Chapter XLVII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (3)

This volume has been prepared by a number of writers connected with
the business department of colleges, and with business periodicals and
is intended to help business men to write reports, articles for trade
papers, make effective speeches at dinners, conventions or clubs, and
to instruct advertising writers. The seven divisions of the book are
headed: Essentials of writing; The reinforcement of reading; Letter
for men of affairs; Report-writing; Advertising copy; The journalism
of business; Mechanical and incidental. The appendices consist of
bibliographies for both volumes and there is an index. The companion
volume on “Talking business” is by John Mantle Clapp.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w

+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w

=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Chinese coat. *$1.75 (6c) Scribner

20–14288

To Eleanor More and her husband, Richard, a blue Chinese coat that she
could not afford to buy became a kind of a symbol. The desire to give
it to her stayed with her husband all thru their early married
life—while their family was growing up and even after the children
were men and women. Their pilgrimage to a far country to at last gain
possession of the coat is the climax of a story which is part allegory
and part romance.

* * * * *

“A quiet tale of married life told with a charming simplicity and a
touch of symbolism.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“Companionable, sweet and comfortable, filling the mind with dreams of
times when, unwillingly and under pressure, we were forced to let the
great desire go.”

+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 60w

“A sweet little story, charmingly told, and illustrating the lovable
qualities of husband and wife.”

+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 60w

“A story that is remarkably compact and sustained in interest
throughout. Throughout it is woven the glimmering web of poetry, and
this is due partly to the theme itself and partly to the simplicity of
the prose. One feels upon reading the story that Mrs Lee possesses
unsuspected talents. The idealism and symbolic qualities of ‘The
Chinese coat’ are never in doubt. It is a book to be read.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 480w

“A charmingly simple story that has just enough of a plot to hold it
together.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 80w

=LEE, VERNON, pseud. (VIOLET PAGET).= Satan the waster. *$2.50 Lane 822

20–16301

Vernon Lee’s satirical allegory, “The ballet of the nations,” was
published in 1915 and was reviewed in the Book Review Digest at that
time. It is now reprinted here, with prologue and epilogue which take
account of the deeper causes leading to the war and of the chaos that
has followed it. In the trilogy thus completed Satan appears as “the
waster of human virtues.” And since the greater and more useless the
waste, the greater his delight, he finds his chief joy in
self-sacrifice which is vain, and the author, who in the furnace of
the war has come to doubt and question all accepted values, suggests
that what the world needs in place of self-sacrifice is that altruism
“which is respect for the other rather than renunciation of the self.”
This and other philosophical aspects of the war are discussed in the
Introduction and in the notes which follow the play.

* * * * *

=Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 190w

“We are casting about for a reason why a book so honest, intelligent,
well-written, clever, should not stimulate but depress, should be a
tiresome book. We may mention that the masque, ‘Satan the waster,’
occupies 110 pages out of about 340; the remainder consists of
introduction and notes. That is a damning—or at least a
damnable—fact.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p299 S 3 ’20 640w

=Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“It is an interesting discussion of our international imbecilities and
sets forth with pomp those precise opinions whose less elegant
expression recently sent several hundred Americans to jail.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w

“Enormously stimulating and quickening book. It ought to be one of the
real factors in that spiritual re-adjustment which is now a major
democratic necessity.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 24:244 N 3 ’20 3650w

“Her satire fails because never from beginning to end can the reader
believe in it. It is merely an expression of her opinions in a very
artificial form; and, whether or no we agree with them, we would
rather have them expressed in the natural form of argument.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p389 Je 24 ’20 3200w

“It embodies the reaction to the world war of one of the sanest minds
and most finished stylists of her day. One who compares Romain
Rolland’s dramatic satire ‘Liluli’ with this work, is struck with the
similarity in purpose, in point of view, in fundamental concept, and
even in their common form of cosmic burlesque. Neither the great
Frenchman nor the great Englishwoman has written a ‘play’ in the
ordinary sense, but each has made an uncommon contribution to
literature.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 320w

=LEES, GEORGE ROBINSON.= Life of Christ. il *$5 Dodd 232

20–18310

Considering it of supreme importance to be able to visualize the
scenery amid which the life of Christ was laid, the writer of this
volume spent six years in Palestine during which he learned “how real
was the life of Christ in the scenes depicted in the records of the
Evangelist.” Thus with much local and historic coloring the life of
Jesus is reinterpreted from the accounts of the apostles which are
closely followed. The book is indexed and has one hundred and
twenty-five full page illustrations.

* * * * *

“Inevitably it provokes comparison with Renan in point of literary
style, if not in actual treatment, for Mr Lees is a convinced
believer. His style fails badly by the test. Though a book of this
kind is not greatly to our taste, we cannot but acknowledge the
author’s devotion.”

