Chapter XXII: Part 2: , dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of (1)

the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes
(Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club
mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3,
Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended
to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive
terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons;
Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.

=DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS.= Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd

(Eng ed 20–11835)

It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic,
“who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain
sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all
panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I
sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this
book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.”
(Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870);
The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of
the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary
republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every
paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a
balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is
here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no
over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen

+ =Am Hist R= 25:491 Ap ’20 740w

=Ath= p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 740w

“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and
enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w

“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and
Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if
written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed,
well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of
Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played
his part.” Carl Becker

+ =Nation= 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w

“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative
biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified,
temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a
Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the
theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book
from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his
documents.” H. L. Pangborn

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 23 ’20 880w

“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great
precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed
with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which,
however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to
hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 O 17 ’20 2100w

“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is
as rich as on the political.”

+ =Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w

“The work of the anonymous translator is extremely well done.”

+ =Spec= 125:244 Ag 21 ’20 450w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 Ap 29 ’20 2050w

=DESMOND, SHAW.= Passion. *$2 Scribner

20–7288

“The title may be a little misleading. Mr Desmond’s story deals with
‘the nervous, combative passion of the end of the nineteenth century,’
and particularly with the conflict between big business, the passion
to get, and art, the passion to create. A good deal of effort is spent
on the depiction of big business in London at the turn of the century,
and particularly of one Mandrill, the embodiment of its spirit.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

“‘Passion’ fails for the reason that so many of these novels of
confession fail. Our curiosity about human beings, our longing to know
the story of their lives springs from the desire to ‘place’ them, to
see them in their relation to life as we know it. But Mr Shaw Desmond
and his fellows are under the illusion that they must isolate the
subject and play perpetual showman.” K. M.

− =Ath= p671 My 21 ’20 700w

“It is a novel without even novelty to redeem it. Its bravery is
bombastic, its stupidity heroic, its mediocrity passionate, its
passion impotent.”

− =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 40w

“Mr Desmond tries to crowd all the modern forces into his conflict,
and frequently neutralizes his effects by the nicety with which one
violence is banged against another. His picture of London life, in its
meannesses and poverty, has touches of Dickens, and touches, also, of
the Dickens sentimentality. His purposes grow weak through sheer
over-analysis.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 180w

“We know of no exacter study of childhood and adolescence nor of any
less steeped in traditional idealisms. Young Tempest at home and at
school is immensely genuine and instructive. After that the fine
veracity of the book breaks down.”

+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 300w

“The hero’s revolt against finance of the most frenzied character is
plausible enough, but somehow the entire latter half of the book fails
to carry very much conviction. One feels that Mr Desmond is not devoid
of the divine fire, but he needs a better boiler under which to build
it.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 600w

“The most accurate description that can be applied to the work is that
it is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism, despite its
grotesqueness.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 150w

“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying
his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw
Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to
make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its
grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w

=DEWEY, JOHN.= Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191

20–17102

In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in
Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of
ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory
note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s
ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead
of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the
moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent
happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some
historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific
factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of
experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real;
The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral
conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.

* * * * *

“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning
and technical diction.”

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little
book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size.
Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is
the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has
yet appeared.” B. H. Bode

+ =Nation= 111:sup658 D 8 ’20 1500w

“One may agree heartily with Professor Dewey’s polemic against fixed
and final aims and yet believe that the most urgent need of ethics now
is to work out a science of values. The lack of some such criticism of
values makes itself felt in Professor Dewey’s book.” A. S. McDowall

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 N 13 ’20 1800w

“The book is written with the accustomed fluency and piquancy of the
pragmatic school, and it forms a piece of the most interesting
reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 340w

=DEWEY, JOHN, and DEWEY, HATTIE ALICE (CHIPMAN) (MRS JOHN DEWEY).= Letters from China and Japan; ed. by Evelyn Dewey. *$2.50 Dutton 915

