Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (7)

“Some advocates of moral training in the schools believe that morality
can best be taught through the development of religious faith and by
direct appeal to self-respect, reason, sympathy, and common-sense. A
book advocating this idea has just appeared. It deals with such
general topics as self-liberation and self-realization, the moral
ideal, the religious ideal, and the reasoned presentment of religious
truth. A chapter is devoted to each of these topics.” (School R) “In
the second division of the volume a large number of attractive
examples are given of model lessons on moral topics. There are reviews
of the lives and doings of great men and a concrete setting forth of
social and personal virtues. The last part of the book attempts to
furnish concrete material for religious instruction. The character of
this fourth division of the book can be well illustrated by citing the
general title of the section and the titles of certain of the
chapters. The general title is The reasoned presentment of religious
truths. Under this heading there are chapters on The young student’s
need of a reasoned doctrine, God and the world, Man and his destiny,
etc.” (El School J)

* * * * *

“The book is an interesting and typical contribution to the field of
endeavor which is at the present time commanding large attention in
American institutions. It will undoubtedly be made use of as a
reference book by teachers in the field of moral and religious
education.”

+ =El School J= 20:716 My ’20 260w

“Generally speaking, the discussion is theoretical and abstract. In
but a few cases does it touch problems of everyday life. For the
American teacher, it seems to have little of value.”

− + =School R= 28:478 Je ’20 150w

=BRYAS, MADELEINE DE, comtesse, and BRYAS, JACQUELINE DE.= Frenchwoman’s impressions of America. il *$1.75 Century 917.3

20–9734

The comtesse and her sister came to America in 1918 on a lecture tour
to speak in behalf of devastated France. While here their services
were also enlisted to help in the third Liberty loan drive. They
traveled from coast to coast in this double capacity and have here
jointly recorded their experiences in characteristically vivacious
French style. The book has an introduction by André Tardieu and the
contents are: Paris bombarded; No submarines; New York “en guerre”;
“Dry” Washington; American hospitality; Speaking for the third Liberty
loan; Experiences in factories; Over the top; American generosity;
Touring for devastated France; On a mission for the American
government; “Proper” America; In the Middle West; St Louis; Our
reception at Camp Dodge; No Indians and no cowboys; A dip in Saltair
with Mormons; The Pacific coast; San Francisco; Puget Sound; Vers la
France.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20

=Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 300w

+ =Lit D= p105 S 18 ’20 1050w

“Their book is vivacious, sprightly, entertaining, incisive, shrewd,
full of wit and humor, especially when the authors tell us about
things which struck them as being particularly American.”

+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 19 ’20 370w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 60w

=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.=[2] World history. (British academy. Annual Raleigh lecture, 1919) pa *90c Oxford 901

20–15226

“Lord Acton chose the idea of liberty as the central line around which
to write a world history. In the present lecture Lord Bryce suggests
another and perhaps more profitable clue—the notion of the gradual
unification of mankind. This process he briefly traces through the
centuries of history, showing how language, conquest, trade, religion
and thought have helped to draw together the scattered tribes of
primitive humanity into large groups. This process of convergence has,
however, been accompanied by a process of divergence, for while
individuals have been drawn into groups, the groups have tended to
become profoundly separated. Lord Bryce concludes his lecture by a
speculative prophecy of the future.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p355 Mr 12 ’20 110w

+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 450w

=BRYHER, WINIFRED.= Development; a novel; preface by Amy Lowell. *$2 Macmillan

“‘Development’ is an essay in autobiography, a note-book rather than a
novel, the fragmentary jottings of a child’s emotions, a child
entirely centred on self and in her recollections deliberately
isolating herself from other minds.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The
record takes its subject from early childhood, beginning at four years
old, through much travel around the Mediterranean, with sensuous
absorption of the ‘warm South’; into two years of bleak school life,
and a succeeding period of vague seeking after an undefined something
that shall be life.” (N Y Evening Post)

* * * * *

“This book is described as a novel; we should prefer to call it a
warning.” K. M.

− =Ath= p144 Jl 30 ’20 840w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:341 Ja ’21 480w

“There is to be another volume called ‘Adventure,’ to follow this one
of ‘Development.’ At least it seems quite certain that those of us who
have experienced the spell of Nancy’s early days will not be likely to
neglect the later volume.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 1200w

=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 780w

“The chief complaint leveled against Miss Richardson’s sequence is
that Miriam Henderson, however faithfully rendered, is not worth
writing about. This cannot be said of Nancy. Inarticulate as she is,
here is a personality of complicated power.” C. M. Rourke

+ =New Repub= 25:270 Ja 26 ’21 950w

“It is patently sincere, and the author has an unusual feeling for
words, a highly developed color sense, and intensity of feeling. But
even here she is hunting not for the inevitable, right word but for
the bizarre, the surprising. Nevertheless, the result is often
felicitous and is saved from becoming burlesque, though sometimes by a
narrow margin.” H. L. Pangborn

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 15 ’21 580w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 250w

“It has the value that truth and sincerity always give, but as a piece
of literature it has more promise than achievement. Out of her
experience and toil will some day come a notable, perhaps even a
memorable book, but we cannot close the present review without a
warning against the danger of too close a pre-occupation with the
analysis of one’s own emotions. Breadth, stability, and intellectual
strength are not to be found in this book; they can be gained only by
the assiduous study of the external world.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:79 Jl 24 ’20 380w