− + =Ath= p868 D 24 ’20 90w

“His narrative is plain, simple, understandable, but not marked by
either remarkable scholarship or remarkable insight.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 90w

=LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.= Junk-man, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811

20–17992

With a wealth of imagery and a poet’s wisdom all life is mirrored in
these poems in the time-honored garb of rhyme and metre. The first
line of the poem “On re-reading Le morte d’Arthur,” “Here learn who
will the art of noble words” can be applied to this collection, the
author’s first since the war.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“If his extreme youth was a little hectic with the heady wine of
passion his maturity has grown beautifully sane with the philosophic
mind. He was never more youthful than now, when he has recaptured the
song of the lark, regained the lightness of foot that measures the
pace of any gypsy up hill and down dale, and with an eye for illusions
that any lover might envy.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 1300w

=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 130w

“It is a sad day for poetry when an authentic craftsman attains such
facility that he writes from sheer momentum. This, we suspect, is what
has happened in the case of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, whose new book,
‘The junkman’ is the mere shell of poetry—the forms without the
feeling.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 200w

+ =Ind= 194:246 N 13 ’20 150w

“It is compact with beauty, filled with all those things that we
instinctively know to be the real marks of authentic poetry. The
flare, the passion, the abiding sense of things that may not readily
be put into words, are all here. It is the sort of poetry that
endures, that becomes memorable and takes place in the memories and
hearts of its readers.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 10 ’20 1500w

“A collection of verse that equals anything this prolific author has
done.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 400w

=LEIGHTON, JOHN LANGDON.= Simsadus: London; the American navy in Europe. il *$4 (11c) Holt 940.45

20–9639

“Sims—Admiral—U.S.” explains the title of the book. It was the cable
address of Admiral Sims’ headquarters in London. The author was
connected with the Intelligence section of Admiral Sims’ staff and as
such is conversant with the inside facts and history of our naval
operations. The book gives his personal impressions and disclaims
official sanction. A partial list of the contents: The situation in
April, 1917; Admiral Sims in London; The establishment of bases;
Submarines off the American coast; A discussion of submarines and
their methods; The distraction of submarines; Why American troopships
were not sunk; The end of the submarine campaign; The man on the
bridge (in homage); Appendix, charts and illustrations.

* * * * *

“After the host of war books which have kept our heads buzzing with
anecdotes and statistics incoherently packed into a jumbled whole it
is not only refreshing but instructive to read a clear, sane, and
comprehensive exposition of our naval activities in Europe as set
forth by Mr Leighton.” P. E. Stevenson

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Je 27 ’20 1000w

“It is something of a relief to find a war-book that does not strain
one’s nerves, or overwhelm one with facts, and that has hardly any
note in it of propaganda, or eulogy, or criticism. Mr Leighton has
given a clear-cut, well-ordered account of what our navy did in
connection with the British navy.”

+ =No Am= 212:862 D ’20 1050w

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 90w

“Pervading his book is a whole-hearted devotion to his chief, which
goes beyond mere professional loyalty and suggests kinship with the
spirit that surrounded Nelson. Readers of Admiral Sims’s own book can
hardly fail to discern the secret of this spirit and it is pleasant to
find it reflected from the pages of his subordinate.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 6 ’21 860w

=LE QUEUX, WILLIAM TUFNELL.= Doctor of Pimlico; being the disclosure of a great crime. *$1.75 Macaulay co.

20–1211

“Weirmarsh is a criminal who operates all over the continent of
Europe, as well as in England, and, possessing certain hypnotic
powers, he finds it easy to bend other wills to his for his own
profit. So not only is Sir Hugh Elcombe—with his splendid record as a
British officer in several hard campaigns, including the great war
just ended—made a pitiful object by his fear of an ‘exposure’ by
Weirmarsh, but Sir Hugh’s beautiful stepdaughter, Enid Orlebar, who
seems to be a perfect example of the high-class modern English girl is
also under his baleful shadow. She is loved by the middle-aged
cosmopolite who is intended to be the hero of the book. He is a
talented author of mystery romances which bring him an income of
several thousand pounds sterling a year. His real name, under which he
writes, is Walter Fetherston. But he has a penchant for amateur
detective work—he avers that he always ‘lives’ his romances—and when
he is engaged in trying to get to the bottom of some criminal mystery
he calls himself John Maltwood.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Ath= p1242 N 21 ’19 50w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 180w

“The story rambles on—always fluent and in well-chosen terms, with
colorful pictures of various localities in Europe obviously made by
one who knows them personally, but singularly deficient in suspense,
dramatic action, humor, or any other of the qualities which make for
real interest in an up-to-date work of fiction.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:309 Je 13 ’20 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 140w

=LESCOHIER, DON DIVANCE.= Labor market. (Social science text-books) *$2.25 Macmillan 331

19–19765

“The purpose of this volume is to show the necessity for a national
organization to control the problem of employment. In the course of
his discussion the author presents much information concerning
conditions of the labor market in this country and offers many
suggestions to officials of employment offices, university students
and teachers, legislators and the general public.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The book is an authoritative and constructive study of an important
question; and its essential merit lies in the fact that it is based on
experience. The general aspects of the question, however, are not
neglected and the bibliography and references show that the subject
has been studied as a whole.” G: M. Janes

+ =Am Econ R= 10:605 S ’20 940w

“The subject is covered very fully and is presented in a popular
style. Will be valuable to labor managers, students of economics, and
progressive business executives.”

+ =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

“Of interest to all students of practical economic questions.”

+ =Cleveland= p54 My ’20 40w

“A workmanlike book ... that fills a gap in economic literature.”