20–7580

“The Deweys, man and wife, are ‘professorial’ people. Mr Dewey is
professor of philosophy in Columbia university and Mrs Dewey is a
woman of great cultivation and deep interest in the things of the
mind. The letters included in this book are written under the spur of
first impressions. They have not either been revised or touched up in
any way. You are never expected to remember that Mr Dewey is really a
Ph.D. or that his wife reads ‘deep books.’ They make you see the
cherry trees in bloom, the Mikado passing with his symbols, the
chrysanthemums on the panels of his carriage; the Chinese women of the
middle classes at home and the panorama of Chinese villages and
streets. At the same time you feel that there is a serious purpose in
the minds and the hearts of the two persons who write these
letters.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 51:631 Ag ’20 440w

“It is quite evident that Professor Dewey has enjoyed visiting
countries ‘where the scholar is looked up to and not down upon.’ He
writes with all the zest of a boy on his first trip abroad. Most
striking is their revelation of Professor Dewey’s responsiveness to
the æsthetic aspects of China and Japan.”

+ =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 350w

“It is not difficult to guess the authorship of most of the letters,
and Mrs Dewey’s interest in the more pictorial aspects of the
countries, in the women, and in their educational and domestic
problems, admirably supplements Professor Dewey’s more historical and
speculative observations.” Irita Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 950w

“They are full of delightful descriptions of small events not usually
described so sympathetically by travelers in the East.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 750w

=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 180w

=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Old Reliable in Africa. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes

20–17655

Zack Foster, otherwise known as “Old Reliable,” is the colored valet
of Colonel Beverly Spottiswoode, and when the colonel makes a trip to
the Sudan, to see if the climate there is suitable for cotton culture,
he takes Zack along with him. Zack’s presence guarantees him against
ennui, for where Zack is, there is excitement. At one spot in Africa,
he is hailed as “The Expected One,” by an Arab tribe, at another he
rescues the most important donkey of the Sultan of Bong from
crocodiles, and is suitably rewarded. But perhaps his most worthy
exploit is the establishment of a “Hot cat eating house.” He reasons
the labor problem out and comes to the conclusion that the natives
refuse to work on the cotton plantation because they don’t need
anything. He proposes to put within their reach some thing that they
will be willing to work for, in the shape of hot fried catfish. This
application of the law of supply and demand proves eminently
satisfactory. But on the whole neither Zack nor the colonel are
reluctant to return to Vicksburg in time for Christmas.

* * * * *

“Like most sequels, a falling off from the original.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“An amusing book for an idle hour.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 80w

“A series of adventures, many of which are of a startling dramatic
character but always informed with the dry humor which is the very
essence of Old Reliable’s irresistible personality.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 210w

“His adventures are as queer as they are funny.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 30w

=DILLISTONE, GEORGE.= Planning and planting of little gardens: with notes and criticisms by Lawrence Weaver. il *$2.25 Scribner 712

20–26877

“Competitive schemes for planting for different kinds of lots are
criticized from the architectural point of view. Incidentally, there
are discussions on sundials, rock gardens, water-lily ponds, rose
gardens, garden steps and pathways, climbers for the little garden,
etc. Altho written for England, will be useful in this country where
climate permits like vegetation.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

“The author [is] as sound on the architectural aspect of garden-making
as upon matters of pure horticulture.”

+ =Spec= 124:559 Ap 24 ’20 170w

=DILLON, EMILE JOSEPH.= Inside story of the peace conference. *$2.25 (1½c) Harper 940.314

20–5137

“This is only a sketch—a sketch of the problems which the war created
or rendered pressing—of the conditions under which they cropped up; of
the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished
politicians who volunteered to solve them; of the delegates’ natural
limitations and electioneering commitments and of the secret
influences by which they were swayed, of the peoples’ needs and
expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted by the conference and
of the fateful consequences of its decisions to the world.” (Foreword)
These fateful consequences, in the author’s final summing up, are that
future war is now universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of
the Versailles peace. “Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has
been openly adopted by its ostensible enemies, and the huge sacrifices
offered up by the heroic armies of the foremost nations are being
misused to give one-half of the world just cause to rise up against
the other half.” Contents: The city of the conference; Signs of the
times; The delegates; Censorship and secrecy; Aims and methods; The
lesser states; Poland’s outlook in the future; Italy; Japan; Attitude
toward Russia; Bolshevism: How Bolshevism was fostered; Sidelights
treaty with Bulgaria; The covenant and on the treaty; The treaty with
Germany; The minorities.

