Chapter XLIV: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (14)

“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely
intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment,
falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is,
is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy
would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a
suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped
over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:255 Jl ’20 380w

=KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.=[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230

20–15157

“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism
for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided
into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second
part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main
independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the
theology of the developing church.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1016 O 10 ’19 60w

“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The
treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”

+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 240w

=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.= Jesus’ principles of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232

20–12830

“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to
interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively
in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that
Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and
coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two
distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the
other in political science, have worked together to expound the
teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a
yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual
satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that
the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this
volume.”

+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 180w

“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many
theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal
and of the abstract.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 470w

“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”

− =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 100w

“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without
sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are
involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is
thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the
reader.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w

=KENT, ROCKWELL.= Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il *$5 Putnam

20–6728

Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an
island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with
his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings
that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an
introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s
drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life
of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect
companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both
man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together
by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face
to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the
wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is
nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own
all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is
that which we believe it to be.”

* * * * *

“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious
enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an
excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks
for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never
lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of
Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But
when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art,
we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w

+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

Reviewed by H: McBride

=Dial= 69:91 Jl ’20 800w

“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful
series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet
adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps
chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and
freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening

+ =Freeman= 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w

“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one
of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like
‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the
wilderness.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w

“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’
is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys
is not a mere surmise.”

+ =Outlook= 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w

“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is
‘Wilderness.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w

“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a
born, though very unequal draughtsman.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w

=KEON, GRACE.= Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair

20–5124

“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black
bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in
fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than
saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and
abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and
felt that she really could not take him into her household of six
small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them
all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father,
Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and
quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish
tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with
another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one
for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 120w

“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”

+ =Cath World= 111:696 Ag ’20 120w

“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w

=KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL.= Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia univ. press 940.373

20–3590

Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first
delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia,
and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier
and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American
scholarship; What have we learned?

* * * * *

=Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w

=KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS.= Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1

20–13602

“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in
their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by
Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly
the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough
explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of
negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and
radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the
franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in
education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume
of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received
following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he
bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w

“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s
growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable
indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist,
not only without effective protest but largely with their
acquiescence.” E. A. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 260w

“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume
and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy
fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness
with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”

+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w

“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the
country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w

“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find
Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”

+ =No Am= 212:575 O ’20 300w

“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America.
Typographically the book is not attractive.”

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w

“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”

+ =Review 3:538 D 1= ’20 300w

“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought
or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the
compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If
instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate
the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate
honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire
and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably
turned aside.” Jessie Fauset

+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w

=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134

20–17391

Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person
relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very
dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door
which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon
the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the
presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy,
while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.”
Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some
comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of
spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.

* * * * *

“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly
interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its
details.”

+ − =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w

+ =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 60w

=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane

20–8544

This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the
first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished
letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton.
After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the
present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore
written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from
A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those
poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”;
Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The
laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets
whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear
deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster
Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”

* * * * *

=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 40w

+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 51:569 Jl ’20 920w

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 1450w

“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s
‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his
biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”

+ =Cath World= 111:831 S ’20 90w

“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There
is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to
exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression
of their real greatness.”

+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w

“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means
destitute of revealing touches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w

“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that
he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 D 11 ’19 750w

=KERR, R. WATSON.= War daubs. *$1 Lane 821

20–5692

This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid
the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not
see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy
eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.”
Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The
gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w

“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of
these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely
digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new
poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too
closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”

− + =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 80w

“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without
the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an
intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But
there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain
honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 My 8 ’20 220w

=N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w

“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the
verse into a real and true medium of expression.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 60w

=KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD).= Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–7762

Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved
Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome
and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took
Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a
hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and
ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from
straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth
became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it
vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before
disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid
loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to
Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only
averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s
unfaithfulness.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

=Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 120w

“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief
characters are very real.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise
graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of
prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets
out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that
‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent
craftsmanship.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w

“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the
subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense
and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality.
Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which
embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 300w

“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy)
husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been
faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet
conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so
attractive a feature in some American novels.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w

=KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.= Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543

The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in
the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in
the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The
new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has
made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and
upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The
chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus
has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.”
(Preface to the second edition)

* * * * *

“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives
trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to
every industrial chemist.”

+ =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w

=KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.= Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94

20–2057

As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace
conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied
and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on
his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the
peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to
“re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the
injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty
and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result
of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions
for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the
defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the
new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide
in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies
themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish
themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to
individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The
conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.

* * * * *

“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the
growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly
of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which
a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C.
J. Bushnell

+ =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 640w

“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also
unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg

− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 750w

“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of
individuals.” C. L. King

+ − =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 300w

“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of
hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and
the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination.
In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a
middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to
boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he
knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out
with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to
bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had
been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is
not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of
generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and
domination.”

+ + − =Ath= p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w

“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful
clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy
because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to
widely differing political factions.”

