to what seems to us only
diluted poetry, is in the main convincing—a book, in short, which can
be read with pleasure rather than exhilaration, and which, considered
as lectures delivered to a university audience, is admirable.”

+ − =Ath= p792 Je 18 ’20 600w

“Mr Brooke’s book is one that should be widely read, for it gives new
life to these men [Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron].” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 400w

“While Stopford Brooke has written good criticism, he has not written
great criticism; for a criticism which, while dealing with human
values, does not really seek for the larger reconciling ideas, and
which always in a pinch leans toward a theological standard cannot be
called great.”

+ − =No Am= 213:284 F ’21 1300w

“Though the present work penetrates deeply into the spirit that
animated the naturalistic poets, it is marred by the use of many
outworn phrases, examples of tautology, and an irritating loquacity
that might be forgiven in a lecturer, but cannot be condoned in the
printed page.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 550w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 70w

=BROOKS, ALFRED MANSFIELD.= From Holbein to Whistler; notes on drawing and engraving. il *$7.50 Yale univ. press 767

20–15784

“Starting with the ‘Beginnings of line engraving in Italy,’ Mr Brooks
comments on the line engraving and wood in the North, talks upon the
work of such men as Mantegna, Marcantonio, Raimondi, Lucas of Leyden,
Durer and Holbein; gives an account of the theory and progress of
etching through Rembrandt, Van Dyck to Claude Lorraine; mezzotint
engraving as exemplified by Claude Lorraine and Richard Earlom, and
concludes on the famous collection of engravings and designs by Turner
known as ‘The liber studiorum.’ The volume is illustrated in both line
and shadow, with reproductions of the famous drawings of the artists
dealt with.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Ease and dignity mark the style.”

+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 470w

“If the reader may occasionally prefer a different path from the one
taken by Mr Brooks, that is in measure a matter of personal
predilection. The same may be said of the choice of prints for
discussion. However, in the end the book stimulates, and exhibits good
common sense.”

+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 450w

“On the whole, it is an interesting and instructive book, a little
verbose, but full of shrewd observations and sound though unoriginal
generalities. It is neither sufficiently concise nor sufficiently
ample for very general use; however, the patient reader will be amply
repaid for the reading.” R: Bassett

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 580w

=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= Luca Sarto. il *$1.75 (2c) Century

20–3883

Fourteen hundred and seventy-one is the time of this story of
adventure and romance, as told by the hero, Luca Sarto, in the first
person. Here is his own outline of the events: “We shall see, when all
is done, how a man fled wisely from his enemies, the Orsini; how he
came to France; how later, in good time, he wooed and kissed a lady;
how, after a night that was candled by stars and danger, the morning
sun was witness to their betrothal. I end with priest and blessing. No
need of candle then.”

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20

“Remarkable for the fidelity with which the author preserves the
atmosphere of the middle ages.”

+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 60w

“From the confinement and necessary limitations of the essay-form, Mr
Brooks has emerged with much credit, to give us a glorious adventure
bubbling with spirits, and plausible withal.” R. D. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 800w

“Full of intrigue and action, and related in a quaint phraseology full
of color and metaphor.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 110w

“It has the sparkle of brightly burnished armour and a
pulse-quickening pace. The manner of the telling is not without a
touch of swagger, spiced with the salt flavour of the modern
point-of-view, humorous and whimsical.”

+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w

“The book, a first novel, is an entertaining historical romance
cleverly written and contains plenty of intrigue and adventure
combined with a pretty love story.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 320w

“His adventures in France are told with dash, and the style smacks
truly of the manner of the fifteenth century.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“A spirited and amusing if not inspired narrative of
adventure-cum-politics.” H. W. Boynton.

+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 640w

“The story is well written, in a fresh and stimulating romantic
spirit, and should appeal to those with a weakness for historical
novels that do not contain too much history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 450w

=BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM.= Labor’s challenge to the social order; democracy its own critic and educator. *$2.75 (2c) Macmillan 331

20–8263

“The problem here submitted is a study of power rapidly and in part
accidentally acquired by labor. More especially it is a study of what
labor is to do with its new mastership, what fitness it possesses for
the work it would take in hand and how, meantime, other classes are to
play their part.” (Chapter 1) The author holds that the war has
precipitated this new power of labor, which in normal times would have
developed more slowly and carried with it its own discipline, and that
now its education will be more costly both for itself and the public.
He also holds that for capital the day of “the lone hand” has closed
and that the lesson for both capital and labor to learn is to unite
their forces in cooperative effort. A partial list of the contents is:
“A new society”; World lessons; The struggle at its worst; The Inner
revolution; Lessons from the communists; Socialism; Government
ownership; Industrial democracy at its best; The employers’ case
against the union; The new “profit-sharing”; Syndicalism; The new
guild; Index.