* * * * *

“The title of this book is singularly non-descriptive. It has none of
the qualities of narrative and every page betrays the fact that the
author remained entirely outside the real workings of the conference.
With all respect to Mr Dillon’s experience, he has written a
misleading book.” C: Seymour

− =Am Hist R= 26:101 O ’20 600w

“Dr Dillon’s main intimacies in Paris seem to have been with those
delegates [of small states]. That fact, which is not unconnected with
his own nationality, has enabled him, thanks to his really wide
knowledge of international problems, to get inside the skin of the
Paris tragedy in a way which would be impossible to the ordinary
advanced radical writer. There are faults of proportion. Not enough is
made of the economic aspects of the failure, and many judgments are
questionable.”

+ − =Ath= p1334 D 12 ’19 1000w

“Interesting but not easy to read, perhaps too detailed. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20

Reviewed by Sganarelle

=Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 130w

“From ‘The inside story of the peace conference’ the reader takes away
the impression of a stubborn and somewhat sour honesty, and also of a
vacillating bias that the author intended as little as he suspected. A
ripe scholarship, a keen observation, an adequate sweep, but—it is
impossible to avoid its conclusion—a decidedly jaundiced personality.”

+ − =Lit D= 64:122 Mr 27 ’20 2200w

“Dr Dillon does not write without bias. On the other hand, his
scathing indictment of the ignorance and inefficiency, the cynicism,
the bad faith, and the remorseless pride of power of the big five and
four and three is only equaled, but not excelled, by the now
well-known criticism of Professor Keynes. The two books, indeed,
supplement one another admirably.” W: MacDonald

+ − =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 580w

“By virtue of his inside knowledge, his ruthless uncovering of
weaknesses, his keenness in criticism, he well deserves to be called
the Junius of the peace conference.”

+ =No Am= 211:717 My ’20 1100w

+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 180w

“It is not a history of the conference: it is an account of the way
things were done at Paris, written by a man of wide outlook, who knows
his way about the diplomatic world. Doubtless there will be many
volumes written on the peace conference, but few are likely to be so
valuable to the historian as this.”

+ =Sat R= 128:562 D 13 ’19 1250w

“This book does not add to Dr Dillon’s reputation. The allied
statesmen, being only human and fallible, made mistakes, notably in
regard to Italy and Rumania. But the wonder is that they did so well
as they have done. Dr Dillon emphasizes and exaggerates all their
blunders. He has taken the scandalous gossip of embassies, clubs, and
newspapers a little too seriously.”

− =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 100w

“The whole volume is a bold and dashing and highly fascinating
presentation.” A. J. Lien

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 550w

“Our criticisms of this book are severe, but we believe they are just.
Dr Dillon has had a great opportunity and he has failed to use it. He
has failed because there is no evidence in the book of any consecutive
thought, of any firm ideas, of any help for reconstruction in the
future. Dr Dillon’s analysis of what happened at the conference is
always biassed and often incorrect; he has chosen to make himself
merely the mouthpiece of the complaints of the smaller states without
helping his readers in the least to discriminate as to their justice.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 1900w

=DILLON, MRS MARY C. (JOHNSON).= Farmer of Roaring Run. il *$1.75 (1c) Century

20–1892

John McClure, a wealthy Philadelphian of Scottish birth, has created a
large farm in West Virginia, more or less as a rich man’s toy, which
is not even self-supporting. After five years his managing farmer
dies, and McClure is astounded when the farmer’s pretty,
girlish-looking widow asks to be allowed to run the farm. Reluctantly
he consents. He soon finds that Mrs Sinclair is not only quite a
capable farmer but also a very lovable woman; quite incidentally too
he discovers that it is necessary to spend more time on his farm
and—its manager. All sorts of improvements are put into immediate
action: forest conservation, careful selection of the best cattle
only, clubs for the isolated young people, a church, and other things
that spring from Mrs Sinclair’s energetic, fertile brain. Being very
young and beautiful, and of gentle birth, she attracts several
potential lovers, but McClure, after many heated misunderstandings,
and several romantic adventures, eventually wins her. Other minor love
stories run through the book, also a mystery.