+ =Spec= 125:781 D 11 ’20 460w

“The evident truth of much of what Miss Bryher tells us about Nancy
does not save a good deal of ‘Development’ from being simply dull.
These experiences set down in this way, are no more than the raw
material for art, to be turned into something coherent and beautiful
when a maturer experience can use them, when egotism has been touched
with a tolerant humour, and people have ceased to be ‘baffling.’ They
are notes on the artistic mind before it has left the stage of the
grub, and grubs are never very pleasant.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 640w

=BUCK, ALBERT HENRY.= Dawn of modern medicine. il *$7 Yale univ. press 610.9

20–15528

“‘The dawn of modern medicine’ gives a concise review of the progress
of medical science from the early part of the eighteenth century until
about 1860. Among the contents are a discussion of medicine in Germany
and other European countries during the eighteenth century, brief
biographical sketches of a number of physicians and surgeons who were
leaders then, and a somewhat detailed description of workers in
special departments of medicine and surgery. Several chapters deal
with important European hospitals of that time and other organizations
for the teaching of medicine.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:56 N ’20

“Dr Buck is to be congratulated on his study of the history of
medicine in the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth centuries. As a
biographical study of the leaders of medicine the book is all too
sketchy; in fact, many of these histories have been culled from
standard medical histories.” E. P. Boas

+ − =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1050w

“A loose and disorderly arrangement greatly lessens the usefulness of
this stately volume. It confuses men of the highest importance and men
of no importance at all. It presents a chaotic and unintelligible
picture of the progress of the medical sciences during the period
under review.” H. L. Mencken

− + =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 700w

“The work is of interest as an addition to general medical literature
and because of the manner of treatment it will prove interesting and
profitable to the ordinary reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 210w

=Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 130w

=BUCK, CHARLES NEVILLE.= Tempering. il *1.75 (1c) Doubleday

20–5772

A story of the Kentucky mountains spanning the years between the
feud-ridden period of the late nineteenth century and the world war.
One of Boone Wellver’s kinsmen is convicted for the murder of Goebel,
the democratic nominee for governor, and young Boone swears vengeance
to the death on the man whose false testimony convicted him. But Boone
has already come under the influence of Victor McCalloway, a
professional soldier, and McCalloway persuades him to wait till he is
twenty-one. Boone is sent to school, falls in love with Anne Masters,
learns a new code of manners and morals, but once comes dangerously
near a return to his old gods and to keeping his old vow. He goes into
politics and when the war comes enlists. He meets Anne, from whom he
had been separated, and there is promise of happiness after the war.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

“It is a compliment to Mr Buck’s literary skill that he makes mighty
interesting reading of the story of his hero’s symbolical struggle.
‘The tempering’ will not suffer by comparison with any of John Fox’s
novels of similar locale.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 550w

=BUCK, HOWARD SWAZEY.= Tempering. *$1 Yale univ. press 811

20–1675

This is the first volume in the Yale series of younger poets. This
series “is designed to afford a publishing medium for the work of
young men and women who have not yet secured a wide public
recognition. It will include only such verse as seems to give the
fairest promise for the future of American poetry.” Twelve of the war
poems printed as part two were in 1918 awarded the annual prize in
poetry offered at Yale university. Other poems are reprinted from the
Nation, Contemporary Verse, Poetry Journal, Poetry, the Masses, and
the Yale Literary Magazine.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 450w

“A first book of verse wherein jubilant youthfulness, unwearied even
in the poems of war experience, marches to gay pipes with a sweeping
stride and an idealism unappalled.”

+ =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 30w

“There is such real artistic restraint and such moving sincerity in
most of the battle and exile pieces that it is a pity that the poem of
the return should border on vulgarity. Mr Buck has obviously not yet
quite found himself, but he certainly has the stuff of real poetry in
him.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 Jl 1 ’20 150w

=BUCK, SOLON JUSTUS.= Agrarian crusade: a chronicle of the farmer in politics. (Chronicles of America) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 329

20–4901

“The farmer in American politics is the theme treated by Mr Solon J.
Buck in ‘The agrarian crusade,’ in which are related the rise and fall
of the so-called Granger movement in the West, the greenback
propaganda, the Farmers’ alliance, the organization of the Populist
party and its surprising success in 1892, the silver issue, and more
recently the growth of the Nonpartisan party in North Dakota and other
states.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

Reviewed by E. P. Oberholtzer

=Am Hist R= 26:147 O ’20 600w

“It is obviously a hurried piece of work, well enough written, but
with a tendency to triteness and wordiness.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 500w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w

=St Louis= 18:106 Je ’20 20w

=BUCKLE, GEORGE EARLE.= Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield. v 5–6 il ea *$6 Macmillan

The author of these two volumes is Monypenny’s successor. The work was
extended in order to treat more fully of Disraeli’s management of the
eastern question, the most outstanding feature of his administration.
This was made possible, says the author, by the Russian revolution.
“There can be now no reasons of international delicacy to prevent a
full disclosure of Disraeli’s eastern policy.” Contents of volume 5:
The Irish church, 1868; Defeat and resignation, 1868; Reserve in
opposition, 1868–1871; Lothair, 1869–1870; The turn of the tide,
1872–1873; Bereavement, 1872–1873; Lady Bradford and Lady
Chesterfield, 1873–1875; Power, 1874; Political success and physical
failure, 1874; Social reform, 1874–1875; An imperial foreign policy,
1874–1875; Suez canal and royal title, 1875–1876; From the Commons to
the Lords, 1876–1877; Appendix—an unfinished novel. Contents of volume
6: Reopening of the eastern question, 1875–1876; The Bulgarian
atrocities, 1876; The Constantinople conference, 1876–1877; War and
cabinet dissension, 1877; Conditional neutrality, 1877; Derby’s first
resignation, 1877–1878; Final parting with Derby, 1878; Agreements
with Russia and Turkey, 1878; The Congress of Berlin, 1878; The Afghan
war, 1878; The Zulu war, 1879; Beaconsfield and the queen, 1874–1880;
Last months of the government, 1879–1880; Dissolution and defeat,
1880; Endymion, 1880; The last year, 1880–1881; The man and his fame;
Index to the six volumes.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p72 Jl 16 ’20 2000w

+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20

“The record is as revealing as anything in range of British
biography.”