* * * * *

“It is a stimulating and penetrating appreciation of the latest
developments in the labor field on the background of Mr Brooks’s forty
years’ study of the upward movement of wage-earners throughout the
world. Like his other books, it is a human document rather than a
dogmatic treatise.” H: R. Seager

+ =Am Econ= R 10:602 S ’20 1000w

“The volume is fully up to the author’s standard of writing, which
means that it is accurate, good-tempered and interesting.”

+ =Am Pol Sci= R 14:739 N ’20 50w

“The very interesting illustrations cited throughout make this book
not only earnest but really attractive reading on labor organization
questions.”

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

“A clear account and discriminating criticism of the labor movement.”

+ =Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 480w

“His book is unquestionably the most mature, balanced and far-seeing
analysis of recent months.” Ordway Tead

+ =New Repub= 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w

“With some blemishes here and there of involved or slipshod phrase,
the book is to be warmly welcomed. No other man in America who deals
with this subject draws from so ample a store of learning and
experience. No other has at once the exactness and the scope of his
information. No other writes with such uniform tolerance and breadth
of view.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 720w

“His tolerance and his desire to understand and to interpret the world
of labor fairly and humanly give distinction to his work.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 300w

=BROOKS, VAN WYCK.= Ordeal of Mark Twain. *$3 Dutton

20–8431

“This book is primarily a psychological study and yet it is full of
biographical detail related to the career of Mark Twain, and
supplements the biography written by Mr Paine. It should be stated,
however, that Mr Brooks did not undertake this task in the spirit of a
chronicler. He started, rather, with the aim of offering a logical
explanation of Mark Twain’s well-known tendency to pessimism.” (R of
Rs) “The main idea in the book is that Mark Twain’s career was a
tragedy—a tragedy for himself and a tragedy for mankind. Everyman who
does not live up to his highest possibilities is living in a state of
sin. Mark Twain was, therefore, one of the chief of sinners, because
his possibilities were so great and he fell so short. There were two
villains in Mark Twain’s tragedy—his mother and his wife. His mother
was more eager to have him good than to have him great; his wife
wanted him to be a gentleman. Between them they tamed the lion and
made him perform parlor tricks. This hypothesis is worked out by Mr
Brooks.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

“Having set up his theory, everything in the humorist’s career is made
to contribute to it in the most plausible, ingenious, and stimulating
way; the book is so able and interesting that to read it is a delight.
Yet, for me, as I strive to realize Mark Twain, remembering the man
and reading the author to find the man, the result is not
satisfactory, nor do I think Mr Brooks has penetrated to the heart of
the secret. He has succumbed to the danger which always confronts the
thesis-maker who has to subdue data so that they may buttress his
belief.” R: Burton

* + − =Bookm= 52:333 Ja ’21 2900w

“Not only a subtle psychological study of one of the most prominent
figures in the life of the past century, but also a valuable
acquisition to the essay realm of American history.”

+ =Cath World= 112:255 N ’20 700w

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

=Dial= 69:293 S ’20 3150w

“This ‘Ordeal’ is so brilliant a book and comes so near the truth in
its general outlines that it seems almost an excess of seriousness to
point out certain excesses of seriousness into which Mr Brooks has
been carried by his ardor for the dignity of the literary profession.
But it should be pointed out that his criticism is very far from being
disinterested. He means to bring an adequate indictment against the
sort of society which discourages and represses a man of genius.” C.
V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1350w

“Unfortunately Van Wyck Brooks took Mark Twain’s humorously
megalomaniac utterances for serious expressions of a megalomaniac
soul, and, as it seems to me, utterly missed the most promising lead
in his mountain of ore. But there were riches enough for his purpose,
nevertheless.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Repub= 23:201 Jl 14 ’20 2350w

“Many books have been written about Mark Twain; but with the exception
of Paine’s biography this work by Mr Van Wyck Brooks is the most
important and the most essential. Whether one agrees with Mr Brooks’s
thesis or not—and I do not—one must admire and one ought to profit by
the noble and splendid purpose animating it. It is a call to every
writer and to every man and woman not to sin against their own
talents.” W: L. Phelps

+ − =N Y Times= p1 Je 27 ’20 2200w

“While Mr Brooks is in no sense an artist in words, he is a dramatic
expositor, and he owns a thesis which attracts to its defense an
inspiritingly large number of crisp facts and observations. His book
will interest and serve even the unbeliever.”

