Chapter XXV: Part 2: , dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of (4)

“Excellent book. He sees clearly and writes as clearly, giving no
handy panaceas as such, on a topic where the temptation is great.” R.
D. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 450w

“Mr Emerson knows his American history thoroughly. He is also a
student of American psychology, as is shown by his success in
directing the publicity of the Liberty loan drives. These two
characteristics probably account for much of his ability to strike out
a new path in the already overcrowded field of ‘Americanization.’ For
that there is novelty and freshness in his attack on an old problem,
no one can deny. Nor should it be held against him that he has
achieved this novelty through a distinctly original and forceful use
of another man’s idea. He has developed Professor Turner’s profound
conception of the influence of the frontier in a new field; for the
purpose of his argument he has made it his own.” Lincoln MacVeagh

+ =Dial= 69:303 S ’20 1800w

“The best chapter, we think, is the one on ‘The industrial problem,’
but the whole book is vital and invigorating.” C. F. L.

+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 500w

Reviewed by G: Soule

=Nation= 111:478 O 27 ’20 1700w

“A book of timely consequence, whose pages deserve wide and careful
reading.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 15 ’20 1900w

“An interpretation of America which is thoughtful and scholarly, which
is simply and forcibly written, and which is well worth anybody’s
reading.”

+ =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 90w

=ENGLAND, GEORGE ALLAN.= Flying legion. *$1.90 McClurg

20–12813

“In a lofty tower at the summit of the palisades of the Hudson is the
eyrie of the master where he dwells with his Arabian servants.
Mysteriously he summons a company of thirty veterans of the war, all
longing for excitement, a battalion is formed and a new, giant
aeroplane, just ready for service on the Jersey shore is seized and
the party take to flight for the Arabian desert. Mysteriously they
went away, mysteriously they returned after scores of adventures.”
(Boston Transcript) “One of the thirty with the master had been an
uninvited member—a ‘Captain Alden,’ who is a mysterious personage
altogether and whose identity, ultimately discovered, furnishes the
story’s principal romantic interest.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by
thrills. The style is awkward.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20

“Well-told tale.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 220w

“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when
the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical
attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 470w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 150w

=ENOCK, C. REGINALD.= Spanish America: its romance, reality and future. 2v il *$8 Scribner 918

20–26989

“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a
perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us
right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of
the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the
second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and
still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish
Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and
Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of
Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The
historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial
life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“He has prepared what might quite accurately be called a primer of
Latin America. It contains much valuable information, of course, but
so does an ordinary primer. He expects practically nothing of his
readers.” D. J. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 600w

“Such comprehensive, birdseye-view books as Mr Enock’s are of value as
a starting point for more detailed study.”

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 7 ’20 2350w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w

“In spite of an occasional tendency to slipshod writing Mr Enock has
given us a readable and informing work.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 900w

=EQUIPMENT= of the workers. $4 Sunwise turn (*10s 6d Allen & Unwin) 331.8

“There have already been exhaustive surveys of the physical and
economic condition of the workers; and the findings of Booth and
Rowntree have almost become classical. It was plainly necessary,
however, to have these surveys supplemented by an inquiry far more
inward and intimate into the mind and the outlook of the workers. What
are they thinking? What are they living for? Do they read? If so,
what? ‘The equipment of the workers’ gives us the answer to these and
the like questions. The inquiry was planned and carried out by a group
of workers at a Y. M. C. A. settlement in Sheffield; and it deals
exclusively with Sheffield conditions. The finding of the group is
that 25 per cent of the workers are well equipped, 60 per cent
inadequately equipped, and 15 per cent ill equipped. The body of the
book consists of a detailed record of the results of the inquiry in
408 typical cases.”—Nation

* * * * *

“An extraordinarily interesting inquiry. The results are very
illuminating and important.”

+ =Ath= p894 S 12 ’19 60w

=Ath= p975 O 3 ’19 1500w

“In the main the tests applied and the judgment passed upon the
reaction of the investigated persons to the tests seem sound. We have
in this volume an important datum for our thought upon reconstruction
and the problems of the new world.”

+ =Nation= 109:766 D 13 ’19 550w

“This book combines the exactness of scientific inquiry with the vivid
appeal of art. A picture such as this of American life would be one of
the most revealing documents in our time.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 21:322 F 11 ’20 1600w

“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable study of certain
elements in the standard of living about which there is too little
trustworthy information.” L. B.