+ =Lit D= p90 N 20 ’20 1600w

“For, with all respect to the preceding volumes of this monumental
biography, none of them, nor all of them together, compare in
interest, in the present reviewer’s opinion, with these two. It may be
said at the outset that Mr Buckle has done his work well. His
narrative is full and free and flowing. It has a nice proportion
between his own words and those of his hero, an entertaining
alternation between the life and the letters—and not too much of the
speeches—of his subject; an agreeable and readable style; a pleasing
touch of humour; a sufficiency of anecdote and allusion. It is, in
brief, an excellent piece of biographical writing.” W. C. Abbott

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 18 ’20 2000w

“If nothing is set down in malice, nothing is withheld through a
mistaken sense of loyalty. Disraeli is painted in this full length
portrait as he was. His faults and follies are revealed, as well as
his amiable and outstanding ability.” Rollo Ogden

+ =N Y Times= p5 S 19 ’20 1900w

“This biography, too large for most American readers, will
nevertheless be a necessity in every library, public or private, which
aims to possess in completeness any dealing with the history of Europe
during the nineteenth century.”

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 180w

“Undoubtedly one of the most important compilations for the student of
nineteenth century English history.”

+ =Pratt= p31 O ’20 30w

Reviewed by R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 330w

“Mr Buckle’s work will stand comparison with Lord Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone,’ and that is the greatest possible praise.” Lindsay Rogers

+ =Review= 3:293 O 6 ’20 2300w

=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 150w

“Mr Buckle has concluded his task, and produced one of the greatest
political biographies in the language. For the general reader the work
is, of course, too long; and even the student of history might have
dispensed with some of the letters and some of the extracts from
speeches, which nearly always weary.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:562 Je 19 ’20 1200w

+ =Sat R= 129:587 Je 26 ’20 1750w

“Mr Buckle’s detailed narrative of Disraeli’s handling of the eastern
question between 1876 and 1878, which is of course the main feature of
his closing volumes, is full of interest and instruction for the
present generation. Disraeli’s letters abound in good things, access
to which is facilitated by an excellent index.”

+ =Spec= 124:829 Je 19 ’20 1850w

“On the whole, everybody who is not an extreme partisan will recognize
the honesty, the lucidity and ability with which Mr Buckle has stated
his case.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p373 Je 17 ’20 7000w

=BUCKROSE, J. E., pseud. (MRS ANNIE EDITH [FOSTER] JAMESON).= Young hearts. *$1.90 (1c) Doran

20–11074

Mr Thompson’s moving away from Wressle came as the direct result of
his being dropped from the Urban District Council. Shorn of the
privileges of public life, he felt that he couldn’t carry on as of
yore, and so decided to take up farming in real earnest. He therefore
bought a farm in Muckleby and moved his faintly protesting wife and
daughters there. Once settled in the little village, he felt that he
should use his influence for good, and so undertook to destroy old
superstitions and to revive old country customs which were falling
into disuse. His schemes for carrying these purposes out are the
foundation of the story, although the romances of his daughters Helen
and Maude have a large share in it as well.

* * * * *

“Leisurely, will not be as well liked as some of her others.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“As usual with this author, her quiet manner covers and sustains a
warm human interest; the environment is graphically pictured; the
characters are drawn with an assured, vitalizing touch. That of the
father, an unconscious egoist, is somewhat unduly elaborated,
introducing matter that is superfluous, almost extraneous; and there
is also an unwonted paucity of what Mrs Buckrose has taught us to
expect eagerly, her unique, delightful humor.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w

“Mildly, almost tepidly humorous in its pictures of English country
life. The lady who writes under the name of J. E. Buckrose has given
us better stories.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 50w

=BUDISH, JACOB M., and SOULE, GEORGE HENRY.= New unionism in the clothing industry. *$3 (4½c) Harcourt 331.87

20–15160

In defining their term “new unionism” the authors give a brief account
of the changes that have taken place in unionism both in England and
America from as far back as the “one big union” agitation in England
in 1830 and point out that the present significant distinction between
unions is between those “which are unconscious that their efforts tend
toward a new social order and so adapt their strategy to the immediate
situation” and those “which are conscious of their desire for a new
order, and so base their strategy on more fundamental considerations.”
The latter type is best exemplified by the unions of the clothing
workers of America which in their breadth of sympathy and vision,
their new ideal and new hope throw light both on the aspirations of
British labor and on the present flux and unrest in the American labor
movement. The book is an account of the struggles and the rise of the
unions in the clothing industry. Contents: The new unionism; The
clothing industry; The human element; The unions—their beginnings and
growth; Decisive victories; Collective agreements; Philosophy,
structure, and strategy; Education; Labor press and cooperatives;
Textiles; The future; Bibliography, appendix and index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20