+ − =Review= 3:108 Ag 4 ’20 1150w

“Mr Brooks seems to have adopted a thesis which he feels bound to
support by ingenious and plausible argument. As a clever and brilliant
application of critical methods to a literary career, the book has few
equals in American literature.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 120w

“Although it is easy to dissent from Mr Brooks’s interpretation of
Clemens’s biography, the book aims to provide something of the serious
criticism which is so essential not only to American letters but to
American culture. It is somewhat overtheorized and finespun. The ideas
would be clearer if the book were more condensed in expression and
data.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ’20 490w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:114 Je ’20 60w

=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.=[2] Self-help in piano study. il *$1.50 Stokes 786

20–17977

The book is in two parts: Practical lessons in piano technic and Plain
talks with piano teachers and students. It consists of reprinted
matter from the Musical Observer and Musical America in the form of
brief essays, many of them written in response to requests from
teachers and students. Among the chapters of Part 1 are: The
principles of piano playing; The beginner; Use of wrist and arms;
Scale playing. Part 2 has talks on: On teaching; Laying the
foundation; Points on technical training; Touch and tone, etc.

=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.= Vocal mastery. il *$3 Stokes 784.9

20–19844

This book is composed of a number of talks with famous singers with a
view to obtaining “their personal ideas concerning their art and its
mastery, and, when possible, some inkling as to the methods by which
they themselves have arrived at the goal.” Among those interviewed are
Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Amelita Galli-Curci, Giuseppe de
Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti, Reinald Werrenrath, and Sophie
Braslau. A group entitled, With the master teachers, includes David
Bispham, Oscar Saenger, Herbert Witherspoon, Yeatman Griffith, and J.
H. Duval. Twenty photographs illustrate the book. Miss Brower is
author also of “Piano mastery,” a book of similar purpose for
pianists, and other books for musicians.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20

=BROWN, ABBIE FARWELL.= Heart of New England. *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–16517

This collection of poems is a tribute in verse to the Pilgrim
tercentenary, taking the reader from the Pilgrim’s separation from old
England, to the present generation’s reunion thru the war. The first
group of poems deals entirely with New England and some of the poems
are: Pilgrim mothers; Pirate treasure; Grandmother’s house;
Grandmother’s garden; Pine music; The blazed trail. The second group
contains war songs, among them: Peace—with a sword; From the canteen;
Prayer for America. The book ends with The rock of liberty: a Pilgrim
ode, 1620–1920.

* * * * *

“Many who cannot find pleasure in more daring modern poets should find
contentment in the work of Miss Brown. When much of today’s poetry is
forgotten her verse will wait for him who wishes to know the true New
England.” N. J. O’Conor

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 3400w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Homespun and gold. *$2 Macmillan

20–19504

“‘Homespun and gold’ is an appropriate title for Miss Alice Brown’s
new collection of stories, considering the homely material she has
used and the glint of hope that persists in an atmosphere of impending
tragedy. The people and scenes are all of New England, and the
situations deal with the suppressed desires, the thwarted hopes, and
the hated sacrifices made lovable, of a people in whom the Puritan
tradition is not entirely dead.” (Freeman) Contents: The wedding ring;
Mary Felicia; A homespun wizardry; Red poppies; Ann Eliza; The return
of father; The deserters; The house of the bride; A question of wills;
A brush of paint; The path of stars; The widow’s third; White pebbles;
Confessions; Up on the mountain.