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 40w

“It is neither novel nor exciting. It is a sober and well-balanced
study of the way in which the sale of labor in the employment market
is organized. If Mr Lescohier’s book has a fault, it is his
inclination to regard the general background of the present industrial
system as permanent. But as a survey of machinery Mr Lescohier’s book
is of real value.” H. J. Laski

+ − =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 320w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w

“In this volume Professor Lescohier has rendered a singularly
opportune public service. It is enormously important to have available
at this time such a clear discussion of the nature of the labor market
and of the significance for the country of the sundry labor and
immigration policies proposed.”

+ =Survey= 44:318 My 29 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 60w

=LESLIE, NOEL.= Three plays: Waste; The war fly; For king and country. *$1.50 Four seas co. 822

20–7067

There is tragedy in all of these realistic one-act plays. In Waste we
have a dying consumptive girl whose last hours see a grief and
poverty-stricken mother, a drunken father, and her lover turning from
her to her younger sister. In the War-fly two strangers meet in a
hotel restaurant and the one entertains the other with a gruesome
fancy about flies as the devil’s emmisaries. In For King and country
an aged village couple have one son returned from the war blind and
while they are discussing the future of the other son and his war
bride this other is brought home mad.

* * * * *

“Each and all of his three plays reveal him as a playwright with
ideas, and as one whose own acting has enabled him to see dramatic
values and to cause them to live in plays of his own. There is the
reality of life in them as well as a feeling for the theatre that
makes them actable. They hit the centre of the target.” A. A. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 450w

“Of Mr Noel’s three one-act plays the second, The war-fly, is quite
dark in drift and meaning and so one suspects that neither matters
greatly. His first and third plays, on the contrary, Waste and For
king and country, are drenched with significance because they strain
after no symbolism and are philosophical because they are true.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 180w

“The three plays contained in Noel Leslie’s book are rather
exasperating. In each one of them the author handles an excellent
theme, makes fair headway with it and then does not quite realize the
possibilities of his plots.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 140w

“The plays are set with an actor’s solicitude, and each begins with a
promise which is overcast by partial disappointment.”

+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 100w

“They really are workmanlike in structure, are well written, and
display some grasp of character and ability to devise dramatic
situations. In ‘The war fly,’ the author shows that he can devise a
tragic fantasy of some original power.”

+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:259 Jl ’20 180w

=LEVEL, MAURICE.= Tales of mystery and horror. il *$2 (3½c) McBride

20–18255

These stories are translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin.
Henry B. Irving provides an introduction in which he says: “Reminding
one of Edgar Allan Poe more than any other, M. Level employs the
method of O. Henry in the service of the horrible.” The stories, which
are all brief—have the titles: The debt collector; The kennel; Who?
Illusion; In the light of the red lamp; A mistake; Extenuating
circumstances; The confession; The test; Poussette; The father; For
nothing; In the wheat; The beggar; Under chloroform; The man who lay
asleep; Fascination; The bastard; That scoundrel Miron; The taint; The
kiss; A maniac; The 10.50 express; Blue eyes; The empty house; The
last kiss.

* * * * *

“He has Poe’s predilection for supernatural and gruesome themes,
something of de Maupassant’s technique of compression, a flair for the
‘irony of fate’ formula, which was so characteristic of O. Henry’s
plot, and a kinship with Burke’s nostalgie de la boue. But there the
likeness ends, he has none of the qualities mentioned in a degree
sufficient to raise him to the level of the men he suggests.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 740w

“In spite of their subject-matter, the stories neither shock me
morally, chill my blood with their horror, nor affect me with their
pathos. A skillful machinist, not an artist, seems to have been at
work.” E. L. Pearson

− + =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 480w

=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Shepherd of the sea. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday

20–26194

This is a story of the icy North, of ice-floes, of shipwreck, of
starvation and mutiny at a whaling station, of an overland trip in a
dog-sled, deprivation and hunger and narrow escape from freezing. A
missionary sea-captain who is out to fight the whiskey traffic with
the Eskimos and to carry the word of God to them, picks up Buck
Traherne when his motor-boat had capsized in the Strait. Traherne is
just out of college at Seattle and a tenderfoot. The life on
ship-board puts strength into him and he becomes, with the shepherd,
the mainstay of the castaway crew on Herschel Island. Moona—half
Eskimo and half Scotch—the shepherd’s ward, loves him and after the
rescue has come, and the arctic flowers have once more lifted their
heads, the charm she has knitted into Traherne’s muffler shows its
potency.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 51:80 Mr ’20 260w

“Memories of ‘Captains courageous’ seem to filter through the
beginnings of Mr Leverage’s tale. Nevertheless, the plot would pass
very well by itself if the author had the style and strength to render
it into a forcible and plausible narrative. Unfortunately, he has
not.” G. M. H.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 550w

“The tale contains an abundance of adventure, and the author seems to
know the country and the life whereof he writes, but the book is
marred by a style so very jerky that it soon gets upon the reader’s
nerves.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 380w

=LEVERAGE, HENRY.= Where dead men walk. *$1.75 Moffat

20–1210

“A story of the underworld, Mr Leverage’s new novel, ‘Where dead men
walk,’ recounts the adventures of one Vilos Holbrook. He had lived a
lazy, comfortable life until his uncle, Colonel Bishop, who had
control of the modest fortune left him by his father, was swindled out
of it while himself endeavoring to swindle a supposedly dying man.
Only a few hours before he learned of the loss of his fortune,
curiosity had induced him to attend the disreputable ‘Three students’
ball,’ where he had seen Gypsy Cragen dance, and later talked with
her. When he presently discovered that she had been one of the gang of
swindlers who had gotten the better of his uncle, he protected her,
and later joined the little organization of thieves to which the Gypsy
and her father, formerly a noted safeblower, belonged. This he
preferred to earning an honest living as an electrical engineer. Also
he took first to whisky, and then, under the Gypsy’s tutelage, to
opium, which he found at the end of that path over the roof described
as the one ‘where dead men walk.’”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Stories of the underworld invariably possess a certain fascination.
Mr Leverage has written a fair sample of this type of novel.”

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

“The story is entertaining in its way and contains one really clever
situation. But the style is unpleasantly staccato, and the
construction leaves a good deal to be desired.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:76 F 8 ’20 300w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 80w

=LEVERHULME, WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, 1st baron.= Six-hour shift and industrial efficiency. *$3.50 (4c) Holt 331

20–11378

The book is the American edition of the author’s “Six-hour day,”
abridged and rearranged by Frank Tannenbaum, with an introduction by
Henry R. Seager. Lord Leverhulme’s remedies for the defects of modern
industry are based on actual experience and are summed up in the word
co-partnership. He looks upon the employer as the senior partner in an
industry and the employees as the junior partners, with the confidence
that under such wisely planned leadership complete cooperation will
gradually result. Contents: The problem of industrial efficiency; The
six-hour shift; Harmonizing capital and labor; Co-partnership;
Co-partnership and business management; Co-partnership and efficiency;
Co-operative aspect of business; Health and housing; Shop committees
and shop efficiency; Industrial administration; The workers’ interest
in productivity; Principles of reconstruction; Socialism, or equality
vs. equity. There is an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:357 Jl ’20

=Lit D= p106 S 4 ’20 1600w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ’20 150w

=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar. $3 Stokes 327

20–15556

These letters, “copied from government archives in Moscow, unpublished
before 1920,” are “the private letters from the Kaiser to the Czar
found in a chest after the Czar’s execution and now in possession of
the Soviet government.” In his introduction the author reprints
comments on the letters from various English papers and from Professor
Walter Goetz. As the letters were written in English they are printed
as written. Four of the letters are given in facsimile.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:113 D ’20

Reviewed by A. C. Freeman

=N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 580w

“While not as important as the telegrams which were published in 1917,
these letters from the Kaiser to the Czar are extremely interesting as
historical documents completing the picture. They reveal the author
far better than any biographer could reveal him.” Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 10 ’20 2550w

“They are only half satisfactory as correspondence because there are
no letters of reply from the Czar to the Kaiser. Regrettably
incomplete as the present volume is, no book, we think, could present
a greater revelation of the Kaiser’s character. Such a book should
have had an index.”

+ − =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 400w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 140w

“Mr Grant’s excellent introduction explains everything that needs
explanation, and ample footnotes clear up the personal and other
allusions which might perplex readers who are not close students of
foreign politics.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p867 D 23 ’20 900w

=LEVINGER, MRS ELMA EHRLICH.=[2] New land. $1.25 Bloch

20–10306

“This little collection of stories written for children, of ‘Jews who
had a part in the making of our country,’ belongs in part to
historical biography with a large fictional element and in part to
pure fiction with a historical setting.”—Survey

* * * * *

“The particular ideal of the author of ‘The new land’ to be sure, is
not Christian but patriotic virtue, but her method of approach is
sadly reminiscent of the Sunday school library of old time.
Nevertheless the tales are all carefully and enthusiastically told and
often rise to intrinsic human interest.” C. K. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 140w

“The stories are well written; they have a collective ‘moral,’ of
course, but this does not obtrude itself, nor is it narrowly
nationalistic.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 120w

=LEVISON, ERIC.=[2] Hidden eyes. *$1.75 Bobbs

20–16929

“Mysterious bank robberies at Jacksonville, Fla., furnish the plot of
‘Hidden eyes.’ The most complicated locks and burglar-proof bank
vaults are opened without delay by a most adroit and elusive thief.
Robbery after robbery occurs and the detective force is well-nigh
demoralized. The detective chief, however, has a latent suspicion of a
young chemist named Thornton, who is an expert in steel and safe
locks. Thornton is taken in the very act of a midnight foray. But this
is far from clearing the mystery. That duty is accomplished by a local
doctor who dabbles in psychoanalysis and auto-suggestion.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 360w

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 370w

“The dénouement is quite unexpected and furnishes the biggest thrill
of all.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 120w

=LEVY, S. I.=[2] Modern explosives. il $1 (3½c) Pitman 662.2

The contents of this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and
industries are: Modern explosives and their raw materials; The
chemistry of explosives manufacture; The acids section of an
explosives factory; The manufacture of propellant explosives;
Preparation of the high explosives; Explosives in war and peace;
Chemistry and national welfare. Index and illustrations.

* * * * *

“Although avoiding technical details, the author has given a
reasonable and well-balanced treatment of his subject in the space at
his disposal. One or two slips may be noted. The final chapter, on
‘Chemistry and national welfare,’ although not directly connected with
the subject, is very apposite at the present time.”

