Chapter XXXI: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (1)

History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims;
British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the
Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera, and
Italy; The château country of France; England and London. Part III is
devoted to Divisional histories of American divisions in France, and
an Appendix presents statistics. There are numerous maps,
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“This guidebook has several valuable features.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 26 ’20 250w

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 170w

“The ‘American guidebook’ is not compact. It is badly organized and
repetitious. Of the 20–odd maps in the book, not one is of practical
value to the tourist. The only worth-while section of the book is the
part devoted to brief tabular histories of A. E. F. divisions. The
information given in this department is compact, well-presented and
satisfying.” J: T. Winterich

− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 770w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 80w

=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Rick and Ruddy. il $1.50 (2½c) Bradley, M.

20–23176

The story of a boy and his dog. Rick wants a dog but his mother is
obdurate. She does not like dogs and is afraid that even the best of
them might be tempted to bite Mazie, Rick’s little sister. Then Ruddy,
the red setter, is washed up out of the sea and since he seems to have
come in direct answer to Rick’s prayer, she cannot turn him away. Boy
and dog have happy adventures together. Ruddy guides Rick home when
the two are lost and he rescues the little sister from drowning. The
tramp sailor who had been his former owner returns and tries to gain
possession of him but Ruddy is recovered and returned to his true
master Rick.

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 30w

=GASS, SHERLOCK BRONSON.= Lover of the chair. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 814

20–85

“Mr Gass turns over from many angles the leading problems of education
in a democracy, and the wider problem of democracy itself. The matter
is generally cast in dialogues, with the disillusioned scholar
described in the title as arbitrator. On the side of education the
author has no difficulty in showing that the present lurch towards
vocational training in the public schools is really not democratic at
all. It assumes that a child is to be fitted for a place in which he
shall stay—an aristocratic assumption. The book closes with an
autobiographical fragment which is its best literary feature and has
the advantage of bringing the various problems involved to a moral
focus.”—Review

* * * * *

Reviewed by Mary Terrill

=Bookm= 51:192 Ap ’20 950w

“Despite the friendly humor and gentleness of the essayist there is
the iron of sharp experience and the steel of strong convictions to
give point and edge to his critical depictions of men and manners.” H.
A.

+ =New Repub= 24:51 S 8 ’20 820w

+ =N Y Times= 25:213 Ap 25 ’20 50w

“Despite a certain crabbedness and inflexibility of literary form, the
book is a notable one. It is thought through, and has flights of grave
eloquence. As a survey and estimate of modern society, as offering a
tenacious criticism which is ever tinged with human sympathy, the book
is a true landmark.”

+ =Review= 2:157 F 14 ’20 580w

=GASTON, HERBERT E.= Nonpartisan league. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 329

20–6358

The author of the present volume is thoroughly acquainted with the
history of the Nonpartisan league from the inside, and tells the story
of its foundation and growth sympathetically but dispassionately,
leaving the reader to make his own estimate of its importance as a
political and social movement. In his final survey the author says:
“Any cult or propaganda becomes dangerous if it comes close to the
truth. ‘Menaces’ to the existing order of society are born of the
evils of existing society in conflict with human needs and natural
human desires. To brand a group, a cult, a society, a religion, as
disloyal or disreputable is one way of fighting it, but it need not
forever damn it.” Contents: The Nonpartisan league—what it is; North
Dakota; Seeds of rebellion; Breaking ground; Terminal elevators; The
leader for the occasion; Applied psychology; “Six-dollar suckers”;
Publicity; The enemy opens fire; Choosing the candidates; The first
campaign; Leaguers in power; The League becomes “national”; War
issues; Producers and consumers; “Patrioteering”; Growth and power;
The second big battle; League democracy at work; “The new day in North
Dakota”; Another crisis passed; Organization changes; Survey and
forecast.

* * * * *

“Three years’ employment on the publication controlled by the league
has given Mr Gaston an intimate knowledge of the organization, and,
although the reader is assured of a ‘conscientious effort to make a
faithful report of facts of essential interest,’ favorable conclusions
are the rule. This point should be kept in view in judging the matter
presented.” G: M. Janes

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:628 S ’20 1700w

“A very readable history of North Dakota’s recent interesting
contribution to politics.”

+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

“This book is an authoritative and to a certain extent an unbiased
statement of the genesis and growth of the movement.” G. M. J.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1000w

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 20w

“An extremely lucid, vigorous, well-written account of one of the most
extraordinary movements in our political history. The league is
fortunate in having an apologist as clear-minded and as fair-minded as
Mr Gaston: his book has the character not of propaganda but of
history.”

+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 150w

“An indispensable book for the study of middle western politics.”

