Chapter XXIV: Part 2: , dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of (3)

“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected
with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with
reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising,
it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”

+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20

“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”

+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w

“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that
makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 270w

“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more
helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced
to see.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p9 N 21 ’20 2400w

=DURUY, VICTOR.= History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944

20–14467

A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was
translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890
by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present
year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and
other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been
maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the
Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the
Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to
and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:83 N ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w

=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c) Doubleday

20–19763

The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor,
too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes
the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat
encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which
an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At
Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a
German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the
course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on
board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed
into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize
themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds
the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his
country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the
Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.

* * * * *

“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple
qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w

“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern
tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the
suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 720w

=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt

20–21337

Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has
introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main
has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul
was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to
the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and
others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most
picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that
little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in
Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of
broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the
people.

* * * * *

=Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w

“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure
to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”

+ =Nation= 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 150w

“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one
feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 260w

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=EAST, EDWARD MURRAY, and JONES, DONALD FORSHA.= Inbreeding and outbreeding: their genetic and sociological significance. (Monographs on experimental biology) il *$2.50 Lippincott 575

20–352

“Whether close inbreeding causes deterioration of the race and
cross-breeding re-invigorates it, is a question that has long been
disputed. It was not until the development of the Mendelian theory
that a sufficiently powerful method of analyzing the problem was
discovered. The book by Professor East and Dr Jones gives an account
of the solution of the problem by means of this theory. The data which
East and Jones have here brought together have a wide applicability to
practical animal and plant breeding. The authors also attempt to apply
them to the field of human heredity.”—J Philos

* * * * *

Reviewed by L. L. Bernard

=Am J Soc= 26:251 S ’20 380w

+ − =Ath= p706 My 28 ’20 500w

“One of the most valuable features of the book is the admirable
bibliography of 225 titles.” M. C. Coulter

+ =Bot Gaz= 69:530 Je ’20 1100w

Reviewed by Alexander Weinstein

+ =J Philos= 17:388 Jl 1 ’20 620w

“The book is marked at once by independence and by scholarship. Of
great interest to many will be the application of the biological
results to the particular case of man. There is a carefully selected
bibliography.”

+ =Nature= 106:335 N 11 ’20 900w

“From a popular standpoint, ‘Inbreeding and outbreeding’ is by far the
most interesting and suggestive book on heredity that has appeared in
recent years.” O. E. White

+ =New Repub= 24:278 N 10 ’20 1400w

“Two biologists of note, both experimental plant breeders, have done a
useful work in laying the results of their experiments and their
reflections upon the experiments before a semi-popular audience. They
are wise in doing so, for no question comes more frequently to the
eugenicist than this: Is the marriage of cousins prejudicial to
offspring? Or this: What are the biological consequences of race
admixture?” C: B. Davenport

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 450w

=EASTON, DOROTHY.= Golden bird, and other sketches. *$2 (3c) Knopf

20–11225

These sketches are introduced by a foreword by John Galsworthy and
“catch the flying values of life” as he says a good sketch does. They
contain pictures from the southern countryside of England with some
French sketches. “The golden bird” is an old inn where a paralyzed
youth with a poet’s soul has for ten years made the walls of his room
transparent and who beguiles the time, when he is not seeing visions
of the shifting seasons outside, with his violin. Some of the other
titles are: Laughing down; The steam mill; Heart-breaker; Twilight;
September in the fields; Causerie; Smoke in the grass; Adversity; It
is forbidden to touch the flowers; A Parisian evening; Life.

* * * * *

“The writer gives us the impression of being extremely young—not in
the sense of a child taking notes, but in the sense that she seems to
be seeing, smelling, drinking, picking hops and blackberries for the
first time. For such sketches as ‘An old Indian’ and ‘From an old
malt-house’ we have nothing but praise. But while we welcome her
warmly, we would beg her, in these uncritical days, to treat herself
with the utmost severity.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 190w

“They have color, dramatic vivacity and interesting characterization.
Somewhat depressing.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“Miss Easton writes with a certain graceful precision, an unerring
touch for the right word, for the exact effect, and a deeply
sympathetic attitude toward nature and toward humanity in its varied
aspects.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 200w

“They are simple, vivid and effective in their simplicity. There is
real insight and real skill in putting down what the author has seen.”

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 200w

“With a remarkable economy of means she renders the rather drowsy
sweetness of her south of England scenes. And occasionally, as in the
sketches called Laughing down, her tenderness for her landscape makes
her sentimental and callous—the two are never far apart—about people.
But her best sketches, of which there are many, have their brief
moments of irony and tragedy and so combine beauty and wisdom in
uncommon measure.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 360w

“Miss Easton holds almost constantly to this objectivity, except that
she relieves, or perhaps one should say illuminates, it sometimes with
the suggestion of spiritual significance by means of a delicate,
elusive touch that seems less her own than the inescapable implication
of that which she is describing.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 600w

“An ardent fancy and a delicate yet firm hand have gone to its making;
and, thank heaven, it reminds us of nobody! I am not sure, in thinking
it over, but the main charm of the book, apart from its beauty of
workmanship, lies in its total lack of that ‘humor’ which is the god
of the current literary machine.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 450w

“A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading
afterwards.”

+ =Spec= 125:744 D 4 ’20 50w

“The author has a deep and comprehensive feeling for the transitory
values of life which she succeeds in communicating to the emotions of
her audience. She writes with a delicacy which would beautify the most
sordid subjects.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ’20 430w

“The quality of the volume suggests that stronger work may follow.
More experience should confirm that individual quality already
described, and may help to put a curb on an exuberance of sentiment
which is at present Miss Easton’s chief weakness.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 Jl 15 ’20 390w

=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= In Berkshire fields. il *$3.50 Harper 917.44

20–18686

Not as a scientist but merely as a lover of nature and the wilds, does
the author record his wanderings through fields and woods. As a
permanent resident in the hills he knows them in every season of the
year and in every elemental mood and loves them “less for their
softness than their wildness.” Their wildness, he tells us, is still
considerable for in their miles of forest the moose and wildcat still
roam and there is even recent evidence of a timberwolf. Seventy-eight
illustrations, chiefly of winter scenes, by Walter King Stone, grace
the pages and the contents are: Landlord to the birds; Jim Crow; The
cheerful chickadee; The menace from above; By inland waters; Poking
around for birds’ nests; The queen of the swamp; Forgotten roads; From
a Berkshire cabin; Little folks that gnaw; The ways of the woodchuck;
Foxes and other neighbors; In praise of trees; Enjoying the influenza;
Adventures with an ax; Weeds above the snow.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 290w

+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 170w

“He has written of the birds and animals of the Berkshires with an
accuracy perfected by long observation and with a sympathy arising
from sincere affection.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 500w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w

“Sympathetic nature study and observation, not burdened with
scientific detail, is charmingly set forth.”

+ =Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 390w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w

=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= On the edge of the wilderness, il *$1.75 (3c) Wilde 591.5

The first of these “tales of our wild animal neighbors” is the story
of a lone timber wolf who strayed into western Massachusetts where his
species is supposed to be extinct. The scene of the other stories is
also the Berkshire hills, where, on the authority of the author and
others, wolves, foxes, deer, moose and other animals still survive,
The titles are: “The return of the native”; Big Reddy, strategist; The
Odyssey of old Bill; The life and death of Lucy; General Jim; The
mating of Brownie; The taming of ol’ Buck; Red slayer and the terror;
Rastus earns his sleep; “The last American.” The illustrations are by
Charles Livingston Bull.

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w

“Mr Eaton’s art is finished and flowing, a joy to read. Books like
this are not only an education in natural history, but in beautiful
English, in clarity of description and harmony of phrase.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 180w

“‘On the edge of the wilderness’ is almost ideal in fulfilling the
many demands of the average intelligent boy for an entertaining book
of adventure. In the first place it rings true. It has a literary
value such as boys unconsciously appreciate.” H. L. Reed

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 250w

=ECKEL, EDWIN CLARENCE.= Coal, iron and war; a study in industrialism, past and future. *$3 (2½c) Holt 330

20–13789

Ours is a “machine civilization” and the story of industrial growth
and competition since 1775, the author holds, “is chiefly though not
entirely the story of coal and iron.” The book attempts to keep the
discussion free from any and every preconceived bias, theory or
assumption and to arrive at conclusions entirely through the
historical study of the industrial developments of different
countries. Industrial growth is a matter of natural evolution based on
physical environment and inheritance and hardly at all on human and
personal control. The form of government is a negligible fact—a strong
nationalism still desirable, and war still the simplest solution of
many of our industrial problems. The contents are in four parts: The
growth of modern industrialism; The material bases of industrial
growth: The causes and effects of industrial growth; The future of
industrialism. There is an index.

* * * * *

“The thesis is carefully developed and well maintained. The striking
feature of the book is the openness of mind with which the future is
examined. Although the historical portions of the book are sound in
the main there are some statements with reference to the eighteenth
century that can scarcely be accepted.” A. P. Usher

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:307 Ja ’21 640w

+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21

“Mr Eckel has long been prominent as a geologist and engineer. In this
volume he certainly qualifies also as an economist. His views on labor
organization, the corporation, and the influence of legislation are
especially significant.” G. P. W.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 600w

“The present work is written for the general reader, and through
elimination of the less important and by judicious distribution of
emphasis he has produced a book which is likely to be widely read with
both interest and profit. Though written in a language intelligible to
the business man quite as much as the student, it is perhaps most of
all important through its judicious criticism of the traditional and
orthodox viewpoint of the economist.” W: H. Hobbs

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 1450w

=Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 280w

“It is a worth while book and one has difficulty in telling in a few
words why; probably it is because it is written with sincerity and
because the author is not writing as other engineers have written, to
promote a cause but to examine facts critically.” Hugh Archbald

+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 360w

=EDDY, SHERWOOD.= Everybody’s world. *$1.60 Doran 327

“A discussion, from the standpoint of world Christianity, of post-war
conditions in the Near East, Russia, Japan, China, and India, with a
chapter on the relations between Great Britain and America and
Anglo-Saxon responsibility to the world. The book is the result of a
tour around the world in 1919.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The author has given an interesting and valuable survey of world
conditions.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 400w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 100w

“The charm of style lies in the author’s intense human interest which
results in much picturesque and personal narrative. Mr Eddy is
singularly free of bias.” L. R. Robinson

+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w

=EDEN, EMILY.= Miss Eden’s letters; ed. by her great niece, Violet Dickenson with introd. *$6.50 Macmillan

“To the present generation the name of Miss Eden conveys little or
nothing. As the sister of Lord Auckland, who held office in the reform
ministries of the early years of last century, and who became
governor-general of India in 1835, she was well known in London
society under William IV; and during her later life she published some
novels and books of travel which were not without merit, but had not
sufficient distinction to preserve them from oblivion. But her abiding
claim to the notice of posterity was her talent for friendly
letterwriting. Her most intimate friend, Pamela, daughter of Lord and
Lady Edward FitzGerald, had an equally marked gift for talking with
the pen, and perhaps greater vivacity and humour; and the
correspondence between these two brilliant women is preserved in the
present volume.”—Spec

* * * * *

=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 100w

“If she has no ideas about things in general, she has a perpetually
renewed interest in the immediate; it is this, with the firm, easy
texture of her style, and a delicate oddity of perception, which makes
her letters so eminently readable. It is this, but something more; for
of all the qualities named she is perhaps fully conscious; but she
appears admirably unconscious of the qualities of heart and character
she has.” F. W. S.

+ =Ath= p335 Mr 12 ’20 1100w

“We think that Miss Dickenson might have suppressed some of the
letters as deficient in interest. But we are grateful to her for
presenting us with some of the best specimens of the lost art of
correspondence.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:441 N 8 ’19 1100w

“She had the true note of colloquial ease which few people ever
achieve in their letters, and still fewer retain. She gossips
charmingly; her observations on her friends and acquaintances are not
the mere threadbare inanities which can interest only those who know
the persons concerned, but real characteristic illuminative things
which are nearly as pleasant to read now as they were when they were
written eighty or ninety years ago.”

+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 600w

“The judgment of Miss Dickenson’s selections and the unusual
excellence of her materials give the book what we so seldom find in
biographies—construction and artistic purpose.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 N 6 ’19 950w

=EDGINTON, HELEN MARION (MAY EDGINTON).= Married life; or, The true romance. *$1.75 Small

20–8626

“May Edginton’s novel begins with the marriage of a pretty, bright,
charming girl who has been earning her own living and a fine, handsome
young man whose salary in an automobile house has been ample to allow
him to spend upon himself with some freedom. The action carries them
rapidly through the rose-colored days of the first year of married
life. By the end of that year they are both beginning to feel the
financial pinch resulting from the necessity of making the salary that
had been enough for one serve the needs of two. Then the babies begin
to arrive and at the end of six years they have three. The salary that
had been little more than enough for one has not been much increased
and it has to be stretched to cover the needs of five. The husband,
under this strain, has grown morose, fault-finding, resentful, and the
wife, with her strength taxed far beyond its powers, is weary,
irritable and hopeless. The author’s solution she has found solely in
the very material one of furnishing them with enough money to enable
the husband to spend as he likes and the wife to hire a maid, get her
hands manicured and buy some new clothes.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Why force an obviously false ending to a tale that rings true up to a
certain point?”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 250w

“The author tells the first part of her story with much realistic
detail and with color and vivacity.... The story is the expression of
a purely material and selfish ideal of life.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 440w

=EDIE, LIONEL D.=, ed. Current social and industrial forces; introd. by James Harvey Robinson. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 330

20–3781

“Essays from a number of radical and liberal English and American
writers, which reveal the fundamental causes of unrest and propose
some plans of action. Some of the authors represented are: Veblen,
Sidney Webb, Meyer Bloomfield, J. A. Hobson, J. Laurence Laughlin,
Bertrand Russell, Helen Marot, Emil Vandervelde, Walter Lippmann,
Norman Angell, H. G. Wells and John Dewey. There are also numerous
reports from various commissions of both the British and American
governments and of organizations of employers and workers.” (Booklist)
“The book grew out of the compiler’s need for a textbook in his
courses on current historical forces at Colgate university. The
selections are grouped under the headings: Forces of disturbance,
Potentialities of production, The price system, The direction of
industry, The funds of reorganization, The power and policy of
organized labor, Proposed plans of action, Industrial doctrines in
defense of the status quo, and The possibilities of social service.”
(Survey)

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 70w

Reviewed by R. F. Clark

+ =Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 240w

“Should be very valuable to the student and to the more thoughtful
reader.”

+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

+ − =Cath World= 111:681 Ag ’20 420w

“The excerpts and reprints are skilfully grouped, so that the
reader—for the book can be read as well as consulted—can grasp the
material handily. The selections are made without prejudice.”

+ =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 80w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

+ =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 60w

“Prof. Edie has rendered a real service by gathering into well-related
chapters some of the most illuminating discussions of a large number
of modern writers on social topics.” H: P. Fairchild

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 900w

“It is every citizen’s duty to be informed on these subjects, and
Professor Edie puts the information within the reach of any who wish
it.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 22 ’20 340w

“In this symposium one gets many and variously colored and confusing
glimpses of industrial and social movements, but no comprehensive view
of any single subject and no consistent coördination or
interpretation.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 300w

+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 280w

“The book gives a useful conspectus of radical thought—but it scarcely
deals at all with ‘current social and industrial forces.’” W: E.
Walling

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:218 O ’20 380w

=EDMAN, IRWIN.= Human traits and their social significance. *$3 Houghton 301

20–17674

Throughout the long process of civilization two factors have remained
constant, says the author: nature and human nature. The only change
with regard to the one has been in our increasing power of control of
nature through increasing knowledge. And the only difference between
the man of today and the primitive savage is in the control of the
native biological impulses that the civilized man has achieved through
education, religion and morals. It is the aim of the book to indicate
man’s simple inborn impulses and outstanding human traits and the
factors which must be taken into account if they are to be controlled
in the interest of human welfare. Accordingly the book falls into two
parts: Social psychology; and The career of reason. Types of human
behavior and their social significance, basic human activities and
crucial traits in social life, and the racial and cultural continuity
are among the subjects considered in part one. Part two contains:
Religion and the religious experience; Art and æsthetic experience;
Science and scientific method; Morals and moral valuation. There is an
index.

* * * * *

“There are but few books of only 467 pages that contain so much
information as this one. Written as an introduction to contemporary
civilization and intended for freshmen, it clarifies questions at
whose profundity Plato would have been disheartened. If the freshman
of today can digest even a small portion of this book colleges are
progressing, while for a man comparatively advanced in years, and with
interests as universal as those of Leonardo da Vinci, it would be a
handy manual.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 250w

=EDWARDS, A. HERBAGE.= Paris through an attic. *$3 Dutton 914.4

19–19896

“Paris, ever fascinating and ever fresh, was seen in the days before
the war from a new angle, by a delightful young couple, with a thin
family purse. An income of 350 dollars a year sufficed their needs.
Where they lived, and how they lived is told by the feminine half of
this pair of adventurers. The young couple attended the Sorbonne.
Sundays and holidays are treated in an account of how Paris amuses
itself. All these happenings, and many others, fill the space of two
years, and the pages of the book, up to the eventful day when Richard
receives his title, ‘Docteur de l’Universite de Paris.’”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

“The section on the students and the university reveals aspects of
French life not ordinarily found in books of travel.”

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“Charming narrative.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 700w

“This book contains a hundred delightful and delicate reflections, an
equal number of personal touches, and some quaint views of life which
cannot fail to charm the reader who likes to saunter in the little
lanes of the great world.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1400w

=EDWARDS, AUSTIN SOUTHWICK.=[2] Fundamental principles of learning and study. $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1

20–22148

“The present volume is a rewriting of manuscript which the writer has
used for some time as part of his lectures to students in educational
psychology. The aim is especially to show how the results of general
psychology and experimental psychology and of allied sciences can be
put into use by the teacher and the student in the problems of
learning and of study.” (Preface) The author takes the point of view
that “the forming, modifying and remaking of habits, habitudes,
dispositions, tendencies, etc., under the guidance of ideals set up by
society, seems to be the fundamental work of education.” Among the
chapters are: Fundamental principles of education; Neurology and the
basis of education; The fundamental work of education; Learning and
habit formation; Acquisition which involves study; Attention and
sustained effort; Feeling habits and moral education; Supervised study
and the school curriculum. The book is provided with questions,
chapter references, select bibliography and index.

* * * * *

“The range of topics treated and the definite nature of the
discussions make the book suitable for wide use in courses dealing
with a survey of the psychology of the learning process.”

+ =El School J= 21:392 Ja ’21 600w

“In this comparatively brief and quite readable treatise, one finds
less space taken up with academic discussion of pedagogic bugaboos
than in most books on similar themes.” C. L. Clarke

+ =Survey= 45:611 Ja 22 ’21 400w

=EDWARDS, CLAYTON.= Treasury of heroes and heroines. il *$3 (2½c) Stokes 920

20–19159

“A record of high endeavour and strange adventure; from 500 B.C. to
1920 A.D.” In the book so described in the sub-title the life stories
of many famous men and women are given. The “Heroes of reality”
include: Buddha; Julius Cæsar; Saint Patrick; King Arthur of Britain;
Mohammed; Alfred the Great; Robin Hood; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary;
Dante; Robert Bruce; Jeanne d’Arc; Christopher Columbus; William the
Silent; Queen Elizabeth of England; Sir Francis Drake; Henry Hudson;
Peter the Great; George Washington; John Paul Jones; Molly Pitcher;
Napoleon Bonaparte; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Grace
Darling; Florence Nightingale; Father Damien; Catherine Breshkovsky;
Theodore Roosevelt; Edith Cavell; King Albert of Belgium; Maria
Botchkareva. Four heroes of fiction are included: William Tell; Don
Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; and Rip Van Winkle. There are illustrations
in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.

* * * * *

“The stories are brief, but they are by no means mere sketches; nor
are they ‘written down’ in a way that children dislike. It is a good
book and a useful one.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 13 ’20 180w

“The big book is interesting and well done, full of information that
reads like wild romance.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 120w

=EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.=[2] Belgium old and new. il *$10 Penn 914.93

20–21326

“The illustrations, numbering forty-one, are full-page and are mostly
in color. These reproduce ancient or famous buildings, towers,
sections of historic structures and open spaces in Antwerp, Brussels
and other cities and towns of the several provinces in the kingdom.
Much of the text is historical in character. In the first chapter, Mr
Edwards touches upon the natural resources of the little country and
its condition at the close of the war, concluding with an optimistic
forecast of its quick recovery and future well-being. He then
proceeds, in separate chapters, with historical sketches of Antwerp,
Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai, Couillet, Liège and Mons. This done,
the author returns to the present and discusses Belgium’s colonies,
characteristics of the country and people and the constitution. The
work concludes with chapters devoted to Cardinal Mercier and the king
and queen.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The text of the book is eminently satisfactory, but chiefly so
because it puts us in precisely the right attitude of mind and spirit
for enjoying to the full the charm of the book’s generous wealth of
illustration.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 300w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 15 ’20 380w

=EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).= Tales of enchantment from Spain. il *$2 (6c) Harcourt

20–17754

The author has brought out two earlier collections of South American
tales and her studies in this field have led her to an examination of
the folk lore of Spain, from which many of the Spanish-American tales
are derived. Among the titles of the fifteen stories are: The white
parrot; The carnation youth; The wood cutter’s son and the two
turtles; The luck fairies; The bird which laid diamonds; The enchanted
castle in the sea; The princess who was dumb. The pictures are by Maud
and Miska Petersham.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20

=EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, and KENNEDY, JOHN JAMES BRIGHT.= Knights of Columbus in peace and war. 2v il *$5.25 Encyclopedia press 267

20–6359

“The first of these two handsome illustrated volumes is devoted to the
origin, growth, and constitution of this celebrated Anglican Roman
Catholic friendly society, founded by the Rev. M. J. McGivney in
Connecticut in 1882; its work in peace time of protecting homes,
promoting higher education, allaying religious prejudice, opposing
bolshevism, etc.; and its war work during the fighting in France, with
the navy, and after the armistice. The Canadian Knights’ war work has
a special chapter. The second volume is chiefly taken up with the roll
of honour of the Knights.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=N Y Times= 25:258 My 16 ’20 1250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 90w

=EGGLESTON, MRS MARGARET W.= Use of the story in religious education. *$1.50 Doran 268

20–4125

“In this book the author has brought together some of the
recommendations on story-telling that have been current in secular
education for some time and has applied these to problems directly
connected with the Sunday school.”—El School J

* * * * *

“Will interest all storytellers.”

+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20

“The book will be suggestive to Sunday school teachers and will lead
to an improvement in the story-telling which is an important part of
the Sunday school’s work.”

+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:110 Je ’20 140w

=EINSTEIN, ALBERT.= Relativity: the special and general theory. il *$3 Holt 530.1

20–17742

“The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact
insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a
general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in
the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus
of theoretical physics.” (Preface) The translation is by Professor
Robert W. Lawson who has added a biographical note of the author. The
contents are in three parts: The special theory of relativity; The
general theory of relativity; Considerations on the universe as a
whole. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“Although Professor Einstein’s own exposition is as clear and simple
as could be expected, the book is of exceptional interest, not as a
popular exposition, but as an indication of the mental processes of
its author.”

+ =Ath= p311 S 3 ’20 260w

+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20

“An excellent translation of Einstein’s book.”

+ =Nature= 106:336 N 11 ’20 1200w

“Written in an unpretentious, straightforward style. The trend of his
exposition can be followed in the main by any attentive reader who is
not scared by algebraic formulae.” E. E. Slosson

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 2400w

“The book is ‘intended to give an exact insight into the theory to
those who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of
theoretical physics.’ In the opinion of the reviewer, in this attempt
he has been eminently successful, that is, if an essentially
mathematical notion can be made intelligible without algebraic
symbols.” A. G. Webster

+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 1000w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 90w

=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Abraham Lincoln. (Heroes of all time) il *$1.50 Stokes

20–18583

This story of Lincoln for young people is in seven sections: Years of
inexperience; Years of development; Years of self-expression and
experience; Years of public recognition; Years of leadership; Years of
supremacy; Triumph and death. Each section is prefaced by an extract
from Lincoln’s speeches. There are nine illustrations, a list of
presidents of the United States up to Abraham Lincoln and a chart
showing method of government in the United States.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w

=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Periwinkle’s island. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott

An English story for children, all about the surprising adventures of
Meg, Peg and Topkins, who go to the country with their mother, the
queen, Fuzzy Wuzz, their nurse, and Tut-Tut, their tutor. Only good
children are allowed to land on Periwinkle’s island and at first
attempt Meg, Peg and Topkins can not pass the test, but they improve
and after the second trial go ashore to take part in the great chase
after the Creepingo, aided by the Top Twins, the Elastic Dog and other
queer folk. The pictures in color are by Molly Benatar.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

=ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Road to unity among the Christian churches. *$1 (8½c) Am. Unitar. 280

20–2426

This little volume contains the first lecture delivered under the
Arthur Emmons Pearson foundation, established in 1918 with the object
of promoting “the advancement of mutual understanding and helpfulness
between the people of all denominations and creeds.” Dr Eliot points
out the factors that have promoted division in the past and then
enumerates the present forces that are encouraging unification. He
says, “To the United States the world is indebted for the
demonstration that on the principle of federation a strong, stable,
and just government can be constructed.... The same principle applied
to the divided Christian churches will produce analogous good results;
but as in a group of federated states federation will not be fusion.”

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 50w

=ELIOT, SAMUEL ATKINS=, ed. Little theater classics, v 2 il *$1.50 Little 808.2

18–19312

This is volume two of “Little theater classics” adapted and edited by
Samuel Atkins Eliot, jr. Each one of the four plays has an
introduction giving its origin and history, and staging suggestions.
The plays are: Patelin, from “Maître Pierre Pathelin” by Guillaume
Alécis; Abraham and Isaac, from the Book of Brome and the Chester
cycle of miracles; The loathed lover, from “The changeling” of
Middleton and Rowley; Sganarelle, or, Imaginary horns, from Molière.
Three of the plays have already been produced by little theaters and
are illustrated with photographs from the production.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20

“Sganarelle is a charming little antique. Abraham and Isaac is a
beautiful piece of work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 520w

“There are some intrepidities in Mr Eliot which rather stagger me,
though whether the protest comes from real disapprobation or simply
from that unusedness which whimpers at the approach of novelty it is
hard for me to say. For instance, I stand agape, if not aghast, at Mr
Eliot’s consolidation of the Chester play and the Brome play on
Abraham and Isaac into one drama.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 2:608 Je 5 ’20 340w

“On the whole, this second volume measures up to the high standard set
by the first. The work has been done with fine taste and intelligence
and forms a valuable contribution to the dramatic literature available
to little theatres.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 300w

=ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.= Poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811

20–4200

Mr Eliot is a poet of American birth who lives in London. “He
published ‘Prufrock’ in 1917 and ‘Poems’ in 1919—this volume assembles
the contents of the two, together with a number of other poems, and is
the first volume to be published in America, where heretofore it has
been exceedingly difficult to obtain his poems.” (Publisher’s
announcement) Some of the poems have appeared in Poetry, Others, the
Little Review, and other periodicals.

* * * * *

“Mr Eliot is always quite consciously ‘trying for’ something, and
something which has grown out of and developed beyond all the poems of
all the dead poets. Poetry to him seems to be not so much an art as a
science.”

+ − =Ath= p491 Je 20 ’19 600w

=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

“The ‘Poems’—ironically so-called—of T. S. Eliot, if not heavy and
pedantic parodies of the ‘new poetry,’ are documents that would find
sympathetic readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium. As a
parodist, Mr Eliot is lacking in good taste, invention, and wit.” R.
M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 52:57 S ’20 1400w

“Reading these poems (?) is like being in a closed room full of foul
air; not a room in an empty house that is sanctified with mould and
dust, but a room in which the stale perfume of exotics is poisoned
with the memory of lusts.” W. S. B.

− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 500w

Reviewed by E. E. Cummings

+ =Dial= 68:781 Je ’20 1400w

“At least two-thirds of Eliot’s sixty-three pages attain no
higher eminence than extraordinarily clever—and eminently
uncomfortable—verse. The exaltation which is the very breath of
poetry—that combination of tenderness and toughness—is scarcely
ever present in Eliot’s lines. Scarcely ever, I reiterate, for a
certain perverse exultation takes its place; an unearthly light
without warmth which has the sparkle if not the strength of
fire. It flickers mockingly through certain of the unrhymed
pictures and shines with a bright pallor out of the two major
poems.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Freeman= 1:381 Je 30 ’20 2000w

“He is the most proficient satirist now writing in verse, the
uncanniest clown, the devoutest monkey, the most picturesque ironist;
and aesthetically considered, he is one of the profoundest
symbolists.” M. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 300w

“In such poems as ‘Gerontion,’ the ‘Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’
‘Portrait of a lady,’ ‘Cooking egg,’ we get a glimpse of the visions
and tragedies that are in the soul—it does not matter that the soul in
these situations has to look out on restaurants instead of on
temples.” Padraic Colum

+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 980w

“His is a book to gaze upon worshipfully and humbly. We shall always
cherish it, for its shrieking modernity—though we are one of the
Philistines who still ask for poetry and sanity in lines presented as
poetry.” Clement Wood

− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 270w

“Mr Eliot, like Browning, likes to display out-of-the-way learning, he
likes to surprise you by every trick he can think of. He has forgotten
his emotions, his values, his sense of beauty, even his common-sense,
in that one desire to surprise, to get farther away from the obvious
than any writer on record.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Je 12 ’19 550w

=ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.= Modern science and materialism. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 146

20–4021

“The philosophy expounded by Hugh Elliot in ‘Modern science and
materialism’ is the complete materialism which not only makes mind
dependent upon matter but identifies mind with matter. The world is
thus conceived as consisting of one substance. Not all of those who
agree with the materialistic hypothesis will accept this extreme
simplification of it. To many Mr Elliot’s view will seem as
metaphysical as the opposite view which regards matter as a form of
mind. Mr Elliot’s book, however, is not merely an argument against the
commonly accepted dualism in the conception of matter and mind. It is
also a survey of the creation of man and the universe, as interpreted
by a method which reduces all processes to the working of blind, but
immutable, laws. In all respects, Mr Elliot’s view of the universe is
rigidly mechanistic.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“It is difficult not to be unjust to ‘Modern science and materialism.’
Its science is above reproach and occupies the center of the author’s
interest and the bulk of the book. But it is impossible to say more of
the author’s ‘materialism’ than that it is what physical science
always is when it attempts to substitute itself for life.” C. E. Ayres

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:249 S ’20 280w

“A good bird’s-eye view, not unduly technical, for the interested
layman or student.”

+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 17 ’20 140w

“Mr Elliot is one of the most intolerant of materialists, but those
who read his book are likely to see that he frequently falls into the
sin he castigates, that of accepting ideas as true which are merely
speculative. Mr Elliot also falls into the familiar error of claiming
to be an agnostic and, from this negative doctrine, he immediately and
cheerfully builds up a most positive philosophy.”

+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 850w

=Sat R= 128:613 D 27 ’19 1150w

“Mr Elliot writes with refreshing clearness and vigour; he is always
entertaining, and he never leaves his readers in doubt about his
meaning. But while admiring Mr Elliot’s gifts of exposition and
assertion, we would urge upon him, with some diffidence, the
advantages of a larger share in his own writing of that agnosticism
whose value he so strenuously upholds.”

+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 480w

“Unquestionably able book. Mr Elliot states his stern ideas with the
utmost simplicity and clarity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 40w

=ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.=[2] Black gold. *$2.25 Macmillan

20–19915

“The ‘black gold’ which gives its title to L. E. Elliott’s novel is
rubber. Though it opens in England, the greater part of the scene is
laid in Brazil. The heroine is an English girl, Margarita Channing,
whose elder sister, Francina, is the wife of a musician, Salvatore.
Both Margarita and her sister sing nicely, and with the help of some
rich Brazilians Salvatore organizes an opera company and takes it up
the Amazon as far as Manaos. The voyage and the people they meet on
board the steamer afford opportunities for the discussion of Brazilian
affairs, of which the author makes full use. Presently they reach
Manaos, are taken to see all its sights and especially the operations
of the rubber industry, and have some experiences with South American
politics. Of course there is a love story for Margarita, with a young
Englishman, an inventor and the owner of a rubber plantation, as its
hero.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“I have felt nowhere else so keenly the spell of South America, the
power of the golden blood of the ‘rio das Amazonas,’ and the power of
the forest.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1300w

“The novel is neither good nor bad; merely mediocre. Those who enjoy
swift moving tales will find it slow. Those who like style,
characterization, will find it uninteresting. As it is, it exemplifies
the immortal (and overworked) ‘words, words, words.’”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 90w

“It is in this descriptive portion of the volume that the author has
done her best work, for, though her style is usually good, she lacks
dramatic and character sense, and is essentially an article rather
than a fiction writer.”