+ − =Nature= 106:340 N 11 ’20 180w

=LEWER, H. WILLIAM.= China collector; a guide to the porcelain of the English factories. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (4½c) Dodd 738

“This book has been written to enable the enthusiastic collector of
china, even after he has passed through his apprenticeship, and
acquired a certain amount of experience, to form a correct judgment of
that branch of ceramics embraced under the designation of old English
porcelain.” (Foreword) The book has a prefatory note by Frank Stevens
explaining the illustrations of which there are thirty-two and the
marks. The distinctive features of each factory are treated under the
titles of history, paste, glaze, decoration, production,
characteristics, noted artists, chronology, and marks. The factories
discussed are: Bow; Bristol; Caughley; Chelsea; Chelsea-Derby;
Coalport; Derby; Longton Hall; Lowestoft: Nautgarw; New Hall; Pinxton;
Plymouth; Rockingham; Spode; Swansea; Worcester. There is a
chronograph, a bibliography, a tabular index of factories, an index of
names and a general index.

=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Main street. *$2 (1c) Harcourt

20–18934

In telling the story of Main street, Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the
author has tried to tell the story of all America. His Main street “is
the continuation of Main streets everywhere.” It is a story of dull
mediocrity, complacent and satisfied with itself. Carol Milford, one
year out of college, marries Dr Will Kennicott and goes with him to
his home town, Gopher Prairie, in the wheat belt. Carol hates Main
street at sight and in the six or eight years of her life that are
chronicled does not hate it less, altho in the end she comes to see it
with larger eyes and to endure it. One after the other she attempts
reform measures, including a little theater venture, but her efforts
meet defeat. She has her fling of defiance, and spends one of the war
years in Washington, but comes back again, still rebellious. “I may
not have fought the good fight,” says Carol, “but I have kept the
faith.”

* * * * *

“One of the few really good American novels of today.”

+ =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20

“The book is too long, rather tedious. But it has a humanity, a
popular note which will appeal to thousands.” S. M. R.

+ − =Bookm= 52:372 D ’20 100w

“The total impression one derives is that neither Jane Austen nor
George Eliot depicted the provincial England of the past with more
vividness than that with which Mr Lewis portrays the present-day
American small town.” S. A. Coblentz

+ =Bookm= 52:357 Ja ’21 800w

“He knows the American small town for what it is, history in that
respect being the supreme achievement in American fiction. But when he
creates a protest against it, an attack upon its vicious existence,
through the symbol of Carol Kennicott he comes nearer to the function
of a treatise than the process of art. Kennicott is masterly drawn.”
W: S. Braithwaite

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 1700w

“The atmosphere of the sordid smug little burg is well done.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 80w

“At times, Mr Lewis makes one feel that he has treated his people as
mere incidents in an environment, that he has pictured them, not
without malice, like Dickensian gargoyles. But there are scenes in his
book as sensitively felt as some in Mr Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Winesburg,
Ohio.’ These exceptional passages of his book are an earnest of the
restraint and mastery which one will have the right to expect of his
later work.” H. J. Seligmann

+ − =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 750w

“His dialogue, which he uses very freely, is brilliant. The exactness
of this dialogue is a literary achievement of a very high order. Mr
Lewis has given literary permanence to the speech of his time and
section. But the dialogue in ‘Main street’ is anything but literature
in the sense of Verlaine; it is living talk. ‘Main street’ would add
to the power and distinction of the contemporary literature of any
country.”

+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 820w

“‘Main street’ is pioneer work. Some formulae it does help to
perpetuate. Some garishness and crudity it does unpleasantly employ in
its anxiety to be effective and pat. But while the novelistic hen does
not necessarily lay better if surrounded by strong artificial light,
the light in ‘Main street’ is on the whole natural, honest and oh so
amazingly illuminating.” F. H.

+ − =New Republic= 25:20 D 1 ’20 1500w

“‘Main street’ is a book to possess and treasure. What the critics
have overlooked is just this: that Carol’s idealism was at least as
superficial and worthless as the faults of Main street. Carol is more
than a blind would-be leader of the blind; she is a butterfly aspirant
for the leadership of the apsychosaurus.” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 300w

“Dealing with material that is rarely subtle, Mr Lewis can be subtle
enough himself. Besides his gift for character and situation, he has
also a knack at satire and caustic epigram, with so enormous an
acquaintance with the foibles and folklore of the Middle West that he
has literally set a new standard for novels dealing with the section.”
Carl Van Doren

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 20 ’20 2000w

“A remarkable book. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily
into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing.
It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people
are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than
their revealing talk.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 N 14 ’20 1600w

“Gopher Prairie is untypical in human sympathy, in generous instincts,
in kindness of heart. Its people are not merely heavy in mind,
ludicrously dead to art and literature and world movements; they are
selfish, grasping, slanderloving, ignoble. Carol herself is a shallow
sort of reformer. This is the strongest criticism to be made on ‘Main
street.’” R. D. Townsend

+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 400w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 98:1889 D 18 ’20 200w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:447 N 10 ’20 690w

“It is full of the realism of fact, colored by rather laborious and
overclever satire. But it has no sustained action, whether as realism
or as satire. It is a bulky collection of scenes, types, caricatures,
humorous episodes, and facetious turns of phrase; a mine of comedy
from which the ore has not been lifted.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w

