Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (9)

London is the abode of these three exiles. One of them is an
Englishman, Stephen Lawrie, at odds with the world about him and with
the war, living in voluntary seclusion in the London slums, trying to
solve the riddle of the universe in silence and inactivity. The other,
Perekatov, is a Ukrainian Jew eking out a precarious existence in
London as a correspondent for a Russian paper. He obtrudes himself on
Stephen with whose face, seen at a public meeting, he had been
impressed. There is much spasmodic, intangible talk between them and
their intercourse ripens into friendship of a sort. Valerie du Toit,
the third exile, is a South African of French Huguenot extraction, who
has come to England athirst for the eternal verities. With elemental
force the spirits of Stephen and Valerie meet and melt into each
other. This kindles insane jealousy in Howard Ducie who acts the
Othello to Valerie’s Desdemona, smothers her in her sleep and has
himself run over by a train. Stephen accepts the tragedy as a
happening in time which can not interfere with the eternity of his
love.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 240w

“Mr Gilbert Cannan’s novels are important novels, but they are not
good novels. They are the illustrative material of his essays and they
do not illustrate them in any creative fashion. The theories shine
through too glaringly, as in ‘Time and eternity.’ Mr Cannan started
out with a naive creative impulse, but the events of the past six
years have aroused in him, as in many of us, so much impassioned
thinking about life that the material of creation itself slips from
his grasp.”

− =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 400w

“Though the book frequently reveals creative strokes, though its
general plan is majestically conceived, yet it conveys the sense of
being a preliminary work. ‘Time and eternity’ suggests the need for a
future work which will see the thing through. The sculptor is still
groping.” J. C. L.

+ − =New Repub= 23:182 Jl 7 ’20 730w

“‘Time and eternity’ is the result of a serious lack in its author,
the lack of a sense of humor. The piece has untold burlesque
possibilities, and they have been wasted. ‘Time and eternity’ may be
ascribed only to a rapidly advancing senility.” Henrietta Malkiel

− =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 420w

“We have all long known the phrase ‘a welter of words,’ but to read
Gilbert Cannan’s new book ‘Time and eternity’ is to realize just
exactly what it implies. The reader’s strongest feeling after he has
at last toiled his weary way through this extremely dull book is a
desire for plenty of soap and water and good fresh air.”

− =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 900w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 520w

“Mr Cannan writes too quickly and too often. He writes with a sort of
hungry rage, because he despises something, though he does not know
what, and desires something equally unknown to him. His work is as
restless and as inconclusive as a conversation between adolescents
teased with growing pains.”

− =Sat R= 128:419 N 1 ’19 1200w

“In ‘Time and eternity’ Mr Cannan presents a piece of tedious writing
and speculation about slinking individuals who are out of harmony with
the ages.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 400w

“Mr Cannan has not yet, in this method, passed the experimental stage.
Moreover, he has not enough to say about the souls of his three
exiles, to each of whom by name is allotted one-third of this short
book, to engage unflagging attention. They are queer if not tiresome,
but vaguer than people speaking uninspired lines from behind a
curtain. They do nothing very much; they appear to want nothing very
special; they certainly are nothing very intensely.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 650w

=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Windmills; a book of fables. *$1.60 (3c) Huebsch

20–17654

A volume of satires. The first two, Samways island and Ultimus, altho
written before 1914 have to do with a series of wars between Fatland
(England) and Fatterland (Germany) and, except in matters of
mechanical detail, they indicate remarkable foresight. Of the two that
follow, Gynecologia describes the women governed world that succeeded
the great wars, and Out of work is a social satire involving Jah, the
devil, and a certain Nicholas Bly, a labor agitator. The author writes
a preface to the American edition. The book was published in England
in 1915.

* * * * *

“Mr Cannan’s satire is not as keen and cutting when bare and exposed
in these sketches as it is in some of his other books where it half
hides behind a veil of romance. ‘Windmills’ is brilliant in places,
but not as a whole.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 31 ’20 310w

“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is
ineffective.”

+ − =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w

“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are
remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant
perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s
admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the
side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.”
Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 650w

“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy
reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”

− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 60w

“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is
nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and
neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of
sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us
say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book
has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined
brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the
passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.

− =Review= 3:192 S 1 ’20 920w

=CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT).= Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947

20–6483

“Many who have followed the Russian articles in the Saturday Evening
Post of Princess Cantacuzène will no doubt greet with pleasure their
appearance in book form under the title ‘Russian people: revolutionary
recollections.’ Similar to Princess Cantacuzène’s earlier book,
‘Revolutionary days,’ these pictures of Russian life are seen through
the eyes of a member of the upper classes, residents for years in the
country. It is the simple folk outside the city, exemplified by the
peasant of the Cantacuzène estate, Bouromka, about whom the stories
center. In addition to the pictures of Bouromka before and after the
‘red’ outbreaks, there are chapters dealing with the efforts in
various parts of the old empire to re-establish a stable government.
Crimea, where the Cantacuzène villa is situated, was one such center.
‘Daughters of Russia’ is the title of the final chapter, these ranging
from Catherine the Great to Catherine Breshkovsky and Maria
Botshkarova.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The author knows the peasants and tenantry outside of the large
cities and writes of them intimately and interestingly. Her account of
the revolution and of political affairs is, however, second hand and
lacks clarifying detail.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20

“They present readable and accurate impressions of events on which
full information is still hard to get.”

