Chapter XLI: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (11)

“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in
one volume by one author.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it
were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most
distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless
sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the
Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w

=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821

20–16190

In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love
episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism.
The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or
less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself
sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he
perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he
ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The
birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art;
First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round;
Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.

* * * * *

“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to
combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to
be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing
should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and
vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be
judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book,
but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the
shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to
print them.” J. M. M.

− + =Ath= p699 My 28 ’20 1500w

“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any
special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry.
His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical
legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war,
and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the
very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that
makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the
more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the
form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 1850w

“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights
of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a
little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his
satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings
toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires;
for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a
criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be
disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley

+ − =Dial= 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w

“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own
sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is
not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination
to write something better than the conventional prettifications which
people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w

“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be
quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of
English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached
in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 19 ’20 1250w

=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Limbo. *$1.75 Doran

20–12115

A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical
history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The
shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave
splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop;
The death of Lully.

* * * * *

“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic
and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough
in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical
standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the
masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 100w

“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s
collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’
Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard
Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the
surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of
all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”

+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w

“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier
books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the
finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and
fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some
actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a
decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is
without doubt.” H. S. G.

+ =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w

“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric
suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr
Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is
dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak
of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed
jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a
certain achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w

“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style
with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and
with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the
stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the
effervescence of his spirits.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w

“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the
reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the
ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”

− + =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w

“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of
Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly
enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in
melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever
after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 460w

“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which
are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public
to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state,
what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a
great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is
another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like
to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth
having.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 5 ’20 800w

I

=IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE.= Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him. il $1.50 Christian herald pub.

19–14241

“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint.
He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and
working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life
of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious
life.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in
parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical
English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of
the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of
Roosevelt’s personality.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 160w

=Nation= 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w

“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for
him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably
in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w

=R of Rs= 62:419 O ’20 950w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 180w

=ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of.= Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner

(20–4450)

“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to
most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one
twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things.
What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of
England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of
surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history
is primarily a biography. But during at least the first
five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an
important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a
spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful
eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and
comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material
which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House,
at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence,
much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at
various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester
to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on
the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its
main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at
times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the
background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of
the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page.
The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker

+ =Am Hist R= 26:87 O ’20 750w

+ =Ath= p206 F 13 ’20 1700w

“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry,
have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional
sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us
anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient
importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for
saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer
by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”

− + =Sat R= 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w

“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new
light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles
James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the
difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his
‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister
in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”

+ =Spec= 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w

“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his
subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p73 F 5 ’20 3650w

=In= the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

20–19505

The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which
an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved
by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in
happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which
starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be
a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of
the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring
diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the
mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs
‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully
revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is
the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on
life and books.

* * * * *

“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an
instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most
interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up,
is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is
profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out
in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K.
M.

+ =Ath= p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w

+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the
mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have
value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 520w

“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of
humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression.
Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w

“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances
of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple
enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 580w

“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a
finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present
book is her first.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 500w

“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of
characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to
Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not
qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is
illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of
touch.”

+ =Sat R= 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w

=Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w

“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its
charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a
delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and
power.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w

“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something
delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an
example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of
analysis.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w

=INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD).= Love and the crescent; a tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes

20–11299

The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war.
It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished
Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights,
deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final
reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The
deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable
romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.

* * * * *

“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the
description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the
story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical
methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very
excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement
rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are
full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very
interesting.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w

“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been
entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The
characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is
scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a
real live human being.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w

=INGALESE, RICHARD.= History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 131

20–10777

The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on
occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to
hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind
always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is
always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of
psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is
well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past,
present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual
mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of
re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and
concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers;
Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual
forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of
opulence. There is an index.

