Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (10)

* * * * *

“Unfortunately, truth is a matter of proportion. We do not doubt that
the industrious authors of this volume have amassed material that
might become a valuable footnote to history—in the hands of a
historian. Alas that there should lie so great a difference between
induction and deduction; and that in the discharge of even the
sternest ‘public duty’ a sense of humor should be so essential!”

− =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 1000w

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 540w

“The book is one which parlor Bolshevists ought to read, yes, every
one ought to read it who is interested in the development of free
government, and especially those simple-minded optimists who think
that the key to progress has been found and that government is a well
understood thing.” J: J. Chapman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 670w

“The authors are conspicuously honest, but their honesty inclines to
credulity, and they are disposed to confuse ‘post hoc’ with ‘propter
hoc.’ While admitting that ebullient Israel requires to be carefully
watched, we really cannot, in these days of unstinted publicity,
swallow mysterious stories about a ‘formidable sect.’”

− + =Sat R= 130:376 N 6 ’20 1250w

=Spec= 125:503 O 16 ’20 1250w

“The book which appears under the pretentious title, ‘The cause of
world unrest’ contains nothing to make good its pretenses.” Harry
Schneiderman

− =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 50w

=CENTER, STELLA STEWART=, comp. Worker and his work. (Lippincott’s school text ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 820.8

20–26453

“‘The worker and his work,’ by Stella S. Center, is a text for high
schools designed ‘to meet the needs of boys and girls who feel the
urgent necessity of selecting the right vocation.’ It is a book of
prose selections from present-day writers, ranging from H. G. Wells to
Harold Bell Wright, interspersed with a few bits of verse.” (Nation)
“It is not concerned with processes nor practical problems. The
illustrations are from artists who use some form of labor for their
subjects; they include Meunier, Pennell and Rodin.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20

“The selections themselves leave a confusing and contradictory
impression.”

− + =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 280w

=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 20w

“It is rather a romantic statement of modern industry than a true one.
The book, however, should find a real place and should give to many
students a preliminary picture of the variety of industry.” Alexander
Fleisher

+ − =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 100w

=CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, jr.= Freedom of speech. *$3.50 Harcourt 323.4

20–22239

The object of the book is to inquire into the proper limitations upon
freedom of speech by way of ascertaining the nature and scope of the
policy which finds expression in the First amendment to the United
States constitution and then to determine the place of that policy in
the conduct of war. With a wide and learned acquaintance with the law,
the author’s endeavor is to get behind the rules of law to human
facts, and although not in personal sympathy with the views of most of
the men who have been imprisoned since the war began for speaking out,
he declares with certitude “that the First amendment forbids the
punishment of words merely for their injurious tendencies. The history
of the amendment and the political function of free speech corroborate
each other and make this conclusion plain.” Contents: Freedom of
speech in war time; Opposition to the war with Germany; A contemporary
state trial—the United States v. Jacob Abrams et al; Legislation
against sedition and anarchy; The deportations; John Wilkes, Victor
Berger, and the five members; Freedom and initiative in the schools;
Appendices (including Bibliography); Index of cases; General index.

* * * * *

“This is a book very much ‘up to the minute,’ with which every judge
and every lawyer should be familiar as a matter of professional
routine; every newspaper editor should know it by heart. Every
liberty-loving American will find it profoundly disturbing reading. To
those who have despaired of freedom of speech in America this calm,
scholarly, sane exposition of very recent history will sound like a
clear bell in a moral fog.” J: P. Gavit

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 1300w

“His book is courageous and sound, simple and scholarly.” Albert De
Silver

+ =World Tomorrow= 4:56 F ’21 2100w

=CHAFFEE, ALLEN.= Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.

A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy
on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from
their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the
thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which
they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they
start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The
story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of
finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization
again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are
they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest
service.

* * * * *

“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining
story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life
that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 120w

=CHALMERS, STEPHEN.= Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–11075

Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to
his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to
pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his
twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good
name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate
throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock”
Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant
of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to
the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do
so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding
Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage
of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge
of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada
and a new life.

=CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN.= Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van Nostrand 676

20–17582

A work on paper making “including chapters on the tub sizing of paper,
the coating and finishing of art paper and the coating of photographic
paper.” (Sub-title) The author is on the editorial staff of the
Engineer and the book is based on two series of articles, on Paper
making and its machinery and on The art of coating paper that appeared
in that journal in 1915 and 1916. The volume is very fully
illustrated, having six folding plates and 144 illustrations in the
text. It is also indexed.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20

“A valuable contribution that will be appreciated by all who are
interested in the operations.”

+ =Engineering= 110:157 Jl 30 ’20 2400w

“Mr Chalmers’ effort, admirable as it is, regarded in its proper
aspect as a pioneer to some such technical treatise, falls far short
of our expectations in this direction. It is doubtful whether a really
practical and useful textbook on the engineering problems of the paper
industry will ever be written. The two most interesting chapters in
the book are those dealing with The coating of art paper and The
coating of photographic paper. Taking the book as a whole, we are glad
to recommend it to those associated with the paper industry.” R. W.
Sindall

+ − =Nature= 105:480 Je 17 ’20 1100w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 70w

=CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE AGNEW.= Taxi. il *$1.60 Bobbs

20–2643

“This is a whimsically humorous account of the adventures of Robert
Hervey Randolph, ‘six feet straight up and down, broad of shoulder and
narrow of hip, sandy haired, blue eyed, nose slightly up-ended and
wearing a saddle of faint freckles, clean shaved, well groomed, very
correctly dressed, and twenty-six years old,’ who swaps places with a
New York taxicab driver, clothes and all, and gathers some big ideas
while studying the under side of the upper world through a hole in the
front glass of his car. His experiment convinced him that a chaperoned
cab company was badly needed in New York.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Viewed seriously, ‘Taxi’ is a piece of sheer absurdity: but it is not
written for the serious view. Still, merely as a piece of deliberate
nonsense, I don’t find it remarkably successful. Its gaiety is not
quite spontaneous.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 90w

“The most sanguine admirer of Mr Chamberlain would be obliged to admit
that ‘Taxi’ is a pot-boiler. It is not, moreover, a very choice
specimen of pot-boiling. The product is of a watery character, in
which a few bits of nourishment float pathetically.”

− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 120w

“An agreeable romance runs through this original tale and all ends
well.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 440w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

=Pub W= 97:176 Ja 17 ’20 280w

=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Crimson tide. il *$1.75 Appleton

19–18840

“Mr Chambers shrewdly gives us glimpses of two scenes which take place
before the beginning of the story, but which are vitally important to
our understanding of it. One is a foreword and contains the first
meeting of Palla Dumont, Ilse Westgard and John Estridge. Estridge is
an ambulance driver in Russia, detailed to take Palla Dumont to the
Grand Duchess Marie who has obtained permission to have her American
companion and dear friend with her in the convent where the imperial
family are confined. In the preface we have an equally important scene
taking place in the convent when the Bolsheviki arrive to put to death
the empress and her children. With such exciting events behind her it
is little wonder that Palla Dumont has no real desire to settle down
to the ordinary life of the United States after the signing of the
armistice. The story is largely concerned with Palla’s revolt from the
conventional and her endeavor to fight the rising tide of bolshevism
in New York by preaching her gospel of love and service.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

− + =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 110w

=Boston Transcript= p9 F 7 ’20 600w

“One pictures Mr Chambers awakened by the alarm clock of destiny to
realization that the hour is striking in which he must begin to write
a new novel and saying to himself with infinite boredom: ‘What in
thunder is there left in the world that I haven’t written about?
Bolshevism? Is Bolshevism among my titles?”

− =N Y Times= 24:741 D 14 ’19 700w

“It is all fairly interesting, but rather shallow.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:440 N 27 ’20 130w

“‘The crimson tide’ promises, in its inception, to be a lively story
of adventuring with a strain of characteristic Chambers romance.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Slayer of souls. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran

20–8632

When the story opens the heroine, Tressa Norne, is on shipboard
leaving behind her China and the memories of her four years as a
captive temple girl. When next met she is in a hotel room in San
Francisco, expelling an intruder by the simple expedient of opening a
bolted door with the power of her eye, and causing a yellow snake to
appear out of the atmosphere. Next she is on the stage in New York
giving an exhibition of black magic, with secret service men watching
her. Victor Cleves obtains an interview and enlists her in a crusade
against the “red spectre,” anarchy, otherwise bolshevism. For the
secret of the bolshevist advance is really magic, “brewed in the hell
pit of Asia.” It has conquered Russia, is spreading over Europe and
threatening the United States, where already the I. W. W., the parlor
socialists and some two million other deluded mortals are in the power
of the dread Yezidees of China. Indeed, we have the author’s own word
for it that all that stood between “a trembling civilization and
threat of hell’s own chaos” was this little band of secret service men
and one lone girl. Civilization totters but is saved.