“Mr Lewis has fashioned one of the year’s most notable volumes of
fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 850w

“He is particularly adept in reproducing the vernacular. Whether the
picture as a whole and his judgments on it are equally true may be a
matter for disagreement. But as a sincere attempt to deal honestly
with middle-western life the novel is noteworthy.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 90w

=LEWISOHN, LUDWIG=, ed. Modern book of criticisms; ed. with an introd. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books) *85c Boni & Liveright 801

20–11399

“An anthology of passages (of about six pages or less each in length)
from modern authors dealing with the principles of literature, art,
and criticism, divided into four parts according to the nations
represented by the authors drawn upon—for France, Anatole France,
Lemaître, Remy de Gourmont; for Germany, Hebbel, Dilthey, Volkelt, R.
M. Meyer, Hofmannsthal, Mueller-Freienfels, Alfred Kerr; for England,
George Moore, G. B. Shaw, Arthur Symons, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett,
W. L. George, T. MacDonagh, J. C. Powys; for America, Huneker,
Spingarn, Mencken, Lewisohn, F. Hackett, Van Wyck Brooks, and Randolph
Bourne.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Mr Lewisohn’s group of critics are restless impressionists, almost
destitute of doctrine.” S. P. Sherman

− =Bookm= 52:111 O ’20 880w

“Connoisseurs of critical personality as such will miss Mr More and Mr
Sherman in this volume, inasmuch as they are men of a particularly
vivid and dramatic force. The critics whom Mr Lewisohn does put in his
collection speak for the most part superbly.” C. and M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:219 Ag 21 ’20 1250w

“He has done his task in commendable fashion.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 240w

“A book which begins with selections from Anatole France and Jules
Lemaitre is bound to be useful, for the critical writings of these men
are less accessible than one could wish. Furthermore, Mr Lewisohn has
made a number of translations of his own from German writers. It is
this foreign background which gives the book its chief value.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 100w

=LEYDS, WILLEM JOHANNES.= Transvaal surrounded. *$8 Dutton 968

(Eng ed 20–23043)

“In continuation of this author’s monumental work on the annexation of
the Transvaal, this volume was completed and prepared for publication
in June, 1914, just previous to the opening of the great world war. At
that critical time its publication did not seem prudent and its
appearance was delayed. In the preceding volume the relations of the
Boers and the British government were reviewed from the first
settlements in South Africa to the London convention of 1884.... With
the events which followed this volume is concerned and especially with
the British policy, which was systematically followed by each
succeeding cabinet, of gradually surrounding this struggling republic
by a barrier of British territory, which effectually deprived it of
all opportunity of outward expansion. An appendix reproduces a large
number of original documents of great value to the student of this
period, who desires to make a close and exhaustive study of this
really little understood feature in English-African history.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 600w

“Dr Leyds is far too sweeping in his charges, due in large measure to
his hatred of everything British and to his inexperience of native
affairs. The book is one to be read and studied by all who desire to
see both sides of a bad patch in our colonial history.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 4 ’20 2200w

=L’HOPITAL, WINEFRIDE DE.= Westminster cathedral and its architect; with an introd. by W. R. Lethaby. 2v il *$12 (5c) Dodd 726

(Eng ed 20–13853)

These volumes are a memorial to a great architect by his daughter.
Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to
the making of the architect. Together the books contain 160
illustrations and numerous architectural plans. Partial contents of
volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedral
idea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The
plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional
problems; Description and details of exterior; Description and details
of interior; The adaptation and development of Byzantine architecture
as exemplified in the cathedral; The mosaics; Appendices. Volume 2
contains the architect’s life history and the story of his
architectural training and career and an index.

* * * * *

“Though her literary style is frequently clumsy and never particularly
good, she had the necessary facts at her disposal and upon the whole
has used them well. A more skilled biographer would have given us more
of Bentley.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:821 S ’20 500w

“On the technical and intellectual side, the work might have been
composed by an architect having no relation to Bentley, and this it is
which gives a special attraction to these 700 pages. There is but one
trace of feeling that might perhaps be deprecated: a certain
sensitiveness lest, in arranging for the interior completion of the
cathedral, the present or future authorities may be lacking in loyalty
to the ideals of the architect.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:211 F 28 ’20 1100w

“The fact that so large and so admirable a book on a modern architect
has appeared in this country is a matter for congratulation to the
author, the publishers, and the architectural profession. Undoubtedly
it was needed. One can justifiably criticize the arrangement, for it
leads to a certain amount of repetition.”

+ − =Spec= 124:461 Ap 3 ’20 700w

“The account of the cathedral in this book is very full and
interesting, and illustrated with plans both final and preliminary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p739 D 11 ’19 2300w

=LINCOLN, ELLIOTT CURTIS.= Rhymes of a homesteader. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–5608

Many of these poems are in dialect, among them The varmint, Angela, An
evening with Browning, The phonograph, The game of games and The
old-timer remarks. Others, such as The sunflower road, Montana night,
Hills, Wheel tracks, Wild geese, and A song of the wire fence, are
descriptive of the wild beauty of the northwest country. Some of the
poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland and
Sunset.

* * * * *

“Lack the poetic beauty of Piper on the same subject, but will have
many readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

“Elliott C. Lincoln deals with two types of verse, descriptive and
dialect-narrative, with rather more discrimination than Robert
Service, but by no means as much vigor. The descriptive verse is
melodious, if often conventional.”

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

“The sociologist often can learn more about America and the American
people from this homespun verse without literary distinction than from
the smooth rhymes that flow in and around the poetry reviews. Eugene
Field was the outstanding master of the homelier craft. A successor of
his, perhaps superior in wealth and charm of diction, more direct,
more sensitive, is Elliott C. Lincoln.”

+ =Survey= 44:351 Je 5 ’20 170w

=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Portygee. il *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–6287

Portygee is the old Cape Cod term for foreigner expressive of both
contempt and suspicion. It is applied with all its hidden meaning to
Albert Miguel Carlos Speranza, when he comes to live with his
grandparents, old sea captain Zelotes Snow and his wife, after the
death of his father, a Spanish opera singer. The latter had eloped
with the captain’s only daughter, who had died unforgiven by the old
man. Albert, aged seventeen, fresh from a fashionable New York school,
has much to live down and to live up to in South Harniss: his
inclination to write poetry and his dislike for business, in the first
place; and his grandfather’s expectations of him in the second. Little
by little and with struggles on both sides, that endear the two
leading characters to the reader, both win out. Albert comes to occupy
first place in the old man’s heart and is no longer a Portygee, while
he gains his own ends, becomes an author, a war hero, and marries the
best girl in town.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The reader of ‘The Portygee’ will find within its pages a somewhat
conventional story, but he will find also, as in everything Mr Lincoln
has written, a sure understanding of the people of Cape Cod, and an
entertaining chronicle of its life and scenes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 24 ’20 1500w

“Another inimitable Cape Cod story.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 40w

“He can tell a very good story, as he does in ‘The Portygee,’ his
psychology, tho somewhat obvious, is true, but his thoroly ‘wholesome’
humor lacks the faintest alleviation of subtlety. Cape Cod deserves a
better interpreter.”

+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 100w

“‘The Portygee’ is a pleasant, amusing little story, which Mr
Lincoln’s admirers will no doubt greatly enjoy.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 480w

“There is hearty fun in the book, and there is also sound philosophy
and fine Americanism.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w

“This book brings back the smell of the moors, the salt sea, and the
thick encompassing fogs.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:1287 Ap 17 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 60w

“A pleasant tale, which will be enjoyed by all lovers of Lincoln.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:126 Je ’20 80w

=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Red seal. il *$1.75 (3c) Appleton

20–4266

A burglar forces his way into a fashionable Washington home, is caught
and taken to court where the McIntyre twins, whose house he had
entered, appear against him. His sudden death in the courtroom demands
an inquest and an autopsy, which reveal the fact that Jimmie Turnbull,
cashier of the Metropolis Trust Company, while masquerading as a
burglar, was killed by poison. His engagement to Helen McIntyre
complicates the situation. Harry Kent, lover of the twin sister
Barbara, takes up the case. Missing securities and a mysterious
envelope sealed with a red B further complicate matters. The
characters all suspect one another and the reader suspects everyone in
turn. Eventually Harry Kent solves the mystery, and the miserable
shoulders of the clever forger take the guilt of all phases of the
perplexing crime.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“There is nothing unusually clever in the structure of the story. By
concealing essential facts, by raising a new question with every
incident, and by answering none, the author puzzles rather than
creates suspense. The story is indeed so confusing as to be in danger
of being tiresome.” G. H. C.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 300w

“‘The red seal’ has the great merit of being really mysterious. The
author has managed very cleverly in the way she contrives to conceal
all clues that might lead one to discover the true culprit, holding
them back until the very end. The tale moves swiftly and holds the
reader’s interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 360w

“As in so many cinema plots, everyone seems to be ready to believe
anything about anybody, to act in the most compromising manner for
apparently inadequate motives, and to prevaricate with voluble
insincerity at all times and in all places. With such allies at her
disposal, Miss Lincoln makes so formidable a defence of her mystery
that only the most experienced reader will penetrate it before the
time appointed for unveiling.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 220w

=LIND, WALLACE LUDWIG.=[2] Internal-combustion engines. il $2.20 Ginn 621.43

20–6497

The author has treated of internal combustion engines, their
principles and application to automobile, aircraft, and marine
purposes. “The endeavor has been to arrange and present the subject
matter in such a manner as to bring it well within the comprehension
of the average student. For more advanced students, who have a
knowledge of thermodynamics, the writer has presented in Chapter III
the theoretical considerations of the various cycles which are
applicable to internal-combustion engines.” (Preface) There are 120
illustrations, a trouble chart and an index.

* * * * *

“For its purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is
sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice,
although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp
and appreciate.”

+ =Nature= 106:210 O 14 ’20 180w

=LINDEN, HERMAN VANDER.=[2] Belgium, the making of a nation; tr. by Sybil Jane. (Histories of the nations ser.) *$3.75 Oxford 949.3

(Eng ed 20–9824)

“This volume is a translation of Professor H. vander Linden’s ‘Vue
générale de l’histoire de Belgique’ with the addition of three
chapters dealing with the history of the modern kingdom since 1831,
written specially for this English edition. The original title tells
us that the reader must not expect to find in this work more than a
historical sketch. The writer makes no higher claim for it.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Monographs are valuable if their scope be limited, but any small
volume covering centuries has the defects of its qualities. In this
instance the reader might have gained had the author limited himself
to a consideration of modern Belgium. The later chapters are richer
in individuality and indicate what the author can do in
character-sketches.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:355 Ja ’21 420w

=Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 640w

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 120w

“The best portions of this book are the numerous sections dealing with
the social and economical conditions and progress of the Belgic
provinces at various epochs of their chequered history. The strictly
historical narrative does not deserve the same unqualified praise.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p344 Je 3 ’20 1650w

=LINDERMAN, FRANK BIRD.= On a passing frontier. *$1.75 Scribner

20–10052

“These glimpses of past or passing phases of life in Montana get a
sure grip on the reader, in spite of their sombre quality. Bad men,
bad language, and bad whisky figure prominently in the sketches, but
most of the experiences ring true.” (Outlook) “His characters run the
usual gamut of western tales, and each possesses a picturesque
individuality, correctly shaded.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“These sketches of the Little Rockies will rank well in the front
class of fiction.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 160w

“The stuff of good literature, though not in any final form, appears
in ‘On a passing frontier,’ short stories without too much art, but
also without too much decoration, which bring the Little Rockies very
near home.”

+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w

=LINDSAY, MAUD MCKNIGHT.= Bobby and the big road. il *$1.50 (9c) Lothrop

20–26565

Bobby has always lived in the city but when he is five years old his
father and mother take him to live in a little brown house by the side
of a country road. The story tells of his little adventures while
making friends with the birds and animals and flowers. He makes other
friends too and goes to the circus and spends a happy Christmas. The
story is suitable for children who have just learned to read.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20

+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 30w

“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for
grown-up readers, too.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 29 ’20 140w

=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Golden whales of California; and other rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

20–2832

In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan,
John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II,
Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is
crumbling down, and others.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be
primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio
savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive
people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M.
Weaver

− + =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 650w

“With this volume Mr Lindsay certainly regains all he seems to have
lost in his previous collection, and he now settles permanently in the
very forefront of the half a dozen contemporary poets whose fame will
last beyond the generation in which they were born.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 1500w

=Cleveland= p52 My ’20 100w

“Two impulses dominate Lindsay’s latest volume; two tendencies that
are almost opposed in mood and mechanics. Sometimes the Jerusalem
theme is uppermost; sometimes the jazz orchestration drowns everything
else. Frequently, in the more successful pieces, there is a racy,
ragtime blend of both. But a half-ethical, half-aesthetic indecision,
an inability to choose between what most delights Lindsay and what his
hearers prefer is the outstanding effect—and defect—of his new
collection.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Dial= 68:789 Je ’20 1200w

“There is an impression abroad that ‘The golden whales’ falls a little
below ‘General William Booth,’ ‘The Congo,’ and ‘The Santa Fe trail.’
It does do that; yet it stands well up among Mr Lindsay’s better
poems, which is to say, among the better poems of contemporary
America.” M. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 350w

“In this volume it is poems like Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan and
Kalamazoo and The golden whales and The comet of prophecy and My lady
is compared to a young tree and The statue of old Andrew Jackson and
the Roosevelt poems and the Alexander Campbell poems which show the
increasing self-possession of a singer who really lives with wonder
and abides with dreams. The fascination of Lindsay is that this wonder
and these dreams are drawn from common American life.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 21:321 F 11 ’20 1300w

“‘The golden whales’ is a book thoroughly alive, thoroughly jolly and
thoroughly fit for chanting in typical Vachelese. His idiom, as well
as his whimsical exaggeration, roars on every page.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w

“The book, taken by and large, might be a parody on Mr Lindsay, all
the Mr Lindsays.... And yet one knows very well what has happened. The
superstition has got him, the group-consciousness has sucked him down.
Mr Lindsay has listened too readily to his kind public, his critical
faculty, never strong, has been smoked and blurred by incense.” Amy
Lowell

− + =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 2850w

“In this writer there have always been two elements: the poet, and
what I shall unceremoniously, but not disrespectfully, call the
urchin.... The poet and the urchin lived apart: they could not find
each other. They have found each other, in my judgment, in the ‘Golden
whales,’ and their meeting is the signal for Mr Lindsay’s emergence
into the upper air of song.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 700w

“Many persons have become needlessly alarmed and excited over Mr
Lindsay’s importance as a poet. He is original, very original, both in
form and in substance, and he is exhilarating—if it be only the
exhilaration induced by the jingling tambourine.... The new book shows
Mr Lindsay performing at top speed—facile, self-confident, clever,
sometimes brilliant, his viewpoints as healthy and entertaining as
ever.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 1 ’20 480w

“Mr Lindsay’s ‘The golden whales of California’ is a disappointment.
In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a
mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the ‘jazz bird’s screech’
and ‘monkey-shines and didoes.’” E: B. Reed

− + =Yale R= n s 10:203 O ’20 150w

=LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, and O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.= Doughboy’s religion, and other aspects of our day. *$1.25 (8c) Harper 940.478

20–1683