* * * * *

“Good descriptions of the country. Women will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20

“A pleasant, thoroughly conventional and rather sugary little story,
the conclusion of which is perfectly obvious by the time one has
finished the first chapter, is Mary Dillon’s new novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:126 Mr 14 ’20 350w

=DILNOT, FRANK.= England after the war. *$3 Doubleday 914.2

20–20324

England, says the author, is in a stage of transition and is entering
upon a new epoch. What this new epoch is likely to be does not enter
into the speculations of the writer who confines himself to sketching
the main features of England in their present state of transformation.
Among the contents are: The mood of the people; The governance of
England; The women; Business the keystone; Labour battling for
enthronement; Ireland; Britain overseas; From Lord Northcliffe to
Bernard Shaw; Where England leads; New programmes of life.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“The American reader will find much to instruct him in the chapters
dealing with the new leaders in politics and economics who have arisen
in England since the war.” J. C. Grey

+ =Bookm= 52:366 Ja ’21 400w

“If he is not profound nor subtle nor concise, he is never dull and
seldom altogether commonplace.” C. R. H.

+ =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 170w

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w

=N Y Times= p14 O 24 ’20 1750w

“Mr Dilnot has produced a book entertaining and, in the main,
thoughtful.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 270w

=DIMMOCK, F. HAYDN=, ed.[2] Scouts’ book of heroes; with foreword by Sir Robert Baden Powell. il *$2.50 Stokes 940.3

“A record of scouts’ work in the great war.” (Sub-title) Contents:
1914; Famous scouts in the war; Scout heroes of the army; Scout heroes
of the navy; Heroes of the air service; The heroes at home; Just—a
scout; Called to higher service. In addition sixty pages are devoted
to records of those who received medals, etc.

=DINGLE, A. E.= Gold out of Celebes. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–8238

Jack Barry, an American seaman out of a job, is loafing about Batavia,
in the Dutch East Indies, when Tom Little, a traveling salesman tired
of the typewriter business, puts him on the track of adventure. Little
has undertaken to go into the interior in the interests of Cornelius
Houten, a Dutch trader, who has reason to suspect one of his agents.
Houten is looking for a skipper and Barry meets his needs. The two
Americans scent mystery from the outset. In the first place there is
the strange lady, Mrs Goring, who claims acquaintance with them and
asks passage on their ship. In the second place there is something
puzzling about the big soft-voiced Dutch mate. There is also the
relation between Leyden, the man they are after, and Natalie Sheldon,
the charming young missionary. And the last is the point that matters
most to Barry. On some of these points the two are in doubt to the
end, working often in the dark, but fully deserving the rewards that
finally come to them.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“The plot of ‘Gold out of Celebes’ reveals nothing particularly new.
The love interest is slight, but pleasing. It is the breezy way in
which this novel is written that carries it. The plot is a secondary
matter entirely, while the ‘red blood’ element, vivid enough at times,
is always kept discreetly within bounds.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w

=DINNING, HECTOR W.= Nile to Aleppo. il *$7.50 Macmillan 940.42

“The author of this book is a captain in the Australian forces which
fought in the great war. Mr McBey was the official artist which
followed the army of the Egyptian expeditionary force and the two
together, the soldier and the painter, collaborated to produce a
volume which is not a book of the war, nor yet a book of travel, but a
combination of the two. The story begins at Taranto, away down in far
southern Italy. Here the force was simply in camp near the town, and
presumably a transport appeared in the harbor, her nose pointing
eastward and business opened up. Thence through Palestine and Syria.
The trail leads around the hills of Judea, through its ravines and
past its straggling orchards, and, at length, to the Holy City. He
takes us through the valley of the Jordan to Ludd; and from Ludd to
Damascus and thence to Homs; and from Homs to Aleppo, where the train
traversed the burning sands to Beyrouth.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Captain Dinning is a born observer. He always contrives to see what
is worth seeing and to record it vividly, sometimes in the slangy
style of his diary, sometimes in the finished manner of his later
chapters. Occasionally his judgments are open to criticism.”