* * * * *

“‘The slayer of souls’ is as good a story as ‘In secret,’ and that is
no mean praise. We embark upon strange and perilous adventures, and it
is not long that we bother to count whether or not the episodes of his
tale are practicable. They are exciting and they are full of wonder,
which suffices.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 440w

“It is a well told story, but Mr Chambers, our most shining example of
a debased talent, can write better than he does here.”

+ − =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 120w

“The reader sympathizes wholly with one of the characters who at the
end of the book ‘whispers hoarsely, “For God’s sake, let us get out of
this!”’”

− =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 630w

=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w

“The stories provide diverse entertainment but are in nowise above
mediocrity.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

“The book serves only to show that an author, reputed of great skill
in casting the storyteller’s spell over his readers while leaving
thought and emotion unstirred, can on occasion forget that skill, and
write as clumsily as any novice.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 310w

=CHAMBRUN, JACQUES ALDEBERT DE PINETON, comte de, and MARENCHES, CHARLES, comte de.= American army in the European conflict. *$3 Macmillan 940.373

19–18747

“An account of the American military activities from a French source.
The two French officers who were the authors of this work were
attached to General Pershing’s staff.” (R of Rs) “The work is
remarkably comprehensive, and in its 400 pages embraces a rapid but
complete survey of American preparation for war, the transport of men
and supplies across the ocean, the training of the troops in France,
the organization and work of the services of supply, construction work
in France, the part taken by different units of the A. E. F. with the
allied armies, the organization of the American forces into their own
armies and the part they thus played in battle.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“The facts which they present are beyond dispute, and the presentation
is singularly free of any discussion of the friction which arose
between us and our allies over the methods in which the necessary
cooperation between us was effected. The narrative is unbalanced in
treating so much in detail minor actions of the first few divisions
arriving in France.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:529 Ap ’20 900w

“Written without sentimentality, in a clear, logical, analytical
manner.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20

“The book is of special value in that it gives perhaps the best
account of the organization of the American troops in France.”

+ =Cath World= 111:822 S ’20 370w

“Some of the distinctive qualities of the French genius for expression
are evident in the clarity, the logical arrangement, the precision
with which the narrative is presented. Noteworthy throughout the book
are the understanding of American character and the appreciation of
how it has been formed and colored by the history and conditions of
the country.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:80 F 8 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 40w

+ =Spec= 124:868 Je 26 ’20 670w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p230 Ap 15 ’20 830w

=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Sunshine in Underwood. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

A trifling comedy of errors involving a young English parson on his
holiday. Bob Truesdale had meant to spend his month’s leave with
Colonel Massey but at the station he is hailed with joy by Uncle
Joseph and Aunt Emily who mistake him for their nephew, Bob Upton.
What he learns in the next half hour about the feud between the
colonel and the vicar and the part he had been destined to play in it,
also about the colonel’s plans for himself and Nora Massey, decides
him and he keeps up the deception. Later a friend appears who is
willing to play the part of Bob Truesdale and still later the real Bob
Upton, who all the time has been engaged to Nora, comes on the scene
and Truesdale is glad enough by then to be relieved of his disguise
for he is already deeply in love with Hilda, the vicar’s daughter, and
wants to do his courting in his own proper person.

* * * * *

“A light and cheerful story.”

+ =Ath= p157 Ja 30 ’20 40w

“Light, irresponsible, amusing fare. It is the sort of thing that one
may read or fall asleep over, as it may happen, with no harm done
either way.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 400w

“This is one of the funniest books of the season.”