+ =Booklist= 16:199 Mr ’20

“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided
by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or
in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will
disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these
critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant
economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip

+ =Bookm= 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w

“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure
fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this
book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less
suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes
expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle

+ − =Dial= 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w

“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what
happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the
multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle
sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have
been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may
understand.” W: C. Bullitt

+ + =Freeman= 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w

=Lit D= p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w

“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the
overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer
has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of
knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the
ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen
living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely
hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid
portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral
indignation.” H. J. Laski

+ + =Nation= 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w

+ =Nation [London]= 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w

“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp
dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As
against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be
put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for
dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so
much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are
yet hanging.” A. A. Young

+ − =New Repub= 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w

“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing
than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the
limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically
sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of
human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least
important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its
demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial
provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos
brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve.
Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league
of nations.” P. D. Cravath

+ + − =N Y Sun and Herald= p11 F 2 ’20 3600w

“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic
future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his
interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political
questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of
their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us
a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead
he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet,
and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the
‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen

− =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w

=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w

“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the
work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is
a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind
which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical
humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It
is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave
reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”

+ − =Review= 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 210w

“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the
term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the
relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages
of this book.”

+ =Sat R= 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w

Reviewed by Arthur Gleason

+ =Socialist R= 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w

“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his
former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect
of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be
written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last,
‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of
substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication
is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies
proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems
to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different
category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves
attention.”

− + =Spec= 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w

“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and
Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but
consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and
penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said
outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord
Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation
[London] 26:426 D 20 ’19)

=Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w

“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will
be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and
interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he
appears to have little interest or understanding.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w

“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present
conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr
Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of
the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the
enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires.
Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly
pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual
treatment than he himself proposes.”

+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:94 Mr ’20 260w

“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing
than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s
predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book
is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of
the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete
mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour

− + =Yale R= n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w

=KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.= Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer; with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s

20–10008

“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s
diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not
given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a
mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the
years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July
30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w

+ =Cath World= 112:255 N 20 220w

“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay,
and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a
self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of
these memories.”

+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w

=KIMBALL, EVERETT.= National government of the United States. *$3.60 (1½c) Ginn 342.7

20–5064

The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which
institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which
appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting
the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical
origins and the development of our national political institutions and
the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of
the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that
the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered,
authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme
court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at
conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents
is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution;
Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election
of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and
functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial
system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance;
Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United
States and there is an index.

* * * * *

“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the
fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The
student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the
essential principles of our national political system which will give
him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.”
Ralston Hayden

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:722 N ’20 880w

+ =Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w

=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has
been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener
discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would
perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is
no new interpretation of our national system, but there is
compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly
high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:154 S ’20 620w

“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly,
discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a
reasonable degree of readability.”

+ =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w

+ =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 150w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w

“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science.
Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that
even a layman without any training in political science can
understand.” J: E: Oster

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w

=KING, BASIL.= Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper

20–14599

A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was
of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a
snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from
those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of
view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of
Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning
to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our
whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is
gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it,
returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too
his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going
shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in
adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the
current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will
open up to him.

* * * * *

“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit;
only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to
be an error.”

+ − =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 170w

“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have
written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King,
and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper
pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life
which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 800w

+ =Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 320w

“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much
skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and
then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but
dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction
of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally
fastidious reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w

“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact
should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to
the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be
the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers,
the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w

=KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.= Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van Nostrand 540.3

(Eng ed 20–10609)

A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in
compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects
of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more
important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or
manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions
of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry
for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.

* * * * *

“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict
reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.

+ − =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w

“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p25 Ap ’20 20w

=KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.= Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811

20–10006

Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and
aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity,
Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them
are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and
birds in sonnet and short lyric form.

* * * * *

“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the
fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but
his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W.
S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w

=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910

20–9990

In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between
1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889
published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three
sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New
England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers
written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the
family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the
magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in
1913.

* * * * *

“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and
obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block
of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go
on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the
greater the obstruction.” V. W.

− + =Ath= p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w

+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the
world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling
develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in
his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w

“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as
the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in
America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea
to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the
outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly
over-stimulated nervous system.”

− =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w

“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are
full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength
and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight
of Monadnock.’”

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w

=New Repub= 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w

“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk
and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the
letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all
these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the
same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding
anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic,
not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United
States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews

+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w

“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never
filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant
thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow,
these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is
humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”

+ − =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w

“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and
those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.

+ =St Louis= 18:231 S ’20 60w

“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is
his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us
see things and understand things.”

+ =Spec= 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w

“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface
aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is
congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as
inevitably out of date.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w

“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with
poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this
book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his
patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous
by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies
seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome
of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive
he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 120w

=KIRBY, ELIZABETH.= Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran

20–15953

Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness.
First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her
ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants
and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she
wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius,
held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further
production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She
dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy
prince at last.

* * * * *

“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and
Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and
appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 240w

“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and
extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby
presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she
compels the reader to share.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w

=KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.=[2] Wealth: its production and distribution. *$2.25 Dutton 330

“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land,
labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s
preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in
a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of
wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an
analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the
production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the
economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 70w

=KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.= View vertical, and other essays. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–17902

Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial
essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a
universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the
mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his
conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the
sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for
the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the
keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life
or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our
friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In
defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in
fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman;
Gift-books and book-gifts.

* * * * *

“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the
particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and
directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip
suits a cat.”

+ =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 130w

“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written
essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same
time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w

“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen
perception of just what her own position ought to be.”

+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w

“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more
impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor
and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing
off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 70w

=KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.= Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15

20–8868

“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational
psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the
imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal
development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this
intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different
school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1,
‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the
imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes.