Chapter XX: Part 2: , Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and (3)

“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory
reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits
and ‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as
is proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last
chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”

+ − =NY Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 370w

“A slight, but in its own way, engaging tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 230w

=CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER.= Valley of silent men; a story of the Three River country. il $2 (2½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–15535

James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far
northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to a
murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the latter
free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A mystery
girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape. Their scow
is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and Marette is
apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of silent men” is
now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last strength he
finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices prompted
by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark deeds—all of
which come to light in the Valley of silent men.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21

“This is by no means a remarkable western adventure tale, but for
undiluted romance, tinged with the flavor of adventure that always
accompanies mention of the R. N. W. P., ‘The valley of silent men’
cannot be surpassed.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 23 ’20 270w

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 7 ’20 770w

“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes too
trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 100w

=CUSHING, CHARLES PHELPS.= If you don’t write fiction. *$1 (5c) McBride 029

20–11318

This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly
newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly
autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The
first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as
a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters
are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs; Finding a
market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet street”;
Something to sell; What the editor wants.

* * * * *

“A rollicking but practical account of how one free-lancer succeeded.”

+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w

“It is extremely enjoyable and rather helpful ‘how-to’ book.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 240w

“It will pay any beginner—and perhaps some writers of experience—to
run through this book for suggestions.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w

“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the
professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w

=CUSHMAN, HERBERT ERNEST.= Beginners history of philosophy. v 2. Modern philosophy. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 109

(19–243)

In this second and revised edition “much new material has been
incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the
re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the
‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some
length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the
civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The
humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural science
period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of the natural
science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment (1690–1781); John
Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in France and Germany;
Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of the thing-in-itself; The
philosophy of the nineteenth century; illustrations, diagrams and
index.

=CUTTING, MRS MARY STEWART (DOUBLE-DAY).= Some of us are married. *$1.75 Doubleday

20–6842

“In this new volume Mary Stewart Cutting relates a number of those
pleasant, semi-humorous little stories of married life with which her
name is associated, as well as two others which she calls
‘Autobiographical stories.’ The first, The man who went under, is the
tale of an embezzler, told by himself. The second, The song of
courage, is a story of a woman who might have been a great singer, had
not life thwarted her-life, and her own affections.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“While as a whole not equal to Mrs Cutting’s best work, will no doubt
give pleasure to many people.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 400w

“None are dramatic or tragic in the accepted sense. Indeed, some of
the little plots seem almost trivial in their beginnings and
consequences. But married folk will quickly appreciate their truth and
the deft skill of the author in presenting them severely on their
merits.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 320w

=CYNN, HUGH HEUNG-WO.= Rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people, its causes and the outlook. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 951.9

20–8302

“This story is of the Korean rebellion of March, 1919, and the
establishment of the republic. The author who was educated in an
American university, and is principal of the Pai Chai school in Seoul,
is temperate but shows clearly the wrongs of his country under
Japanese rule. Appendixes contain material on the relation of
missionaries to the revolution and also Japanese-Korean treaties since
1876. No index.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:65 N ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 160w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p743 N 11 ’20 60w

=CZERNIN VON UND ZU CHUDENITZ, OTTOKAR THEOBALD OTTO MARIA, graf.= In the world war. *$4 (4c) Harper 940.48

20–6768

The author disclaims any intention of writing a history of the war but
says of the book: “Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose
is to describe separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and
individuals with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore,
observe closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the
great drama.” (Preface) The result, with his introductory reflections,
is a conception of the war as a whole. One of the features of the book
is an intimate characterization of the Archduke Ferdinand. Contents:
Introductory reflections; Konopischt; William II; Rumania; The U-boat
warfare; Attempts at peace; Wilson; Impressions and reflections;
Poland; Brest-Litovsk; The peace of Bukharest; Final reflections:
Appendix; Index.

* * * * *

“Among the swarm of revelations that are appearing in connection with
the diplomatic history of the war. Count Czernin’s book is one of the
really notable ones. It is true he is disappointing, for he
continually makes us feel that he might have told us much more if he
had chosen to, but, as far as he goes, he is well worth attention.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:502 Ap ’20 650w

“It is greatly to be regretted that this translation of an interesting
and important book should have been entrusted to someone with a half
knowledge of German, and a complete ignorance of the elementary facts
about Austria.”

− + =Ath= p32 Ja 2 ’20 220w

=Ath= p108 Ja 23 ’20 2050w

=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20

+ =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 50w (Reprinted from Am Hist R)

“The title of the book should really be ‘Czernin in the world war,’
but this does not say that the story is lacking in universal
significance. The hasty-pudding character of the text, the very lack
of scholarly caution, brings us so much nearer to the personality of
Czernin himself; and it is this opportunity to see an important elder
statesman in mental action that gives the work more interest than the
technical narratives of the military leaders. The sidelights that
Czernin’s analysis throws upon colleagues and adversaries in the same
official station as himself, are an important contribution to the
psychology of statesmen.” L: Mumford

+ =Freeman= 1:452 Jl 21 ’20 1750w

+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w

“Count Czernin has two advantages over the other statesmen and
commanders who have published their personal records of the war. He
writes remarkably well, and he has no motive to distort the truth. His
fault is diffuseness and repetition, but it cannot spoil an eminently
readable book.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:308 N 29 ’19 2100w

“Czernin treats the war in a very fair and objective spirit. He
reveals his limitations most clearly in the chapter on the
Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.” A. C. Freeman

+ − =N Y Call= p11 My 23 ’20 1350w

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 200w

=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 180w

=Spec= 123:692 N 22 ’19 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 1150w

D

=DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE=, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones, Marshall 755

20–26575

The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is
arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page
reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico,
Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on
the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of
each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the
complete story of the life of Jesus.

* * * * *

“An important book for any art collection.”

+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20

“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of
books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is
‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number
of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am
confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent
place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:257 N ’20 490w

“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both
the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure
to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies
of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”

+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 90w

“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem
capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the
greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in
full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which
appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color
reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.”
Glen Mullin

+ =Nation= 111:sup654 D 8 ’20 2150w

“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes.
Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who
opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will
find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 720w

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 200w

=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan

20–817

A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman
of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of
which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing
it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon
her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire
into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend
that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit
the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala
Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the
young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.

* * * * *

“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence
Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable
powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date
these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p1289 D 5 ’19 1350w

“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel,
writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex.
In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops
venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental
indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:202 Ap ’20 1300w

“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but
Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that
which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 500w

“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and
just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a
poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The
people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great
consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.”
H. I. Gilchrist

+ − =Dial= 68:523 Ap ’20 1500w

=Lit D= p113 S 18 ’20 2550w

“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and
intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and
life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high
speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other
literatures its structural method is not unknown.”

+ =Nation= 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w

“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and
it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the
compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the
very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem
artless in its basic simplicity.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence
Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in
the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s
‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater
clarity.”

+ =Outlook= 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w

“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force
may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is
certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w

“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place
among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one
of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain
of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps
by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any
kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made
her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it
up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional
current.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w

“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary
achievement, particularly on the technical side.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w

“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss
Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness
of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident
limits in the understanding of men.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 750w

=DANE, EDMUND.= British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42

(Eng ed 20–4448)

“This volume deals with the operations in five theatres of
war—Southwest Africa, East Africa, Togoland, Cameroon, and Kiao-chau.
Mr Dane has endeavored, with the help of nine sketch maps, to compress
the account of them into 205 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p688 My 21 ’20 110w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 40w

“On the whole, he has given us, as he claims, a truthful and lucid
narrative, sufficient for the general reader, and a useful primer for
the student. Mr Dane quotes no authorities and gives no bibliography.
He goes out of his way to avoid and paraphrase ordinary military
expressions.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p728 D 11 ’19 550w

=DANIELS, GEORGE WILLIAM.= Early English cotton industry; introductory chapter by George Unwin. (Manchester university publications) il *$3.25 (*8s 6d) Longmans 338.4