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 130w

“It would be a mistake to regard her story as seriously contributing
to our understanding of the revolution, if for no other reason than
that her materials are obtained at secondhand and to a great extent
from rumor. Painting in simple black-and-white is not her only
limitation.”

− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w

“Princess Cantacuzène’s book is certainly a striking case of a good
opportunity missed. If only she had stuck more to what she saw herself
during those days when her adopted country was going to pieces before
her eyes!”

− + =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 1400w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 380w

=CAPABLANCA, JOSÉ RAÚL.= My chess career. il *$2.50 Macmillan 794

20–6061

The author, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1888, began to play chess at the
age of five. At eleven he was matched against the Cuban champion, J.
Corzo. In his introductory chapter he says: “The object of this little
book is to give to the reader some idea of the many stages through
which I have passed before reaching my present strength.... As I go
along narrating my chess career, I will stop at those points which I
consider most important, giving examples of my games with my own notes
written at the time the games were played, or when not, expressing the
ideas I had while the game was in progress.” This plan is followed
thruout the book, beginning with the match with Corzo and continuing
to the Hastings victory congress in 1919. The conclusion gives points
for beginners.

* * * * *

“There is not a trace of boastfulness in the book. Capablanca’s
passion is for exact scientific truth. The general spirit is one of
detached and critical self-observation. Altogether, a book of great
psychological interest.” R. O. M.

+ =Ath= p237 F 20 ’20 650w

=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20

“This refreshing little book probably contains more real information
on the science of chess than a dozen of the more weighty tomes put
together. Capablanca’s comments on his own and his adversary’s play
throughout the book are of a most original and illuminating sort.”
Moreby Adlom

+ =Bookm= 51:573 Jl ’20 950w

“It is in many ways the most egotistical, and incidentally subjective
book we have ever come across; the note of satisfaction sounds like a
loud gong throughout, nor does the voice of self-praise die away. The
book, in fact, has been written in a mood of positively aboriginal
conceit. All this, however, should not obscure the fact that Senor
Capablanca’s chess-games are very brilliant, and his notes full of
interest.”

− + =Sat R= 129:251 Mr 13 ’20 700w

“His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious.”

+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 160w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w

“The interest is immensely enhanced by being annotated by Capablanca
himself.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 F 26 ’20 350w

=CAPEK, THOMAS.= Cechs (Bohemians) in America. il *$3 (5½c) Houghton 325.7

20–1302

The author, after a residence of thirty-nine years in Cech America, is
thoroughly conversant with the history and the status of his
countrymen here. The volume aims “to throw light, not only on the
economic condition of the Cech immigrant, but on his national,
historic, religious, cultural, and social state as well.” (Introd.) It
describes the American Cech as being not an adventurer but a bona-fide
settler, an idealist and an upholder of modern democracy. Biographical
sketches are given of all the prominent and intellectual Cechs who
have exerted an influence on their countrymen in America and the book
is abundantly illustrated. Successive chapters are devoted to the
immigration in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
and to the Cech’s economic status. Other chapters are: New Bohemia in
America; Rationalism: a transition from the old to the new; Socialism
and radicalism; Journalism and literature; Musicians, artists,
visitors from abroad; The churches; The part the American Cechs took
in the war of liberation. There is an appendix and an index.

* * * * *

“‘The Cechs in America’ is a comprehensive, carefully arranged manual
of all information about this section of our immigration. To anyone
wishing, or needing, to be authoritatively and thoroughly informed on
this subject, his book is indispensable.”

+ =Am Hist R= 26:142 O ’20 530w

“Interesting and informing.”

+ =Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20

“His picture leaves no detail obscure so long as he writes without
religious or political preconceptions. The copious bibliography in
this volume deserves special complimentary mention.”

+ =Cath World= 111:104 Ap ’20 580w

+ =Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 420w

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 480w

=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w

=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 50w

“His own sturdy love of America, mixed with his identification with
the Czech in America makes the book a delightful though unintentioned
combination of the subjective and the objective. None of the other
national groups have produced anything quite like it.” H. A. Miller

+ =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 550w

=CAPES, BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH.= Skeleton key. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–7424

This detective story is prefaced by an introduction by G. K.
Chesterton. The action takes place at Wildshott, the country home of
the Kennetts, where Vivian Bickerdike, who tells part of the story in
his own words, and Baron Le Sage are guests. Shortly after their
arrival, a pretty housemaid is murdered in a secluded path not far
from the house. The usual steps are taken, an inquest is held and a
detective called in. Several arrests are made but finally guilt seems
to fasten itself pretty conclusively upon Hugo Kennett, the young son
of the family, whose choice seemed to be marry or murder. But Baron Le
Sage is not satisfied that he is guilty, and uncovers a deep laid and
unsuspected plot of which Hugo was to have been the victim, and the
perpetrator was to go scot free. Fortunately the scheme was foiled in
time.

* * * * *

“Will please the more critical reader.”

+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20

“Above the average detective story.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w

=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“‘The skeleton key’ is a detective story of singular ingenuity and
power. Yet it is much more than that, in that the air of delicate
romance dispels much of the sordidity that, in the very nature of the
work, is always striving to rear its head and dominate the narrative.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 470w

“The late Bernard Capes was one of the few writers of mystery and
detective stories who make an honorable effort to combine plot with
literary workmanship. This posthumous tale is one of his best. It has
a decidedly original dénouement which will puzzle even practical
mystery solvers.”