“Although the authors have no doubt tried to be impartial, the book is
clearly the product of partisans rather than the work of unbiased
observers. No mention is made of any of the short-comings of the newer
unions, nor are the difficulties and perplexities of the employer in
his contact with them dealt with (except in connection with seasonal
idleness). The book is, however, an excellent one; the authors have a
thorough knowledge of their subject and a broad outlook over the
industrial problem.” A. M. Bing

+ − =Survey= 45:23 O 2 ’20 1200w

“Should find a place in the public library of every city with an
industrial population as it undoubtedly points the way which union
developments will take in the future.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 80w

=BUELL, RAYMOND LESLIE.= Contemporary French politics. *$3.50 Appleton 944.08

20–20938

The author calls attention to three sterling qualities in the French
people which, in the elections of November 1919, steered them,
contrary to the predictions of the “storm prophets,” clear of
Bolshevism and the extreme socialist left. These qualities are: their
attachment to property, their respect for authority, and their civic
spirit. In the light of these he interprets the present political
situation. The book has an introduction by Professor Carlton J. H.
Hayes and the contents are: Party philosophies; Parties and
parliament; The “Bloc” and the sacred union; Party realignments; Woman
suffrage and the “R. P.”; The 1919 elections; The demand for a new
constitution; Syndicalism: program and tactics; The press and the
censorship; The bureaucracy and state socialism; A government by
interests and experts; Regionalism; What the French peace terms might
have been; The French conception of a league of nations; What France
thought of American “idealism”; Appendices; Index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21

“Mr Buell’s book affords the beginning of sound knowledge concerning
France because it treats of the larger—that is, the political—aspects
of French life with some approach to completeness and without the
sentiment that blurs outlines.”

+ =No Am= 213:282 F ’21 950w

=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Russian pendulum: autocracy—democracy—bolshevism. il *$2 Macmillan 947

19–15627

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Though the material is not well organized and the observations not
very profound, yet ‘The Russian pendulum’ is one of the very few good
books in English on present day Russia.” F. A. Golder

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:356 My ’20 500w

“His suggestions for allied policy in the future are vague, but his
detailed account of actual happenings in Russia makes this a very
informative book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20

Reviewed by Harold Kellock

=Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

“He shows himself well disposed, sympathetic, and fair-minded in every
way. But he is not remarkable for the amount of his novel information
or for comprehension of the forces at work, nor is he very clear-cut
in his view of the means by which the desired readjustment is to be
brought about. His best chapter is a survey of the mistakes of allied
diplomacy in Russia. To his statement of remedies as well as to his
other judgments, Mr Bullard is led more by his wishes than the facts.”

+ − =Nation= 110:268 F 28 ’20 420w

“In his own recommendations Mr Bullard is modest; he realizes that the
problem is too dynamic for any program hard and fast in its details.
But, for all that, Mr Bullard is hazy.” C. M.

+ − =New Repub= 21:361 F 18 ’20 1950w

“Much of it is valuable first-hand material for the student, and some
of it, alas, can not be considered as entirely accurate or unbiased.
Quite the most valuable feature of the volume is his opening chapter
devoted to Lenin. The Siberian part is unworthy of the writer and
appears to have been done under pressure to pad out an otherwise
admirable book, a pressure which is also indicated by the faulty
transliteration of Russian names.”

+ − =Review= 2:207 F 28 ’20 550w

=R of Rs= 61:107 Ja ’20 80w

“‘The Russian pendulum’ does not reveal any understanding of the
forces back of the great change in Russia.” Alexander Trachtenberg

− =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 620w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 27 ’19 100w

“This is unquestionably one of the ablest books yet written dealing
with revolutionary Russia. Not only in his comment on events, but in
his treatment of the more fundamental aspects of the situation, he
has, with vigorous and imaginative word, written a highly illuminating
book.” Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:47 Ap 3 ’20 580w

=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Stranger. *$2 (2c) Macmillan

20–7920

The story takes the reader into an intellectual circle of lower New
York, among social workers, literati and artists—America’s aspirations
at their best. Into this circle is injected a Moslem—son of an
American missionary couple in Turkey—born and brought up there, a
convinced Mohammedan. This leads to comparisons between eastern and
western life and religion, not always flattering to our western
civilization. Some flaws are detected in the proud and secure
foundations of our science and “efficiency.” The finest exponent of
the latter and of feminism, Helen Cash, meets her Waterloo in the calm
questioning eyes of this stranger. Frank Lockwood, the artist, sees in
him the savior of his soul, and to Eunice Bender, the sick girl, he
opens up heaven before she dies, through the spirituality of his love.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20

“We do not often happen upon so very good a story as this one, from
every point of view.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1000w

+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 70w

“In brief, one feels that Mr Bullard, in attempting to be realistic,
has achieved only a faithful narrative, based on ideas about which, on
the whole, no one would wish to dispute.” L. M. R.

− + =Freeman= 3:286 D 1 ’20 160w

“As a character and a sympathetic intermediary between East and West,
Mr Bullard’s ‘Stranger’ is picturesque and charming; as a guide and
philosopher he is amiably sentimental and futile.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w

“As Mr Bullard has avoided the rocks of mere Menckenesque satire, so
has he steered clear of the equally dangerous shallow pools of
sentimentalism. He has not achieved a great book—there are few such in
the world—but he has penetrated pretty nearly to the core of some of
the counterfeits that time will break. His story is interesting,
thoughtful, reasoned, suggestive.” S. C. C.