* * * * *

“Because they describe life rather than interpret it they fail to move
one profoundly. The reader closes the book impressed with its
sustained excellence; the sure touch of an experienced craftsman is
apparent on every page, but it throws no clear light upon the enigma
of human destiny.” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 240w

“Taken together, they form an interesting picture of New England
village life. It is a picture far less grim than some others we have
seen.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 850w

“They are humorous, human, and true.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w

“There is very little description in any of the stories—dialog is used
almost wholly and this aids in the sharp differentiation of the
characters. A homely idiom, fast becoming obsolete, adds to this
effect.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w

=BROWN, ALICE.= Wind between the worlds. *$2 (2c) Macmillan

20–11071

In various ways the characters of this story are interested in the
life hereafter and in communication with the dead; and the reactions
on the living, when the quest becomes too ardent, constitute its
moral. A bereaved mother, one of whose sons has been killed in the
war, pins all her faith to automatic writing, in the hope of getting a
message from him. Her relations with her husband become strained, her
nerves threaten to give way. Her secretary, who practices the writing,
has through it so lost her grip on the higher potentialities of life,
that she no longer discriminates between genuine and fraudulent
practices. A scientist has taken the matter up from the scientific
side and from seeking communication with his dead wife has been led
deeper and deeper into his investigations, and becomes almost crazed
and totally irresponsible. For love of him his daughter surrounds
herself with a fabric of lies from which only the love of an unusual,
divining young man and her father’s death, extricate her. For the
bereaved mother and her family the situation is saved by the
penetrating wisdom of an old woman.

* * * * *

“Written with characteristic deftness and charm.”

+ =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20

“In ‘The wind between the worlds’ Miss Brown has, despite the
intricacy of her theme, sacrificed neither her story to her problem,
nor her problem to her story. Devotees of the cult doubtless will not
approve of it, for its hints at fraud will seem to them to be unjust,
and it suggests little sympathy on the part of the novelist with the
cause they have so near at heart. To others, however, it will appear
as a sensible and skilfully imaginative exposition of a vital
subject.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1400w

=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w

=Lit D= p110 N 6 ’20 2700w

“If one can forget the shoddiness of the material there are several
virtues that might be pointed out. The book will undoubtedly please
disciples of the formula school of fiction.” H. S. G.

+ − =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 340w

“The ‘plot portion’ of the story is the weakest part of it. There are
times when it seems manufactured. But the character drawing is
admirable. That the novel is admirably written and the atmosphere of
Boston, where the scene is laid, excellently reproduced, of course
goes without saying.” L. M. Field

+ − =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 11 ’20 1550w

“The love-plot is singular, but not convincing or quite well managed.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 360w

“Madame Brooke, the grandmother of the dead boy, is much the most
interesting and unconventional character in the book, and in her the
author depicts an exclusively American type.”

+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w

“The technique is admirable; but the breath of life is rarely present.
The characters are intellectually conceived, the story is original,
the psychology shows insight; there is capital description, reasonably
good dialogue, situations both interesting and dramatic; the tale
moves without faltering; and yet, the breath of life being absent for
the most part, the story is unreal.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p701 O 28 ’20 340w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 120w

=BROWN, SIR ARTHUR WHITTEN, and BOTT, ALAN JOHN.= Flying the Atlantic in sixteen hours. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 629.1

20–8254

In this account of the prize-winner in the first competitive flight
across the Atlantic, in a Vickers-Vimy machine. Sir Arthur Brown says:
“We have realized that our flight was but a solitary fingerpost to the
air-traffic—safe, comfortable and voluminous—that in a few years will
pass above the Atlantic ocean.” The last three chapters of the book
are devoted to a discussion of aircraft in commerce and
transportation. Contents: Some preliminary events; St John’s; The
start; Evening; Night; Morning; The arrival; Aftermath of arrival; The
navigation of aircraft; The future of transatlantic flight; The air
age; illustrations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20

“One leaves the book with the sensation of having been in the midst of remarkable accomplishment.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 900w

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w

=BROWN, DEMETRA (VAKA) (MRS KENNETH BROWN), and PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES=, trs. Modern Greek stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (3c) Duffield

20–26756

The book has a foreword by Demetra Vaka describing the emotional and
intellectual history of the Greeks from the time they lost their
independence to the Turks in 1453 to the present. Modern Greece, she
says, owes her independence and inspiration to her poets and other
writers and Mount Olympus, by becoming the stronghold of the outlaws
and insurgents against Turkish rule, became in a new sense a sacred
mountain. Of the authors of the eight stories selected for the volume,
all but three are still living. The stories are: Sea; The sin of my
mother; The god-father; Mangalos; Forgiveness; Angelica; A man’s
death; The frightened soul; She that was homesick.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:31 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w

+ =Lit D= p92 N 20 ’20 1450w

“All these stories are pervaded with a fatalism, a sombreness, a
prepossession unredeemed by that super-sight that we associate with
the Greeks of old. If they are exact transcriptions of the instincts
and beliefs of the Greek people of today they have far to go before
the heights are reached.” B. D.