+ =Ath= p759 D 3 ’20 950w

“The whole is an intensely breezy narrative, written by a man who
understands well the use of his eyes and of the English language to
interpret what he sees.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w

“Mr McBey’s pen sketches deserve more than passing mention, for he is
no mere illustrator. His economy of line and his ability to convey an
indelible impression of these arid stretches of Palestinian landscape,
their undeniable color and beauty, are more than fortuitous.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p24 D 4 ’20 360w

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 300w

=DIXON, THOMAS.= Man of the people. *$1.75 Appleton 812

20–13190

This drama of Abraham Lincoln has one purpose: to show Lincoln’s fight
to save the Union. We see Lincoln on the one hand as the friend of the
oppressed and dispensing pardons according to a deeper sense of
justice than is apparent on the surface. On the other hand we see him
deal with implacable firmness to carry through his great conviction
that the Union must be saved. The whole is divided into a prologue,
three acts, and an epilogue.

* * * * *

“Melodramatic and inferior to Drinkwater’s play.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

=DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.= Blood red dawn. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

20–10053

A story of San Francisco following the fortunes of a girl who has her
own living and her own way to make in the world. She is in turn a
stenographer in a business office, accompanist for a singer at
fashionable at-homes and Red cross concerts, and entertainer in a
Greek restaurant. The latter occupation takes her “south of Market”
and into a new social world where she meets the foreign born and has a
glimpse of the alien point of view on American life. Two men have a
part in her story, Ned Stillman, descendant of native stock, and Dr
Danilo, a Serbian doctor. The war is in progress at the time.

* * * * *

“Although it has merit, it is a rather tepid performance. Mr Dobie’s
faults, the faults of the novice, grow less noticeable as he warms to
his theme. But he fails to warm sufficiently. He handles all his
situations and incidents with the indifferent care of a man following
a recipe. In spite of its riotous title, ‘The blood red dawn’ is
distressingly smug.” M. A.

+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 360w

“Well constructed romance. The author knows his San Francisco. This
story—his first full length book—gives a graphic and colorful picture
of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 420w

“The characters fail to transcend or to sublimate the type; are all,
by a shade, a little second-rate or common; and the result is a
disappointing effect, in a book containing so much veracious detail of
confused mediocrity. The opening chapters give us hope of creative
realism, and we seem to have received, when all is done, a
disconcerting blend of naturalism and romance.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 250w

=DODD, MRS ANNA BOWMAN (BLAKE).= Up the Seine to the battlefields. il *$3 (3c) Harper 914.4

20–7447

“Why is it that not one traveler in a thousand, no, nor in tens of
thousands has known the Seine shores as the shores of the Hudson are
known—as the Rhine, for so many years, has been known and sung? Few
Frenchmen even are fully aware of the wonders and beauties which a
trip up the Seine will yield.” (Introd.) As one of the effects of the
war has been the discovery of the Seine’s commercial possibilities the
author fears that in a few short years the Seine will no longer be
“the lovely river of beauty.” She therefore proposes to immortalize
its many surprises in scenic and architectural splendors in a book
which is profusely illustrated from engravings and paintings.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“The book is intensely interesting both for its geography and its
history.”

+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 220w

“The book is an amiable introduction to modern French history; and if
Mrs Dodd’s manner is a trifle too intense for her subjects, there is
at least not a tiresome page in the whole volume.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 150w

“Such a volume as the present will be grateful reading to all those
who love France and who feel the force of the old days, no matter how
modern some parts of new France have become.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w

“Unfortunately Mrs Dodd’s style is too hasty—at points it is
positively slipshod—to carry the finer effects that would make for
complete success in such work as this.”

+ − =Review= 2:681 Je 30 ’20 300w

=DODD, LEE WILSON.= Book of Susan. *$2 Dutton

20–11147

“Susan is frankly a phenomenal child. After her stupid, bestial father
murders the woman with whom he is living, Susan is adopted by a
wealthy and cultured bachelor, and grows up to be a brilliant woman
who holds her own in his circle of scholarly and fashionable friends.”
(Outlook) “She is now old enough to be in love with [her] guardian,
who is, of course, in love with her. But Ambo’s two special friends, a
Yale professor and a New York radical, also love Susan. Finally it
takes a bomb from a Gotha in the streets of Paris to bring Susan to
the point of letting Ambo know that she loves him alone.” (Bookman)

* * * * *

“The reason why one reader is unimpressed by this plot, and even finds
it absurd, is because he is unimpressed by Susan. She is over-clever,
over-sprightly. So, for that matter, is the whole book.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:68 S ’20 500w

“For all its Stevensonesque touches, for all the moments when one
glimpses a mind like Pater’s, or a glimmer of Ibsen, through the
palings of the back fence, as it were, one has nothing, except a
couple of characters—say five—to take away with one. The first part of
the story is delightful.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 430w

“The book is much above the average novel, and the author’s insight
into feminine psychology quite remarkable. Moreover, it has the great
quality of interest.”