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w

“A severe critic will find in it much to praise, little to blame. Of
course certain transactions are glossed over. All important events are
given ‘with bright protective coloration.’ While the book has
historical sequence, it lacks philosophical unity.” J. E. Boyle

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:619 Jl ’20 1450w

“The Nonpartisan league has been the victim of an unconscionable
amount of lying. The more notable, therefore, is the service performed
by Mr Gaston in writing a book that gives not only the facts, but the
truth, concerning this remarkable political organization. Mr Gaston
writes with sympathy for the league, yet with scrupulous fairness to
its opponents. The story is told simply, directly, and with an absence
of partisanship and bitterness remarkable in view of the fierce
struggle of the past five years.” H: R. Mussey

+ =Nation= 110:656 My 15 ’20 1450w

“Admirable account.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 My 9 ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p28 Ag 22 ’20 80w

“Although the author warns the readers of his possible bias, he has
nevertheless written dispassionately and in good spirit and, on the
whole, accurately.”

+ =Outlook= 125:430 Je 30 ’20 2400w

“His book is as readable as it is earnest. In his own language, he
‘puts it across.’ It is a great pity that one must lay the book aside
with the thought that though it is interesting it is little more than
an excellent piece of campaign apologetics.”

+ − =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 1500w

“His narrative throws much light on agrarian conditions in the Middle
West and Northwest.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w

“No doubt the impartial and critical historian of the future will
discover that the narrative is colored in favor of the movement the
author traces. Nevertheless, the work is a worthy one and gives a
fairly reliable account of a most interesting experiment.” J: M.
Gillette

+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 690w

“It is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to
be frank and honest, with so little rhetoric and apology, that we must
accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from
an insider adequately informed for his task.” W: E. Walling

+ =Yale R= n s 10:222 O ’20 800w

=GATLIN, DANA.= Missy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–20320

Missy, short for Melissa Merriam, is ten when we first make her
acquaintance in this book. Some of her adventures and experiences in
the years between ten and seventeen are told in chapters entitled: The
flame divine; “Your true friend, Melissa M.”; Like a singing bird;
Missy tackles romance; In the manner of the Duchess; Influencing
Arthur; Business of blushing; A happy downfall; Dobson saves the day,
and Missy cans the cosmos. Missy is the kind of girl who had “been
endowed with eyes that could shine and a voice that could quaver; yes,
and with an instinct for just the right argument to play upon the
heart-strings.” From the day when, in childish religious fervor, she
prays publicly “O Lord, please forgive me for being a spy-eye when
Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless
life,” her mental processes are original. Some of the chapters have
appeared in short story form in various popular magazines.

+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“What Booth Tarkington did for the growing boy with ‘Penrod,’ Dana
Gatlin has written for the girl, with the difference that ‘Penrod’ is
done with broad effects for humor, while ‘Missy’ is a more delicate
piece of workmanship.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 500w

“This book is an almost perfect example of the department store
romance. There is not a glimmer of anything that might disturb the
picture. The book is fairly well written and many will like it.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 60w

=GAY, ROBERT MALCOLM.= Writing through reading. 90c Atlantic monthly press 808

20–10291

This “suggestive method of writing English with directions and
exercises” (Sub-title) has for its object the acquisition of a command
of language and discipline and drill in clearness, vigor and
conciseness. The author believes that the problem of teaching writing
as an art and a tool of expression can be greatly simplified by
retelling the thoughts of others and the methods considered in the
book are: translating; paraphrasing; condensing; imitating prose, and
imitating verse. Contents: Introduction: reading and writing;
Transcribing and writing from dictation; Translating; Paraphrasing;
The abstract; Imitation and emulation.

* * * * *

“Suggestive to anyone interested in effective writing.”

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Beyond all question ‘Writing through reading’ is the type of textbook
which eleventh and twelfth-grade classes in composition ought to be
able to follow with great profit.”

+ =School R= 28:632 O ’20 320w

=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and FLAHERTY, MARTIN CHARLES=, comps. Poetry of the people. 88c Ginn 821.08

20–11327

This volume has now been enlarged by the addition of a section devoted
to Poems of the world war: historical and patriotic. There are also
added four pages of notes on Popular songs of the world war.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and KURTZ, BENJAMIN PUTNAM.= Methods and materials of literary criticism. $3 Ginn 808.1

20–11325

“This book is the second of a series entitled ‘Methods and materials
of literary criticism’, the volumes of which, though contributory to a
common aim, are severally independent.’ The first volume (Gayley and
Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and
poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the
methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, the
epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching
completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms.”
(Preface) The book is made up of two parts: The lyric and some of its
special forms; The epic and minor forms of narrative poetry. Each of
these subjects is considered under two aspects: Theory and technique,
and Historical development, and a list of general references is
provided for each, in addition to frequent references in the text. An
appendix contains a brief bibliography of the history of poetry (60
pages) and there is an index.

* * * * *

“The work here accomplished is an honor to American literary
scholarship and is of great and enduring value.”

+ =Cath World= 112:541 Ja ’21 230w

“The helpfulness of such a compilation can hardly be overestimated.
Testing the book from the standpoint of a student of the classical
types of literature one is impressed by the completeness of the
bibliographical material and by the discrimination of the editors when
selection is necessary.” H: W. Prescott

+ =Class J= 16:254 Ja ’21 520w

=Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 190w

“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how
the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that
absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power;
and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of
references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The
index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander
Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p12 Ag 15 ’20 2100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 200w

=GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN.= Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50 Ginn 220

19–15715

“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how
the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which
offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible,
the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular
tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical
literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual
nature of their message.”—Ath

* * * * *

“The point of view of the treatment is rather confusing. The method is
in a broad way historical, but in detailed application it contents
itself with acceptance of traditional views to such an extent as
almost to vitiate the usefulness of the book for historically minded
students.” J. M. P. S.

+ − =Am J Theol= 24:473 Jl ’20 190w

“Those who are not discouraged by the preface and the abstract style
of the whole work will find the matter instructive.”

+ − =Ath= p1352 D 12 ’19 140w

+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20

=GEORGE, WALTER LIONEL.= Caliban. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–15960

Richard Bulmer’s career in many respects parallels that of Alfred
Harmsworth but frequent reference to Lord Northcliffe as a
contemporary shows that it is not intended as a portrait. The story
begins with Richard’s boyhood and covers his early amateur attempts at
journalism, his first daring venture into the publishing world with
“Zip,” a sensational monthly that gives the public what it wants, and
his subsequent rise to the peerage and ownership of a chain of
newspapers. He marries early and after seven years separates from his
wife. Women mean little to him for he is too deeply absorbed in his
career, but late in life he meets Janet Willoughby and at her hands
suffers his first defeat. The story begins in the eighties of the
nineteenth century and runs thru the world war.

* * * * *

=Ath= p376 S 17 ’20 840w

=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“We know no more or less about Bulmer on page four hundred than on
page forty. He is a type brilliantly projected as a George or a Wells
or a Walpole or a Mackenzie knows how to project him,—and there is no
more to say.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Bookm= 52:250 N ’20 660w

“In ‘Caliban’ Mr George cannot convince us for a moment that his
Richard Bulmer is doing anything more than to obey the commands of his
creator. A puppet in a marionette show has as much initiative of his
own as is possessed by this Richard Bulmer.” E. F. E.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 1600w

“It is superior in many ways to Courlander’s ‘Mightier than the sword’
and has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs’ ‘Street of adventure.’ But
it is a falling off from Mr George’s superb ‘Blind alley.’”

+ − =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w

“As a portrayal of Bulmer, ‘Caliban’ is convincingly done; as a novel,
it is disappointing. For the book, despite Bulmer’s portrait, is
perfunctory.” R. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:166 O 27 ’20 400w

“Mr George has grasped in its concrete terms one of the fundamental
things in our civilization—the press. His report may not be
faultlessly accurate; there may be depths he has not reached,
complications he has not disentangled. But his account has great
fulness of matter, dogged closeness of observation, fine solidity, and
burning candor.”

+ =Nation= 111:380 O 6 ’20 1000w

“Mr George has neglected the difficult and more interesting half of
his subject. He has not tried to answer the most puzzling of the
questions that yellow journalism raises. Not everybody, however, cares
to investigate the differences which separate the successful wooers of
‘Caliban’ from the unsuccessful, and in Mr George’s novel there is
cleverness enough to reward all readers who do not care.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w

“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will
‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that
give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander
Black

+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 5 ’20 2050w

“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr
George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations
become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing
make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an
interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less
clever variations.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w

“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps
better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole
business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too
often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the
narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 820w

“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of
truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to
redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs
away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which
would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 210w

=GEORGIAN= poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08

20–26460

The writers represented in this fourth volume of Georgian poetry are:
Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Francis Brett Young, William
H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, John Freeman, Wilfrid
Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Harold Monro, Thomas
Moult, Robert Nichols, J. D. C. Pellow, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward
Shanks, Fredegond Shove, J. C. Squire, and W. J. Turner.

* * * * *

“The corporate flavour of the volume is a false simplicity. Of the
nineteen poets who compose it there are certain individuals whom we
except absolutely from this condemnation, Mr de la Mare, Mr Davies and
Mr Lawrence; there are others who are more or less exempt from it, Mr
Abercrombie, Mr Sassoon, Mrs Shove, Mr Nichols and Mr Moult; and among
the rest there are varying degrees of saturation.” J. M. M.