+ =Sat R= 129:178 My 22 ’20 70w

=CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK.= Educational sociology. *$2.25 Century 301

19–17183

“Although the author, who is the head of the Department of political
and social science at the College of Wooster, states in his preface
that the work is written as an introductory textbook in sociology from
the educational point of view, it is hardly that, but rather a work on
social psychology, in which field it is very successful. Part one, on
Social movement, treats public opinion, citizenship, social
solidarity, custom, tradition, habit, rules of the game, revivals,
panics, crazes, strikes, political campaigns, and similar topics. Part
two, on Social institutions, does not take up the evolution of social
institutions, but is a study of the organization and control of
society through its institutions, taking up the state, property, the
family, the church, the school, occupation and under minor
institutions, charity, amusement, art, science, business, and war.
Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The
one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different
groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers,
business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey

* * * * *

“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original
and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow

+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 200w

“Well indexed.”

+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20

“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information,
the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently
dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal
students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”

+ − =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w

“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The
treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods,
or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena,
relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of
education have been produced, how schools and society in general are
interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day
social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”

− + =School R= 28:153 F ’20 300w

“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement
is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social
facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and
illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to
the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow

+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w

=CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS.= More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6

20–4279

This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,”
published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during
the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among
them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the
minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A
tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of
Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in
the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an
epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20

=N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w

+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w

=CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH.= Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 842

20–6298

The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard
Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the
English books on the subject published in the present century. It
“offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three
decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the
conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis,
and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.”
(Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft;
Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists;
Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers;
Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters;
Bibliographical appendix; Index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert
Seldes

+ =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 120w

“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that
represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour.
And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There
are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of
criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no
proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste
essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”

− + =Freeman= 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w

“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many
admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow
technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w

“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can
see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development,
but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an
anatomical study of the subject.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w

“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical
interpretation.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 300w

=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam

20–7764

Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer.
She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these
that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby
mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a
one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent
with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises,
while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from
her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the
sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her,
bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the
strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he
conquers her.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her
courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an
inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w

“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect
to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 210w

=CHAPIN, CHARLES.= Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam

20–18406

This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing
for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who
suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of
escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the
experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author
was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the
tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune”
days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city
editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city
desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering
clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 580w

“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the
author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book
is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison
walls.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w

=Review= 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w

“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no
words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with
some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the
human story is there and written in a style easily understood and
followed.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 800w

=CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL.= Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5

20–10622

“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been
written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather
study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book
it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the
study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its
problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the
British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind;
What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the
sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms;
Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather
charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes
contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools
and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an
index.

* * * * *

“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest
to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific
method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be
imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the
conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the
neighborhood of England.”

+ =El School J= 20:552 Mr ’20 180w

“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an
introduction to an important subject.”

+ =Spec= 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w

=CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER.= What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2

20–7850

“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States
arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of
birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he
has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of
birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent
resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant
land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the
southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are
small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in
color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the
same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as
frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions
easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are
arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.

+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20

“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the
birdlover.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w

+ =Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 40w

=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w

+ =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w

“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most
authoritative, bird guide.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 230w

=CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS.= Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373

20–5654

The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the
portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American
front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and
biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the
foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division
assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the
American military decorations.

* * * * *

“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic
traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring
achievement.”

+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w

+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 140w

“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types
among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is
evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special
points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a
collection of clever portraits as this.”

+ =Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 80w

=CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON.= Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton

Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the
mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite
Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part
Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre
and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had
done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle.
Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an
earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers.
The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá,
in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San
Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa
Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.

* * * * *

“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 70w

=CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds.= Cape Coddities. il *$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073

This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a
serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but
merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday
land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the
initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired
of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under
the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message
from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A
by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer
bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A
wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The
book is illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w

+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w

+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w

“Pleasant little essays.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w

“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and
general appearance.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w

=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75 Macmillan

20–3884

This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s
stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country
house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch;
Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.

* * * * *

“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen
though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”

+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20

=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 50w

“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a
moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of
experience!”

+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 130w

“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a
naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by
instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him
suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the
Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who
have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life
has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of
gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and
Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be
recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”

+ =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w

“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And
in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics.
To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great
sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain
humane feeling.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w

“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given
neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His
tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and
described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is
revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter
nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 320w

“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the
baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted
by a master without hope.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w

=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan

20–5392

“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890
of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has
selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw
most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A
biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s
brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity
for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect
art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is
that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these
letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction
that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w

“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian
life in all their fascinating variety.”

