Chapter XXXIII: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (3)

“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr
Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 630w

=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w

“The book is of absorbing interest.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w

“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the
great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a
useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 60w

=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans 821

20–18248

“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and
in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there
is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative
measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The
coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and
group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the
last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying
of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London
clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Ath= p472 O 8 ’20 150w

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w

“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are
sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and
in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he
has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since
Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 580w

=GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER.= Inside story of Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3 (3½c) Doubleday 940.311

20–5203

Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who
was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where
he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which
preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the
volume, points out its object as being an examination into three
fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire)
pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in
a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike
of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their
empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve
the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters
are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties
to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till
at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder.
Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of
the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three
months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the
Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s
back. There is an appendix.

* * * * *

“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of
new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”

+ =Booklist= 16:274 My ’20

“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr
Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights
on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties.
Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar
quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially
strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong

+ =Nation= 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w

“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is
unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss
the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be
difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are
by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the
years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are
admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 160w

=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).= Night’s lodging; scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.) *$1 Four seas co. 891.7

20–26568

This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin
Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T.
Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with
an equally short characterization of his dramas.

* * * * *

“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read.
Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since
it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could
hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be
intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the
stage?”

− =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w

=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).=[2] Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch

The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after
various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy
intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different
angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that
of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”;
always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am
not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his
death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter
despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man
is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S.
Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

* * * * *

Reviewed by S. Koteliansky

=Ath= p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w

“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the
considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the
precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be
considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a
considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.

+ − =Ath= p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w

“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of
Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his
emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the
most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and
publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would
have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w

“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced
rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use
Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 250w

“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only
Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.”
Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p3 Ja 9 21 3100w

“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the
man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug
‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”

+ =Spec= 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w

“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in
fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or
rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an
unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be
judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive
as their subject was strong and excessive.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w

=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50 Scribner 824

A20–530

“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the
cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in
its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of
literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from
Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings.
Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The
charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar
Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less
conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and
the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli,
and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on:
Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of
the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a
literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and
biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the
best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary
revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.

+ =Ath= p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w

=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the
modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who
fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of
criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by
no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written
a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature
of criticism.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w

“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr
Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries,
and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates.
He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the
right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major
Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in
the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 68:777 Je ’20 1550w

“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past.
His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic
and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide
the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with
something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is
venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w

“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w

“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that
it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”

+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w

“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles
lettres, but of the best brand.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w

“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays
that make up the volume now before us. The best and most
characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in
portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily
the most striking.”

+ =Spec= 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 O 2 ’19 1100w

=GOULDING, ERNEST.= Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677

This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial
institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of
handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface
by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents:
Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and
the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa
and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and
similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of
principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an
index.

=GOWAR, EDWARD.= Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little

20–16169

Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he
made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book
was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where
he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived
in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is
humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which
are by Alice Bolam Preston.

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w

“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 100w

“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 70w

=GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON.= Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658

19–11576

“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It
deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine,
good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental
and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order.
Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business
classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth
of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield
him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”

+ =Am Econ R= 9:829 D ’19 130w

=Booklist= 16:192 Mr ’20

+ =Pittsburgh= 24:456 O ’19 30w

=GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA.= Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.

20–4216

Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his
country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero
in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.”
The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned
by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal
injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a
new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of
childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy
and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion
remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s
misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and
cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of
the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and
Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially
powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land
of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is
translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.

* * * * *

“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large
humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in
significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between
Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance.
Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more
successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg

+ − =Bookm= 51:232 Ap ’20 560w

“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called
this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first
hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must
be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind
it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both
the Americas.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w

“As a piece of writing, due allowance being made for a wretched
translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way.
In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the
romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture
which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the
Brazilian civilization of today.”

− + =Nation= 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w

“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands
as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for
Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His
book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its
powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive
passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it
is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective
mind.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w

“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the
fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the
book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the
book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 3 ’20 850w

=GRAHAM, ALAN.= Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–13547

Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting
treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering
the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining
survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an
irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning
and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all
the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not
reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant
of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a
document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the
strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the
laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons
involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious
treasures.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A good mystery story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w

“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”

+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w

“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w

“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure,
a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well
served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have
been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w

=GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER.= It happened at Andover; well, most of it did, anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton

20–15954

A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover,
written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The
unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The
infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy;
The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.

* * * * *

“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older
readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 70w

“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the
ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’;
but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a
teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired
teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their
school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w

=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6

(Eng ed 20–23038)

“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for
Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the
author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is
also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’
set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the
relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the
‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on
what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published,
is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of
Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and
some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement
assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking.
The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but
discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current
practices.”

+ =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w

“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of
partisanship.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 120w

“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force.
But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an
exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the
Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly
disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the
body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker
after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong,
thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas

− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 720w

“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the
problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem
sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the
whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence
too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w

=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1

20–21927

This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in
America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled
south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to
Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru
Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river
north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors,
visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on
lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the
negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds
that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro
and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively
a negro problem.

* * * * *

“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations
are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its
simple, unescapable effect.”

+ =Ath= p615 N 5 ’20 570w

“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our
problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few
instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct
interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve
million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 2 ’21 1100w

“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know
already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and
‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which
Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”

+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w

“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in
American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is
lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with
subsequent chapters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 1600w

“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments.
Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C.
Willcox

+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w

“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it
gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race
question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple
desire to learn the truth.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w

“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly
help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like
most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads,
Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than
his own side of the question.”