− + =Ath= p1283 D 5 ’19 670w

=Booklist= 15:270 My ’20

“It is a profound labour to read this book. Not because, let me
hastily say, there is nothing good in it, but because it is all so
dreadfully tired. Here are nineteen poets, in the heyday of their
creating years, and scarcely one of them seems to have energy enough
to see personally or forge a manner out of his own natural speech.”
Amy Lowell

+ − =Dial= 69:424 O ’20 3000w

=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w

“It would, we think, be just to assume that there are three themes
which belong to poetry above all others—God, man, and nature. But
after reading the fourth book of ‘Georgian poetry’ from first page to
last, one would never have guessed it. We feel especially drawn
towards Mr Robert Graves. He is obviously at odds with the Georgian
complacency and conventionalism, particularly in the matter of
language. Mr Brett Young, again, a long way the best of the five
newcomers, reacts against the tenuity of the others and their careful
avoidance of reality.”

− + =Nation [London]= 26:338 D 6 ’19 1850w

“Among the others, it is good to see the name of D. H. Lawrence,
although he contributes but one poem, ‘Seven seals,’ a magnificent
thing, worthy of his wild unhappy genius.” Siegfried Sassoon

+ =N Y Times= 25:2 F 29 ’20 1150w

“These poets have unquestionable merits. Their temper is calm,
measured, resolute—almost an eighteenth century temper. Their ideal is
the vivid, the striking, the extreme—almost an Elizabethan ideal.
Naturally enough, their eighteenth century temper is not quite at home
in the handling of this Elizabethan ideal. Hence the vividness, which
is by no means altogether wanting, comes to reside less in the ideas
than in the language, less possibly in the language than in the
vocabulary.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 260w

“In ‘The sprig of lime’ and ‘Seventeen,’ which are his two long poems
this year, Mr Robert Nichols reaches a far higher platform in his
ascent of Parnassus. ‘The sprig of lime’ is an exceedingly beautiful
reflective poem.... Mr Shank’s ‘Fête galante, or The triumph of love,’
is a longish poem of quite extraordinary and peculiar
attractiveness.... Alas that Mr Squire’s ‘You are my sky’ has not been
included! His beautiful poem ‘Rivers’ is, as ever, most delightful
reading. Mr Harold Monro’s ‘Dog’ is a cunning piece of realism.”

+ =Spec= 124:143 Ja 31 ’20 1000w

“The character of the collection has altered slowly till this last
volume is least like the first: in fact, quite different. Long poems
are fewer and shorter, and the bulk of the contents has acquired a
strong family likeness. The original group of authors was more varied
in aim and achievement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p738 D 11 ’19 2100w

Reviewed by E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w

=GERMAN= days. *$3 Dutton 914.3

(Eng ed 19–11975)

“The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes her experiences
at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in
Berlin.” (Spec) “The latter half of the book gives the reader a clear
picture of commonplace life in Germany today—the homes, the food, the
amusements. The author is continually contrasting them, greatly to the
disadvantage of Germany, with what she has found in England.”
(Springf’d Republican)

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 200w

“She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian
school system is all the more effective on that account.”

+ =Spec= 122:368 Mr 22 ’19 130w

“Among the books which aim to give enlightenment regarding prewar
Germany one volume stands out for the seemingly naive impression of
unpleasantness that it gives. This is ‘German days.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ’20 700w

=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Youth in Harley. *$2 (1½c) Scribner

20–14294

After Stephen Quaid graduated from college he became principal of
Harley academy and for a year was a part of the New England village
life that soon will be but a tradition. In the picture unfolded by the
story many types of New England character are seen and old customs,
time-honored sports and celebrations and a town meeting are described,
and in the romance of Stephen and Cynthia Darrell, with the ups and
downs of their courtship, glimpses are given of the New England
conscience in both its feminine and masculine aspects.

* * * * *

“Interesting and wholesome but not a plot novel.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

=Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 420w

“Though too abstract for great art, Mr Gerould’s novel represents an
intellectual honesty which fiction lacks in America, and which for
great art is requisite.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 300w

“The action is slow at times, and readers who desire plot above all
and breathlessness while reading will hardly feel themselves wholly in
sympathy with the book. It is, first of all, an effort in
characterization, and in this field Mr Gerould is always successful.
For readers who desire to taste the quality of excellent writing at
their leisure ‘Youth in Harley’ is to be recommended.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 600w

“Certainly the narrative is not exciting, nor is it rapid in movement,
but it is sincere in its mild realism and finished carefully in its
detail workmanship.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 70w

=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Modes and morals. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 814