+ =Lit D= p114 N 6 ’20 1650w

“Mr Dodd’s style is in another world from the gritty slovenliness of
the average story; the earlier part of his book is filled with ripe
and intense characterizations; the interpolated passages of criticism
and verse are mellow and delightful. But the fable of the book is the
fable of ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ not only in fact but, beneath all
appearances of intellectual subtlety and integrity, in tendency and
spirit. We can only hope that Mr Dodd will soon give us another novel
in which his grace of style and temper shall serve to express an
austerer strain of thought and imagination—austerer because it is
truer and truer because it does not compromise.”

+ − =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 620w

“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character
of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about
‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and
has shaped his materials with no little skill.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w

“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the
incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the
American novels of the season.”

+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w

=DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD.= Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday

20–26482

“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of
recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set
the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of
American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.)
“It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can
never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has
pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early
environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The
great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great
reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United
States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or
Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the
League; Index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill,
and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson

+ =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1250w

“Although I am seldom in complete agreement with Professor Dodd, and
often a horizon’s distance away from him, I find myself forced to the
conviction that this book offers the fullest and fairest amount of
Wilson and his work that I have seen, or am likely to see in many a
day.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Repub= 24:36 S 8 ’20 2250w

“Quite the most discriminating, comprehensive and just appraisement of
Woodrow Wilson that has yet been made.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 550w

=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 230w

“As fairly as seems humanly possible, Prof. Dodd has maintained the
historical point of view, endeavoring to weigh all evidence
impartially, and taking counsel from friends and foes alike, and from
the president himself on various occasions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1100w

Reviewed by W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 520w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 110w

=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner makes it fashionable. il *$1 (5c) Harper

20–6285

“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up
of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich,
new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean
people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way.
He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to
be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did.
So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of
extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of
simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it
all!

* * * * *

“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w

“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a
lesson well worth heeding in these days.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w

“A genuinely funny story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w

=DODGE, LOUIS.= Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner

20–6862

“Louis Dodge’s new hero is named Robert Estabrook, and it is Beakman,
the very unpleasant city editor of The News, who gives him the
nickname of ‘Whispers’ because of his defective speech. Estabrook—or
Whispers—arrives in Missouri City shortly after the murder of old
Pheneas Drumm, a dealer in masks and costumes, reputed to be very
rich, and goes first to the office of the highly successful News. But
not liking the looks either of Beakman or of The News office—whereby
he shows his good sense—he decides to try to get a position on the
rival paper, The Vidette. This he does. Also, Whispers promises to
solve the mystery of the Drumm murder within two days. Of course he
makes good.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

+ =Cath World= 112:121 O ’20 90w

“Mr Dodge has written a uniquely interesting book. The plot itself is
simple enough, the dénouement not surprising; but from the very
beginning a subtler interest is aroused by the genuine appeal of the
characters revealed and the picturesque quality of the city newspaper
life.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 480w

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 350w

“Once the main thread begins to unwind, ‘Whispers’ plunges into an
exciting series of dangers. Either through his own, or the author’s
clumsiness, Estabrook does not display much craft in his sleuthing.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 250w

“The long arm of coincidence is applied to its limit, but the story is
entertaining.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 20w

=DODWELL, C. E. W.= Righteousness versus religion. $2 Stratford co. 201

20–14752

In opposing righteousness to religion the author does not direct his
criticism against Christianity in the sense of the “righteousness,
simplicity and beauty” of the teachings of Christ, but against
dogmatic religion which he makes responsible for everything that has
gone wrong with the world. He charges it with promulgating
“mischievous errors, falsities and debasing superstitions, ignorance,
hypocrisy and narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance.” The contents
are: Religion; Many religions; The Christian religion; The works of
religion; The Bible; Righteousness. The postscript has paragraphs on
the future of the “Church” and “Religion”; on the effects of
Catholicism on Spain and Ireland; on the war; and a recommended list
of books for further reading.