+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 50w

=CAREY, AGNES.= Empress Eugénie in exile. il *$4 Century

20–20073

These reminiscences from Empress Eugénie’s own lips are culled from
letters and diaries kept by the author while a member of the Empress’s
household at Farnborough. The book contains many illustrations from
photographs and the contents are: Farnborough Hill, an empress’s home;
Daily events: further extracts from diary and letters; The Empress
visits Queen Victoria; Later events at Farnborough Hill; Reminiscences
of Empress Eugénie: her characteristics and idiosyncracies.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 13 ’20 660w

“Mrs Carey incorporates, especially in the last half of the book, a
great deal about the daily life at Farnborough which can be of
interest only to persons who make a hobby of Eugénie, if any such
there be. But this fault must be overlooked, for the book has the
extraordinary merit of telling Eugénie’s own story or stories told by
Eugénie, within an hour or so after they had dropped from her lips.”

+ − =N Y Times= p11 N 21 ’20 2050w

+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 170w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w

=CAREY, WILLIAM, and others.= Garo jungle book; or, The mission to the Garos of Assam. il *$2 (2½c) Am. Bapt. 266

20–2499

After describing the Garos topographically, the author calls their
mountain abode “a den of wild beasts and of still wilder men.”
“Within, the fiercest passions held sway, and gruesome superstitions,
such as made the blood of the Bengalis run cold to think of, wrapped
them in an atmosphere of ghostly fear.” It was when the British
government was faced by the only remaining alternative “extermination
of the Garos” that the missionaries began to demonstrate the
possibility of another way. The book is the history of the struggle
and an account of what has been accomplished. It contains abundant
illustrations, two maps, and appendices consisting of a glossary, a
list of Garo books, of churches and schools and a service chart.

=CARLETON, WILLIAM.= Stories of Irish life; with an introd. by Darnell Figgis. *$1.75 Stokes

A20–891

“Himself a peasant, William Carleton writes of the Irish people, the
Irish scene and the Irish life out of the book of his own experience.
He was the youngest of the fourteen children of a small farmer in
Tyrone, and was brought up in a household that knew the ancient Irish
tongue as well as the English language. His real literary career began
in 1828, when, at the age of thirtyfour, he settled permanently in
Dublin and became a contributor to the Christian Examiner. For this
paper, Carleton during the following six years wrote his ‘Traits and
stories of the Irish peasantry’ upon which is based his reputation as
a delineator of Irish life and character. As one of the recently
issued volumes in a new Library of Irish literature, eight stories and
sketches are selected to represent Carleton’s contribution, among them
being: Neal Malone; Phelim O’Toole’s courtship; The party fight and
funeral; The midnight mass; and Denis O’Shaughnessy going to
Maynooth.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Carleton belongs by right to the Irish classics. His tales are
vigorous and brimful of humour. His character-drawing was extremely
vivid, and some of his heroes are like creations of flesh and blood.
He had also a gift of impressive description.”

+ =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 60w

“His temperament and his experience combined to produce a picture of
the peasantry which is unrivalled as an historical document, and
fascinating as a work of art. Protestant though he became, Carleton
writes always as one oppressed, of those suffering from similar
oppression, and for that very reason appeals with undying power to the
generous ethic of fair play which has always characterized the
Anglo-Saxon elsewhere. What he wrote for his own generation has lost
nothing of its force today.” R. B. J.

+ =Ath= p750 Ag 15 ’19 950w

=Booklist= 16:287 My ’20

“No matter what varying amount of interest they may have found in
Carleton’s tales, readers and critics have vied with each other in
emphasizing their appealing and truthful Irish quality.... In many
ways, however, Carleton followed stereotyped formulas both in his
plots and his character portrayals.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1600w

+ =Cath World= 112:395 D ’20 160w

=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Elementary economics. *$1.10 (2c) Macmillan 330

20–1765

The author of this “introduction to the study of economics and
sociology” realizes that economics is not a science in which the
problems discussed can be proved mathematically; that it fairly
bristles with controverted points; that the student is apt to approach
it with preconceptions and class or interest bias. The object of the
book is to help the student to look upon both sides of a question and
to come to independent conclusions on such problems of everyday life
as prices and markets, taxation, banking, tariff, wages, rent,
transportation, and ownership of property. The book falls into three
parts: Outline of industrial and social evolution; Fundamental
economic concepts; Economic problems. Some of the more specific
subjects discussed are: Getting a living under various conditions;
Wants and value; Direction of the world’s workers; Wealth and income;
Competition and monopoly; Money and banking; Railway transportation;
Labor organizations; Labor legislation; Agricultural economics;
Taxation; Industrial unrest; Social and industrial betterment. There
is an index.

* * * * *

“The simplicity and clarity of treatment together with
thought-stimulating topics for discussion make this a good textbook
for the beginner in economics in junior or senior high school.”

+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20

“The style of the book is simple enough to justify its introduction
into the upper years of the elementary school. The material is of so
vital a type that it deserves recognition in all schools. Where the
special problem is that of preparing children for trades this book
will serve to give a broader view of the individual’s place in
industry.”

+ =El School J= 20:548 Mr ’20 350w

“The author of this book has done more than simply produce another
book on elementary economics for use in high schools. He has in
reality broken away from the traditional discussion of consumption,
production, exchange, and distribution, and organized his discussion
in quite a different manner from that followed by traditional texts in
the field. There are no lists of reference books. This seems
unfortunate since the book itself does not contain enough material for
even a half-year course in the subject.”

+ − =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 260w

“A text that is sure to find ready reception for courses in economics,
especially in secondary schools. As a basis for fruitful class
discussion it should prove very effective in the hands of a competent
instructor.” E. R. Burton

+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 120w

=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Organized labor in American history. *$2.50 (4c) Appleton 331.87

20–7434

In tracing the influence of the wage earner in American history the
writer points out the intimate relations between industrial evolution
and social progress. So long as there were still open frontiers
towards the west, the economic life of America can be said to have
been abnormal. Now that the frontier is a thing of the past the wage
earner’s influence may be expected to increase in importance as the
years go by. To examine the cause and effect of organized labor as a
social phenomenon and a social institution is the object of the book.
Contents: Introduction; Epochs in the history of organized labor;
Adoption and interpretation of the constitution; The free school and
the wage earner; Land reform and the wage earner; Labor legislation
and the wage earner; Other reform movements and the wage earner; Labor
parties, socialism, direct action, and the progressive movement; The
ideals of the wage earner; Recent pre-war tendencies; The war and
after; Index.

* * * * *

“One of its chief merits is that it is based on an accurate knowledge
of the ideals and policies of organized labor.” G: M. Janes

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:837 D ’20 780w

“The author has accomplished his modest purpose of helping to bring
American history into a truer perspective by showing the influence of
the wage-earner on the course of events.” Mary Beard

+ =Am Hist R= 26:369 Ja ’21 280w

=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 70w

“His interpretation of this history shows keen insight into the play
of economic forces that have made for the development of classes, the
rise of the labor movement and the evolution of industrial society. On
the interpretive side we think that it is more informative than the
more laborious work of Professor Commons and associates.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 820w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w

“I do not see why a book designed to give understanding of the present
should deal with Shay’s rebellion and fail to do more than mention
either the interesting development among the garment workers of the
equally significant changes in the organizations of railroad workers.
I have no desire to quarrel with Professor Carlton’s selection, for
his temper is tolerant and his mood understanding, qualities to be
prized highly among men whose minds are directed to the description of
events in the field of labor.”

+ − =Survey= 41:315 My 29 ’20 100w

“Will serve as a useful introduction to a close study of modern
American labour problems.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 30w

“It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters.
Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the
reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and
crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon
most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint
should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable.” W: E.
Walling

+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 900w

=CARNEGIE, ANDREW.= Autobiography. il *$5 (4c) Houghton

20–19520

The volume is edited by John C. Van Dyke and has a preface by Mrs
Carnegie. Besides the facts of the author’s life and career the book
contains much matter of general interest and reminiscences of notable
personages. There are chapters on: Civil war period; The age of steel;
Mills and the men; The homestead strike; Problems of labor; The
“gospel of wealth”; Educational and pension funds; Washington
diplomacy. The book is well illustrated and has a bibliography and an
index.

* * * * *

“The historian will regret that it confines itself more to portraiture
than to documentation, that it throws little new light upon partly
known facts, and that it has none of the elaborate accuracy likely to
be found in the biography of a man who seeks to justify himself. The
reader of the book retains a friendly feeling towards a simple yet
astute personality.” F: L. Paxson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:368 Ja ’21 490w

=Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 600w

“Although scrappy and gossipy in parts the interest is sustained.”

+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20

“The result, for those who knew Mr Carnegie intimately, is most
satisfactory and charming. The style is simple and unaffected. The
joyous enthusiasm, which filled him from youth to old age, shines
forth in these pages.” W: J. Holland

+ =Bookm= 52:364 D ’20 700w

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

=Freeman= 2:451 Ja 19 ’21 2150w

“The volume is as entertaining as it is inspiring. It will undoubtedly
rank high among the world’s lasting autobiographies.”

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w

“Carnegie unfolds himself, and nowhere does he attempt to make it
appear that he has virtues which he has not—modesty, for instance.
Sometimes he talked with real eloquence and sometimes with bathos, but
he sets both down with unfailing fidelity.”

+ =N Y Times= p3 O 17 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 240w

“The general reader will find this the best American autobiography
since 1885, when General Grant’s ‘Memoirs’ were published.”

+ =Review= 3:620 D 22 ’20 1900w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 950w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 70w

=CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION.= American foreign policy; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray Butler. Carnegie endowment for international peace 327

20–7870

“This collection of documents is intended by the editor to comprise
‘those official statements by successive presidents and secretaries of
state which, having been formally or tacitly accepted by the American
people, do in effect constitute the foundation of American foreign
policy.... They are the classic declarations of policy which, taken
together, present a record of which the American people may well be
proud.’ Naturally the selection begins with Washington’s farewell
address and includes Jefferson’s statement as to entangling alliances.
Then follow the various messages relating to the Monroe doctrine:
Monroe’s, Polk’s, Buchanan’s, Grant’s, Cleveland’s, and Roosevelt’s.
Blaine, Hay, and Root contribute their ideas as to the Monroe
doctrine, that of the last named being in no sense official, as it is
the well-known address as president of the American Society of
international law for 1914. The instructions to and reports from the
American delegates to the Hague conferences are properly included.”—Am
Hist R

* * * * *

=Am Hist R= 26:141 O ’20 360w

“Readers who do not wish their history predigested for them, but on
the other hand do not resent a prescribed diet, will find this little
volume much to their liking.” E. S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 200w

=CARPENTER, EDWARD.= Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning. *$3 (3c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 290

20–5669

The author holds that the process of the evolution of religious rites
and ceremonies has in its main outlines been the same all over the
world and that it has proceeded in orderly phases of spontaneous
growth. The object of the book is to trace the instigating cause of
this great phenomenon along psychological lines. In its first
inception, he claims, it was stimulated by fear and has run along
three main lines: the movements of the sun and planets; the changes of
the seasons; and the procreative forces. Contents: Solar myths and
Christian festivals; The symbolism of the Zodiac; Totem-sacraments and
eucharists; Food and vegetation magic; Magicians, kings and gods;
Rites of expiation and redemption; Pagan initiations and the second
birth; Myth of the golden age; The saviour-god and the virgin-mother;
Ritual dancing; The sex-taboo; The genesis of Christianity; The
meaning of it all; The ancient mysteries; The exodus of Christianity;
Conclusion. The appendix on the teachings of the Upanishads contains
two essays: Rest and The nature of the self. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Mr Edward Carpenter has wide reading and as far as one can judge, no
lack of the critical faculty; so that, presumably, he could play the
man of science if he chose. But his interest is less in theory than in
practice. He looks forward to a new age, and, preoccupied with his
vision of the future, searches the present and the past for such
promise as they may hold of the fulfilment of his hope.” R. R. M.

+ =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 1100w

=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“To everyone acquainted with ... any of Mr Carpenter’s books, the
present volume on religious origins and developments will come as a
warrant of profound thought and beautiful illumination of expression.”
W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 650w

“His treatment is throughout as sympathetic and as fair as his purpose
to demonstrate his thesis allows him to be; and it is only right to
admit that he makes a very good case for the vast generalization that
he lays down. But he is greater as prophet than as critic; and that is
why this book does not measure up to ‘Towards democracy.’” R: Roberts

+ =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1300w

=Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 270w

“Some of the researches of Frazer and Lang and Tylor and other
scholars are vulgarized by him, and conclusions drawn from their
premises from which any of them would recoil.” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w

“Mr Carpenter’s book is written for those who have not read much of
anthropological research, and such readers will find in it an
exceedingly clear and lucid summary of a vast body of specialist work.
And the book is filled with that humane and glowing hope for humanity
which has made Mr Carpenter’s writings an inspiration to countless
readers. It can be confidently recommended to all who are not
specialists in the subjects with which it deals.” B. R.

+ − =Nation [London]= 27:116 Ap 24 ’20 1100w

“Mr Carpenter is never clear, although he writes clearly. He
disappears in a vacuum at the end of all his books and poems. He lacks
the thunder and the sureness, the passion and the vision of the real
prophet. He possesses clarity without light. He expounds, but does not
see.” B: de Casseres

− =N Y Times= 25:155 Ap 4 ’20 800w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
Nation [London])

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 1900w

=CARPENTER, RHYS.=[2] Plainsman, and other poems. *$2 Oxford 821

“Rhys Carpenter is a poet enamored of classic themes. Thus in his new
book, ‘The plainsman,’ we find such titles as For Zeus’ grove at
Dodona, The charioteer of Elis, Birds of Stymphalus, Heracles sails
westward and Pegasos at Hippokrene. He also loves nature and swinging
lilting songs. His method of singing is that of former days, but to it
he brings his own active personality.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 50w

“There is not one of Rhys Carpenter’s verses that does not possess in
its degree magic and power. The poet’s thought is beautifully
instinctive and confident: his expression is beautifully artistic and
considered.”

+ =No Am= 212:569 O ’20 1150w

“There is many a gracefully turned poem in this book, the kind of
poetry that almost runs into music. Mr Carpenter is a master of the
shades of sound, he is dexterous in his meters and the delicate finish
and completeness of his efforts set them in a distinctive place among
contemporary efforts.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 240w

=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Boy’s book of magic. il *$2 Dodd 793

20–17072

“The object of this book is twofold: (1) To explain, not only how a
trick is done, but also how to do it ... and (2) to describe and
explain those tricks which the average boy can make or procure, with
relative ease and with but little expense.” (Preface) It falls into
two parts: part 1: Introductory remarks; Card tricks; Coin tricks;
Tricks with handkerchiefs; Tricks with eggs; Pieces of apparatus of
general utility; Feats of divination; Miscellaneous tricks; Concluding
instructions. Part II: Hindu magic; Handcuffs and escapes therefrom;
Sideshow and animal tricks. There are numerous illustrations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

“The directions are clear and practicable, and there are many helpful
illustrations.”

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w

+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 190w

=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Higher psychical development. il *$3 Dodd 133

20–17105

The book contains an outline of the secret Hindu teachings as embodied
in the Yoga philosophy and is the substance of a series of twelve
lectures delivered by the author before the Psychological research
society of New York in 1918. It supplements a previous book by the
same author, “Your psychic powers and how to develop them,” and is
recommended for more advanced reading as it contains information and
“secrets,” never before published and hitherto carefully guarded by
the Hindu Yogis, and shows the connection between the Yoga practices
and our western science, philosophy and psychic investigations.
Contents: An outline of Yoga philosophy; Asana; Pranayama; Mantrayoga
and Pratyahara; Dharana; Dhyana and Samadhi; The Kundalini and how it
is aroused; “The fourth dimension,” etc.; “The guardians of the
threshold”; The relation of Yoga to occultism; The relation of Yoga to
“psychics”; The projection of the astral body; Glossary and Index.