+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 1400w

“A close and systematic investigation, with abundant particulars of
individual cases.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p487 S 11 ’19 200w

=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Democracy and ideals: a definition. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 304

20–11647

The author’s preface states: “These chapters, with the exception of
the first and the last, were written while I was serving as chairman
of the Army education commission with the American forces in France in
1918 and 1919, and as educational director of the American
expeditionary force university at Beaune, 1919.... I have tried to
express here from several angles a central conviction that we in the
United States are detached from the past, and that this detachment is
the striking fact in all our problems; that if in the future we are to
become and to remain a nation, we must collaborate for common ends.”
The six essays are: Democracy and ideals; American character; French
ideals and American; Society as a university; Universal training for
national service; University leadership. The author is professor of
English in Columbia university.

* * * * *

“A pleasing clarification of ideas not particularly new or startling.”

+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20

“Among the best of the recent books dealing with the problems of
citizenship and Americanization. It is written in a style so simple
that anyone with but an elementary knowledge of English can enjoy it.”
A. Yezierska

+ =Bookm= 52:497 F ’21 720w

“Scattered here and there through the volume are observations showing
a thoughtful understanding of American problems, but the
generalizations suitable to public addresses seem somewhat commonplace
in their published form, when the inspiration of the occasion is
past.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:400 D ’20 200w

“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and
he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious
intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general
temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a
whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful
service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start
them thinking.” R: Roberts

+ − =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1000w

+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 80w

“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific
educational program.”

+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 390w

“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as
distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made
immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has
failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his
work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again
fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an
interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a
document.”

+ − =Review= 3:94 Jl 28 ’20 170w

+ =School R= 28:637 O ’20 170w

“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of
our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very
illuminating.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 250w

“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their
neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which
determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by
it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky

+ − =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 200w

=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield 808.1

20–12047

Poetry, the author holds, is not subject to evolution in its essence
but is an unchanging function of an unchanging life and its three
genres, the lyrical, the dramatic and the epic, are comparable to the
three eternal ways of meeting experience: “as simply a present moment,
or as a present moment in which the past is reaped, or as a present
moment in which the future is promised.” The other essays of the
volume are: The teaching of poetry; The new poetry; Scholarship and
poetry.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Of great value to all lovers of poetry is Mr Erskine’s book. His
criticism is keen and trenchant and happily expressed in a style
peculiarly his own.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 490w

“When his moral prejudices are not in the way, Mr Erskine is a sound
writer.” Llewellyn Jones

+ − =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 800w

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 20w

Reviewed by W: McFee

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 D 31 ’20 1700w

“One will find great pleasure in his book, but it will hardly take its
place as an important document.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 1050w

“They are characterized by a fine mingling of discrimination and
common sense. His breadth of view, his refusal to rest content with
mere special scholarship, gives value to his advice about the teaching
of poetry.”

+ =No Am= 212:572 O ’20 850w

Reviewed by L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 720w

“An uneven book in which the critical elements are decidedly superior
to the constructive ones.”

+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 410w

“There is somewhat too much of that intellectual writing around a
subject which is common with persons who are afraid of the obvious,
but, on the whole, the book will awaken thought; it will not do this
the less because some of its reasoning will arouse criticism.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1100w

=ERVINE, ST JOHN GREER.= Foolish lovers. *$2 (1c) Macmillan

20–8447

Mr Ervine’s new book is dedicated to his mother, who asked him to
write a story without any “bad words” in it, and to Mrs J. O. Hanny,
who asked him to write a story without any “sex” in it. It is the
story of a charmingly conceited young Irishman who goes to London to
write novels and plays and comes home again to be a grocer. John’s
boyhood is spent in the home over the shop where three generations of
MacDermotts had preceded him. He grows up under the care of his
mother, his Uncle Matthew, the dreamer whose dreams come to nothing,
and his Uncle William, who supports the family. He goes to London
where he meets Eleanor. He asks her to marry him almost at first
meeting, dogs her steps and finally persuades her to marry him, only
to find that she has leagued herself with his mother to persuade him
back to Ballyards and the shop.

* * * * *

“‘The foolish lovers’ has nothing to commend it but a good beginning.
Why did he write it? Or, rather, why did he give up writing it?
Perhaps he would reply that what is not worth doing is not worth doing
well. It is a possible explanation.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 600w

+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20

“It is regrettable that so good a story as this bears so poor a title.
‘The foolish lovers’ is neither an exact nor an appealing designation
for a novel that is so full of the commonsense of life.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 22 ’20 1950w

“Mr Ervine, in spite of his obvious determination to fix securely the
‘local coloring,’ has failed to evoke the fine, harsh, sincere reality
of the Black Northerners with whom his story deals. Prose drama is,
after all, this author’s true medium.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 100w

=Lit D= p97 O 23 ’20 1850w

“John McDermott himself is not altogether credible. His exploits,
especially his wooing of Eleanor—the central thing in the book—have
none of the homely vigor and quiet truth of the Irish scenes and
incidents. Here and there Mr Ervine gives us glimpses of a more
searching novel he might write about the people of Ulster. But he
deliberately cut himself off from that possibility here by the kindly
promises to be harmless which he records in his dedication.” Ludwig
Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 500w

“To put it all as briefly as possible, ‘The foolish lovers,’ while not
so remarkable a book as ‘Changing winds,’ is worthy of its author—and
to say that a book is worthy of St John Ervine is to give it high
praise.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1200w

“Modern taste hardly asks for anything really better than such a suave
and frank, sympathetically critical and wisely humorous treatment of
life as is found in this book. Its tone just suits the mood of the
cultivated man or woman of today who has outgrown youthful tastes but
has retained a certain independence of view-point. In charm and in
acuteness—the two qualities generally most worth commending in the
fiction of the day, in which hysteria is so apt to take the place of
power—‘The foolish lovers’ is preeminent.”

+ =No Am= 212:287 Ag ’20 660w

“‘The foolish lovers’ exemplifies to a very high degree the special
gifts which have made its author’s novels notable among recent
fiction. Mr Ervine has something of Dickens’s love for people. No more
delightfully tender description of a courtship is contained in recent
fiction, nor any which so finely sets forth as that in ‘The foolish
lovers’ the unconscious humor of young love.” L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 125:388 Je 23 ’20 2950w

“Mr Ervine’s tale is in the new-British mode, the post-Wellsian,
somewhat diffuse, somewhat overburdened with scenes and ‘characters,’
if not, in this instance, with ‘ideas.’” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:91 Jl 28 ’20 350w

“The portraits of his family are excellent, and the way he imposes
himself on Eleanor is ably studied.”

+ =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 110w

“Mr St John Ervine has chosen an old theme, but he has invested it
with the freshness and vigour which we have come to expect from his
work.”

+ =Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 550w

“The story is rich in whimsical observations on personal
characteristics and political trends, and engages the reader’s close
interest in all its phases.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 600w

“By far the most attractive part of his story takes place in
Ballyards. The characters of Uncle William and Uncle Matthew are
delightful. The success with which Mr Ervine brings out their
simplicity and nobility of character is a convincing proof of his
gifts as a novelist.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Je 24 ’20 800w

=ESCOUFLAIRE, RODOLPHE C.= Ireland an enemy of the allies? tr. from the French. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5

20–5757

“M. Escouflaire’s thesis in this volume is that the Irish question
so-called is ‘an international imposture.’ In years past this French
writer had accepted anti-British propaganda from Ireland at its face
value, but his contact with British statesmen during the war led him
to question his earlier conclusions, and in the present volume after
an independent study of Ireland’s relations with England he declares
categorically that the whole Irish claim of oppression by England, so
far as the present generation is concerned, is a myth.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The egotism of his attitude is bewildering, but it is the key to a
treatment of Irish affairs which would otherwise be merely stupidly
unfair and ungenerous.”

− =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 80w

“The book is a grotesque perversion of all Irish history, ancient and
modern. The author’s gross ignorance is never corrected by the
translator.” E. A. Boyd

− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 200w

“Lovers of England must trust that she will not listen to such
counsels as these.” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 360w

=N Y Times= pl Ag 1 ’20 750w

“His book is well written, but without the wise judgment that comes
through the sympathetic understanding that such men as Lloyd George
bring to the problem.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w

“M. Escouflaire’s book must be laid down with a sigh of
disappointment. It is the sort of work which can help no one, a
perfect specimen of how Irish matters should not be discussed, and
those most anxious for the object he sets before himself should be the
first to repudiate the methods by which he is seeking it. The present
critic hates Sinn Fein and all its works as much as M. Escouflaire can
hate them, but he would wish to see it attacked with artillery not so
far out of range.” H. L. Stewart

− + =Review= 2:676 Je 30 ’20 2000w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w

“Accurate and spirited little book.”

+ =Spec= 123:732 N 29 ’19 440w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 30w

=ESSEN, LÉON VAN DER.= Short history of Belgium. il *$1.50 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 949.3

20–2285

This second and enlarged edition of the original book contains a
special chapter on Belgium during the war. The book is illustrated and
has a bibliography and an index. The first edition was published in
1916.

* * * * *

“Dr Van der Essen has succeeded admirably in confining a record of
monumental size within the compass of a small volume. Yet, in doing
so, he has not sacrificed clearness for brevity nor interest for
compactness.”

+ =Cath World= 112:117 O ’20 210w

+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 40w

“Professor van der Essen has treated this difficult and often
intricate subject with admirable skill; though writing with a
scholar’s intimate knowledge of his country’s history, he has
succeeded in steering clear from the shoal of ponderosity and dulness.
Here and there the Roman Catholic has led the historian astray.”