=INGE, WILLIAM RALPH.= Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204

20–18249

“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from
the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the
future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions.
To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec

* * * * *

“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as
skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of
the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological
research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers
who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts
and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”

+ − =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 250w

“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness,
epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as
distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his
fearlessness.”

+ =Ath= p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w

+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20

“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing
way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction
of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic
spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his
interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who
utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal
consequences.” O. L. Joseph

+ − =Bookm= 51:237 Ap ’20 700w

“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the
world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept
conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w

“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce
with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living
emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”

+ − =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w

“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad
as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native
island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the
‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the
controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has
never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the
author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved
Smith

+ − =Nation= 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w

“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals,
institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and
literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the
citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D.
S. M.

+ =New Repub= 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w

“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to
rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his
destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the
work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display
what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained
philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”

+ =Review= 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w

+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)

“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we
have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive
Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to
popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 N 6 ’19 2050w

=INGERSOLL, ERNEST.= Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5

“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar
birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead,
whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden
and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y
Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals
that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other
animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and
excellently illustrated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 160w

=N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 500w

=INGPEN, ROGER=, ed.[2] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs 821.08

20–19453

This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice
of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide
poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The
selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from
the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are
grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs;
Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields
and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of
patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise;
Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.

=INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.= Report on the steel strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89

20–16529

In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world
movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are
presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint.
These findings justify the strike in its central phase and
substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained
the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens
the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on
the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions
and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real
conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a
no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances
and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference;
Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian
findings); Appendices and index.

* * * * *

“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions
concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M.
Janes

+ =Am Econ R= 10:877 D ’20 1900w

=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“One of the most important documents in the history of American
industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other
important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact
that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by
organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W:
Z. Foster

+ =Freeman= 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w

“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a
field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult.
This work is invaluable.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 D 12 ’20 370w

Reviewed by L. K. Frank

+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 90w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we
should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman,
newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These
two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel
strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s
commission.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w

=INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS.= Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press 613

20–15934

The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the
National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25,
1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part
of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those
problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by
education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to
be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire
personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes,
contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men
as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of
women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six
volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health;
The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of
the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in
marriage.

* * * * *

“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these
discussions.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w

=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam

20–6636

Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride
of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her
own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion
to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household
to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because
the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her.
She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off
before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and
the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book
abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.

* * * * *

“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her
mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The
novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w

“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for
this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400
pages.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w

=Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w

=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Suffering husbands. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran

20–10767

A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis
Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a
stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled;
Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w

=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–6843

A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists.
Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and
choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern
philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin,
Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house
as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been
wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come
from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a
romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and
a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in
the end to Oliver and his mules.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 370w

“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll
classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt
in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by
what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph
Cheyney

− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w

“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious
kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is
intended to caricature.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w

“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w

=ISE, JOHN.= United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9

20–8898

“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United
States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest
conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many
unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the
forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how
intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources
has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The
Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public
sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional
historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this
phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard

+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w

“A well written and nontechnical book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 24 ’20 260w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w

=IVES, HERBERT EUGENE.= Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott 778

20–7599

Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the
writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific
photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It
is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary
photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a
discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific
methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because
aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the
photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced
methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate
the text and there is an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:268 My ’20

“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and
useful information.”

+ =Cleveland= p88 O ’20 30w

“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual
for class or self instruction.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w

+ =Spec= 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w

=IVEY, PAUL WESLEY.= Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan 658

20–3332

“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the
goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the
character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of
his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of
personality which make a successful salesman; these include
enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He
describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and
methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N
Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“An interesting and practical book for department store classes.
Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail
selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”

+ =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20

“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a
good one of its kind.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 150w

J

=JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS.= Early Persian poetry. il *$2.25 Macmillan 891.5