=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Your psychic powers and how to develop them. *$3 (3c) Dodd 134

20–5132

The author warns the reader that the views presented in the present
volume are not necessarily his own but constitute the body of
traditional and accepted theories on spiritualism and psychic
phenomena. He has tentatively and for the sake of argument adopted the
“spiritistic hypothesis” to set forth the possibilities that it
contains. This course has been warranted, he claims, by the newer
researches and conclusions in the field of psychical research. He also
believes that the bulk of the material contained in the book is sound
and helpful and that in following the practical instructions the
reader cannot go far wrong. A partial list of the contents is: How to
develop; Fear and how to banish it; The subconscious; The spirit
world; The cultivation of spiritual gifts; The human aura; Symbolism;
Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Dreams; Automatic writing; Crystal gazing and
shell-hearing; Spiritual healing; Trance; Obsession and insanity;
Prayer, concentration and silence; Hypnotism and mesmerism;
Reincarnation and eastern philosophy; The ethics of spiritualism;
Physical phenomena; Materialization; Advanced studies.

* * * * *

“Perhaps gives insufficient warning to the amateur, who nevertheless
will usually find results not as readily forthcoming as the recipes
might imply.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:256 My ’20

“It is without question the best and most complete, the clearest and
the most sensibly compiled compendium of ‘dippy’ lore that we have
read.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 450w

“As a statement of the spiritistic position the volume is accurate,
careful, thorough, if never once for a single moment illuminating or
inspiring.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 Ag 26 ’20 500w

=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Our nervous friends; illustrating the mastery of nervousness. *$2 Macmillan 616

19–18395

“In a series of short stories Dr Carroll, who is medical director of
the Highland hospital in Asheville, describes typical cases of nervous
pathology—chiefly among the well-to-do—indicating clearly in each case
the causes of the condition and how it might have been avoided or
overcome.”—Survey

* * * * *

“Another of the encouraging but by no means coddling books which the
nervous patient and his friends may read with profit.”

+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:85 F ’20 30w

=Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 50w

=CARSWELL, CATHERINE.= Open the door. *$2 (1c) Harcourt

20–10736

This novel adds one more to the list of recent books about women by
women of which “Mary Olivier” is perhaps the most noted example. It is
the story of Joanna Bannerman, altho it is some little time before
Joanna’s story emerges from that of the Bannerman family. Indeed it is
never entirely distinct from it. The Bannerman children grow up in an
atmosphere of narrow religiosity, bordering on mysticism and ecstasy.
Joanna’s after life is a reaction from her early environment. As a
girl she dreams of love, which to her means adventure, escape,
possession of the world. She seeks realization of her dreams, first in
marriage with Mario Rasponi, who takes her to Italy, then in illicit
union with Louis Pender, an artist, and finally, in her second
marriage with Lawrence Urquhart, finds fulfillment of life.

* * * * *

“It is head and shoulders above the class of books which are commonly
called ‘best-sellers,’ it makes a genuine appeal to the intelligence
as well as the emotions, and we do not doubt for an instant that it
was inspired by the author’s love of writing for writing’s sake.” K.
M.

+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 700w

“The novel can stand without difficulty upon its own merits. This does
not mean that it lacks entirely certain earmarks of the beginner. It
has on the other hand much that more than makes up for a stiffness of
movement which betokens the amateur. Miss Carswell will undoubtedly
handle her material more easily in the future but it is questionable
whether she will be able at that time to bring to a book the freshness
of interest and unconventionality of phrase which attracts us strongly
here.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 550w

“She does not succeed, perhaps, in drawing merely a normal woman
normally, but with great competence she portrays a slightly neurotic
heroine of somewhat unusually varied experience, understandingly and
with conviction. It is in the conventional happy ending alone that the
story fails. In its penetration to the secret springs of character and
conduct, in its visualization of persons and interrelated groups, in
its mastery of line and its sureness of phrase, this is no amateur
effort but a first novel of some moment, provocative of thought and
expectation.” H. S. H.

+ =Freeman= 1:598 S 1 ’20 900w

“Joanna and her story remain vivid and delightful and have a touch of
epic breadth and richness.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 170w

“Sex interests without haunting or obsessing or torturing her. Miss
Carswell is in the happy position of one who is naturally frank and
naturally decent. Her decency and her frankness are not at war. ‘Open
the door’ is quite sure to fasten many readers’ eyes upon Miss
Carswell. She can do love and landscape and character. It is more than
a remarkable first novel. It is a remarkable novel.” Silas

+ − =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 1000w

=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 650w

“Her work has many striking qualities: energy, a rich profusion of
characters clearly seen and relentlessly portrayed, and a thoroughly
modern treatment of that all-absorbing theme of today—the duel of the
generations. One is inclined to think that she has put too much into
her book. She leaves too little to the imagination, with the result
that very few of her characters engage the affection of the reader.”