+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 1000w

“It is an idyll of a rare degree of loveliness, delicate as a flower,
but without, one feels quite sure, a flower’s evanescence. Unusual and
striking in conception, the book is no less unusual and striking in
execution. A really worth-while novel, one which appeals both to the
reader’s brains and to his emotions, is this.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1000w

“Both in its originality as to treatment and balance between character
interest and suggestion of thought the novel is of substantial value.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 600w

“Altogether the special pleading of the book in favour of Morocco
versus America should not be too readily believed in by the
intelligent reader.”

− =Spec= 125:820 D 18 ’20 50w

“‘The stranger’ is a very appealing and unusual novel in the delicacy
and vividness of its portraiture.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 30 ’20 580w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 120w

=BULLER, ARTHUR HENRY REGINALD.= Essays on wheat. il *$2.50 Macmillan 633.1

20–838

“The book contains chapters on: The early history of wheat-growing in
Manitoba; Wheat in western Canada; The origin of Red Bobs and
Kitchener; The wild wheat of Palestine. But the most important part of
the book is the chapter on The discovery and introduction of Marquis
wheat, perhaps the most productive variety of wheat in North America.
The style is non-technical.” (Booklist) “The author is professor of
botany in the University of Manitoba.” (Brooklyn)

* * * * *

“The book should appeal not only to the student of economic history,
and to botanists, but to the general reader who may wish to learn
something of the great cereal crops of North America.” I: Lippincott.

+ =Am Econ R= 10:815 D ’20 450w

=Booklist= 16:225 Ap ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w

“Prof. Buller’s ‘Essays on wheat’ are among the most interesting
things we have seen for a long time. He is singularly fortunate in his
subject, and he tells his story remarkably well, giving the wealth of
detail, the figures, and the references needed by the man of science,
without sacrificing interest or literary form.” E. J. Russell

+ =Nature= 105:224 Ap 22 ’20 1000w

+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 450w

“The volume is an excellent and timely addition to works dealing with
the resources of North America.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w

=BULLOCK, EDNA DEAN=, comp. Selected articles on the employment of women. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 Wilson, H. W. 331.4

20–4722

A second edition of this handbook, first published in 1911, has been
prepared by Julia E. Johnsen. New material has been included covering
“the new outlook on the employment of women the rapidly changing
phases growing out of women’s large part in war work, the larger
opportunities, new and fairer standards of protective legislation,”
and the bibliography has been revised and brought down to date.

* * * * *

=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 20w

“Valuable in presenting the subject from many angles.”

+ =Booklist= 16:286 My ’20

“Although the articles selected are interesting, well arranged and
yield their significance easily to the lay student, they do not give
the solid basis of fact which debaters ought to have. They dwell,
however, on the most important questions for women workers.” E. K.
Wells

+ − =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 260w

=BULMAN, HARRISON FRANCIS.= Coal mining and the coal miner. il *$6 Macmillan 622.3

(Eng ed 20–11528)

“A comprehensive survey of the whole industry as it existed in normal
times—the figures and statistics being confined for the most part to
the period before the war, ending with 1913—by an experienced colliery
manager and director of colliery companies. The book was written
before the Coal commission, and Mr Bulman hopes that the normal
picture he draws ‘may serve as a useful corrective to some erroneous
ideas which have arisen from its proceedings.’ A chapter of
seventy-nine pages very fully illustrated with plans and photographs
is devoted to ‘Miners’ houses.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w

“We cannot say that his book is attractive in form or style, but it is
at any rate an honest book and not misleading propaganda.”

+ − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 240w

“For those who are interested in the why of industrial troubles, this
book can serve as a means of showing the gaps in the thinking of
colliery managers and how they do not comprehend the incoherency of
the men who work.” Hugh Archibald

− =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 620w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 90w

“His dispassionate, detailed, documented, and illustrated statement of
facts is far more impressive and convincing than mere argument or
assertion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w

=BULSTRODE, BEATRIX (MRS EDWARD MANICO GULL).= Tour in Mongolia. il *$5 (8½c) Stokes 915.1

What led this English lady, after an eighteen months’ stay in China,
to travel in Mongolia was “the fascination of the unknown, a deep love
of the picturesque and inherent desire to revert awhile to the
primitive.” Also Mongolia was an opportunity of meeting with
medievalism untouched. The trip took place in 1913 while Mongolia was
at war with China and the author’s account is particularly instructive
in her analysis of Mongol character. An introduction by David Fraser,
Times correspondent in Peking, explains the political situation at the
time of the tour. The book is indexed and profusely illustrated.

* * * * *

“She can handle a pen to excellent effect.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 S 16 ’20 960w

=BUNAU-VARILLA, PHILIPPE.= Great adventure of Panama. *$1.75 Doubleday 986

20–5904

The object of the book is to show how the Panama canal enterprise was
hedged about by criminal conspiracies on the part of Germany, both
financially and politically, linking it intimately with the great war.
The author claims to expose the mysterious threads of “the
always-menacing ‘occult power of Germany’” which have long been
visible to himself alone. Among the contents are: The occult power of
Germany; The Boche conspiracy in Mexico (1861–63) preparing the
provocation of 1870; The Boche conspiracy in France, (1888–92), to
wreck the Panama canal, in order to create the depressed state of mind
necessary for the premeditated aggression; Various traces of Boche
intrigue in Bogota for defeating in 1903 the adoption of the Panama
canal by the United States, etc.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20

“The trouble with M. Bunau-Varilla’s method of argument in seeking to
prove his contentions is that he considers a mere uncorroborated
statement quite sufficient to prove anything that he wishes to prove.”
T: R. Ybarra

− + =N Y Times= 25:158 Ap 4 ’20 1100w

“There is perhaps more rhetoric than evidence in certain parts of this
narrative; yet it would not be surprising if evidence as yet uncovered
should sometime confirm nearly all of the author’s opinions. Few fact
stories, it may be said, tell so clearly as does this of M.
Bunau-Varilla’s just how things were done and what motives actuated
the doers.”