20–7452

“From the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi” (Sub-title) is the
ground covered by this book, which aims “to give succinctly the main
outlines of the several early periods, ... and to illustrate, by
translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of
the various authors.... Many of the citations are only small fragments
of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked
almost as shades from the far-distant past.... Some of the reliques of
their works, however, are longer and have a fuller metrical tale to
tell. The episode of Suhrab and Rustam, moreover, is a well-known
classic in literature.” (Preface) Contents: Persian poetry of ancient
days; The new awakening of Persian song after the Muhammadan conquest;
the Tahirid and Saffarid periods; Rays from lost minor stars: earlier
Samanid period; Rudagi, a herald of the dawn; Snatches of minstrel
song; from the later Samanid period to the era of Mahmud of Ghaznah;
Dakiki; The round table of Mahmud of Ghaznah: court poetry; Firdausi,
and the great Persian epic; The Shah-namah; some selections
translated; Epilogue. There are illustrations, a list of works of
reference, a list of abbreviations, an alphabetical list of poets, a
note on Persian pronunciation and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“Much as we must admire Professor Jackson’s zeal and fervor ... yet
one can not but feel a sense of disappointment at the amateurishness
of some of his versions, with their often clumsy use of ‘did’ and
their woodeny structure.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 650w

“Professor Jackson has added immeasurable value to his book by a large
number of original translations that are skillfully done and still
retain poetry in their phraseology. The author’s hope of carrying on
his work is commendable, and it is to be desired that circumstances
make it possible.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 200w

=JACKSON, BENNETT BARRON, and others=, comps. Thrift and success. il *$1.25 Century 331.84

19–12737

A compilation arranged by the superintendent and two teachers of the
Minneapolis public schools. “Several selections are devoted to the
general aspects of thrift, but the editors have wisely included a
considerable number of selections describing such thrift agencies as
savings banks, farm mortgages, postal savings banks, life insurance,
and government bonds. The opportunities for wise investment, as well
as the necessity for saving, are thus brought clearly to the reader’s
attention. The book includes several little plays which teach a thrift
lesson. There are, too, inspiring talks intended to stimulate children
to make a success of themselves. A number of biographical sketches of
prominent Americans of the past and present are included.” (Survey)

* * * * *

“A valuable occasional reader or teacher’s manual.”

+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20

“All the selections teach definite, crisp lessons, and teachers
interested in thrift instruction will find the book extremely
suggestive.” G: F. Zook

+ =Survey= 42:760 Ag 23 ’19 140w

=JACOBS, EDWIN ELMORE.=[2] Study of the physical vigor of American women; pref. by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. $1.50 Jones, Marshall 612

The author presents the results of some statistical studies made among
college women. The outcome of the study is to show “that there is no
real evidence of the decline in the physical vigor of the women of
America.” And arguing that “the male half of the population of a
country can neither be very far ahead or behind the female part in its
general health,” he holds that his conclusions may apply to the
population as a whole. The investigation was carried out along four
lines: fertility, longevity, anthropological measurements and women’s
athletics. There is a five-page list of references.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20

=JACOBSEN, JENS PETER.= Niels Lyhne; tr. from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen. (Scandinavian classics) $2 (2½c) Am.-Scandinavian foundation

20–1700

A novel by the author of “Marie Grubbe.” It has been called a
spiritual autobiography and in her introduction the translator
sketches the relation of the novel to Jacobsen’s own life. It is the
story of a dreamer who always falls short in his contacts with
reality. Niels Lyhne’s mother spends her life in one long day dream,
broken by disillusionments from which she hastens to take refuge in
still further dreams. The infusion of this temperament in her son,
though mixed with his father’s sterner stuff, renders all his efforts
futile. The story opens with a beautiful account of Niels’s childhood
with its friendship for two boy companions, and is carried through two
love episodes, and a short period of happy marriage to his death in
the war of 1864.

