Chapter LI: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (7)

“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been
trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the
standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch
with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He
examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the
physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the
psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib
World

* * * * *

“Preachers especially and all students of the phenomena of
Christianity will find this a fresh, stimulating book. It will add a
new accent to the usually dismal discussions of sin and salvation.”

+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 190w

“The analogy between physical and spiritual conditions enables the
writer to offer counsels for spiritual treatment which are clearly the
result of a keen insight into the characters of men and the conditions
in which they live. Readers may not be able to accept some of the
author’s theories and tabulations, but the book is an important
contribution to the study of sin, its origin, its growth, and its
remedies.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p11 Ja 2 ’19 340w

=MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.= Rip Van Winkle. il *$1.50 Knopf 782

20–923

This version of the legend is in the form of a folk-opera in three
acts for which Reginald DeKoven has written the music. Like Dion
Boucicault’s drama, it is based on Washington Irving’s story but, the
author tells us, with more differences than resemblances to both. “The
differences have developed mainly from the consideration that I was
writing—not a story or a play, but an opera; and this constant
consideration has resulted in the two main contributions of mine which
modify the old legend—the creation of a new character, Peterkee, and
the introduction of a new element in the plot, the magic flask.”
(Preface)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20

“It is fair, however, to warn the reader that he will find here some
graceful verse but little poetry, many characters, but little distinct
characterization, and hardly anything of either the pathos or the
humor of the old story beloved of all readers of English.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:260 Jl ’20 190w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Lady Lilith. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–18657

The sobriquet, Lady Lilith, is applied to Lady Barbara Neave, daughter
of a viceroy of India. From childhood on she has been a problem to her
family and has kept their nerves on edge with her surprising
escapades. Early accustomed to social prominence and adulation, her
craving for sensations soon seeks wider fields than through
conventional channels. Her excessive vanity makes her an adroit
actress, and her heartlessness enables her to walk roughshod over
everybody in search of new emotions and new rôles to play. She seems
vulnerable only in one spot: her superstition. Throughout the story
she toys with the sensation of Jack Waring’s blunt criticism of
herself and his persistent love-making. The reader is left somewhat in
doubt how much of her remorse after her final refusal of him is
genuine feeling, how much theatrical pose, and how much superstitious
fear.

* * * * *

“If Mr McKenna’s novel were witty, amusing, an aspect of the human
comedy, or just nonsense—or even melodrama—we should not protest. But
to butcher his gifts to make a snobs’ banquet is surely a very
lamentable pastime. It would be interesting to know whether he has—a
dozen, say—readers of his own sex.” K. M.

− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 420w

“The author gives us a picture of present day social and political
life in London, but we sincerely trust that his heroine is not typical
of the modern English woman.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 190w

“An engrossing picture of English society just before and during the
war.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“Two solid volumes of Sonia richly sufficed us and we rather resent
having her served up to us again; even under another name. Lady
Barbara Neave is just Sonia, only more so.” V. G.

− + =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 220w

“The most striking thing in this novel is the fact that though we see
and know Barbara in all her shallow selfishness, we fall under her
spell, even as those who make the story with her fall under it.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 1800w

+ − =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 150w

“Next to ‘Sonia,’ this is the author’s most finished and interesting
work. Indeed, he sometimes attains the high level set in that
admirable book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 420w

“One cannot fail to recognize that artistically he is at home,
conveying always a very fair impression of reality in general detail,
writing with ease and often with wit, drawing characters which are all
recognizable as types. But the significance is the question, and here,
so far, he is not convincing.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 420w

=MCKENNA, STEPHEN.= Sheila intervenes. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–26313

The outstanding personages of this story are Denys Playfair, an
Irishman with a family history that has made resentment towards the
English governing classes a part of his inheritance; Sheila Farling,
also Irish, slight, black-eyed, clever, full of the joy of life, and
on occasion full of mischief, and scorn and a faculty for raillery;
and Daphne Grayling, Sheila’s cousin, daughter of an old-fashioned
mother who is keeping her in leading strings even to the choice of a
husband for her, and who condemns her to a life of boredom and
inactivity. Sheila’s exuberant spirit leads her to play providence for
her friends. She engineers Denys into a political career, and noticing
the blossoming out of Daphne under Denys’s friendship, does violence
to her own feelings for him, while she engineers the two into a love
compact. Fate intervenes in the form of a serious accident to Daphne’s
ex-fiancé, which brings the latter to a realization that duty is
stronger than love. It also intervenes to acquaint Denys with Sheila’s
true feeling for him for when he collapses before her eyes from the
effects of over-work and strain, her assumed indifference likewise
collapses.