− =N Y Times= p9 Ag 22 ’20 950w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w

“Without awakening at any point intense curiosity or poignant interest
they hold the attention by their sincerity, truth, simplicity, and an
indefinable democratic and human tone. They are admirably translated
in pure idiomatic English.”

+ =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w

“Charming tales. The stories are fascinating in their strange beauty.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w

“These stories are beautiful as literature; they are fascinating as
documents of a people’s inner life.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:334 N 27 ’20 150w

=BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE.= That affair at St Peter’s. il *$1.75 (4c) Lothrop

20–7761

This story is told by Preston Perrin, the junior warden of St Peter’s,
a church in the suburban town of Hollywood. The tale has to do with
the theft of St Peter’s communion plate between two morning services
on a June Sunday. Various persons had access to the safe where the
silver was kept, including Sophie Dennison, whom no one, least of all,
Preston, could connect with such a crime, Thompson, the organist,
Anna, a Girl’s friendly girl, and of course the rector. Fred Farrell.
A detective is called in, but his conventional methods prove little.
Finally, the silver is returned and the affair is explained very
naturally and credibly, the whole excitement lasting less than a week.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20

“The book is old-fashioned, but—its mystery appearing early—will be
finished if started.”

+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 210w

“A very interesting and well written story. All characters are
attractive and a spice of love-making, withal, completes the value of
the work as a story of human interest.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 130w

=BROWN, EVERETT SOMERVILLE.= Constitutional history of the Louisiana purchase, 1803–1812. $2.50 Univ. of Cal. 973.4 A20–742

“The purpose of this monograph is to discuss the most important of the
constitutional questions which arose as a consequence of the purchase
of Louisiana, and to show how the statesmen and legislators in charge
of affairs at that time interpreted the constitution in answering
those questions. Much has been written on the Louisiana purchase but
no connected narrative of its constitutional aspects has hitherto
appeared.” (Preface) The author has confined his study principally to
the lower part of the province, that organized as Orleans territory
and afterwards admitted as the state of Louisiana. He has utilized
much hitherto unpublished material. There is a bibliography of
thirteen pages, in which this material, together with published works,
is cited. An appendix reproduces the Senate debate on the Breckinridge
bill in 1804, and the volume is indexed. It is published as volume 10
of the University of California publications in history, of which
Herbert E. Bolton is editor.

* * * * *

“Dr Brown has covered a wide range of manuscript and printed material,
and handled it with a just sense of proportion and a keen scent for
the significant. I do wish, however, that aspirants for the three
magic letters would not be so oppressed by the solemnity of their
quest as to neglect the light and humorous aspects of their subject.”
S. E. Morison

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:143 O ’20 280w

“A careful and elaborate monograph.” H. E. E.

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:625 O ’20 80w

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w

=BROWN, GEORGE EDWARD=. Book of R. L. S.; works, travels, friends, and commentators. il *$2.50 (3c) Scribner

20–6150

A book of Stevenson miscellany, alphabetically arranged. “The chief
aim of this book is to provide a commentary on his works as far as
possible from Stevenson’s own standpoint by showing the circumstances
in which they were written, their history in his hands, and his
judgments on them.... The scheme of the volume also embraces
references to members of his family, and to his more or less intimate
friends as well as the places directly associated with his wandering
life.” (Preface) The comments vary in length from brief paragraphs to
several pages. Subjects covered more or less at length include the
Appin murder, on which “Kidnapped” was based; “The black arrow”; Alan
Breck; “Catriona”; Father Damien; Dedications; “Kidnapped”; Samoa; San
Francisco; In the South seas; and “Treasure island”; and there are
also notes on Barrie, Meredith, Kipling, Sidney Colvin, and others.
The book has eight illustrations and is indexed.

* * * * *

“The arrangement is handy for reference, and the information
sufficiently attractive to repay one who dips into the book for
pleasure.”