20–3866

Instead of the above title the author has been tempted to call her
collection of essays “Democracy, plumbing, and the war” because
democracy, always having a materialistic connotation, and plumbing,
symbolizing physical comforts, as well as war, “make the problem of
our immediate future a rather special one.” In the first essay, The
new simplicity, the cultural élite are exhorted to practice a severe
simplicity of living in order to hold their own against overpaid labor
whose tastes run to luxuries. In The extirpation of culture four
causes are named for this gradual extirpation among us: The increased
hold of the democratic fallacy on the public mind; The influx of a
racially and socially inferior population; Materialism in all classes;
and The idolatry of science. The other essays are: Dress and the
woman; Caviare on principle; Fashions in men; The newest woman; Tabu
and temperament; The boundaries of truth; Miss Alcott’s New England;
The sensual ear; British novelists, ltd.; The remarkable rightness of
Rudyard Kipling.

* * * * *

“Stimulating and provocative essays.”

+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20

“Sparkling little essays full of originality and common sense.”

+ =Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w

“Mrs Gerould is infinitely more agreeable as an essayist than as a
short story writer and her discussions of current problems, social,
spiritual and literary, are not only clever but stimulating.”

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 90w

Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster

=Nation= 110:sup486 Ap 10 ’20 800w

=New Repub= 22:97 Mr 17 ’20 1350w

“The book is as charming as it is clever, as wise as it is witty.
‘British novelists, ltd.,’ is the most individual of the essays in
this volume, as it is also the most amusing. It is full of humor and
of good humor. It has the light touch so much desired nowadays; none
the less is it a searching criticism.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 2300w

“One salutes the Mrs Gerould of the short stories as a fictional
artist of subtle power and distinguished skill. One views her
secondary personality, the social philosopher, the student of manners
and morals, as an example of the perturbing truth that a mind which
creates with brilliancy and force may be feeble and unrewarding in
ratiocination. Mrs Gerould is trite and trivial not only whenever her
subject gives her an opportunity to be, but at moments when she might
easily be something else.” Lawrence Gilman

− =No Am= 211:564 Ap ’20 1550w

“A little superior, supercilious Mrs Gerould doubtless is, and not a
little paradoxical. But in her speculation, she uncovers a good many
meaty ideas. One may not always agree with her or think her correct in
her statement of facts; but one has at least got some return for the
energy expended in reading.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 1350w

“When we say that Mrs Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have
indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in
this attractive and satisfying volume.” M. F. Egan

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:186 O ’20 500w

=GIBBON, JOHN MURRAY.= Conquering hero. *$2 (3½c) Lane

20–16160

A fishing party of city men is interrupted by the startling appearance
of a beautiful woman. She introduces herself as the Princess Stephanie
Sobieska, and is then recognized as a moving picture star. One of the
guides of the fishing party, Donald Macdonald, Scotch Canadian and
veteran of the world war, becomes a prime favorite with her, and after
the fishing season is over, they still remain friends. He goes out to
a farm in British Columbia and there meets a little girl whom he
shortly becomes engaged to. But here the Princess Sobieska unwittingly
makes trouble for him, for she appears on the scene again, and Kate
thinks there is or has been something more than friendship, between
Donald and her, and breaks the engagement. The Princess, in her
wisdom, takes just the right course to straighten matters out, and all
ends happily.

* * * * *

“The book suggests an attractive open-air atmosphere, and the freedom
of great spaces.”

+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 100w

“Frankly, Mr Gibbon has contrived to secure a host of ill-assorted
ingredients that, so far from assimilating each other, make known
their utter unsimilarity in no uncertain fashion.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 210w

“If it is possible, Mr Gibbon has too much real life in his book. Now
and again the realization comes quite consciously that he is using his
carpetbag of a romance as a receptacle for chunks of his own life. On
the whole his story is a crude, vigorous, simple and attractive sketch
of the Canada of today.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 270w

“It is an amusing tale, but carries no serious conviction.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w

=GIBBON, M. MORGAN.= Jan. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

John and Jan are both Owens, John, son of the quiet, staid Henry, and
Jan, daughter of the wild, wilful John. The younger John and Jan alike
crave freedom and liberty from the time they play together as
children. Even then John’s love for Jan is strong and protecting and
it never wavers all thru their school life until she promises to marry
him. But she finds the engagement irksome and after a quarrel, John
sets her free. She experiments with her freedom, trying one excursion
into liberty after another. But nothing satisfies, she and John are
both miserable and both too proud to give in. Eventually she realizes
that she would rather have love than freedom.

* * * * *

“The young lady who gives a name to ‘Jan’ labours obviously under the
disadvantage—very usual with novel heroines—of meaning something to
her creator, which has not been conveyed to the reader. The
descriptions of Welsh middle-class life are vivid and sympathetic, and
impress us as drawn from actual fact.”

+ − =Ath= p163 D 3 ’20 100w

“It is a thoroughly wholesome story, set forth by a writer who has the
gift of frank, effective, convincing narrative. The value of this
novel, which most readers will appreciate, lies in the fact that it is
entertaining in itself, page after page.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 470w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 190w

“This is a first novel which may fairly be described as promising.
Praise must be given to the careful delineation of the characters of
Jan and John.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p721 N 4 ’20 120w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= France and ourselves. *$1.50 (2½c) Century 940.344

20–5134

This collection of “Interpretative studies, 1917–1919,” is from the
author’s war contributions to various American magazines, mainly to
the Century. The burden of the book throughout is “We must see
problems as France sees them, and we must help to solve them in the
French way and not in the American.” Even when the author contrasts
America’s “fourteen points” with what he is pleased to call France’s
“fourteen points,” he does not consider the task hopeless. Contents:
How we can help France; The tiger of France; World justice for France;
The industrial effort of France during the war; Human currents of the
war; The attitude of France toward peace; The reconstruction of
northern France; The case against Caillaux; What confronts France.

* * * * *

“Much of the book must be classed less as history than as propaganda,
though propaganda of a very high-minded type. But the inevitable
shortcomings of the book add in another way to its value. It vibrates
with the spirit of the war and with the generous enthusiasm that
inspired those Americans to whom the true character of France had been
revealed.” A. D. Hill

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:730 N ’20 840w

=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 800w

+ =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 210w

+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w

“Much of this book is now badly out of date. Aside from this, there is
much that is valuable and even timely in the book. Dr Gibbons writes
with vigor and clarity of vision.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 950w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 100w

“The chapter on the attitude of France toward peace, written about a
year ago, is full of matter for thought today.” T. M. Parrott

+ =Review= 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 120w

“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of
essays.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4

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“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars
and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere
because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify
them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up
the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of
brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before
him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built
for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and
medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real
to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George
Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar;
Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice;
Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting
town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is
the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever
illustrations.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 310w

“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as
it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description
and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 1000w

=R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 40w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50 Houghton

20–20218

Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance
with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has,
moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that
precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915
and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace
conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his
Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the
University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early
manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession;
Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece;
The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former
Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest;
Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the
entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral;
Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the
peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire.
The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.

* * * * *

“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached
investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is
more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby
measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.

+ =Boston Transcript= p 5 N 20 ’20 850w

“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it
will be none the less useful.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 150w

“What he is writing is not dignified biography, but propaganda.”
Elenore Kellogg

− =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 440w

“The book is one of great value, notwithstanding its lack of some of
the qualities artistic and interesting biography ought to have.”

+ − =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 2250w

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 580w

“Mr Gibbons’ book is the most successful attempt to give a complete
and proportioned account of Venizelos’ life.” A. E. Phoutrides

+ − =Review= 3:621 D 22 ’20 900w

“Aside from its strictly biographical features, this volume is a
contribution to the recent history of the Balkans, as well as to that
of the peace conference at Paris.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 160w

“Mr Gibbons has contributed a notable addition to modern biography.”
E. B. Moses

+ =Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 250w

=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Splendid outcast. il *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–2258

In the midst of a battle Jim Horton finds his twin brother Harry, an
officer with responsibility, crouching behind the lines in a “blue
funk,” desperately afraid to obey his major’s orders, Jim compels
Harry to change uniforms with him, takes Harry’s place, and so
splendidly performs his brother’s duty that he gains for him the croix
de guerre. Incidentally, Jim is seriously wounded. Recovering in the
hospital he finds himself in a strange dilemma. No one believes his
story. At last he grimly resolves to see the game through. This is
difficult, as Harry is a dissolute crook engaged in some shady
undertakings, and Jim is all that a true gentleman ought to be.
Furthermore there is Harry’s beautiful bride to add more perplexing
complications. Around this situation evolves a tense story, running
through the underworld of Paris. In the end Jim, upon the death of his
worthless brother, marries the beautiful Moira, whose marriage to
Harry had been forced upon her, and who loves Jim beyond question.

* * * * *

“It is undeniably a dramatic story that Mr Gibbs tells. In spite of
the transparent confusion of identities, he manages to keep us
genuinely guessing at least part of the time.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 320w

“If the characters were any of them real people the probabilities of
the plot would not matter so much, but they are merely the stereotyped
figures who have appeared in dozens of tales of this order, and they
rather detract than add to the book’s credibility.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:91 F 15 ’20 420w

“The book would make a tremendous movie. The moves of the
detective-like story are too intricate, the action too violent, the
scenes too realistic to be overlooked in this field. It is a book for
tired brains and jaded moments.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 300w

“The story moves with the rapid characteristic of Gibbs’s tales, but
many of the incidents are more obviously manufactured for effect than
in some of the author’s preceding books.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 280w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Now it can be told (Eng title, Realities of war). *$3 (1c) Harper 940.3

20–5994

“In this book I have written in a blunt way some episodes of the war
as I observed them, and gained firsthand knowledge of them in their
daily traffic. I have not painted the picture blacker than it was, nor
selected gruesome morsels and joined them together to make a jig-saw
puzzle for ghoulish delight.... I have tried to set down as many
aspects of the war’s psychology as I could find in my remembrance of
these years, without exaggeration or false emphasis, so that out of
their confusion, even out of their contradiction, the real truth of
the adventure might be seen as it touched the souls of men. Yet when
one strives to sum up the evidence ... are we really poor beasts in
the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas,
for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict? If that is so,
then God mocks at us. Or, rather, if that is so, there is no God such
as we men may love with love for men.” (Part 8) Contents: Observers
and commanders; The school of courage; The nature of a battle; A
winter of discontent; The heart of a city; Psychology on the Somme;
The fields of Armageddon; For what men died.

* * * * *

“The war writing of Mr Gibbs presents an interesting problem. He
appears to be a reasonably sensitive observer, he has had exceptional
opportunities for observing, and he writes with considerable fluency.
Why, then, does his writing affect us so little?... Mr Gibbs’ style
has no definite and unique outline; it is, as it were, a composite
style, his voice has the indistinctness of the voice of a crowd. The
style is adequate to his purpose because his sentiments have something
of the same quality. They furnish, as it were, the greatest common
measure of the more intelligent opinion and the more decent feeling
about the war.” J. W. N. S.

+ − =Ath= p272 F 27 ’20 900w

=Booklist= 16:274 My ’20

“His book is a bit querulous about the obvious indignities; but it is
calm and terrible about the great wrongs.”

+ =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 90w

“The indictment of war is written in the same spirit as Barbusse’s
famous novel ‘Le feu’ or Sassoon’s war poetry, and with as much
literary skill as either. Mr Gibbs’ emotional reaction to the horrors
of war fuses the miscellaneous details of the book into a powerful
picture of the whole. His intellectual reaction is not so clear.”

+ − =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 290w

“It is a great triumph for him to have written this book, to say the
things he does say and reveal the facts he reveals.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:356 My 12 ’20 2150w

“This volume marks the close of that great work done by Mr Philip
Gibbs as a chronicler of war. It is a wonderful close, and a public
tired of war books must not make the mistake of neglecting this, which
has a frankness, a truth and a stern reality never before shown in all
the literature of the war.” Cecil Robert

+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 1100w

“Different from his other books in that it shows no particular design,
is painfully fragmentary and reveals Mr Gibbs as an unsatisfactory
psychologist.”

− =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 70w

“A book which, however unpleasant it may be, is to all appearances
both truthful and sincere. Its truthfulness is its greatest virtue. In
several ways, however, the book is somewhat unsatisfactory. Its tone,
one may say, is not that of well-balanced thinking or of altogether
unbiassed criticism; it does not wholly convince. Furthermore, one
cannot rid oneself of the feeling that Sir Philip leans somewhat
toward the pacifist fallacy.”

+ − =No Am= 212:142 Jl ’20 1200w

“Mr Gibbs says things well: his fault is that he says them too often.
Some of the repetition is clever emphasis that drives home the point
while the speed saves the effect of boredom. If the book lasts it will
be as a record of matters which properly belong to history, but with
which history does not always deal.”

+ − =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 1500w

=Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 100w

=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 100w

“We cannot honestly recommend anyone to read this book just now,
valuable and interesting though it may be to the next and succeeding
generations. Power of graphic description Sir Philip Gibbs undoubtedly
has; but his bitterness of spirit and his emotional worship of youth
are not moods to be prolonged at the present hour.”

− + =Sat R= 129:349 Ap 10 ’20 1200w

“He has a keen eye for the telling detail that impresses a picture
indelibly on the mind, and his quick sympathy with all who suffer
helps him to keep the human side of the great tragedy foremost in our
thoughts. His style is sufficient without being distinguished. He has,
however, the defects of his qualities. He sees what is to be seen so
intensely that he is inclined to forget the existence of what he does
not see.”

+ − =Spec= 124:493 Ap 10 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 29 ’20 80w

“From the beginning to the end he resolutely refused (and it is a
great thing to say of him) to become familiar with war. He took no
intellectual pleasure, as it was so easy to do, in all the human
ingenuity that was concentrated on it. So too Mr Gibbs kept himself
remote from everything that concerned war as a profession, with its
inevitable indifference to suffering. He is single-minded in his
desire to be the spokesman of youth that went to the war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 4 ’20 900w

“If ‘The judgment of peace’ is a flame, ‘Now it can be told’ is a slow
and smoldering fire. These books, accepted by mankind, would be
sufficient in themselves to end war forever.” G. H.

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 700w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= People of destiny; Americans as I saw them at home and abroad. il *$2 (5c) Harper 917.3

20–17298

In describing the life in New York and the people he met in America
the author records impressions that are much the same as those of
other Europeans, vid., that there is too much vastness, bustle and
hubbub, too little “art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought.”
In summing up the characteristics of the people he finds them “filled
with vital energy, kind in heart, sincere and simple in their ways of
thought and speech, idealistic in emotion, practical in conduct and
democratic by faith and upbringing”; and he expresses the hope that
these characteristics will help them to steer free of the dangers that
threaten our liberties since the war. In telling America what England
thinks of it he is holding up a warning mirror to us. Contents: The
adventure of life in New York; Some people I met in America; Things I
like in the United States; America’s new place in the world; What
England thinks of America; Americans in Europe.

* * * * *

“He expresses a number of opinions about America, but they are not all
consistent with one another, they belong to different emotional
registers, and we feel it would be a purely arbitrary proceeding to
select any consistent set of them as representative.”

+ − =Ath= p648 N 12 ’20 700w

=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20

“His first few chapters are so insistently laudatory that one feels
his praise issues more from his will than from his judgment, that he
is simply determined to see good, and one longs—perversely, no
doubt—for more shading in the picture. In the closing chapters,
however, he comes to grips with his subject and gives a more balanced
verdict.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:537 Ja ’21 770w

“Sir Philip Gibbs met so many of the right people during his stay
among us that it is curious he should have learned anything whatever
about America. Sir Philip’s book is occupied largely with the
conventional admirations of the casual European for the physical
conveniences of our civilization, with the regulation amazements about
wonder cities and their subways and skylines and palaces and
bejewelled parasites.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 2:309 D 8 ’20 1150w

“In the main his studies of the American man, woman, and child at home
are not only correct, but animated by a cordial pleasure in having
seen people he likes, doing the things he likes.”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 3 ’20 1900w

+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 250w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 560w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Wounded souls. *$2 (2c) Doran

The story is not so much a novel as it is an account of the war’s
effect on human souls. We see it first in Lille with its inhuman
savage hatred and lust for revenge on the part of the French and a
revulsion of feeling in the English soldiers from patriotism to an
abomination of the war. Then the author shows us the effect of the
armistice on the German people and their reviving hope kindled by the
fourteen points. Again in England the same irreconcilable spirit of
hatred as in France and the ruthless, morbid, neurotic sullenness of
the returned soldier. Between all these forces the crushing out of
love and life in the young couple—the English officer and his German
wife—whose humanity had carried them beyond nationality. The whole is
a drastic picture of post-war Europe.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“In this book Philip Gibbs, with powerful, vital strokes, brings home
to us that the war is not yet over, although fought and won.”

+ =Cath World= 112:685 F ’21 290w

=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w

“Only a man who has been there could introduce so much background. Mr
Gibbs was either too close to his material or too much the journalist
to succeed in giving the atmosphere of an invaded country as well as
Sir Harry Johnston has done in ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ But his
chronicle of public sentiment in England equals that of H. G. Wells’s
stories of the war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w

“All of the descriptive part, where the author confines himself
principally to an admirable reporting of what he himself saw and
heard, is extremely interesting and worth while. The fictional portion
of the book is less successful.” L. M. Field

+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 1150w

=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 90w

“The junkers of all nations, the militarists, the advocates of
universal military training, will not thank Philip Gibbs for ‘Wounded
souls,’ which must at least be credited with eloquence and disquieting
vision.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 220w

“It is excellently done, and often moving, but it is just the feeling
that everything is being made so skilfully to tell which prevents one
accepting it in the spirit of real æsthetic enjoyment. Sir Philip
Gibbs, like many another of us, is disillusioned, which is not
surprising, but he overdraws the picture of disillusionment and
spiritual decay. His shadows are all pitch dark and his lights too
high.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 N 4 ’20 540w

=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Forerunner; his parables and poems. il *$1.50 Knopf 892.7

20–20557

This book is similar in form and thought to “The madman,” published in
1918. “You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded
are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be
a foundation,” are the opening words. The five illustrations are from
drawings by the author.

* * * * *

=Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w

“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s
pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush
that is captivating.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 410w

=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741

20–212

“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us
‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen
to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to
fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This
theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative
essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20

“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil
sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain
instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint
strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen
Mullin

+ − =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w

=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= Chemistry and its mysteries; the story of what things are made of told in simple language. il *$1.50 Lippincott 540

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