+ − =No Am= 212:285 Ag ’20 900w

=Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 300w

“It is not lightly to be dismissed because of the ebullient egotism
with which it is written. The testimony of the chief actor in the
drama is worth listening to.”

+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 1000w

=BUNKER, JOHN JOSEPH LEO.= Shining fields and dark towers. *$1.25 Lane 811

19–15769

This is the first volume of a poet from the Middle West who looks down
from philosophic heights upon the din of battle, of traffic and
travail with a sweet and mellow wisdom and an encompassing faith in a
divine love. The contents in part are: Earth-music; The flute-player;
To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom; The splendid stranger; New
York sketches; Ballade of faces fair; Love’s intendment; The great
refusal; Quest and haven.

* * * * *

“Though the section entitled ‘New York sketches,’ and the study called
‘Complainte d’amour,’ contain some of the cleverest and most
interesting vers libre that the present reviewer has ever seen, Mr
Bunker is no disciple of the new school. He is essentially in the
great tradition, and it is in the familiar forms, the recognized types
of English verse, that he does his most ample and satisfying work.” H:
A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 50:373 N ’19 850w

“Not always with the same perfection of expression does he sing, but
at the same time never does he fail to give, whatever the mood or
theme may be, a significance to it that comes from his spiritual
manner of approach and understanding. This peculiarly individual
quality is as apparent in the four poems of the ‘New York sketches’
with their realistic background and outlines, as in the ‘Quest and
haven,’ the memorial poem to Francis Thompson.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 F 7 ’20 1300w

“Mr Bunker has enjoyed and experimented with a wide range of poetry.
Not the less for this has he remained captain of his poetic soul. His
is a highly personal muse, tender and chastened, yet capable of
merriment, with the far vision of the pure in heart. Lyrics such as
‘Revolution,’ ‘To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom,’ or, in more
playful vein, ‘Boons,’ are distinct additions to the sum of modern
poetry.”

+ =Cath World= 110:403 D ’19 350w

“Mr Bunker is direct, fluent, enthusiastic, and harmless, with good
impulses and ordinary vision.” M. V. D.

− + =Nation= 110:76 Ja 17 ’20 180w

“The book shows much promise, and nearly all of it has the real
singing quality, although now and then, as happens sometimes with even
the best of poets, either the author’s ear has failed him or his
command of the technique of poetical expression has not been up to the
mark. But these lapses are rare.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:62 F 1 ’20 360w

“Some day if this writer keeps on and has a real experience in life,
he may become a poet. If all his work were as musical as the four
stanzas on ‘Twilight’ criticism of his work would even now have to be
modified.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ja 25 ’20 260w

“Mr Bunker is said to be ‘a modern of the moderns,’ but we prefer him
in the more old-fashioned mood which inspires ‘Twilight’ and some of
the other pieces in his book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 180w

=BURGESS, THORNTON WALDO.= Burgess animal book for children. il *$3 (4½c) Little 590

20–21007

A companion volume to the Burgess bird book. In the story Peter Rabbit
goes to school to Mother Nature. He learns first about his own
cousins, the marsh rabbit, the arctic hare, and others, and then about
his friends the squirrels, and so on up through the animal kingdom to
the deer, elk, bears and other large mammals. “There has been no
attempt to describe or classify sub-species.... The purpose of this
book is to acquaint the reader with the larger groups—orders,
families, and divisions of the latter, so that typical representatives
may readily be recognized and their habits understood.” The pictures
are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and there is an index.

* * * * *

“‘The Burgess animal book’ ought to be given to every child in America
as an introduction to the animal life of our continent. And there is
not one of those children who won’t like it and absorb an untold
amount of information from it.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 420w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 50w

“This book affords further evidence that Mr Burgess is doing a great
deal toward making the boys and girls of today a generation of
naturalists.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p72 N 21 ’20 170w

=BURGESS, WALTER H.= Pastor of the Pilgrims: a biography of John Robinson. il *$4 Harcourt

20–20311

This study of the life and times of John Robinson is based on original
research. “Besides the identification of the early home and the
parentage of John Robinson, these pages throw a little fresh light
upon the Southworths and Carvers and others connected with the Pilgrim
Father movement. Gervase Neville is identified, and the anonymous
opponent of Robinson in one of his earliest controversies is named.
The history of the obscure church in the western part of England is
unfolded, and an attempt made to settle the vexed question of the
identity of John Smith.” (Foreword) A partial list of the contents is:
The birthplace and parentage of John Robinson; Religion in England in
the days of Elizabeth and James; Separation from the Church of
England—Robinson and Bernard—Gervase Neville—William Brewster;
Religious refugees at Amsterdam; The Pilgrims at Leyden; Robinson’s
plea for lay preaching; The sailing—Robinson’s letter of advice—Robert
Cushman’s letter—the “Mayflower’s” voyage; The influence of Robinson
on the thought and life of his age. There are illustrations,
appendices, a chronological table of the writings of John Robinson and
an index.