− + =Sat R= 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w

+ =Spec= 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w

“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master.
But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy
than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and
misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois
propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s
view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret
differently.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 2500w

=GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.= Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814

20–14542

“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing
eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard
university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the
papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of
changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’
(Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith
college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other
chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform
in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages,
New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)

* * * * *

“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so
intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of
English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and
amusing.”

− + =Ath= p811 D 10 ’20 240w

“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England
pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which
should interest every student of language. If there were more
philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have
less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate
forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross

+ =Mod Philol= 18:55 Ag ’20 500w

“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument,
are at times rich in illustration.”

+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w

“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in
common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his
brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 1350w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w

+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w

“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many
departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon
him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof.
Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure
and will do so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 70w

=GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.= Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822

20–17687

A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of
Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and
inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences
reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of
all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in
his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for
dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and
Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his
policy of peace.” (Preface)

* * * * *

“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military
chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The
verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by
stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”

+ =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 160w

“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a
ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in
Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period,
the play might have a success in representation.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 My 13 ’20 450w

=GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.= True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt

20–14285

An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl,
Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are
expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her
own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a
hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and
the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is
the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story
has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.

* * * * *

“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and,
unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 160w

=GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).= Eve of Pascua, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–12450

With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic.
A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a
scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and
betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself
defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer
who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting
her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they
are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost.
Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it
was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped
into the former’s place with the blind mother.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 70w

=Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w

“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born
story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the
title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only
suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w

“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of
‘Richard Dehan.’”

+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w

=GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.= What did Jesus teach? an examination of the educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232

19–18243

“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a
campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The
leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders,
and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont
Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a
strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it
appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of
Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other
classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical
sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight
chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of
God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the
kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the
value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to
theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it
should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.

+ =Am J Theol= 24:475 Jl ’20 150w

“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement
of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the
content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the
paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter
summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second
feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon
the ethical content of the teaching.”

+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 16:220 Ap ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=GRAVES, ROBERT.= Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821

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To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys
are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that
predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of
war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A
frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True
Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they
lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second
book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.

* * * * *

“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think,
suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has
deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue.
It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve
simplicity.”

+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 50w

“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness
that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of
something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the
stern reality of life.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w

“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a
delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”

+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 80w

“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as
fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go
with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into
little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its
meaning.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w

“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country
sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is
indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right
and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that
unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w

“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some
perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is
in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many
of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”

+ =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w

“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme
merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new
volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to
possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with
a future before him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w

=GRAY, A. HERBERT.= Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230

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“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book.
It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is
Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the
message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author
considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs,
never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths.
Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the
embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was
Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom;
Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human
nature? The resources of the disciple.

* * * * *

“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating
statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a
long time.”

+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 320w

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=GRAY, JOSLYN.= Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner

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“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and
not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is
delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as
much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also
of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse
is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother
marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly
schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did.
Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of
her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it
is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the
story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to
love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants
and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their
teens.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w

“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their
teens.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w

=GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.= Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.) *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright

20–775

A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an
uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole
duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited.
From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal
place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden
cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe
enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American
school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what
his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A
hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his
American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.

* * * * *

“Much information about customs and country.”

+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20

“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a
good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this
particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w

+ =Cath World= 111:412 Je ’20 90w

=GREENBIE, SIDNEY.= Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2

20–9726

It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to
both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine
sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with
resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and
the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its
present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we
must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop
condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2.
The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There
are many illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of
detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults
of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be
regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 400w

“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time;
best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one
interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”

+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 90w

“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and
thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his
judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator,
the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic
critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on
Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien

+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w

“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may
properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but
expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate
realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense,
it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously
interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”

+ =No Am= 212:719 N ’20 480w

“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.

+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 40w

“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has
endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other
Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 360w

“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people;
and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth
without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament
qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But
with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in
appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of
view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible
person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes
without malice.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 O 21 ’20 900w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.= Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8

(Eng ed Agr20–1194)

This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which
Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the
author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and
technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development
and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a
collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such
technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the
atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous
fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The
foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died
shortly before the publication of his book.

* * * * *

“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech= Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w

+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w

=GREGG, FRANK MOODY.= Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran

This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the
Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the
beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and
romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where
it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the
foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the
Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the
romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave
England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden,
accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their
trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.

* * * * *

“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic
history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can,
and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a
tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 110w

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 560w

“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to
history in this form.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w

“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days
set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for
adolescent study.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w

“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will
remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”

+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w

=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.= Dragon; a wonder play in three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822

20–13121

An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about
the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by
a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit
to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king
in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that
enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo,
accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is
sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of
Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the
dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues
the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from
start to finish.

* * * * *

“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w

“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will
be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish
little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if
given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust
humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 240w

“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”

+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w

“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing,
imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”

+ − =Spec= 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w

“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to
carry the interest from beginning to end.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 330w

“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James
Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all
that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find
out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it
opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these
super-serious times.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 270w

=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady=, comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam 398.2

20–26541

These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the
Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told
them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under
appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or
quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the
invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the
country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the
country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and
healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and
notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish
folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray,
and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the
friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth;
Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts;
Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the
desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.

* * * * *

“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply
interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the
lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the
Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of
folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add
greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.

+ =Ath= p550 O 22 ’20 1250w

=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and
digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class;
folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars
would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while
those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s
interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w

“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening,
but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and
beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their
atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum

+ =Dial= 69:300 S ’20 1400w

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w

“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are
interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race
must have this book.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w

“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a
renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with
which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit
and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and
beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk
poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”

+ =Outlook= 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w

“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general
psychologist.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w

“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in
ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously
are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three
times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the
spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in
this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As
literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell
that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”

− =Sat R= 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 S 23 ’20 1700w

=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner

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