Chapter XIX: Part 2: , Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and (2)

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 450w

“Much better than most of the lyrics of the war is a quiet poem about
a woman, called ‘Her character.’” Marguerite Williams

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 90w

“They have eloquence; but it is rather the stilted eloquence of a
sententious publicist than poetry; and it is lost when the writer
drops to political abuse. On the whole the inspiration runs thinly
throughout.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w

=COX, HAROLD.= Economic liberty. *$2.75 Longmans 330

20–12900

“Mr Harold Cox has collected and reprinted from the quarterlies a
number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. Mr
Cox rightly lays stress on the importance of economic liberty which is
obtainable only under our existing system. There is much truth in Mr
Cox’s chapter on socialist ethics. He devotes a chapter to the special
fallacy of ‘Nationalisation,’ involving the state control under which
enterprise withers and individual initiative ceases. There are some
essays, too, on the question of free trade or protection, and an
eloquent paper on ‘The two paths of empire’—the old protectionist
methods which we abandoned deliberately last century, and the modern
creed of freedom under which the dominions and the crown colonies and
protectorates have developed very rapidly and successfully.”—Spec

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:852 D ’20 70w

“Will be appreciated by those who distrust state control and by
radical thinkers who wish seriously to consider opposing points of
view.”

+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21

“One would, in fact, like to see these essays expanded into a general
political philosophy, and we believe there would be a welcome for such
a book, and that it would have considerable influence.”

+ =Sat R= 130:180 Ag 28 ’20 1000w

“Mr Cox’s general line of reasoning is sound.”

+ =Spec= 124:830 Je 19 ’20 1200w

“In dealing with present day problems, Cox is academic and aloof from
realities. Nevertheless, this is a good book for reformers of all
schools who sincerely desire to consider their cause in the light of
every genuine opposing argument.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 270w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 670w

=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SYDNEY COXON).= Breathless moment. *$2 (2½c) Lane

20–13346

Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her
father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper
and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is
already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the
front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her
breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife
dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock.
He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her
charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child
arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An
operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all
difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for
what has happened before the war.

* * * * *

“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”

+ =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 100w

“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters
whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which
develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of
hers which we have previously read.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 700w

“The story is readable but unconventional.”

+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 70w

+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 30w

“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only
she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability
quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were
not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in
for atmosphere.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O ’20 260w

=CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud.= Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c) Century

20–17409

Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He
seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that
enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent.
In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and
illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The
greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole
street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a
reasonable doubt.

=Booklist= 17:115 D ’20

“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w

“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the
sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut
and ingenious plot-weavings.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w

“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are
much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious
incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the
explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w

=CRADDOCK, ERNEST A.= Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3

“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of
the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the
introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some
English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite
recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom
republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in
some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it.
Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject,
‘The school republic.’”—School R

* * * * *

=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w

“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits
and defects of the scheme proposed.”

+ =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 200w

+ =School R= 28:550 S ’20 120w

“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of
pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It
is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well
written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so
interesting.”

+ =Spec= 124:761 Je 5 ’20 900w

=CRAM, MILDRED.= Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–10732

A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug
Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New
York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests
in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry
him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the
tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl,
daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real
romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his
adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie
technique in telling her story.

* * * * *

“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the
faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer
and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 350w

“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a
Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to
serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out
for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w

“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will
entertain the reader admirably.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 340w

=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones, Marshall 252

20–445

“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up
their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the
monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the
Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of
life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once
more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long
and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American
Church Monthly.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:163 F ’20

“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider
than the small groups for which they were written.”

+ − =Cath World= 110:833 Mr ’20 850w

+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 350w

=CRANE, AARON MARTIN.=[2] Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248

20–22091

A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in
1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the
teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The
prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving,
Prayer and healing.