* * * * *

“The volume shows wide study of the whole literature of contemporary
separatism and of its opponents, and may be heartily commended not
only as a biography of the Pilgrim pastor, but as a most readable and
informing account of the separatist movement of his day not only for
the specialist but for the general reader.”

+ =Am Hist R= 26:338 Ja ’21 400w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 120w

“Here is brave stuff, no doubt; unhappily nothing organic or even
articulate has been made of it. With a little artistic sympathy, with
even a touch or two of the quality which marks a man of letters, he
might have made the portrait memorable.”

+ − =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 460w

“Taken as a whole, the volume is a good example of what can be
accomplished, well-directed historical scholarship applied to a
definite object.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w

“We could wish that the biography was less interrupted by digressions
on side-issues, but Mr Burgess’s enthusiasm for his subject is wholly
commendable.”

+ − =Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 220w

“It does not treat all phases of the separatist movement with equal
thoroughness. It is deficient at times in method and proportion. But
it is an earnest, honest work, in which, in spite of the author’s
sympathy with Robinson, and a desire to claim for him as large a
personal influence as possible little is written with any other object
than telling the truth. Its deductions are moderate.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 90w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 Jl 8 ’20 1150w

=BURGESS, WARREN RANDOLPH.= Trends of school costs. (Education monographs) il $1 Russell Sage foundation 379

20–17519

“The study is based upon data included in the reports of the United
States Commissioner of education, and covers the period from 1870 to
1918. By means of the ‘line of trends’ the writer presents a striking
picture of the drift of annual expenditures for public education in
the United States during the period noted, comparing this with a
similar representation of the growth in pupil attendance. Noting the
fact that teachers’ salaries and new buildings absorb four-fifths of
all school expenditures for the year 1917–18, an analysis is made of
the trends of teachers’ salaries since 1840, the salaries of rural and
city teachers, both men and women, being considered separately.
Interesting comparisons of these with the lines representing the
trends of the cost of living and of the salaries of other workers are
presented. Likewise, the tendencies with reference to costs of
buildings are similarly shown. A special set of tables and graphs
indicates the trends of such costs during the period from 1915–20.
From the data presented the writer concludes that ‘to buy the same
amount of educational service in 1920 as in 1915 it will be necessary
to double the school budget.’ The closing chapter deals with the
sources of income for school support.”—School R

* * * * *

“Aside from the content, the method employed in the study will be of
interest to students of education.”

+ =El School J= 21:235 N ’20 250w

=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 70w

=School R= 28:710 N ’20 680w

=BURKE, KATHLEEN.= Little heroes of France. il *$1.75 (4c) Doubleday 940.344

20–17608

Twelve stories of deeds of heroism performed by French children during
the war. The author was engaged in relief work and some of the
children she knew personally. “Others she knew because all France
loved and honored them. One of the stories, that of the Denisot
children, was found in the diary of a German soldier.” (Introd.)
Contents: André Lange and his wheelbarrow; Madeleine and André Daniau;
Denise Cartier; Robert Felix; Louise Haumont; Louis and Marcelle
Denisot; Baby Pierre; Gustave Daret; René Chautier; Etienne Chevrille;
Emile Depres; Henriette Maubert. The book is illustrated by Paul
Verrees and has an introduction by Alfred Holman.

* * * * *

“Heroic, really true and full of action these will prove stirring
tales and bring home the horrors of war to all boys and most girls.”

+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20

=Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 40w

“It is an incredibly stirring, beautiful little book, and it is one
that every generous child will love. It is not alone for children,
however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 50w

=BURKE, THOMAS.=[2] Song book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. *$1.25 Holt 811

20–22856

A book of poems in free verse viewing life through the oriental eyes
of Quong Lee, shopkeeper in Limehouse, London’s Chinatown. Humor and
philosophy mingle in the poems. Titles are: Of buying and selling; A
nightpiece; Of a national cash register; Under a shining window; A
song of little girls; At the feast of lanterns; Of worship and
conduct.

* * * * *

“Occasionally a banality, but light and poignant sentiment in
abundance, with here and there a poem that sets vibrating the cords of
sensibility.”

+ − =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 100w

“Mr Burke triumphs so splendidly in these verses, as he did in his
prose stories, that he deserves all the praise we can give him.” W: S.
Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 1450w

“These vers libre pieces of ‘song’ present the personality of
Chinatown, the quaint phrase and the cool temper with a reality which
grows more and more vivid as one reads them through.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 60w

=BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE.= Tarzan the untamed. il *$1.90 McClurg

20–7515

“This new story tells what happened to Tarzan and his wife and the
home he had made in British East Africa when war broke out in 1914 and
a small detachment of black soldiers, commanded by German officers,
marched past his farm and on to German headquarters. Tarzan was
hurrying home from Nairobi, where he had heard of the outbreak of war
when this happened, and when he reaches his farm he finds a scene of
desolation, no one left alive upon his place. In grief and rage and
hate he casts off the veneer of civilization and becomes the ape-man
once more, while he ranges the country to find those who have killed
his mate and mete to them the justice of the jungle. He finds them,
but the result makes only the beginning of the story, which goes
swiftly on through many complications.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“It runs on for some four hundred pages with no visible trace of
style, little or no atmosphere or local color, and about as slim a
foundation plot as has graced a novel for many a day.”