* * * * *

“The novel has the quality of a late autumn afternoon, a windless,
tranquil hour of waiting, when both strong desire and strong regret
are absent, and when in a mood of reverie and forgiveness we let the
world glide from us. A sense of something honey-sweet, faded, and
delicate pervades it. How deeply Jacobsen was the literary artist the
Larsen translation unfortunately little reveals. Though it is more
faithful to the original than the general run of translations to which
we here in America have become accustomed, its prosiness and
stiffness, its air of being all too patently the translation, prevent
it from representing Jacobsen quite fairly.” Paul Rosenfeld

+ − =Dial= 68:644 My ’20 2150w

“The account of Niels Lyhne’s boyhood has a depth of insight even in
matters of sex that is rare in the romance writers. Later the
narrative seems a little hurried and huddled as though vitality to
exhaust his subject had gradually failed the author. But this
uncommonly sensitive translation of a memorable book is cordially to
be welcomed.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w

=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= New Mexico; the land of the delight makers. (See America first ser.) il *$5 Page 917.89

20–6434

This is the third book about the southwest, a land he knows
intimately, that Mr James has contributed to this series. California
and Arizona were the subjects of the first books and he has found in
New Mexico a theme of equal interest. As set forth in the long
subtitle the aspects of New Mexico covered include “the history of its
ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards,
Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games,
social life, and industries of its Indians; a description of its
climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of
its rapid development, land reclamation projects and educational
system; with full and accurate accounts of its progressive counties,
cities and towns.” Two interesting chapters deal with literature and
art and among the illustrations are a number from paintings by artists
of the Taos colony. There is a bibliography and the book is indexed.

* * * * *

“Like others of the series, a beautiful picture book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

=JAMES, HENRY.= Letters of Henry James. 2v il *$10 Scribner

20–6773

In editing these volumes of letters, Mr Percy Lubbock has had a wide
field for selection. For, as he says of Henry James, “He was at all
times a copious letter-writer, overflowing into swift and easy
improvisation to his family and to the many friends with whom he
corresponded regularly. His letters have been widely preserved, and
several thousands of them have passed through my hands, ranging from
his twenty-fifth year until within a few days of his last illness.”
(Introd.) In addition to the introduction which opens volume 1, the
editor has contributed brief illuminating prefaces to the sections
into which the volumes are divided. These divisions, for volume 1,
are: First European years: 1869–1874; Paris and London: 1875–1881; The
middle years: 1882–1888; Later London years: 1889–1897; and Rye,
1898–1903. Volume 2 comprises: Rye: 1904–1909; Rye and Chelsea:
1910–1914; and The war: 1914–1916. Notes are often provided for
individual letters and an index adds to the value of the admirably
edited work.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Sydney Waterlow

+ − =Ath= p537 Ap 23 ’20 2350w

“The portrait they paint of the novelist and his surroundings is so
clear that the editor has needed merely to add here and there a
prefatory note. These and the introduction are finely appreciative and
adequate.”

+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20

“The editor, Mr Lubbock, has compassed a dangerous undertaking in his
selection and, while he offers many letters which illustrate the
social side of his hero, he justly lays stress on the inclusion of
literary themes. These letters bid fair to become a classic in English
literature.” J. G. Huneker

+ =Bookm= 51:364 My ’20 2700w

“Throughout them we find an abundance of literary comment upon his
fellow writers which is pungent and vigorous, even if not always
convincing.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 10 ’20 1500w

Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes

+ =Dial= 69:83 Jl ’20 3700w

“Mr Lubbock tells us that James left behind him scarcely a document
that revealed any trace of the origins of his work. Of the origins of
his spirit, his point of view, he yields us scarcely more in the way
of documentary evidence. One apprehends him here indeed in certain
aspects of intimacy as the son, as the brother, as, if not the friend,
at least the fellow-artist, as, perhaps most warmly, the uncle. It is
only—only—as the man that he foils our question.” V. W. B.