+ − =Spec= 125:151 Jl 31 ’20 600w

“Few have gone further in the successful analysis of motives than the
authoress of this interesting novel.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 360w

=CARTER, ARTHUR HAZELTON, and ARNOLD, ARCHIBALD VINCENT.= Field artillery instruction. il *$6.50 Putnam 358

20–10616

“A complete manual of instruction for prospective field artillery
officers.” (Sub-title) Contents: Physical instruction; Dismounted
drill and military courtesies; Matériel; Drill of the gun squad; Fire
discipline; Field gunnery; Conduct of fire; Communication; Orientation
and topography: Reconnaissance; Horses and their care; Riding and
driving; Cleaning and care of equipment; Entraining and detraining.
There are 272 illustrations, two appendices and an index. The work is
based on the authors’ experience at the Field artillery central
officers training school, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky.

* * * * *

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 60w

=CARTHAGE, PHILIP I.= Retail organization and accounting control. *$3 (4c) Appleton 658

20–20957

This book covers the subject of accounting as applied to the
department store, specialty shop and retail store of any description.
The author says: “I have long felt the need of a text book on
department store procedure, and have endeavored to render my book
useful by its treatment of accounting, management and systems. Theory
is entirely eliminated. Practical application and experience are its
governing features.” (Introd.) Contents: Books in use and procedure;
Books in use; Sales checks and return checks; Auditing; Balance sheet
(three chapters); Turnover; Merchandising (two chapters); Profit and
loss; Burden; Profit and loss; Alteration department. The book is
illustrated with fifty-eight forms (tables, charts, etc.) and is
indexed.

=CARVER, THOMAS NIXON.=[2] Elementary economics. il $1.72 Ginn 330

“It is the purpose of this book to examine the economic foundations of
our national welfare and to point out some of the simpler and more
direct methods of strengthening these foundations.” (Introd.) There is
a topical treatment of the chapters, after the manner of textbooks,
under which each topic is briefly explained and a list of exercise
questions at the end of each chapter. The divisions of the book are:
What makes a nation prosperous; Economizing labor; The productive
activities; Exchange; Dividing the product of industry; The
consumption of wealth; Reform. The book is indexed and illustrated.

=CASTIER, JULES.= Rather like.... *$2.25 (3c) Lippincott 847

(Eng ed 20–682)

“Rather like” is a book of parodies on English authors, written by a
Frenchman while interned in a German prison camp. Before bringing out
the work the English publisher submitted a proof of each parody to the
author parodied and the comments received in reply are printed in an
introductory note. The sketches are genuine parodies, not burlesques.
Among them are G. K. Chesterton: What’s maddening about man; A. Conan
Doyle: The footprints on the ceiling; John Galsworthy: Punishment;
Charles Garvice: The power of love; W. W. Jacobs: The yellow pipe;
Rudyard Kipling: The song of the penny whistle; G. Bernard Shaw: The
exploiters.

* * * * *

“These parodies are highly creditable as the work of a foreigner, but
they are not really effective. One can recognize the subjects of the
parodies, but the author adopts the long-nose method in exaggerating
none but the obvious features.”

+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 90w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p764 D 18 ’19 800w

=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.= John Seneschal’s Margaret. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

20–17318

John Tempest and John Seneschal, comrades and strangely alike, suffer
untold agonies imprisoned together in Turkey. Seneschal finally breaks
under the strain and is buried in the wilderness by Tempest. So much
the prologue tells. The story proper begins with a hospital in London.
Tempest is a patient here and as a result of a head wound is suffering
from loss of memory. He is identified by the Seneschal family as their
son and heir and taken to their home. He is horribly aware that this
is all wrong but cannot recall his own identity and his fixed belief
that John Seneschal is dead is considered one of the delusions of his
mental condition. The one other certainty that he clings to is the
face and name of Margaret—and Margaret was Seneschal’s childhood
sweetheart. In all the confusion of his clouded mind she seems the one
thing that is true and real. After rest and care and love have been
given him, his mind suddenly clears and he knows that he is John
Tempest usurping the place of John Seneschal. Complete recollection
brings problems whose solution taxes all the love and honor of John
Tempest’s manhood, but from which he emerges true blue.

* * * * *

“We may be glad of this—that the book with which Egerton Castle has
bidden us farewell is not only artistically worthy of one who loved
and respected his art, but contains a depth and richness of feeling
far beyond that of any of the blithe tales preceding it, while in all
the long line of his heroines there is not one finer or more lovable
than she who was ‘John Seneschal’s Margaret.’” L. M. Field

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 1000w

“Entertaining and vigorous narrative.”

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

“The story is indeed one of the best productions of Mr and Mrs Egerton
Castle.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 150w

=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=[2] Little hours in great days. *$2 Dutton

“The latest volume by Agnes and Egerton Castle, ‘Little hours in great
days,’ is one of domestic thrills such as the Castles know how to
evoke so well. It is a continuation in spirit and in form of their
‘Little house in war time,’ with the difference explained. ‘The little
house, after many vicissitudes, stands, even as the world stands
today, upon a return to order and new kindly hopes.’ The Castles have
a gardener, now that such men are luxuriously possible, and ensuing
chapters reveal in a quiet way the joys of gardening and a gardener.
Some chapters are by one writer and some by the other; from long
association their style is uniform, and in these garden chapters
difficult to attribute—if we had not been told. As with other English
writers who cannot quickly forget the war, better chapters follow,
‘Tommy at war’ and ‘The soul of the soldier,’ for example, which take
up and also look back upon the man in khaki after November,
1918.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Ath= p29 Ja 2 ’20 40w

“The best of the volume is in the character sketches it contains,
agreeable rather than sharp-cut, of people they have known intimately.
The authors’ delicacy is real, their feelings just, and their desire
to please obvious.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 190w

“Mr and Mrs Castle will find it difficult entirely to acquit
themselves of the charge of having written a ‘pretty-pretty’ book. In
writing about the maimed soldiers Mr and Mrs Castle show a fine
quality of mind and a sympathy that increases with spending.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 310w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 110w

=CASWELL, JOHN.= Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. il *$4 Appleton 799

20–12388

“The notes and suggestions contained in this book are the result of
experience in many lands and against practically all kinds of game, as
well as on the target range and in actual military service. Its
purpose is to supply data for the hunter against game and to give both
hunter and target shooter more simple solutions of the rather
intricate methods in use for the calculation of elevation, windage,
and atmospheric conditions.” (Preface) Chapters are devoted to: Rifle
types; Game rifles; Target rifles; Actions; Stocks; Sights; Cleaning;
Bullets; Lubrication of bullets; Cartridges; Elevations; Windage and
atmosphere; Judgment of distance; Position; Aiming and trigger
squeeze; Stalking and cover; Aims for vital points on game. In
addition there are eight appendices, devoted to various matters
including Historical sketch of the evolution of the rifle, glossary,
and a select bibliography of the rifle. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

“With certain limitations, much to be regretted, he has written a very
good book. It is to be regretted that Col. Caswell has failed to
recognize a wider range of choice in rifles, that he has neglected to
discuss the human facter as the principle element in the killing of
game.” C: Sheldon

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 1400w

“Although the book makes no pretenses to literary style, it contains
passages that many novelists might well envy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 230w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 Ag 26 ’20 640w

=CATHER, WILLA SIBERT.= Youth and the bright Medusa. *$2.25 (3c) Knopf

20–17316

This collection of stories presents four of Miss Cather’s recent short
stories: Coming, Aphrodite!; The diamond mine; A gold slipper; and
Scandal. To these are added four of the earlier stories with which she
first won critical appreciation: Paul’s case; A Wagner matinée; The
sculptor’s funeral; and “A death in the desert.” In the early as in
the later stories the theme is youth and art.

* * * * *

“The first four are longer and more ambitious, but not so strong. Her
real shortcoming is that she is at present quite without a ‘style’;
placed beside any European model of imaginative prose she is dowdy and
rough, wanting rhythm and distinction.” O. W.

+ − =Ath= p890 D 31 ’20 780w

“Honest, skillfully wrought stories. Their ruthless, almost cynical,
unmasking of sometimes ugly truths will repel some readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20

“The author perceives life from many angles, all subsidiary to her
comprehensive outlook; she has the faculty of getting under the skin
of each character, or of speaking from his mouth: she is economical,
therefore powerful, in her management of action, interaction and
contrast; she succeeds remarkably in conveying the sense of detachment
which the ‘different’ from their kind experience.” B. C. Williams

+ =Bookm= 52:169 O ’20 580w

“As studies of success, of the successful, of the victims of ‘big
careers,’ as simply of ambition, above all of the quality of ambition
in women, they probably are not surpassed.”

+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 200w

“The thing is told with the utmost skill, and the deftest effects of
descriptive incident. The two contrasted personalities are projected
as firmly in a few strokes as if a whole novel had been filled with
the details of their careers.” E. A. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:286 D 1 ’20 760w

“The stories have the radiance of perfect cleanliness, like the
radiance of burnished glass. Miss Cather’s book is more than a random
collection of excellent tales. It constitutes as a whole one of the
truest as well as, in a sober and earnest sense, one of the most
poetical interpretations of American life that we possess.”

+ =Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 500w

“Feeling she has, and romantic glamour, but at no time does she seem
easily irradiant. For this reason her very effectiveness, her shrewd
impersonal security in the arrangement and despatch of her story, has
a formality that takes away from the flowing line of real
self-expression. Better than the familiar vast ineptitude, this
formality. But Miss Cather is perhaps still withholding from her
fiction something that is intimate, essential and ultimate.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 25:233 Ja 19 ’21 1800w

“‘Youth and the bright Medusa’ is decidedly a literary event which no
lover of the best fiction will want to miss.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 550w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 190w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 50w

“Miss Cather is one of a small group of American authors who are
producing literature of a high type and adding to the literary laurels
of America in Europe. She is an artist with a sure touch in moulding a
plot and depicting a motive. The longer stories here—Coming, Aphrodite
and The diamond mine—are consummate in both respects.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w

=CAUSE= of world unrest. *$2.50 Putnam 296

20–19292

The American publishers of this English book decline to accept any
responsibility for the soundness of the conclusions presented. H. A.
Gwynne, editor of the London Morning Post, in a long introduction of
approval of the contents, also points out that its editors do not
assume the authenticity of the documents upon which it is based—the
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The contention of the book is “that
there has been for centuries a hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish,
whose objects have been and are to produce revolution, communism, and
anarchy, by means of which they hope to arrive at the hegemony of the
world by establishing some sort of despotic rule.” (Introd.)