+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 50w

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 17 ’20 1000w

“Raises the question of how long Stevenson will survive segmentation,
mutilation for mottoes, and vivisection in calendars, without
impairment of his literary vitality. This volume, fortunately, is a
dictionary rather than a dissection.”

+ =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 70w

“Once you have braced yourself and plunged in, an encyclopedia is
delightful reading and so is this ‘Book of R. L. S.’”

+ =Ind= 102:235 My 8 ’20 300w

“Unless some one does the same thing better, the book will stand; it
need fear no rivalry, so far as ready reference is concerned, from
more brilliant narratives. Minor shortcomings are offset by his
general accuracy and good sense.”

+ − =Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 180w

“‘A book of R. L. S.’ is a good compendium of everything that is worth
knowing in the life of Stevenson.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 900w

=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 120w

“Contains a valuable index.” D. K.

+ =St Louis= 18:66 Ap ’20 30w

“It seems a little odd to find all sorts of information about
Stevenson, his friends, and critics arranged under alphabetical
headings, as if he were a cookery book or a postal guide. We have at
this date quite enough books about Stevenson, and we hope that this
will be the last for some time to come.... While Mr Brown’s industry
is remarkable, his criticism is not always of the kind we regard as
useful.”

− + =Sat R= 128:610 D 27 ’19 1350w

“A pleasant and informing study. The arrangement which is so
convenient for reference, interferes very little with the book’s
readability.”

+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 70w

“The reader is made to feel an intimate acquaintance with that very
remarkable author and man.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 27 ’20 220w

“The book serves also as a bibliography, with notes of the values of
first editions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 90w

=BROWN, IVOR JOHN CARNEGIE.=[2] Meaning of democracy. *$2 McClurg 321.8

(Eng ed 20–4617)

“The lecturer of Oxford tutorial classes attempts to show what
democracy implies. He recognizes that the word has come to mean
nothing. Having accepted the principle of equality, as the basis of a
division of power, he proceeds to outline representative government.
He finds in this inevitable delegation of power, three main problems;
the demand for general education to make articulate public opinion,
the machinery for translating this public opinion into practice and in
the third place, the need of curbing those elected to office, so that
they will not forget the source of their power.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“An excellent little book.”

+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 520w

“Ivor Brown’s ‘The meaning of democracy’ warms the heart with the new
vision of education—education where teacher and students meet as
equals.” A. Yezierska

+ =Bookm= 52:499 F ’21 190w

=Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 140w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 360w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p116 F 19 ’20)

“It is more human, more readable, and more thought-provoking than nine
out of ten of the treatises on the same general lines with which it
has been our rather arduous privilege to grapple. This is because Mr
Brown is neither very whole-hearted nor, happily, very consistent
about his self-imposed task. The terrible series of definitions by
which he is going to fathom the last recesses of the democratic idea
loses itself, like certain eastern rivers, in the desert during the
course of the first few chapters; and we can bear with the loss.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 F 19 ’20 1500w

=BROWN, NELSON COURTLANDT.= Forest products. il *$3.75 Wiley 674

19–15703

A book by the professor of forest utilization, New York state college
of forestry. “Some idea of its scope may be obtained from such chapter
headings as the following: Wood pulp and paper; Tanning materials;
Veneers; Slack and tight cooperage; Naval stores; Wood distillation;
Charcoal; Boxes; Cross ties; Poles and piling; Mine timber; Fuel;
Shingles; Maple syrup and sugar; Rubber; Dye woods; Excelsior and
cork. Under each topic the character and source of the raw material,
the tree species involved, the processes of manufacture, the
marketing, the utilization, and values are discussed. Whenever any
attempts have been made toward standard specifications and grading of
the products, these are given in considerable detail. Statistics of
production in the United States or of importation from other lands are
arranged in convenient tables, and still more important for the
scientist is the bibliography which is appended to each chapter.” (Bot
Gaz)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:156 F ’20

“Attractive in appearance, well illustrated, and carefully organized.”
G: D. Fuller

+ =Bot Gaz= 68:479 D ’19 220w

=BROWN, ROBERT NEAL RUDMOSE.= Spitsbergen. il *$5 Lippincott 919.8

20–7933

“This book, from the pen of a British explorer, meets the new demand
for information about the mineral resources of this Arctic
archipelago, and at the same time gives a good account of the history,
exploration and animal and plant life of the country. The author
discusses the three ways suggested for settling the political status
of Spitsbergen—partition, international control by two or more
nations, and annexation by one or other nation. He rejects the first
two propositions as not feasible and concludes that the islands should
be annexed by either Great Britain or Norway, the choice to be
submitted to the League of nations and decided by a mandate to one or
other of these powers.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Dr Rudmose Brown is a geographer of repute with considerable
scientific attainments, whose work in the Antarctic has won
recognition, and in this volume he has given us a valuable, lively and
most interesting account of the Spitsbergen archipelago. He writes
with a restrained enthusiasm inspired by a genuine love of these wild
regions which compels our interest.” L. C.-M.

+ =Ath= p1064 O 24 ’19 1250w

“Since the book was finished before the government of the country was
settled it is slightly out of date in this, but is chiefly valuable
for the details of history and economic resources.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20

“The book states the problem clearly and contains numerous helpful
maps and illustrations.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w

=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 120w

“Dr Rudmose Brown gives a map showing the principal mining estates
according to nationality, but no map showing the distribution of coal,
and no geological map. This last seems a curious omission and
certainly is a regrettable one. His book may be recommended to the
general inquirer and especially to the tourists and health seekers.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:612 D 27 ’19 1300w

“An interesting and useful book.”

+ =Spec= 123:473 O 11 ’19 1450w

“This is one of those commendable volumes which entertains while it
informs the reader.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p556 O 16 ’19 1000w

=BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE.=[2] History of Persian literature under Tartar dominion (A. D. 1265–1502). il *$14 Macmillan 891.5

21–509

“The literature of Persia has found a most able and enthusiastic
interpreter in Professor Edward G. Browne, of the University of
Cambridge, who has already published two exhaustive volumes entitled
‘A literary history of Persia,’ bringing the subject down to the
middle of the thirteenth century. Now comes a third, covering the
period from 1265 to 1502. It is practically a continuation, if not so
in name and form, of the other two standard volumes.” (Nation) “The
period dealt with begins immediately after the terrible Mongol
invasion under Hulagu, includes the conquests of the redoubtable
Tamerlane, and ends with the appearance of the great Shah Ismail, the
founder of the Safawi dynasty, as the saviour of his country.” (Spec)

* * * * *

“It must be confessed that it is not easy reading. He could hardly
expect it to be a popular piece of literature. But what a glorious
feast it provides! He has indeed performed a great and needed work in
interpreting this fine people to modern readers.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 780w

“Takes its place by the side of the two earlier volumes as a
masterpiece of sound scholarship and critical judgment.” A. V. W.
Jackson

+ =Nation= 111:508 N 3 ’20 560w

“The volume, in short, is worthy of its distinguished author, and
sheds a flood of light on an epoch with which even experts are
unfamiliar.”

+ =Sat R= 130:359 O 30 ’20 720w

“His treatment of the subject is so direct and so clear that the
general reader would never suspect that the ground traversed is mostly
new ground, and that the sources both for the history and for the
literature are for the most part contained in unpublished
manuscripts.”

+ =Spec= 125:337 S 11 ’20 2300w

=BROWNE, ROBERT T.= Mystery of space. *$4 Dutton 114

19–18843

“It is Mr Browne’s belief that mankind has entered upon a new era in
the development of intellect and that new powers of perception and
understanding are unfolding in the most advanced members of the race.
‘The intellect’, he says, ‘has but one true divining rod, and that is
mathematics,’ and he brings forward his mathematical evidence to prove
his contention. He discusses also the genesis and nature of space,
devotes a chapter to an exposition of the fourth dimension, another to
discussion of non-Euclidian geometry and traces the growth of the
notion of hyperspace.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Brooklyn= 12:112 Ap ’20 30w

“The greatest of all latter-day books on space. It is written by a
mathematician, a mystic and a thinker, one who, endowed with a
tremendous metaphysical imagination, never lets go any point of the
threads of reality. Lucid and logical, with a pen that never falters,
Mr Browne advances steadily from page to page upon the fortresses of
science.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:119 Mr 14 20 1700w

“It is excessively irritating that writers on this subject either
choose or are forced to employ a vocabulary and a style which are
repellent to the reader, and to mix the significant and insignificant
into an almost inextricable tangle. Careful and prolonged searching
brings forth the fact that Mr Browne has a definite and interesting
thesis.” L: T. More