* * * * *

=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 130w

=CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE.= In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3 (4c) Little 974.4

20–9735

The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not
applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century
and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was
repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans
but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the
Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that
however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is
desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who
look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their
own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In
which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The
formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they
sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How
they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried
to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”;
Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony;
Appendix, index and illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim
fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:122 O ’20 2350w

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 120w

“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a
sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of
deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation,
causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims
must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 340w

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w

=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 340w

“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the
personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of
today.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 50w

“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 750w

=CREEL, GEORGE.= How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373

20–10648

“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public
information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of
the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep
any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was
to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a
compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.”
The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section;
Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in
honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and
other documents, including a list of the publications of the
committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated
with portraits and is indexed.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

=Freeman= 2:89 O 6 ’20 1550w

“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did
not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet,
the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by
a man who knows the art.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 4 ’20 3150w

Reviewed by F: Moore

=Review= 3:211 S 8 ’20 1000w

=CREEL, GEORGE.= War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373

20–11585

A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the
ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of
nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and
our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the
chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”;
“The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral
offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What
Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were
the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great
American tradition.

* * * * *

“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove
all the reason on one side.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20

“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard
Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography
of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly
overstated.”

− + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w

=Review= 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w

“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 460w

“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to
hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most
effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique
in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the
president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less
satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and
rhetorical.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w

“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts
over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1700w

=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= At random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814

20–18957

The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is
a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays,
impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are:
Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline;
Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids;
The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms;
The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.

* * * * *

“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in
the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be
entertained with these random papers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 280w

=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 10w

=CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN.= Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50 Brentano’s 947

20–1063

“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared
their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the
United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks
or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers
only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson
was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much
travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of
Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this
interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Ath= p560 Ap 23 ’20 100w

=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20

“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because
it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English.
He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was
scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its
presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”

+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 700w

“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to
historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western
colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”

+ − =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 50w

“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French
historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as
well as with interest.”

+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 360w

=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1250w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w

“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal
observation, he describes the organization and government of the
Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that
is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”

+ − =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:52 Ap 3 ’20 160w

=CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS.= Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c) Stokes 134

20–19174

The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter
and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world.
Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a
decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by
way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and
materializations, all through non-professional means. Long
conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are:
Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of
spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”;
Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is
done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The
seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation
extraordinary.

* * * * *

“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr
Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the
case.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 660w

“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible
dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of
a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on
either side of the veil.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 150w

=N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 540w

Reviewed by Booth Tarkington

+ =N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 420w

“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the
life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend
themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the
next phase of life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 360w

=CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.= Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–22156

This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the
story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of
Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor
monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the
horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander
about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts.
So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his
first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several
respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.

* * * * *

“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible,
and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is
lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not
even make a moderately good story.”

− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 200w

“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is
little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon
the Catholic church.”

− =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 150w

=N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w

“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with
optimism for the world’s future.”

+ =Outlook= 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w

“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still
admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 280w

=CROMWELL, GLADYS.= Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811

19–19249

“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is
posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum
gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a
poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the
end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked
the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests,
was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is
pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows
clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without
question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign
of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of
nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had
herself thought and felt.”

+ =Ath= p289 F 27 ’20 140w

“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two
very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly
always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness
is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w

“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing
that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a
fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and
bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic
world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of
her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and
Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson,
with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Dial= 68:534 Ap ’20 180w

+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 300w

“The work of a finely thoughtful woman whom the spectacle of sheer,
naked cleverness and successfulness hurt, it represents feminine
introspection almost at its best.” M. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“It is the cumulative effect of the collection that is most
remarkable. As one reads on, the book develops a unity that is more
than a unity of texture or of inspiration. It achieves an
eloquence,—superseding the poet’s earlier constraint—that seems almost
to deepen the lyric sequence to the additional significance of a
monodrama.” O. R.

+ =New Repub= 22:65 Mr 10 ’20 1000w

“The poems are sincere, but sometimes stumbling. The winds of time
will blow from the tree of poetry some of the leaves as heavy as these
and as slightly affixed.”

+ − =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 200w

“If Miss Cromwell had lived she would never have been a popular poet,
but it is quite likely that she would have written rare lyrics for the
pleasure of poets and others to whom poetry is no amusement, but, in a
deep and real sense, the sharing of life.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 480w

“Her poetical work throughout is the self-revelation, made with a
blunt direct sincerity, of a fine spirit and a thoughtful mind.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 210w

=CROSLEY, MRS PAULINE S.=[2] Intimate letters from Petrograd. *$3 Dutton 947

20–10514

“Pauline S. Crosley’s book is a collection of letters written to
members of her family, principally from Petrograd, where her husband
was American naval attaché from the spring of 1917 until the flight of
the foreign legations and embassies through Finland in the following
February.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The book is remarkable for its unbiased opinions and its clear
estimate of the political situations, as well as for its realistic
account of the chaotic conditions of Russia in the first days of its
downfall.”

+ =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 80w

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 1400w

=CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD.= Dame school of experience, and other papers. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–22103

In the opening paper the author reports an interview he had with the
“withered dame” who teaches the school of experience. He found the
schoolhouse an ancient building and the equipment primitive. The dame
treated his inquiry into her methods as a prehistoric joke and made it
plain that she did not go in for the fancy branches of ethics. Her
parting advice was to treat experience not as a noun but as a verb and
to mind the adverbs. The other papers are: The teacher’s dilemma;
Every man’s natural desire to be somebody else; The perils of the
literate; Natural enemies and how to make the best of them; The
spiritual adviser of efficiency experts; The Pilgrims and their
contemporaries; Education in pursuit of Henry Adams; The hibernation
of genius; The unpreparedness of liberalism; On the evening of the new
day.

* * * * *

“This volume of a dozen essays is bound to be one of the most popular
books of the season throughout the country, and while it appeals
primarily to the man and woman of literary culture, its wisdom as well
as its wit will draw many others to whom common sense clothed in humor
appeals particularly.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 24 ’20 400w

=CROWDER, ENOCH HERBERT.= Spirit of selective service. *$2 (2c) Century 353

20–5259

In part one of this book the author tells how the draft act was put
into operation. Its success was made possible, he says, thru the
cooperation of the men and women, nearly two hundred thousand strong,
who made up the backbone of the selective service system. This body,
composing the draft boards, “espoused the administration of an
unpopular law, and not only achieved success in its execution, but
popularized it as well.” In part two the author considers plans for
bringing the same spirit of cooperation to bear on the present
confusion. The chapters of part one are: America elects; Feeding the
god of war; The volunteer system in America; Pride of tradition versus
common-sense patriotism; Universal service in America; Selective
service in America; How England achieved selective service; The spirit
of the draft; Part two: The tasks that lie ahead; The permanency of
the selective service idea; The preservation of Americanism; A plan of
action; The old guard. An appendix gives General Crowder’s report as
provost marshal general to the secretary of war on the demobilization
of his department.

* * * * *

“Clearly written and very interesting historically.”

+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

“While ‘The spirit of selective service’ contains more detail,
description, and theory of the draft and its aftermath than it does
‘spirit,’ it is none the less a well written and valuable contribution
to the already large collection of semi-technical post-war
literature.” C. K. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 360w

“It may be that some of its propositions are more ingenious than
practicable, though it would not be easy to point them out. It may be
that the writer is over-hopeful of the success of some of his plans,
though he maintains generally an admirable tone of moderation. It is
certain that he has, in a broad and patriotic spirit, presented most
lucidly what he esteems to be the lesson of one of the greatest
administrative achievements in the history of our government.”

+ =No Am= 211:857 Je ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 120w

=CROWELL, JOSHUA FREEMAN.= Outdoors and in. *$1.50 Four seas co. 811

20–5146

Nature themes predominate in this volume of poems and not the least
attractive of them are those inspired by the cultivated garden
flowers. There are a few poems of social interest, including those
which touch on the war. An occasional vein of satire is also
disclosed. The verses are grouped under the following heads: Through
the year; Along the way; Above the clouds; From sea and shore; By wood
and stream; Of field and town; To tone and tune; Garden wise; An
interlude; Dream wise.

* * * * *

“Skilled though he be in verse forms, Mr Crowell is nevertheless far
from being a poet, and no discriminating reader will ever suspect him
of it.”

− + =Cath World= 111:838 S ’20 100w

“The verses are pleasant and often graceful. The book is enjoyable
reading, though hardly belonging to the heights of poetry.”

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 120w

=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Common sense and labour. *$2 (3½c) Doubleday 331

20–7435

In attempting to put his finger on the something wrong in the
industrial world of today, in the relations between employer and
employee, the writer does not find any intrinsic antagonism between
capital and labor. On the contrary he believes that “there is a
growing conception that capital and labor are complementary, that it
is perfectly possible to effect a bargain and sale with a reasonable
profit to both sides and without more than a natural amount of
bickering.” He has little use for any of the revolutionary changes
involved in “profit-sharing,” the “democratization of industry” and
the like, but thinks that constructive results can be achieved when
“capital and labor meet not as partners but as persons anxious to make
all that they can out of the same general opportunity.” Contents: The
fundamental causes of labour unrest; The relation between the employer
and the employed; The worker and his wage; Wages and profit-sharing
delusions; The fetish of industrial democracy; When they get together;
The economic truths of work; The man and the machine; The methods and
policies of British labour.

* * * * *

“The many cases cited give it a lively interest for the average,
concerned business man or worker.”

+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

+ =Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

=Review= 3:651 D 29 ’20 500w

“His book makes for sanity on both sides.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w

“Distinguished by rare good sense and lack of partisanship.”

+ =St Louis= 18:215 S ’20 20w

“He is not always judicious in his strictures and his indulgence in
cutting epigram is sometimes rather annoying, but there is much of
stimulating information and suggestion in his essay.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 6 ’20 240w

“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of
labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of
understanding of those causes.”

− =Survey= 44:316 My 29 ’20 200w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 80w

=CROWTHER, SAMUEL.= Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1

20–8812

The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for
higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against
work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He
has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present
mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates
a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but
rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of
savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers
a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social
unrest.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w

“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.”
G: Soule

− + =Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 170w

“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in
conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead

− =New Repub= 24:100 S 22 ’20 2100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 N 25 ’20 70w

=CROY, HOMER.= Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–16795

Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in
the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians
were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The
young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love
with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond
who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the
two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering
adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim
eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news
of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.

* * * * *

“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 340w

“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals
are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of
artificial coloring in description or action.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 110w

=CROZIER, WILLIAM.= Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 940.373

20–8902

A book subtitled “a contribution to the history of American
preparedness.” The author’s purpose is to describe the ordnance
department and to trace the various steps in equipping the army for
France, leaving the reader to judge to what extent the department met
its responsibilities. Contents: Ordnance department; Embarrassments;
Overhead organization; Criticisms; Rifles; Machine guns; Field
artillery; Smokeless powder; Responsibility; Conclusion. The author
states that since he is no longer a member of the war department he
speaks “without official authority, and with something of the freedom
of any other citizen.”

* * * * *

“So far as the book is an apology for the Ordnance department, it is
well done and is successful. So far as it is an apology for the writer
himself, it had better have been left undone. It doth protest too
much; it leaves the reader not quite convinced; worse, far worse, it
leaves him bored.” H: W. Bunn

+ − =Review= 3:319 O 13 ’20 1500w

“Altogether the book has a larger field than its mere name implies. It
may be said to be an authoritative and comprehensive history of an
achievement characteristically American in dealing with new and
extraordinary problems.” F. B. C. Bradlee

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 16 ’20 310w

=CRUICKSHANK, ALFRED HAMILTON.= Philip Massinger. il *$4.50 Stokes 822

(Eng ed 21–120)

Of the many dramatists of the century of Shakespeare, says the author
of this volume, none seem more worthy of affectionate consideration
than Philip Massinger. Comparing his writings with the masterpieces of
his contemporaries, which, though displaying rich gifts of pathos,
poetry and humor, are often marred by waywardness, unnaturalness, want
of proportion and grossness, Massinger’s work is sober, well-balanced,
dignified and lucid. While he shares with them the atmosphere of
romance and adventure, he is the most Greek of his generation. The
book contains, besides the text, appendices and index, a frontispiece
portrait, a facsimile of the Henslow document at Dulwich, and of the
“Believe as you list” Ms. in the British museum.

* * * * *

“It is a conscientious work, which contains, we suppose, all the
information and nearly all the serious speculations possible, about
its subject. In expression of judgment and comparison, it is useful;
for if any opinion is to be expressed of Mr Cruickshank’s criticism,
it is deficient rather than aberrant.” T. S. E.

+ − =Ath= p760 Je 11 ’20 1600w

“In every detail, Dr Cruickshank’s book is carefully documented.” E.
F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1550w

“He has thoroughly mastered the large amount of material collected in
dissertations and technical journals during the last half-century, and
within certain definite limits has made an adequate study of which the
chief merit is the warm and well-reasoned admiration of Massinger
which glows through every page. The scope of the book is unfortunately
strangely limited.” S: C. Chew

+ − =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 600w

“Professor Cruickshank’s scholarly and illuminating and, to us,
provocative book will, we hope, do something to revive interest in
Massinger’s work.”

+ =Sat R= 130:36 Jl 10 ’20 720w

=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.= History of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–20533

As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a
phase of the development and spread of western civilization,”
indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of
primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece,
traces the development of education throughout the western world for
the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or
less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of
the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race.
The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world;
The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The
book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and
maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.

=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.=[2] Readings in the history of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–22845

“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of
educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The
original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading
to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement
to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume.
It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the
subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise
of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the
revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new
scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth
century come the beginnings of national education which gradually
bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.

=CULLUM, RIDGWELL.= Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam

20–18301

Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a
mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his
pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with
him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he
finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter
with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost
accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote
all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there
is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians
lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion
of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years
of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the
meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in
their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of
the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years,
and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him
years before.

* * * * *

“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and
the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating
Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and
well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots
even inspired.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 620w

“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber in
its treatment.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w

“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his
latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a
cumbersome, prolix style.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 160w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 40w

=CUMMING, CAROLINE KING, and PETTIT, WALTER WILLIAM=, comps. and eds. Russian-American relations, March 1917–March 1920. *$3.50 Harcourt 327

20–11098

The documents and papers have been compiled under the direction of
John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood, and William Allen White at the
request of the League of free nations association. They cover three
years beginning with the first declaration issued by the Provisional
government of Russia after the revolution, March 16, 1917, and ending
with the statement made by the supreme council at Paris, February 24,
1920. Their object is to facilitate an inquiry into the relations
between the United States and Russia since the revolution of March
1917, the general purport of which is indicated by an extract from a
letter by the chairman of the association: “It is not intended that
this study should go into the question of the relative merits of
Bolshevism or of the forces fighting Bolshevism in Russia, but that it
should be merely an attempt to make clear to the American people what
the actual facts have been in our governmental dealings with the
various groups in what was the Russian empire.” The documents fall
into three main categories: (1) Documents already published in English
in Senate reports, State department publications, the New York Times,
Current History Magazine, the Nation, etc.; (2) Original translations
from various Russian official and unofficial newspapers; (3) Materials
hitherto unpublished, contributed by Colonel Raymond Robins and
others. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Gratitude for the publication should not impose silence as to its
faults, which are of such a character as to impair greatly its
usefulness. First of all, the selection of documents, besides being
very slight for the period of the provisional and Kerensky
governments, has also somewhat of an ex parte character. The reader
will not fail to be struck with the entire absence of papers derived
directly from the State department, except for five that are taken
from one of its publications.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:371 Ja ’21 420w

=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20

“It is made up entirely of authentic documents. This moderation in aim
is an excellence, for not the most vindictive interventionist could
deny the impartial, objective nature of the information now made
conveniently accessible, and much of it made for the first time
available.” Norman Hapgood

+ =Nation= 110:766 Je 5 ’20 2650w

=CUMMINGS, BRUCE FREDERICK (W. N. P. BARBELLION, pseud.).= Enjoying life, and other literary remains. il *$2 Doran 824

20–16882

The present volume shows the versatility of the author’s genius in
that it is equally divided between his love of nature and his love for
literature. The first four essays are a hitherto unpublished part of
the “Journal of a disappointed man” and breathe the joy of life and
passion for life in rare exuberance. The rest of the contents are five
essays on literary and speculative subjects, two short stories: A fool
and a maid on Lundy Island; and How Tom snored on his bridal
night;—and essays in natural history.

* * * * *

“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power and
originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its quaintness
or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the literary
exercises of an unusually able man.”

+ =Ath= p1366 D 19 ’19 620w

“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual
sketches are very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon
the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a
keeper of journals.”

+ − =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 250w

“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always
this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 26 ’20 650w

“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of
cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his
friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a
disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second
demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human
documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”

− =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 400w

“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing,
cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 13 ’20 650w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 5 ’20 1100w

=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.= Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd

20–26882

The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties
but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr Cunninghame
Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known as Antonio
Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet and saint and
who with his followers became involved in civil war. A long
introduction describes the scene of action, that region of Pernambuco
and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable only as “wooded,
back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted to cattle
raising and it has developed a people described as “a race apart—a
race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong, honest,
revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life to an
extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of
some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.

* * * * *

“Mr Cunninghame Graham gives us the story with a certain graphic
effect and some picturesque detail. Unfortunately, the picturesque
detail is not chosen so as to throw light on the points that are most
obscure and of deepest interest. It is a pity that the value of a book
containing so notable a record should be impaired by grave defects of
style and taste.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p368 Mr 19 ’20 1000w

+ =Booklist= 17:65 N ’20

“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction as
well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1450w

“His story Mr Cunninghame Graham tells vividly, with rather too many
nagging philosophical comments, but with a richly colored background
of strange, wild customs.”

+ − =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 300w

“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in
his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives
him everything in narration which delights him.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:18 Ap 3 ’20 1100w

“‘A Brazilian mystic’ possesses an exotic charm that sets it apart
from volumes of the commonplace.”

+ =N Y Times= p13 O 3 ’20 580w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w

“All is told with an artistry of penmanship that is a revelation to
those who were, perhaps, too near events at that time to see them in
their romantic aspect.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:78 Jl 24 ’20 500w

“His narrative of the successive sieges of Canudos is an admirable
piece of writing.”

+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w

“Fascinating and exciting story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 2 ’20 320w

“If the result looks to be unworthy of the trouble the author has
taken, the responsibility for the failure to make a really interesting
book rests with Antonio Maciel and his followers.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 900w

=CURLE, JAMES HERBERT.= Shadow-show. new ed il *$2.50 (6c) Doran 910

20–19281

The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets
doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show
of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was
forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his
life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid
phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The
pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The tortoise’s
head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The dream city of
Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the waters of Babylon”; A
grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through the seventh gate.”

* * * * *

“It is all very fascinating, with none of the dreariness of the
traveler who talks and says little.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 170w

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w

“One feels that it all might have been much better done than it is,
and that it probably would be much better indeed, if one might forget
the book and sit down for a chat with the author.”

+ − =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 320w

“The showman is always interesting, though not always to be believed
implicity, especially when he forgets the pictures and goes to
moralizing.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 340w

=CURLE, RICHARD.= Wanderings; a book of travel and reminiscences. *$5 Dutton

910

“The ground-plan of Mr Curle’s travel-book is autobiographical, like
that of a picaresque romance; the twenty-five chapters, each complete
in itself, are placed intentionally in a seemingly haphazard order,
thus evoking different atmospheres, and allowing the author opportune
moments for uttering occasional opinions. Asia, Africa, America, and
Europe are the fields of travel.”—Ath

=Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 100w

“His descriptions, if rather impressionistic, are capitally done, and
there is no taint of monotonous sameness in the record of his
adventures on land and sea. As a whole, ‘Wanderings’ is a very good
book; better than that, it is a very interesting book, and one which
loses no interest by many readings.” G. M. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 800w

“Is it Mr Curle’s weakness that his Europe is rather threadbare, that
he has so little to tell us that is interesting about France and
Spain, that he achieves his effects best when the strong colours are,
as it were, given to him by those ‘more outlandish places’ that yield,
among more sensual trophies, the rich anodyne of sadness and
disillusion which is so assuaging to the neurotic of our day?”

+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 450w

“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except
in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns
the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien

+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 2350w

+ =Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 400w

“Of local color and atmosphere there is a satisfying amount, and the
autobiography which is the basis of the book but not its motive is no
more obtrusive than the hooks on which one hangs his garments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 22 ’20 250w

=CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT.= Wanted: a fool. *$1.75 (3½c) Harper

20–18762

Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his
luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man
who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with
chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and
uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr
Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in the
hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen by
her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s
books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is
deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with seem
to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The key to
the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a double
life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns that since
his retirement to the country he has been picked by a leading
theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture prominently
displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight visit has played
quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be even more
important in O’Mara’s.

* * * * *

“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very fragile
threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle strained.
Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed delight.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 110w