+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 750w

“It is a fascinating story told by a master of the facts who writes
with a fine sense of proportion.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 140w

=EVANS, CARADOC.= My neighbors. *$1.75 (5c) Harcourt

20–5187

More stories of a Welsh rural neighborhood by the author of “My
people” and “Capel Sion.” In a prologue entitled “The Welsh people”
the author offers some explanation of the ugly and distorted aspects
of human nature that he presents. The stories are: Love and hate;
According to the pattern; The two apostles; Earthbred; For better;
Treasure and trouble; Saint David and the prophets; Joseph’s house;
Like brothers; A widow woman; Unanswered prayers; Lost treasure;
Profit and glory.

* * * * *

“I happen to know something of Welsh religion, and I have written not
a little in criticism of it. But the religion which Mr Evans describes
I have never met with. We Welsh have many grievous faults, and we have
not been as faithful in self-criticism as we should have been. But Mr
Caradoc Evans’s book does not describe us. It describes only Mr
Caradoc Evans’s own soul; and it is not a pretty sight.”

− =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 550w

“Mr Evans’s artistic gift is very genuine but hard and narrow. In its
present trend one can see little chance for its development. The
stories are like rocks—impressive but barren. The preface is written
in a more flexible vein and a more ironic mood. In it the language of
the English Bible, from which Mr Evans draws, is transmuted for the
uses of his artistic intention. In the stories themselves it is
employed merely as a weapon. But his work has fierce honesty,
concentration, power. It is sanative and, within its definite limits,
completely achieved.”

+ − =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 450w

“But does he really traverse the whole stage? We cannot think so.
Where there are Goneril and Regan we cry out for a Cordelia, and Mr
Evans would, we think, have made his terrible portraits more effective
even than they are already if he had introduced more contrast and
relief into them.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 27:77 Ap 17 ’20 600w

“Mr Evans knows the Welsh intimately and searchingly, and his
portrayal of their daily lives, their bickerings, prayings and
aspirations is altogether ruthless and incisive.” Pierre Loving

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 800w

“The hardy reader who will persist beyond the almost impenetrable
idiom of Caradoc Evans will be richly rewarded. Especially do we
recommend the book to reformers, utopists, spinners of millennial
dreams.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 600w

=N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 320w

“He is sometimes difficult to follow, partly because the dialogue is
in English literally translated from the Welsh, and partly because the
stories are almost excessively condensed; but the subdued irony and
false simplicity are delightful, and he knows the sovereign power of
the restraint which leaves events to explain themselves without heavy
exegesis.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p154 Mr 4 ’20 450w

=EVANS, EDWARD RADCLIFFE GARTH RUSSELL.= Keeping the seas. il *$3 Warne 940.45

20–2282

“Captain Evans saw a great deal of the Dover patrol and of all it
included. He tells his experiences, so to speak, right on end and in a
kind of chronological order. He is a witness who was there and records
what has remained in his mind of what he saw. And he had notable
things to remember; for he commanded the Broke in the action of March,
1917, in the Straits. The war produced few such passages of conflict
as the action in the Straits. Captain Evans’ services, like those of
other officers, consisted in the main of cruising and watching. At the
end he was afforded a change in the direction of Gibraltar and the
Portuguese coast.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20

“His ‘simple sailor volume,’ as he calls it, is full of miscellaneous
stories which would have been the better if they had been more
carefully digested; but if the whole is rather confusing, not a little
good matter is to be found in the heap.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1050w

=EVANS, MRS ELIDA.= Problem of the nervous child. *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7

20–6871

This volume comes with an introduction by Dr C. G. Jung of Zurich who
says of the author: “Mrs Evans’ knowledge of her subject matter is
based on the solid foundation of practical experience, an experience
gained in the difficult and toilsome treatment and education of
nervous children.... This book, as the reader can see on almost every
page, is the fruit of an extended work in the field of neuroses and
abnormal characters.” Its purpose is to aid parents in the training
and education of their children, not to add another “to the already
long list of textbooks explaining psychoanalytical treatment for
nervous troubles.” It does not presuppose scientific training in the
laws of human development on the part of those for whom the book is
intended and therefore avoids technical terms and abstruse discussions
as far as possible, giving only end results of present day research
and observation on the subject, with examples of cases. Contents:
Statement of the problem; The development of repression; Symbolic
thought; The child and the adult; Mental behaviour of the child;
Defence reactions; The parent complex; Buried emotions; Child
training; Muscle erotism; The tyrant child; Teaching of right and
wrong; Self and character; Index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

“There are spots in the book where the all-absorbing panacea of
psycho-analytic therapy is too powerful, and she over-stresses the
environment, losing sight of the medico-psychological fact that many
defects are organically directed. The book needs a broader sensing and
interpreting of the ever present interplay between the hereditary and
environmental forces.” H. F. Coffin, M.D.