+ − =Review= 2:133 F 7 ’20 950w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w

“As offering to the reader very intelligible and significant, not to
say impressive intimations and conceptions of that larger universe in
which we live and move and have our being, and of which we are hardly
aware, ‘The mystery of space’ presents an admirable idea, in its clear
and well-considered resumé of facts.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 1150w

=BROWNRIGG, SIR DOUGLAS EGREMONT ROBERT.= Indiscretions of the naval censor. il *$2.50 (4c) Doran 940.45

20–7998

The author was chief censor at the British admiralty during the war.
He writes of: The establishment of the naval censorship; How the news
came of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland islands; Problems of
publicity and propaganda; The battle of Jutland; The death of Lord
Kitchener; Educating the public; Co-operation with other departments;
Zeebrugge and the censorship; Authors, publishers and some others;
Press men of allied countries; Visitors to the Grand fleet; Artists
and the naval war; Censoring naval letters; Wireless and war news;
Odds and ends; A censor’s “holidays”; Last days of the censorship. The
illustrations are grouped at the end and there is an index.

* * * * *

“Admiral Brownrigg has many amusing stories to tell as well as many
momentous topics to discuss.”

+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 80w

=Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

+ =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 50w

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 40w

“Anyone who expects Sir Douglas Brownrigg’s ‘Indiscretions of the
naval censor’ to be indiscreet will be disappointed. Where the Admiral
does become interesting is in his intimate account of life at that
ramshackle building known as the British admiralty.”

+ − =Nation= 111:51 Jl 10 ’20 260w

“The grave question of the proper relation to be observed in time of
war between the truth, the state, the public, and the press scarcely
obtrudes its chilly presence into the warm stream of anecdote which
courses through these pages.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 26:868 Mr 20 ’20 1100w

“The book is breezily written and as entertaining as it is genuinely
informative.”

+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 440w

+ =R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 100w

“Admiral Brownrigg has command of a straightforward, telling style.
His book is full of humour, good spirits, and the kind of information
which only he is in a position to impart.”

+ =Sat R= 129:334 Ap 3 ’20 1150w

=Spec= 124:181 F 7 ’20 300w

=Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 220w

=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia and her friends. *$1.25 Macmillan

“Seven short sketches of London society fill 150 small pages of ‘Celia
and her friends’ in which Ethel Brunner presents a bright and
benevolent heiress, attended most of the time by a clever bachelor,
who fain would change his state and hers, and assisted in the various
chapters by a supporting cast of more or less merit.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

=Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 50w

“As a picture of one phase of idle London life, there may be some
interest, but it has been so much better done by other writers that it
fails to impress one.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 280w

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w

“The dialog is full of repartee not overdone. The book isn’t meant to
be deep; whimsical, frivolous, entertaining, would describe it
better.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 140w

=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia once again. *$1.80 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–5894)

“‘Celia once again’ is a collection of nine short stories—perhaps
episodes is the better term, as there is no pretense of a fictional
plot in any of them; they all relate to Celia and her interesting
friends. According to Peter—Celia’s husband—she was ‘dangerously quick
in making friends,’ she was anxious to make every penny she could for
charity, and when she stationed herself in Piccadilly with her flag
tray and a bundle of tickets for a picture to be raffled for, ‘Love’s
awakening,’ it was small matter for wonder that her handsome face and
becoming costume won for her a gratifying success. But her
philanthropic effort was not without adventures; these the author
recounts.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The dialogue is often witty and every chapter sparkles with comment
and whimsical philosophizing on people and affairs.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 380w

=BRYANT, MRS ALICE ELISABETH (CRANDELL)=, ed. Treasury of hero tales. (Treasury ser. for children) il *$1 (3½c) Crowell 398.2

20–15175

The stories retold for children in this volume are The Gorgon’s head;
The apples of youth; The story of Siegfried; The coming of Sir
Galahad; Rinaldo and Bayard; White-headed Zal; Beowulf and Grendel;
How Cuchulain got his name; How Robin Hood met Little John.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 50w

=BRYANT, MRS SOPHIE (WILLOCK).= Moral and religious education. (Modern educator’s lib.) *$1.90 (*6s) Longmans 377

(Eng ed E20–537)