* * * * *

“Her delightful grandfather is one of the best characters and Sheila
herself is irresistible.”

+ =Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Despite this slightness of plot, the story carries its own
sentimental interest and is continually a matter of touch and go.
Moreover the characters are delightful.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 240w

“An earlier work has been resurrected from the obscurity of the
novelist’s earlier career to share the success of his later books. In
many cases the act is justified. But in Mr McKenna’s case it seems to
us decidedly a mistake.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ’20 220w

“Yet in spite of its failings and its extremely weak—at times almost
ludicrously weak—motivation, the novel is not without its good points.
Sheila herself is attractive, and the dialogue is easy and not
infrequently even bright.”

+ − =N Y Times= p116 Mr 14 ’20 500w

“Imagine a new ‘Dolly dialogues’ with a serious motive behind it, and
you get somewhere near the aim and substance of this earlier work by
the author of ‘Sonia.’” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 400w

“It is all very interesting, for Mr McKenna’s people are brilliant,
and the dinner parties, social gatherings and political conferences
scintillate with wit and sharp exchanges of opinions on public
questions of the moment. Meanwhile, the principal romance is handled
with skill by the author.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 600w

=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Poor relations. *$1.90 (2c) Harper

19–19599

A successful playwright, suddenly grown rich, is surrounded by a host
of poor relations, brothers and sisters with wives, husbands and
offspring, all more or less failures, all tactlessly anxious to drink
at the golden fountain. They drive him from his country home, they
assail him in his town house, they turn against him their slanderous
tongues when their expectations are not fulfilled. He is a good sort
and goes the full length of the bearable, but at last, in desperation,
elopes with his long-loved secretary on a honeymoon to America after
committing one revengeful act. Mindful of the internecine warfare
among his relations, he makes a present of one-fifth of his country
home to each family group respectively.

* * * * *

“The Touchwood family is one of those detestable, fascinating families
that we cannot have enough of.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 1000w

=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Mr Mackenzie has here the material for a short story or, let us say,
a well-balanced novelette. But instead of selecting, and sorting, and
packing it down, he lets it take possession of him. There is of course
a lot of amusing stuff in it, no end of satirical material, no end of
clever and witty touches. But the book as a book is without form and
void.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Bookm= 51:341 My ’20 420w

+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 50w

“‘Poor relations’ is a farce. Any number of children and adults pass
through its pages, all acting exactly as children and adults act. A
plot of quite exceptional banality and incidents of incredible age and
vulgarity serve to display these life-like wares. It would be easier
to think lightly of Mr Mackenzie’s failure if one did not have to
remember what Henry James said of him. Remembering that, and
remembering Jenny Pearl, the brief story of Mr Mackenzie’s career
takes on some of the proportions of tragedy.” Gilbert Seldes

− =Dial= 68:611 My ’20 1100w

“‘Poor relations’ shows, moreover, that recognition of how strange
people really are which has always been one of Mr Mackenzie’s virtues.
He has resisted that persistent underwriting of character and
circumstance which has been the curse of refined English literature
ever since the days of Gissing, and has not been afraid to allow
fantastic people to do fantastic things.” Rebecca West

+ =New Repub= 21:362 F 18 ’20 1200w

“Written in a light ironic manner, with much deftness of phrasing and
a thorough understanding of the follies and meannesses and hypocrisies
to which his ‘poor relations’ are so exceedingly prone, it yet usually
and skilfully contrives to keep the reader in sympathy with its vain,
generous, sentimental and self-deceived hero.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 750w

“Though marred toward the end by that longwindedness which is his
besetting sin, it is exceptionally amusing.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“Mr Mackenzie may object to the expression: ‘this well known author
writes in an entirely new vein’ but it seems to fit the occasion. He
handles his hero with affectionate jocularity bordering on farce. Yet
the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, human and
lovable—perhaps just because of its convincing defects.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 260w

“It was with some trepidation that we opened ‘Poor relations.’ Our
delight was therefore doubly great on finding no taint of the Scarlett
novels marring its pages. Quite early in the book the principal
character remarks: ‘This passion for realism is everywhere.... Thank
goodness, I’ve been through it and got over it and put it behind me
for ever.’ Let us pray that he is speaking with the voice of his
creator.”

+ =Sat R= 128:319 O 4 ’19 1150w

“This is an ingenious and at times diverting recital, bordering on
extravaganza, but not too remotely detached from reality to be
incredible, and not too malicious in its satire to be unenjoyable.”