+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 350w

“Not only the physical beauty of Brazilian scenes, but the industries,
social conditions and political upheavals are set forth
interestingly.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w

=ELLIS, JULIAN.= Fame and failure. il *$3.75 Lippincott 920

(Eng ed 20–8729)

“Short biographies of a number of famous people who ended as failures.
Amongst the characters discussed are Edwin James the lawyer,
Wainewright the murderer, Lady Hamilton, King Ludwig of Bavaria and
Beau Brummel. In all there are eighteen biographies.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1412 D 26 ’19 40w

=Ath= p174 F 6 ’20 390w

“A better selection to illustrate his thesis that fame and success are
not alway marriageable ideas could not have been made.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 2300w

“Notwithstanding his rather absurd classification, Mr Julian Ellis has
written a very amusing book. His style is clear and lively; and he
doesn’t bore us with footnotes or authorities, which so often spoil
the pleasure of reading biographies.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 640w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p753 D 11 ’19 80w

“If we must decline to take Mr Ellis too seriously as a biographer,
this need not prevent us from wiling away some pleasant time in his
company. If he has the faults of the journalist, he has also no small
measure of his virtues.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 1 ’20 2550w

=ELLIS, STEWART MARSH.= George Meredith. il $6 Dodd

20–26976

“This book follows the lines of articles which Mr Ellis contributed to
the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. His primary object was
to use his information about the early life of Meredith, who was his
father’s first cousin, and to reconsider in connexion with it the
inner history of some of the novels, particularly ‘Evan Harrington,’
‘Beauchamp’s career,’ ‘Vittoria,’ and ‘Diana of the crossways.’ There
are numerous portraits and other illustrations.”—The Times [London]
Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Mr Ellis makes an absorbingly interesting volume out of his
revelations.”

+ =Ath= p62 F ’19 2100w

=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20

“All the details in this volume are of surpassing interest, and it
contains not a little acute criticism of Meredith’s novels. The work
as a whole is an exceptional pen portraiture of a literary personality
who was as great and influential as he was interesting.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 1350w

“Written without any distinction of style, Mr Ellis’s contribution
belongs to that class of biographical work which owes its existence to
the fact that some one or other has known, or been connected with, a
famous man and is able to satisfy, by the composition of a book of
this kind, the promptings of his own personal egotism.” Llewelyn Powys

− =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 740w

“That Meredith, in Evan Harrington, misinterpreted and, as the
biographer holds, maligned the character of Mr Ellis’s grandparents
may, or may not, have been a contributing cause of the publication of
this rather shallow and rather malicious book. Certain it is that
George Meredith was on no very friendly terms with his Ellis cousins,
and the reader must be warned of the evident animus on the part of the
biographer.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 25:267 Ja 26 ’21 1200w

“Mr Ellis’s book on Meredith is to be welcomed, though it appears to
be in no sense an ‘official’ biography and though it is not written in
a manner which could have pleased Meredith himself. It is neither an
‘inspired’ exposition of his career nor a book which could be counted
excellent on its own independent merits. But it is the only biography
in existence.”

+ − =New Statesman= 12:378 F 1 ’19 2050w

“What should have been a great portrait is only a rather ordinary
photograph. He is painstaking and accurate enough. Any one who is
interested in Meredith can gather from this book much which he will be
glad to know. But he will seek in vain and with growing exasperation
for the things which are really needful.” W. H. Durham

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 600w

“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= p6 N 21 ’20 2350w

+ =Sat R= 127:157 F 15 ’19 700w

=Sat R= 130:182 Ag 28 ’20 340w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Ja 23 ’19 70w

=ELWELL, AMBROSE.= At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small

19–19053

“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and
suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the
sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the
rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first
person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with
which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest,
teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign
waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home.
At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes
entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a
wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the
closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a
settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of
time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea
on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist
of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice
will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 500w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 160w

=EMERSON, GUY.= New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304

20–12285

A series of papers on Americanism. The new frontier is the present
social and industrial situation and the author’s plea is that it be
faced with the spirit that conquered the old geographical frontier of
the expanding west. This spirit is for him typified by Theodore
Roosevelt. The introduction says, “In this book two main points are
emphasized; first, that the spirit of that portion of our people which
has actually shaped the destinies of America has been liberal, rather
than radical or conservative.... Second, it is claimed that our
national spirit has taken its essential liberal flavor from the
frontier, from the generations of tireless, self-reliant effort which
won this continent for the men and women of our own day and which
stamped them with its indelible character.” Contents: The frontier of
American character; The leadership that made America; What is a
liberal? The politics of the middle of the road; Public opinion and
the industrial problem; The need for fifty million capitalists; An
American federation of brains; Human resources; The weapons of truth;
The American spirit in world affairs; The new frontier. There is a
bibliographical appendix, also an index.

* * * * *

“Written by a layman for laymen, with a limited and somewhat uneven
bibliography appended for the use of readers not especially familiar
with the development of the United States, the book is interesting and
valuable as an illustration of one type of thought which has to be
taken into consideration by the student of forces making American
history today.” L. B. Shippee

+ =Am Hist R= 26:370 Ja ’21 400w

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:738 N ’20 40w

=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20