+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w

=EVANS, LAWTON BRYAN.= America first. il *$2.50 Bradley, M. 973

20–16082

“Instead of being what the title might imply, the volume contains one
hundred stories from the history of America in condensed form and
written in a style that will prove interesting to the juvenile reader.
The author goes on the supposition that the nearer a story is to the
life of the child, the more eagerly it is absorbed. True stories, he
says, about our own people, about our neighbors and friends and about
our own country at large, are more interesting than true stories of
remote people and places. The stories grouped in the volume open with
‘Leif, the lucky,’ and continue down through history to the time when
Americans made history over-seas.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“An excellent piece of work. The book will be a valuable supplement to
school study of our national history and it will stimulate a healthy
national pride.”

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w

=Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 180w

=EVARTS, HAL GEORGE.= Cross pull. *$1.90 (3½c) Knopf

20–4269

The hero of this story is Flash, a cross between wolf, coyote and dog.
Clark Moran took him as a puppy and tamed him and the dog in him
responded to kindness. To one other Flash gives his allegiance, to
Betty, the girl from the East who comes into the mountains. To most
other humans he is indifferent, but there is one he hates. The story
tells how he served his two loved ones in a crisis, and how in so
doing he took his own revenge on his enemy. In the end he settles down
as a safe and trusted house dog, but there were times when the wild
strain awakened and at those times, on still nights during the mating
moon, certain civilized suburbanites would experience a primitive
shudder at hearing the lone wolf’s call.

* * * * *

“Not over humanized or sentimentalized; one of the best dog stories.”

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“A better novel it might have been, but a better animal study it could
scarcely have been.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 200w

“A story of more than ordinary interest either as an ‘animal story’ or
a ‘live’ western romance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w

=EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL.= Arguments and speeches: ed., with an introd., by his son Sherman Evarts. 3v *$15 Macmillan 815

19–16299

“Mr Evarts (1818–1901) as leader of the American bar, orator, and
statesman, was one of the most conspicuous of American citizens in the
nineteenth century. This substantial collection of his public
utterances not only provides a record of his career, but an important
document for the social and political events of his day and for the
history of American oratory. He was the leading counsel for the
defendant in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Jackson in
1868; and in 1872 was counsel for the United States in the Alabama
arbitration at Geneva. He was secretary of state during President
Hayes’s administration (1877–1881) and one of the senators for New
York 1885–1891.”—The Times [London]. Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The editor’s introductions and comments are brief and well chosen
throughout. Taken as a whole, the volumes are a worthy memorial to one
of the influential leaders of the American bar, and of the Republican
party during a difficult period of our history.” W: A. Robinson

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:349 My ’20 360w

“The ‘Springbok’ argument is said by our leading authority on
international law to be as good an argument in a prize case as he has
ever read. The defense of Andrew Johnson was equally worth reprinting.
As to the rest of the three volumes there is much room for doubt.”
Zechariah Chafee, jr.

+ − =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 1100w

+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 28 ’20 1650w

“These volumes should find a place in all public libraries, especially
those of the higher institutions of learning, and in many private
libraries. especially those of persons interested in the political
history of the United States.”

+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 300w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 100w

“We are glad to find, in sampling these volumes, that Evarts’s high
reputation for eloquence is fully justified.”

+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w

Reviewed by Moorfield Storey

=Yale R= n s 10:189 O ’20 1200w

=EVISON, MILLICENT.= Rainbow gold. il *$1.75 Lothrop

While their father is serving a term of imprisonment on a charge of
embezzlement three young people, Toni, Basil and Cecily, go to live
with their grandfather in a lonely old house in Maine. The grandfather
is crabbed and cold and the two aunts have become as dull and drab as
the old house. The story tells how the children bring new life into it
and how Toni wins her grandfather’s heart and moves him to take steps
toward a new hearing of their father’s case which proves his
innocence.

F

=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Secret of everyday things; informal talks with the children: tr. from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell. il *$2.50 Century 504

20–17586

This book for young readers contains another selection of Uncle Paul’s
talks, following “The story-book of science,” “Our humble helpers” and
“Field, forest and farm.” Among the everyday things discussed are
Thread; Pins; Needles; Silk; Wool; Flax and hemp; Weaving; Woolen
cloth; Moths; Calico; Dyeing and printing; Human habitations; Soap;
Fire; Matches; Glass; Iron; Rust; Pottery; Coffee; Sugar; Tea; Bread;
Air; Evaporation; Rain; Snow; The force of steam; Sound and light.
There are occasional illustrations in the text.

* * * * *

“Would be useful in junior high schools.”

+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20

“Didacticism flies before Fabre’s freshness of style like dust before
a broom.”

+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 80w

“The insect world has been recreated for lay readers by the patience
and the genius of Fabre. Here his themes are homelier but his gift for
accurate information, made fascinating in the telling, is the same.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 90w

“The heart and mind of a scientist, the style of an artist, and the
sympathy of a man whose child spirit never died live in the book.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 150w

=FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN.= Conservation reader. il *$1.20 World bk. 338

20–8813

This book is one of the Conservation series and is especially designed
for the education of children in right ways of looking at nature. It
is the author’s opinion that much of the enthusiasm for conservation
will expend itself uselessly unless it can be made to reach the
children and the purpose of the book is to present its principles to
pupils in a simple and interesting manner. Among the contents are: How
our first ancestors lived; The earth as it was before the coming of
civilized men; How far will nature restore her wasted gifts? Things of
which soil is made; The use and care of water; How the forests are
wasted; Our forest playgrounds; What is happening to the wild flowers;
What shall we do when the coal, oil, and gas are gone? What is
happening to the animals and birds; How to bring the wild creatures
back again. Among the many illustrations are two color prints and
there is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20

“Well adapted for use in the intermediate grades.”

+ =El School J= 21:156 O ’20 120w

=FALKENHAYN, ERICH GEORG ANTON SEBASTIAN VON.= German general staff and its decisions, 1914–1916. *$5 Dodd 940.343

20–2294

“The book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according
to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas
by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the
two years of the war when I was at the head of the general staff. My
statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense
of the word. They touch upon the events of the war, and other
occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary
to justify the decisions of the general staff.” (Preface) Contents:
The change of chief of the general staff; The general military
situation in the middle of September, 1914: The battles of the Yser
and around Lodz; The period from the beginning of trench warfare in
November-December, 1914, until the recommencement of the war of
movement in 1915; The break-through at Gorlice-Tarnow and its
consequences; Operations against Russia in the summer and autumn of
1915; Beginning of the unrestricted submarine campaign; Attempts to
break through in the west in the autumn of 1915, and the campaign
against Serbia; The situation at the end of 1915; The campaign of
1916; Comparative review of the relative strength of forces
(Appendix); Maps.

* * * * *

“The work itself is a memoir, rather than a history. It makes no
references to authorities, and furnishes little in the form of
documents, but it bears evidence of more careful preparation than is
usual with memoirs and of being based on authentic records or accurate
first-hand knowledge.” J: Bigelow

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:500 Ap ’20 750w

=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 2800w

=Lit D= p123 Ap 17 ’20 1400w

“Both as a personal apologia and as a revealing of inside German
military history this volume is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s
book—indeed, it is better; it is less clumsy and tart, its language is
clearer and terser.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 240w

“With one exception, his book is a candid and apparently
straightforward statement of the problems he was called upon to solve,
and as such it will always be valuable to the special student, but not
to the general public: it proves nothing.”

+ − =Review= 3:533 D 1 ’20 2100w

“General von Falkenhayn’s book on the war is, from the military
standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff’s
memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural
man’s desire for revelations of the enemy’s domestic controversies.
The attentive reader of his book will be impressed with General von
Falkenhayn’s personality. He writes like a soldier, not like a
politician.”

+ =Spec= 123:895 D 27 ’19 1750w

“Von Falkenhayn’s book is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s. It has
the merit of being shorter; it contains a much smaller admixture of
politics; and its handling of personal controversies, though
sufficiently tart, is less clumsy and disagreeable than Ludendorff’s.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 2200w

=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= On the trail of the pioneers; romance, tragedy, and triumph of the path of empire. il *$3.50 Doran 978

20–7011

The present volume does not give in full detail the historical
background of the successive great movements of population from the
East to the West but rather actual typical cases of emigrants on the
move. “It ... gives glimpses of many of these great movements, the
routes the emigrants took, and the sections to which they went. The
endeavor is made to answer the questions, Who were the emigrants? How
and where did they travel? What adventures did they have by the way?
What were their impressions of the country through which they passed?
What did they do when they reached their destinations?” (Preface) For
this purpose full use has been made of the records of early travellers
and pioneers. Contents: Through the Cumberland gap to Kentucky and
Tennessee; Through the Pittsburgh and Wheeling gateways; Floating down
the Ohio and the Mississippi; From northern New York and New England
to the West; The Santa Fe trail; The Oregon trail; Across the plains
to California; Toiling up the Missouri; Bibliography; Index; Maps and
illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20

“An excellent, condensed history.”