+ − =Freeman= 1:164 Ap 28 ’20 1700w

=Lit D= p89 Jl 10 ’20 3450w

“All the more, however, finding him thus restricted as to race and
sympathies and images, do we find ourselves admiring the magnificent
passion with which he worked at his art. His famous prefaces to his
novels and tales are accepted as an indispensable handbook to the art
of fiction. No less may his letters be considered indispensable to
those serious students and fellow-artists who wish to observe a genius
massively revolving and tirelessly experimenting.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 2000w

* =Nation [London]= 27:178 My 8 ’20 1550w

“I am brash enough to venture the prediction that the best book of
Henry James’s, the one with the widest appeal, the one with the most
permanent interest, the one most easily read, is not to be found among
those which he wrote for publication, but is this collection of his
correspondence. What these letters bring before us vividly is a
warm-hearted James, devoted to his family and dowered with the gift of
friendship.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 2750w

“Whatever has been deleted does not harm that which gives pleasure and
delight, surprising us by the clarity and directness of its style and
by the warm sentiment of its friendship.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 380w

“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in
letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of
sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite
tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.”
Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 211:682 My ’20 3000w

“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist
that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that
his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses

+ =Outlook= 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w

“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the
peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made
of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps
unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English
adoption.” S. P. Sherman

+ − =Review= 3:706 Jl 7 ’20 2350w

“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes
that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about
notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and
psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an
intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified
as it was humanly attractive.”

+ =Spec= 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w

“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the
reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 1400w

=JAMES, HENRY.= Master Eustace. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer

“The five stories in this volume, together with the four included in
‘A landscape painter,’ appeared originally in American periodicals,
but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book
form in this country. The present volume, along with ‘A landscape
painter,’ makes accessible to the American public the nine short
stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in
English editions of his works.” (Preface) The five stories, all
written later than “A landscape painter” are: Master Eustace;
Longstaff’s marriage; Théodolinde; A light man; and Benvolio.

* * * * *

“It is not to be imagined that because the stories in this collection
are primarily concerned with the interplay of character they are
slow-moving narratives, with a tendency to be diffuse. On the
contrary, they are well-knit and direct in conception, and executed
with richness, deftness in phrase and mood, and a quiet but keen wit.”
Lisle Bell

+ =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 540w

“No one need look for masterpieces among tales that Henry James
declined to put between covers. The poorest inclusion in the book, and
one of James’s very poorest bits of writing, is ‘Theodolinde.’ The
book is valuable but not invaluable.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 320w

“They are written in a style transparently clear and straightforward,
and are decidedly romantic in substance and form. Nothing in this book
is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 160w

=JAMES, HENRY DUVALL.= Controllers for electric motors. il *$3 Van Nostrand 621.317

20–174

“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical
applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of
articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the
addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction;
Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods
of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with
different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic
braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating
current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20

=JAMES, WILLIAM.= Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press

20–23198

“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man
which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with
all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is
as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in
personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters
reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the
prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two
volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his
estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise
accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions
brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21

“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful
hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound
little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They
will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of
self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 52:557 F ’21 1150w

“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do these.
They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their
self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’;
they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the
chronicle of a notable family.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 2150w

“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the world
will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the most
beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have been
printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things about
persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard, which should
not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps

+ − =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 1650w

“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift, we
may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w

“As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man, like
William James, so there can never be another collection of letters
like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care for
genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will find the
book a treasure-house.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 2600w

=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Book of Job; its origin, growth and interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223

20–27474

The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books
of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and
the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding
and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by
defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite
authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and
interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the
Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and
additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was
transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy
and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the
Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21

“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version
is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the
incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr
Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style
better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 8 ’20 1150w

“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional
prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But
his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w

“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book
for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to
an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd

+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w

=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c) Lippincott 327

20–7859

The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to
be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly
settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the
cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two
contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large
army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these
contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the
creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted
entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of
European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates
not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a
solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the
great war.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted does
not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and
change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to
educate public opinion in this country on a question that involves us
all, whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.

+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w

“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble faith as
Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w

=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

Reviewed by M. H. Anderson

=Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 170w

=JAY, WILLIAM.= War and peace. *$1 Oxford 341.6

20–3783