* * * * *

“Of his tremendous sincerity there can be no doubt. It might fairly be
urged that the book fails to accord to its object of attack the usual
privilege of being judged by its best rather than by its worst. Yet
his assaults are put forward in such a whole-hearted and
self-convinced manner that what he says is not calculated to wound or
affront.” L. S.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1100w

=DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.=[2] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch 204

We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the
profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the
roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is
to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve,
not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel
and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever
it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors
any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of
social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into
sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of
spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization;
The religion within.

=DOMBROWSKI, ERIC.= German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 920

20–26749

These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with
much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the
personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich
Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg
Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von
Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von
Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von
Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”

+ =N Y Times= p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w

“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates
only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women,
leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be
revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly
entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many
books of the hour.”

+ − =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w

“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all
are enlightening and amusing.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w

“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the
requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight.
But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well
as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the
author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w

“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints
vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and
agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C:
Seymour

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.=[2] States of South America, the land of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918

“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its
first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated
reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as
before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911
Digest Annual.

* * * * *

“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from
beginning to end.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 250w

“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief
value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact
that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his
chief competitor.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 O ’20 40w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25 Lippincott 940.45

20–26104

The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea
frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and
preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the
new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and
explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the
effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:164 F ’20

“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed description of the instruments used.”

+ − =Nature= 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w

“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on
inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it
falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’
note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts,
not less displeasing is his English.”

− =Sat R= 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w

“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who
look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in
the war.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 850w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarines and sea power. *$2.50 Macmillan 359

(Eng ed 19–18399)

“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on
naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to
preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we
hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we
have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we
are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never
return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at
the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult
for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he
endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 70w

“Most instructive volume.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 O 9 ’19 1450w

=DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE.= How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1 Appleton 613

20–17245

This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into
Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking.
The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and
commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and
jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The
menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor
do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.”
The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little
physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft
subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you
eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six
weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author
is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.

=DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK.= Art of interesting; its theory and practice for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808

20–18519

The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in
written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in
prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier
chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are
described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular
authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The
final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the
titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of
eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style;
Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest;
Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of
the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World
and America.

* * * * *

“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius
for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the
artistry.”

+ =Cath World= 112:389 D ’20 350w

=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald 671

19–15024

“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the
metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary
treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with
fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to
our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies
specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general
informational value to the average layman as well as to the
metal-worker.”—School R

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20

“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing
that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too
abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a
way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full
understanding on the part of immature students.”

+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 100w

“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school
attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and
productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in
vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are
able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of
their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.

+ =School R= 28:155 F ’20 220w

=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald 684

19–15025

The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all
industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal
workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating
to woodworking trades.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20

+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w

=DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH.= Glory rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.

20–5585

“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the
‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had
mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer
receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him
that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and
says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come
for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer
raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his
wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and
arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence.
Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and,
refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of
the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision
furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her
mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 240w

=N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w

“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James
Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so
enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling
situation to another.” E. M. Brown

+ =Pub W= 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Honest thief and other stories. *$2 (1c) Macmillan

20–26192

This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works
of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s
dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another
man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The
crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.

* * * * *

“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious
relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we
are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange
way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard
it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is
over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky
who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who
wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a
ridiculous man.’” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 850w

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature
drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he
was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten
stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most
entertaining.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 550w

“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French
variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of
form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite
lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an
accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony
of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training
or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C:
K. Trueblood

+ − =Dial= 68:774 Je ’20 800w

“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among
his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised
when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is
the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the
imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and
that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.

+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w

“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible
to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow
himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant
predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic
talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we
are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the
proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him
across the boundary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 O 23 ’19 950w

=DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE.= Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5

20–8513

The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the
state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be
taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as
brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to
set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians,
the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin
their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries,
etc.

* * * * *

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:117 Je ’20 30w

=DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH.= Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1

20–5264

“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial
features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a
sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as
will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now
attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound
and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the
centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay
and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a
sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present
decaying economic and political structure and considering the
imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any
of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and
insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of
initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic
domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 60w

“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the
basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system
which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await
the event.” J. L.

+ =Ath= p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w