+ =Cath World= 111:697 Ag ’20 120w

+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 50w

=N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 150w

“While sketchy and disjointed, Mr Faris’s book presents enough that is
piquant or solidly interesting to lure the reader to search further
for himself.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 700w

“The author has accomplished a scholarly piece of work without
pedantry or tedious generalization. The writing of the book is so
fresh and entertaining that the general reader will find it a real
pleasure to peruse it.”

+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w

“There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in
the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries,
resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and
some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant
passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils
of ‘literary’ friends.” C. L. Skinner

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:185 O ’20 330w

=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Seeing the Far West. il *$6 Lippincott 917.8

20–17297

“John T. Faris’s ‘Seeing the Far West’ has chapters upon the scenery
of Colorado, Arizona, the Yellowstone, the Sierras, Oregon, and
Washington.” (Review) “He regales his readers with bits of gossip and
local history that enliven and endow with a human interest the scenes
to which he leads them.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“The writing of the book is simple and direct, gaining thereby in
clearness and force. Its sincerity cannot be questioned and its
personal touches and humanness stir alive one’s jaded interest in
travel volumes.” J. W. D. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 11 ’20 560w

“‘Seeing the far West’ is a desirable addition to any home library.”

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 140w

“Occasionally the reader finds flashes of description that are
characterized by originality, but, on the whole, the writer is content
with conventional utterance.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 160w

“The book will take its place as one of the best of the ‘boosters’ for
seeing the great West.”

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w

“Mr Faris has the enviable trick of making one see. He sets one
dreaming golden, fantastic, rainbow dreams, and leaves one,—as only
the most vivid dreams can leave one,—half convinced that one has
actually been there in the flesh.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 370w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 40w

“It is well illustrated with photographs which show that Mr Faris is
not too enthusiastic in his descriptions.”

+ =Spec= 125:748 D 4 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 200w

“Mr Faris’s main difficulty is that he has so many things to write
about. In fact, he would have given a clearer idea of the country if
of its natural features he had been content to describe fully one of
each kind instead of—in perhaps a spirit of democratic equality—giving
a shorter account of several.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 N 18 ’20 1250w

=FARNELL, IDA.=[2] Spanish prose and poetry old and new. *$5.25 Oxford 860.8

20–22172

“‘Spanish prose and poetry, old and new.’ by Ida Farnell is a
collection made in the belief that one of the consequences of the war
will be an increased interest in the literature of the Latin races.
Miss Farnell has endeavored to show something of the spirit of Spanish
literature by translated extracts from authors ranging from the
fourteenth to the nineteenth century (omitting the eighteenth as an
age of decadence), to which she has prefixed short biographies of the
writers.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar
difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments
and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.”
N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1250w

“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic
bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her
translations satisfy.”

+ − =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 29 ’20 80w

=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little

20–20647

This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby,
Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard
Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and
returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the
rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has
since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth
in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the
same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the
island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love
grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of
vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events
develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a
solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough
fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.

* * * * *

“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone
towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a
good account of himself as regards both these models.”

+ =Ath= p442 O 1 ’20 110w

“The story would be much more effective were it narrated in forthright
English.” E. F. Edgett

+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 1600w

“The author has written a thrilling and convincing sea story with so
many quaint characters and so much cut-and-thrust action that it is
hard to find anything which may be offered as a parallel in very
recent fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 380w

“The action is as rapid as ever. The ingenuity with which Mr Farnol
creates fresh situations of romance is tireless.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 700w

=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Geste of Duke Jocelyn. il *$2.50 Little

20–16930

In this merry jest is romance and knight errantry of old. The tale
tells of one Duke Jocelyn of Brocelaunde, a puissant knight, but
marred of face so that he despairs of winning the love of the
beautiful lady Yolande. He dons his fool’s motley garb with cap and
bells and sets out with one lonely, poorly garbed knight to act the
part of the Duke’s envoy and press his suit. They meet with many
adventures in the forest, fall in with Robin Hood, make friends and
fight many a brave fight with and for him. Even the Lady Yolande is
intrigued by the fool’s merry songs and after he has rescued her from
a hated suitor, she yields to his love and openly declares it before
the assembled knights of the Duke of Brocelaunde. Songs and rhymes,
blank verse and prose mingle in the telling of the tale.

* * * * *

“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a
medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready
metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”

+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 70w

“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or
old.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 120w

“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest
story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it
makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 540w

“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional
products that have come from the presses this year.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 740w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 360w

“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits
of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his
cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any
father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and
invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with
marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions
that would escape her.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 D 11 ’19 650w

=FARNSWORTH, CHARLES HUBERT.= How to study music. *$2.10 (3½c) Macmillan 780.7

20–19843

Professor Frank M. McMurry in his introduction to the volume points
out that the teacher’s method of teaching may unduly overshadow in
importance the child’s method of study. This little book places the
emphasis on the child’s method of study and takes the form of home
conversations between the children and the adults of the family. It
shows how a child’s appreciation of music requires a fertile home soil
for its growth and how Jack’s initial “I hate music” can be changed
into his final “I love music.” Contents: Difficulties in the study of
music; How listen to music; How learn notation without awakening a
dislike for music; How a child should learn to sing; How learn to play
the piano; How learn to enjoy classical as well as modern music; How
to select music; How make use of music in the family; Library of piano
compositions.

* * * * *

“The unusual characteristic about the book is the fact that the
problems are presented from the viewpoint of both pupil and teacher.
In this respect it is better than a formal text would probably be.
Indeed, the author evidently sought to exemplify his philosophy of
teaching by the book itself.”

+ =El School J= 21:317 D ’20 510w

=FARRAR, JOHN CHIPMAN.= Forgotten shrines. (Yale ser. of younger poets) *75c Yale univ. press 811

20–3703

“Mr Farrar has earned a reputation which foreruns this book of his
with a war poem called ‘Brest left behind.’ He divides his poems in
groups called Portraits, Songs for children and others, Miscellaneous
and Sonnets. The first group of Portraits won the eighteenth award of
the prize offered by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook at Yale for
the best unpublished verse by an undergraduate.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Beautiful in thought and expression.”

+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 200w

“He gives us a fine sense of diversity of interests and a balance of
form that is admirable.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 340w

“Mr Farrar has achieved clear and tender outlines in the section
called Portraits, and should be encouraged to proceed further.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w

=FARRISS, CHARLES SHERWOOD.=[2] American soul. $1 Stratford co. 920

20–22043

“An appreciation of the four greatest Americans and their lesson for
present Americans.” (Sub-title) The four Americans are: George
Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Theodore Roosevelt.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the author is quite happy in his attempt to draw the
moral without overpainting the tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w

+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 30w

=FAY, CHARLES RYLE.= Life and labour in the nineteenth century. *$8 Macmillan 331.8

(Eng ed 20–16219)

“Though the title sounds as if ‘Life and labor in the nineteenth
century’ were solely on economics, and though economics gets plenty of
treatment, Captain Fay’s lectures cover the political history of
England and its international adventures. It is only the fact that
wars are not described that prevents it from being a history of
England in the nineteenth century.” (N Y Times) “The volume contains
the substance of the author’s lectures, delivered at Cambridge in
1919, to students of economics among whom were officers of the Royal
navy and students from the United States army.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)

* * * * *

=Ath= p47 Jl 9 ’20 800w

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w

“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least
American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical
reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although
they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a
careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its
politics, written in a vivacious style.”

+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 26 ’20 1950w

“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does
not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the
freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in
which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of
‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to
manufacture.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w

=FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.=[2] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 940.45

=v 1= The cruiser period.

“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British
fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every
incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up
in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the
Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions
taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South
Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Altogether, ‘The cruiser period’ is a notable addition to the history
of the war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 350w

+ =Spec= 125:707 N 27 ’20 1350w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p787 D 2 ’20 1650w

=FELD, ROSE CAROLINE.= Humanizing industry. *$2.50 Dutton 331.1

20–8521

“Miss Feld has written a story concerning one Struthers who,
inheriting an industrial plant run on old-fashioned lines of
benevolent despotism, tries to introduce modern ideas and overcomes
one by one the obstacles created by a bad tradition. It is not
fiction, but the method of telling enhances the impression of the
author’s belief in good personal relationships and common sense as the
most promising approaches to a humanization of industry. Incidentally,
the book discusses in detail and with reference to successful
experiments the merits of welfare, educational, insurance, pension,
profit sharing and industrial representation schemes.”—Survey

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20

Reviewed by G: Soule

=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 50w

“There seems to be one thing overlooked. In speaking of human
relations, the author seems to have in mind kindliness, friendliness,
charitableness—of which we have none too much. She does not mean
anything as fundamental as the economic relationship of classes to one
another, to the soil and natural resources, to the powers of
government. She reminds me pathetically of the reformers who hoped to
save the institution of slavery by inducing slave holders to treat
their slaves and mules in a more kindly way.” B. C. G.

− + =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 580w

“It is a book that all employers of labor ought to read, because
whether or not they have sensed that new era, or even entered upon it,
they will find in it eye-opening ideas, helpful suggestions. It is a
book that all laboring men who have begun to think ought to read,
because it will set them on the right track in their thinking.”