20–14211

“Mr Daniels, who is senior lecturer in economics in the University of
Manchester, was greatly helped in writing this historical sketch of
the cotton industry from the sixteenth century to the death of Samuel
Crompton by the discovery in the upper storey of one of the mills
owned by Messrs O’Connel and Co., Limited, at Ancoats, of a number of
ledgers, correspondence files, etc., dealing with their business for
the period 1795–1835. Mr Daniels further discovered among the business
correspondence of the firm a series of original letters by Crompton,
written in 1812 and describing his invention of the ‘mule’ thirty
years earlier, which are here reproduced.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Mr Daniels’ researches make a valuable addition to social and
industrial history.”

+ =Ath= p408 S 24 ’20 210w

“Apart from these technical details, however, the book is of special
value because it shows that the present relations between capital and
labour were not the outcome of the factory system, but must be traced
much further back.”

+ =Spec= 125:211 Ag 14 ’20 1350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 Ag 12 ’20 110w

=DANIELS, JOHN.= America via the neighborhood. il *$2 (2c) Harper 325.7

21–170

The volume is one of a series of eleven books on Americanization
studies of which Allen T. Burns is general director. Its point of
departure is that the essential objective in any program of
Americanization is constructive participation in the life of America
and that this cannot be attained either by enforced conformity or the
equally enforced injection of the English language and a smattering of
civics. The general conclusion of the study is that Americanization
does not restrict itself to the immigrant alone but to all activities
that have to do with neighborhood and community problems and that it
is the labor unions, cooperatives and political organizations that
bring the immigrant into democratic partnership with the native
American. The book is illustrated and the contents are:
Americanization and the neighborhood; Inherent forces; Union through
racial coherence; Colony pioneering (two chapters); The social
settlement approach; The settlement’s larger opportunities; Church,
school, and library; Other agencies and the neighborhood principle;
Labor unions; Co-operatives; Political organization and government;
The outcome.

=DARGON, JEAN.= Future of aviation, with a preface by M. Etienne Lamy. il *$3 Appleton 629.1

20–3275

“A volume entitled ‘The future of aviation’ contains a translation by
Philip Nutt of a work written in French by Jean Dargon. There are nine
full-page illustrations in the book, two maps, and numerous diagrams.”
(N Y Times) “It is a discussion of the civil as opposed to the
military use of the airplane, showing how it depends first of all on
structure which aims at endurance and carrying power rather than
agility and lightness. The author then considers practical problems;
postal service, tourism, international air lines and traffic
regulations.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:264 My ’20

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ja ’20 30w

+ =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 40w

=DARK, RICHARD.= Quest of the Indies. il *$2.25 Stokes 910 9

The title of the book is used as the symbol for the medieval spirit of
adventure and desire for expansion and knowledge of the earth’s
surface. Beginning with the Mohammedan invasion of eastern and
southern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries, the book contains
brief sketches of the various voyages of exploration and conquest with
their leading personalities—which ended in the complete European
invasion of the Americas. With illustrations and several early maps of
the world the contents are: The mediæval world; The farther East; The
heel of Africa; Round the Cape to India; The Portuguese eastern
empire; The first voyage of Columbus; Later voyages of Columbus;
Central America: discovery of the Pacific; Magellan’s voyage; The
conquest of Mexico; The conquest of Peru; Chronological summary,
Index.

* * * * *

=N Y Times= p13 O 31 ’20 100w

=DARLING, ELTON R.= Inorganic chemical synonyms and other useful chemical data. *$1 Van Nostrand 546

19–17188

A work based on a series of articles written for the Chemical Engineer
in 1918. It is designed for the student, but the author expresses the
belief that it will prove useful to the experienced chemist. Contents:
Introduction; The elements; Specific gravity and temperature
comparison; Standards of weights and measures; Chemical synonyms
(comprising the main body of the book); Cross index of chemical terms.
The author is in charge of the industrial chemistry department in the
Newark technical school, Newark, N.J.