− =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 300w

“The story shows the same qualities that have marked the previous
Tarzan stories—ingenuity and fertility of invention, combined with
those crude and garish features that make the success of a popular
moving picture play.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 430w

“Will doubtless thrill the crowd which loves the cinematograph, and
cares nothing for common-sense, or coherence, compared with violent
sensation and frequent killing.”

− =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 360w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w

=BURROUGHS, JOHN.= Accepting the universe. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 210

20–18062

“A series of sallies, excursions, into the world of semi-philosophical
speculation,” the author calls this collection of essays, whose burden
is “that this is the best possible world, and these people in it are
the best possible people,” that “the universe is good,” and “the heart
of nature is sound.” Among the longer essays are: Shall we accept the
universe? The universal beneficence; The faith of a naturalist; The
price of development; The problem of evil. Then follow two groups of
short pieces under the headings: Horizon lines; and Soundings. The
poet of the cosmos, in the last essay, is Walt Whitman.

* * * * *

“The philosophizings will please many not too radical thinkers. Most
people will prefer his bits on nature.”

+ =Booklist= 17:97 D ’20

=Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 180w

=Lit D= p101 N 6 ’20 1200w

“He is a naturalist; his vision is as broad as terrestrial time; he
leads us over much geological and biological ground to the mind of
man. But once confronted with that phenomenon, he is, like many a
scientist, evasive; he is reduced to the merest academic platitudes.”

+ − =Nation= 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 840w

“Spirited and eloquent pages.” H. W. Boynton

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w

“There will be many who will take issue with Mr Burroughs’s philosophy
of God and nature, good and evil, life and death, but this will not
disturb him. He has unquestionably brought the inexorable facts of
existence to bear upon theories, creeds and beliefs, and has applied
their lesson with unsparing frankness. The result is not in line with
so-called orthodoxy, but none the less he has coined into words the
unspoken expressions of many hearts.” H: L. West

+ − =N Y Times= p16 O 24 ’20 950w

“His philosophy is a mass of contradictions. Mr Burroughs in accepting
the universe drops out from it its most important phenomena.”

− =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 300w

“Of flowers and birds and the simple life Mr Burroughs has something
to say, his divagations on the universe leave us doubting. It would in
fact be easy to point out a series of shocking inconsistencies into
which he has been thrown by his ambitious attempt to combine a wise
and wholesome life in nature with a metaphysical theory of natural
evolution.”

− + =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 470w

=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Hidden Creek. il *$2 (2½c) Houghton

20–15343

When Sheila Arundel’s artist father dies and leaves her penniless, she
counts herself fortunate to be befriended by Sylvester Hudson, who has
come into her life thru a painting of her father’s he has just bought
to decorate his western hotel. He takes her back with him to Millings,
but the reception his family give her makes her eager to be
independent and in gratitude to Hudson she consents to become a bar
maid in his saloon. The only member of his family who treats her with
respect is Dickie, the despised half-drunken son, in whom she
discovers a soul akin to her own poetic nature. Her success in the
saloon brings her popularity of a kind, but one particularly trying
day, culminating in a brutal insult from her employer, determines her
to get away and she seeks refuge with Miss Blake, a recluse living on
Hidden Creek alone with her dogs and her peculiarities. From the
horror that this experience brings, Cosme Hilliard, a hot-blooded
young half-Spaniard, rescues her, and for a time it seems that he is
to be her hero, but Dickie, whose character has been developing along
with hers, altho in a different way, at length comes into his own.

* * * * *

“‘Hidden Creek’ follows no beaten path; its plot is skillfully
developed and the story is told with realism and with a sparkling
wit.”

+ =N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 200w

“Will be welcomed by the reader with fondness for romance staged apart
from the trodden paths of every day life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 200w

=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Red lady. *$1.75 (3c) Houghton

20–6709

A unique feature of this mystery story is that its principal
characters, including both hero and villain, are women. Men play
secondary parts. Three housekeepers have fled from the Pines when
Janice Gale accepts the position. Her first intimation of something
wrong comes with the signs of terror exhibited by her mistress’s young
son at sight of her red hair. Then there are indications that the
house is haunted. The child Robbie is frightened into convulsions and
dies with a strand of red hair in his fingers. Janice next comes face
to face with the ghost and finds her the counterpart of herself.
Convinced that this is a real woman she sets herself to trace the
mystery, braves great dangers, all but loses her life, escapes and
wins the love of the young detective who has been regarding her as a
criminal.

* * * * *

“An exceptionally fine specimen, American in origin, of that popular
genus colloquially known as the ‘shocker.’”

+ =Ath= p867 D 24 ’20 80w

“The mystery of it all is hard to penetrate but Mrs Burt at last finds
a way out of the strange tangle and altogether writes a very good and
very unusual story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 200w

“This story would be more attractive if the author were to make, say,
her present ninth chapter her first. She could condense in that one
chapter about all she has told us in the eight preceding and would
thus spare the reader much boredom. And yet, considering how good are
the final chapters, there is reason to believe that we have in Mrs
Burt one of the well worth while writers of real mystery stories of
the immediate future.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 650w

=BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS.= Songs and portraits. *$1.50 Scribner 811

20–8428

“A nature modestly reflective as well as emotionally alert is revealed
in ‘Songs and portraits’ by Maxwell Struthers Burt. The poems
reminiscent of the dead, in form and spirit not unlike those of Rupert
Brooke, express the belief that ‘the dead know all.’ In ‘Fishing’ and
‘Marchen’ this Princeton poet paints gay and naive little small-boy
pictures. He reasons rather bitterly against frantic fanatics and
pudgy-fingered plutocrats.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20