+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20

+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 70w

“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight
disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the
life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic
process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction
of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of
detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in
a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of
Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett

+ − =Dial= 68:626 My ’20 1900w

“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or
envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is
favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he
himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got
into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His
personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it
is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w

=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w

+ =N Y Times= p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w

“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote
them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without
opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with
himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could
not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the
fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w

“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and
intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and
sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 F 12 ’20 2700w

=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.=[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press

20–4892

“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for
boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their
way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which
the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two
boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who
had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with
tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to
meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes
first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of
buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the
adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”

+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 70w

“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner,
‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it
is intended.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w

“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in
the Rockies.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w

=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.= Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8

20–4120

A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the
convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s
Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others
who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to
address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ...
clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered
from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have
been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what
is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows:
Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals;
Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The
author is connected with the boys’ work department, International
committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of
“Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.

* * * * *

“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers
and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a
moral.”

+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20

=CHELLEW, HENRY.= Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7

20–21085

The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human
efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment.
“Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our
thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency
is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and
scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps
towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory;
Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting
employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker;
Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for
efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.

* * * * *

“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the
usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”

+ =Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 60w

“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly
worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R.
Burton

− =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w

=CHENG, SIH-GUNG.= Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951

(Eng ed 19–19083)

“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of
his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an
academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful
analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux
of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is
that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a
profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain
semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety
positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides
pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient
people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space
in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to
discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and
he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set
China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a
great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who
speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory
contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared
since the revolution.” F: W. Williams

+ =Nation= 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w

“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he
has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in
his country.” W. W. Willoughby

+ =Review= 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w

“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which
is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain
throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and
impartial examination.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W

=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15

20–1624

In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically
discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an
almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical
peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English
and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes
made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root
of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The
Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland;
An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.

* * * * *

“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the
almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and
Ireland.” E. A. Boyd

− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 400w

=Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20

“The title of Mr Chesterton’s book, ‘Irish impressions,’ is apt; the
author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet
his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such
as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr
Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume
should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J.
O’C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1150w

“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a
war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a
glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is,
however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal
Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as
well by others before.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 180w

=Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w

“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can
treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w

+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w

“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is
not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too
profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and
so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as
deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts
lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”

+ − =No Am= 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w

“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is
full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one
must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth
the candle.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w

“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit,
epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch
one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear
to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and
confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing
when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor
that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w

=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w

“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and
one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and
brilliant career.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w

“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the
monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his
genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes
rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a
contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond
thing vainly invented.”

− + =Spec= 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w

“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely
liberal Englishman.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w

“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in
the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the
reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less
facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler
spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 650w

“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from
one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish
impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J.
O’Conor

+ − =Yale R n s= 10:209 O ’20 220w

=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane 173

20–5411

The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New
Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added
conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and
brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage
stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that
has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.”
The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact
that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their
natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story
of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The
vista of divorce; Conclusion.

* * * * *

“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his
book is an interesting study in style.”

+ =Ath= p192 F 6 ’20 120w

“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to
an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in
order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet
clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton
does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the
question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.

− =Ath= p235 F 20 ’20 1600w

=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20

“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater
care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the
family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained,
especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and
most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 850w

=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 60w

“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present
situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.

− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w

=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w

=Lit D= p116 S 18 ’20 1550w

“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated
for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a
desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than
it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in
present need of it.” Preserved Smith

− + =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w

“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing,
and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better
treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same
sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us
have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes

− + =Nation [London]= 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w

=Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w

=Sat R= 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w

“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the
middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild
socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle
ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”

+ − =Spec= 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w

“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to
empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then,
having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord
with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his
own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction
comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the
ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good
sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ’20 750w

“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air
and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are
strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once
gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really
is quite easy to imitate.”

− + =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 180w

=CHEVREUIL, L.= Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray. il *$3 Dutton 134

20–6884

“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of
the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French
Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial
penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of
discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions,
materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the
scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and
the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it
altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the
chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

− =Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 350w