* * * * *

“An excellent alphabetically-arranged cross-index enables one to
identify quickly names which do not indicate the true chemical nature
of the compound. As a time-saver, the book deserves the attention of
every chemist in contact with the field of industrial chemistry.” A.
G. Wikoff

+ =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 22:667 An 7 ’20 340w

“A good library reference.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ja ’20 40w

=DARLINGTON, W. A.= Alf’s button. *$1.75 Stokes

20–12958

By the fortunes of war, it happened that Aladdin’s famous lamp was
among a group of curios which were melted up during the late war, and
appeared subsequently as buttons for soldiers’ tunics. So it was that
Private Alf ‘Iggins, hard at work with his toothbrush on his second
button, in preparation for inspection, was amazed and terrified at the
sight of a djinn appearing before him, bowing low and asking for
orders. He eventually recovered from his terror enough to take
advantage of the genie’s powers, aided and abetted by Bill Grant,
whose imagination was more riotous than Alf’s. Their adventures with
“Eustace,” as they christened the djinn, make up the book. The fact
that Eustace often brought an oriental flavor into the carrying out of
their wishes proves rather disconcerting to Alf and Bill, and brings
them some undesired notoriety.

* * * * *

+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 70w

=N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 200w

“The most amusing book I have read this summer is ‘Alf’s button.’” E.
L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:209 S 8 ’20 260w

=DASENT, ARTHUR IRWIN.=[2] Piccadilly in three centuries, with some account of Berkeley Square, and the Haymarket. il *$7 Macmillan 942.1

21–340

“Mr Dasent has examined minutely the ratebooks of St
Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Westminster, and St George’s,
Hanover-square, in which he has followed every house in
Piccadilly-place through all its vicissitudes of ownership. Mr Dasent
begins his history, so full of noble and historic names, from a humble
tailor, one Robert Baker, who in 1612 erected the first buildings upon
land covered by the present site of Piccadilly.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup) “Clarendon was the real maker of Piccadilly. The great
Clarendon House, which he had barely finished before he went into
exile in 1667, was the first of the Piccadilly mansions. Moreover,
Clarendon sold to Lord Berkeley the site of the present Devonshire
House, to Sir William Pulteney the site of Bath House, and to Sir John
Denham, poet and architect, the site of Burlington House and the
Albany. But Clarendon had made Piccadilly a fashionable place of
residence. Mr Dasent has illustrated his book with some highly
interesting old prints.” (Spec)

* * * * *

“His style is slipshod, he has no sense of literary values, and the
result is merely a collection of odds and ends about the people and
places associated with Piccadilly and its surroundings. His book is,
therefore, without form, but it is by no means void, since its
intrinsic interest and its scenes of ancient days reproduced in its
illustrations have a permanent value as records, the entire volume
bringing together a large amount of information not easily accessible
elsewhere.” E. F. Edgett

+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 1700w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 100w

“A pleasant and discursive book.”

+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 320w

“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so
attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an
excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one
sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one
ought to be in bed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 1350w

=DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.=[2] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3 Harvard univ. press

20–23204

“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his
more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy,
and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as
one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this
monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact
that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great
events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career
to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England
and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“An admirable index completes a remarkable study of a period of early
English history seldom discussed.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 780w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w

=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Boy in Serbia. il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell 914.97

20–15466

The author of “Tales of Serbian life” has written this story to set
forth some of the everyday manners and customs of Serbia. It is told
in the first person by Milosav, who describes Simple village life,
Playtime, First days at school, How St Sava’s day is kept, etc. There
is a colored frontispiece with other illustrations from photographs.

* * * * *

“Charmingly simple, dignified and instructive and filled with a joyous
appreciation of home and country.”

+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20

“Rarely well told.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p834 D 9 ’20 140w

=DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS.= Ward tales. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (3c) Lane

20–10369

These tales from a military hospital by a V. A. D. show chiefly the
humorous side and the comic happenings in surroundings so gruesome.
There is just enough sadness in these pictures to give a background to
the brighter moments in a nurse’s life. The tales are: In the ward
kitchen; “Eye-wash”; A conference of the powers; Visiting day; After
hours; The tale of a shirt; The night round; Going to the pictures.

* * * * *

“There is nothing of the grim or the harrowing, though there is an
occasional touch of finely restrained pathos.”

+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 40w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 50w

=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= National evolution. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 301

20–1609

“This book traces the development of human societies through the
stages of primitive culture, Christian civilization and modern
capitalism; ends with a consideration of the best basis for national
progress. The book is a condensation of social theories, the only
original point being ‘an attempt to harmonize the cultural theory of
history with the concrete workings of economic law.’ Chapter
bibliographies.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“This brief, concise work is on the whole sound and constructive and
will be of special value to the reader whose time is limited.” G. S.
Dow

+ =Am J Soc= 26:248 S ’20 240w

=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

“‘National evolution’ is a distinct contribution to the National
social science series.”

+ =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w

“The forecasts of the author are reasonable and, on the whole,
convincing.”

+ − =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 220w

=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Matrix. il *$1.75 (5c) Century

20–3881

The story is the romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, father and
mother of Abraham Lincoln, put together by the author from legends and
documentary evidence and woven into a work of fiction portraying
pioneer life in the bluegrass valley of Kentucky, illumined by faith,
love and courage. It throws a halo around the head of Lincoln’s mother
and shows us his father as the first martyr to the cause of abolition.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

“It is quite fitting that the story of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
should be written by an author who comes from the ‘blue grass country’
herself. She is able to bring to it that inherited tradition which is
so difficult for an outsider to achieve.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 360w

“The author occasionally lapses into primer-technique. A maturer style
could have given form to a more enduring romance.”

+ − =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 50w

=Nation= 110:375 Mr 20 ’20 200w

“It has a certain stiffness, as if the task of weaving history and
legend and surmise into a consistent and interesting story were a
somewhat hampering business to the author. She has, however, succeeded
in presenting a clear and evidently carefully drawn sketch of this
particular period of American history.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 280w

“It seems to us that the author has made the life of their community
focus on these two young people almost too persistently, for whatever
their foreordained place in history, they must have been to their
neighbors ‘just folks.’ City dwellers who love the simple life will
find a breathing space in this pioneer tale.” E. C. Webb

+ − =Pub W= 97:605 F 21 ’20 260w

“It is not the author’s fault if she has produced a pious memorial
rather than a living portrait.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 2:462 My 1 ’20 130w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 190w

=DAVIS, FRANKLYN PIERRE=, ed.[2] Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year book of newspaper poetry. $2.50 The author. Enid, Okla. 811.08

20–15478

“Franklyn Pierre Davis of Enid, Okla. carries the anthologizing
tendency a step further by editing an ‘Anthology of newspaper verse
for 1919 and year book of newspaper poetry.’ Selections are made from
a list of papers nationwide in range, and include topical poems, light
verse and serious poetry. The editor says: ‘I hope to be able to
present annually the best of the verse published in the newspapers in
a volume which may preserve for the future the real sentiment of the
American people and the true ideals of American life.’”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

“If the fact be excepted that Mr Davis has done his job rather badly,
one can have nothing but admiration for his endeavor. The idea is
mentally invigorating and susceptible of many admirable procedures. It
is the editor’s own fault that he has not carried it out in a
sufficiently comprehensive manner.” H. S. Gorman

+ − =Bookm= 52:168 O ’20 500w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w

=DAVIS, JAMES FRANCIS.= Chinese label. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–6429

San Antonio is the scene of this smuggling story and Julian Napier is
the special secret service agent sent down from Washington to catch
the smugglers. Besides opium, he is on the lookout for two diamonds of
great value. A Mexican, a Turk, several Chinese, a beautiful Armenian
woman, a lovely American girl and her father, all are implicated in
the plot. Clever team work between Napier and the Texas rangers
results in the taking of one diamond, and the other is captured in a
spectacular raid on the headquarters of the Chinese society which was
also doing a big opium business. In this raid the poor dope fiend
which the American girl’s father had become met his death like a man,
leaving Ruth to be comforted by Julian.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

“The whole affair is treated lightly, without pretense that it is
anything more than an amusing yarn; and this is refreshing.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 190w

=Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w

“It all runs logically and with a degree of reserve for which the
reader is grateful. There would be opportunities for the writer to run
amuck, as it were, if he would, but he is artist enough to understand
that the best dramatic effect often can be attained by piquing the
imagination rather than by laying on the crimson paint with a
whitewash brush.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:277 My 23 ’20 480w

=Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 120w

=DAVIS, MALCOLM W.= Open gates to Russia. il *$2 (2½c) Harper 914.7

20–1610

The author pleads for fair dealing and friendliness and co-operation
with Russia in the accomplishment of her great task of reconstruction,
and the object of the book is to point out the practical ways and
means by which mutually satisfactory relationship can be achieved
between Russia and America. The book falls into four parts: The new
importance of Russia; Russia’s immediate necessities; Russia’s
enduring needs; The interest of Russia. “The first part is a
consideration of the question of recent relationships and the
attitudes which they have created. The second ... of the important
opportunities in trade and industry. The third points out social
opportunities, in which considerable opportunities for commercial
enterprise are also involved. Finally, the last part is an answer to
some American misconceptions of Russia and a description of the real
Russia for Americans who wish to know her.” (Chapter 1: America’s
attitude toward awakened Russia)

* * * * *

“It is intensely practical, and for that very reason has value at the
moment beyond the larger number of books upon Russia.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 330w

“Business men who plan to expand their export trade will find these
pages a mine of information. The conditions and needs are presented in
detail, and valuable suggestions for the conduct of trade with Russia
are given.”

+ =Cath World= 111:536 Jl ’20 700w

+ =Cleveland= p42 Ap ’20 60w

Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin

=Nation= 110:400 Mr 27 ’20 160w

“It is gratifying to come across a book that is so clear in its
recital of facts as the one Davis has given us. It is in all a volume
worth reading.” Alvin Winston

+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 750w

“The five chapters under the general title, Russia’s enduring needs,
are of great value, and of special interest is the one relating to The
liberated influence of woman.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 440w

“It will be perhaps especially suggestive to the American who
contemplates opening business relations with Russia, but it is a
valuable addition to the library of any layman interested in social,
economic, and intellectual conditions in Russia today.”

+ =Outlook= 124:336 F 25 ’20 80w

+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w

“The volume is one that challenges our present individual indifference
to the Russia of today and of the future.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 1100w

“It should not be neglected by anyone interested in commercial or
other relationships with Russia.” Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:50 Ap 3 ’20 220w

=DAVIS, NORAH.= Other woman. *$1.75 (1c) Century

20–9140

In this story of dual personality a man, Langdom Kirven, after
excessive fatigue and brain-fag, loses himself and consciousness, and
wakes up in a hospital another man. In the morning he had said
good-bye to his wife and little son and taken a train to New York. The
new man is a crook and a criminal, albeit a genius. After seven years
his one-time bosom friend and business partner, Spencer Ellis, finds
him on a bench in the park, a down and out tramp. Ellis recognizes
Kirven and implores him to return to his old life. But there is no
memory in Kirven, now John Gorham, and Ellis is at last forced to
believe that the external resemblance hides a strange personality. But
he gives Gorham a chance to retrieve his fall in fortunes, which the
latter does with bold and doubtful business methods. He also falls
passionately in love with Naomi, Ellis’ cousin. One morning after
another crisis, John Gorham has fled with all memory of himself and a
bewildered Kirven awakens in the latter’s office. After this a
succession of alternations follows, each one leaving the subject and
his friends more bewildered and perplexed than ever. At last an
eminent physician finds the way out. The split personality can be
unified by a complete realization of the situation and henceforth
Langdom Kirven can go through the remainder of his life whole,
although cursed with a continuous memory.

* * * * *

“Somewhat melodramatic and rather long drawn out, but cleverly
managed. Will appeal to those who read for plot interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“It is a difficult piece of work which is admirably well done.” D. L.
M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 580w

“Miss Davis has handled her material very well indeed, with much
ingenuity of invention and with commendable care in the working out of
her great amount of detail and complication. The novel is a good piece
of literary workmanship in construction and development.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 420w

=DAVIS, PHILIP, and SCHWARTZ, BERTHA=, comps. Immigration and Americanization. $4 (1½c) Ginn 325.7

20–4542

The book is a compilation of selected readings, on the title subject.
It “aims to cover the field of immigration and Americanization from
every possible point of view, subject to the limits of a single
volume. It is particularly designed to meet the needs of high schools,
colleges universities, and chautauquas, which have been frequently at
a loss in recommending to the student, investigator, official, or
general public a handbook on these twin topics.” (Preface) The
selections have been arranged chronologically and include some of the
most recent contributions on the subject from writers including Jane
Addams, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Emily Greene Balch, Edward
A. Steiner, E. A. Goldenweiser, Paul U. Kellogg, John Mitchell, Edward
Alsworth Ross, Edward T. Devine, Lillian D. Wald, J. E. Milholland,
Samuel Gompers, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin K. Lane, Louis D. Brandeis,
Theodore Roosevelt. The contents are in two parts. In book 1 the
selections are classified under: History; Causes; Characteristics; The
new immigration; Effects; Immigration legislation. Book 2 contains:
Americanization: policies and programs; Distribution; Education;
Naturalization and citizenship; Americanism. There is an appendix, a
bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20

“The book should be of value to both the general reader and the
special student.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 200w

“The compilers have exercised diligence and judgment, but with a few
exceptions the selections lack the ‘human touch.’ It would appear that
an undue proportion of space is allotted to the new immigration, even
admitting that from the standpoint of the present time and the
Americanization worker greater emphasis is justifiable.” G: M.
Stephenson

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:168 S ’20 720w

=Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w

=DAVIS, WILLIAM.= Hosiery manufacture. (Pitman’s textile industries ser.) il *$3.50 Pitman 677

A British work designed to meet the rapid development of the knitted
fabrics industry and to supply the demand of new firms for
information. Contents: Development of the knitted fabric; Knitting and
weaving compared; Latch needle knitting; Types of knitting yarns;
Systems of numbering hosiery yarns; Calculations for folded knitting
yarns; Bearded needle knitting; Setting of knitted fabrics; Various
knitting yarns; Winding of hosiery yarns; Circular knitting; Colour in
knitted goods; Colour harmony and contrast; Defects in fabrics. There
are sixty-one illustrations and an index.

=DAVIS, WILLIAM STEARNS.= History of France; from the earliest times to the treaty of Versailles. il *$3.50 (2c) Houghton 944

19–19268

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Professor Davis has the knack of vivid and fluent narrative. The tale
reads well and is interesting. The author makes the great figures of
French history appear living.” C. H. C. Wright

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:313 Ja ’21 580w

+ =Booklist= 61:163 F ’20

“An interesting feature of the story is that which tells of the
relation of France to the crusades. There is an extremely interesting
account of life in France in the feudal ages. The story of the
revolution is told rapidly, but with great brilliancy. As a single
volume history of France this must take its place in the foremost
rank.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 550w

“Though one can clearly discern the author’s purpose of presenting his
facts fairly and with due justice to all, he has not perfectly
understood the spirit and ideals that have made France. Early and
mediæval France cannot be judged by the ideals of modern American
Protestantism.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:256 My ’20 220w

“His limited space excludes detailed interpretation of separate
events, and the author is also compelled to give only the most
perfunctory notice to the economic phenomena which are associated with
various stages of French history. On the political side, however, the
work is reasonably complete, and Professor Davis shows an excellent
sense of proportion in laying special stress upon what may be called
the revolutionary era of French history.” W: H: Chamberlin

+ =Dial= 68:255 F ’20 1500w

+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 300w

=New Repub= 23:207 Jl 14 ’20 1650w

“The book is much more than a mere history; it is a colorful romance,
with a splendid nation as a background, and most of the characters
cast in a heroic mold.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 420w

“The present volume is, so far as we know, the only truly
comprehensive history of France. Aside from its comprehensiveness, the
text has been clearly and compactly written by one who has an enviable
knowledge of sources.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w

“Though very sympathetic to his subject, and though he often
animadverts to the ravages of the Hun in the present when telling of
the past, his tone is scholarly and his attitude sufficiently
impartial. Mr Davis has added an excellent select bibliography.
Unfortunately, there is almost nothing of French literature and art.”

+ − =Review= 2:285 Mr 20 ’20 280w

“This book becomes at once the standard single-volume history of
France in the English language.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w

“Not the least attractive feature of the book is the excellent
diction. Many of the illustrations are reproductions of rare prints
and paintings, and they greatly enhance the value of the work, which
is, indeed, a modern and trustworthy textbook.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 140w

=DAW, ALBERT W., and DAW, ZACHARIAS W:= Compressed air power. il *$7.50 Pitman 621.5

“A treatise on the development and transmission of power by compressed
air for engineers and draughtsmen, and for students of applied
science.” (Sub-title) “The compression, expansion, exhaust, and flow
of air and gases are very fully dealt with, formulae deduced for
making the necessary computations, and practical examples solved to
assist those concerned in the design and use of compressed air plant
and machines.” (Preface) The book has seventy-five illustrations,
forty tables and numerous worked out examples, and is indexed. The
authors are members of the Institution of mining and metallurgy [of
Great Britain].

* * * * *

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p59 Jl ’20 190w

=DAWSON, CONINGSBY WILLIAM.= Little house. il *$1.50 (9c) Lane

20–16158

The little house tells its own story. It is a very old and empty
little house, as it stands in “Dolls’ House Square” in London, and on
the nights of air-raids and bombing, it is a very frightened little
house. But it is not too frightened to give shelter to others who are
afraid, too, and so one night when “the little lady who needed to be
loved, but did not know it,” crept in, with her two little children,
they are amply protected. And presently, “the wounded officer who
wanted rest,” looking for a haven from the raid sought it too in the
little house. Then the officer goes off to war, and the little lady
comes to live in the house. After the armistice, the officer returns,
and, again in the shelter of the little house, finds the rest he
craves more than ever, and “the little lady” receives the love she
needs. And the little house feels that its part in the romance has not
been inconsiderable.

* * * * *

“By making the house in question narrate the scenes its walls have
witnessed. Mr Coningsby Dawson has aimed, not too successfully, at
imparting a Hans Andersen atmosphere to occurrences which have not
much in common with the traditional material of fairy-tale.”

+ − =Ath= p892 D 31 ’20 140w

=Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“A story which has a real Christmas flavor and which would warm the
heart of anybody whatever is ‘The little house.’” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 120w

“The story has a charm as elusive as the appealing quality that won so
many followers for Maude Adams. It is as endearing as ‘Roaming in the
gloaming’ or ‘Comin’ through the rye.’ In it sentiment keeps clear of
sentimentality.”

+ =N Y Times= p2 S 19 ’20 1000w

“‘The little house’ is really a Christmas story—and a very delightful
and charming one. The fanciful manner in which the story is told by
the old house in which the scenes take place is beautifully conceived
and finely carried out.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w

“Mr Dawson has chosen a rather childish allegory as his method,
although, after having read the book, one may look at a house with a
slightly more human feeling of childish fancy. The redeeming feature
of the book is the atmosphere of old London. Aside from these glimpses
of old London, ‘The little house’ is hardly more than a sweet book for
sweet people.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 330w

“For all its pretty sentiment (or, rather, because of it), the whole
thing is a pure ‘machine,’ the working of which Mr Dawson has mastered
under western influences.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 90w

=DAWSON, EDGAR.= Organized self-government. il *$1.40 Holt 353

20–10285

The object of this volume is to serve as a school text-book in
teaching government, organized and political cooperation, the
functions of government and the problems to be met by those who
perform those functions. It is to arouse the child’s interest in
government as a practical subject and to open his eyes to noticing its
effects in the street, in the home, in the school. This latter
purpose, more especially, is to be accomplished by the suggestions and
questions at the end of each chapter. The contents are in five parts.