+ =Spec= 123:865 D 20 ’19 400w

“‘Poor relations’ is engagingly light-hearted in all its phases, with
a discernible grain of reality beneath the shell of comedy and
satire.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 600w

“The oppression which has seemed of late to brood over the work of Mr
Compton Mackenzie has cleared away, we hope never to return. In ‘Poor
relations’ the sun comes out brightly from the clouds, a gentle breeze
of humour blows the story along, and the reader from the first page to
the last enjoys himself immensely.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w

=MACKENZIE, COMPTON.= Vanity girl. *$2 (1½c) Harper

20–7724

It is the story of the clever scheming of a vain, selfish, heartless
but very beautiful girl. Her first step to use her beauty as an asset
was to go on the stage. As “Vanity girl,” opportunities offered to
cast her net for a titled husband. She captured the fifth Earl of
Clarehaven and was received by the family on equal terms. Her first
disappointment came when the fates denied her a son to inherit the
earldom, and her second when her foolish husband, with cards and
horses, succeeded in losing the family estate. When he is killed in
France, and the sixth Earl of Clarehaven at last arrives, the
impoverished countess still has one trump card left. She marries the
millionaire Jew, who is now owner of Clare, on the condition that he
make over the entire estate to her son.

* * * * *

“In whatever contempt Mr Mackenzie may hold his public—how is it
possible that he should dare to invite them to partake of such sickly
food? We should not waste space upon so pretentious and stupid a book
were it not that we have believed in his gifts and desire to protest
that he should so betray them.” K. M.

− =Ath= p639 My 14 ’20 760w

“This writer does have the instinct for action and, once you accept
his people as figures in a picaresque novel, you have something to tie
to, as you never do with Mr George. The ‘trouble’ here, indeed, is
that Mr Mackenzie, not being aware of his true job, deviates into
sense, that is, into interpretation, just often enough to queer his
real pitch.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 52:251 N ’20 300w

=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 1200w

− =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 80w

“As his art approaches its maturity, he adds to his native wit and
cleverness a sure mastery of technique which puts him unmistakably in
the forefront of the English novelists of the day. So clever and
interesting is Mr Mackenzie’s new novel that one regrets the more to
find, if anything, an increase in the smart nastiness that
occasionally blemishes his writing.” Stanley Went

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 1500w

=N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 700w

“Mr Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never
mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical.
Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called ‘Sylvia
Scarlett,’ I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing
novels about every one of the Vanity chorus.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 160w

“For the reader, unless he likes flippancy and fireworks for their own
sakes, the end of it all is not much better than vanity. Mr Mackenzie,
at least, is a story-teller of a sort. However encumbered with facts,
his narrative always has the charm of an adventure which, if it never
quite gets anywhere, is at least always amusingly on its way.” H. W.
Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w

“That this plebeian girl should step into her exalted social station
and so speedily absorb the new life and arouse love and veneration for
the Clarehaven tradition and inheritance is little short of a miracle.
But Mr Mackenzie makes it seem natural.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 470w

“Mr Compton Mackenzie will receive praise for this new novel from
those to whom it was chiefly intended to appeal; it will receive
adverse criticism from those whose judgment Mr Mackenzie has by now,
perhaps, ceased to take into account. It will have earned the one and
thoroughly deserved the other. Deliberately he has written a story of
a snob for snobs.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 720w

=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Korea’s fight for freedom. *$2 (2c) Revell 951.9

20–2360

Instead of a new edition of the author’s “Tragedy of Korea,” this is a
new book including some of the old matter and bringing the story of
Korea up-to-date. It is the story of the injustice and the cruelty
practised by Japan against Korea in its policy of imperial expansion.
“In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards
liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long
sleep, under conditions of tragic terror, that has seized hold of and
is clinging fast to, things vital to civilization as we see it,
freedom and free faith, the honor of their women, the development of
their own souls.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Opening
the oyster; Japan makes a false move; The Independence club; The new
era; The rule of Prince Ito; With the rebels; The last days of the
Korean empire; The missionaries; Torture à la mode; The people
speak—the tyrants answer; Girl martyrs for liberty; World reactions;
What can we do?

* * * * *

“This book deserves a wide reading. It breathes a real humanitarian
interest in the present unhappy fate of over ten million people; and
on its constructive side suggests a way out of a far eastern situation
full of dangers for the American people.” W. W. McLaren

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:518 Ag ’20 200w

“A well written account.”

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

=Review= 2:545 My 22 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 20w

“It is impossible not to feel admiration for the Koreans in reading
the history of its people as written by an author who understands and
sympathizes with them.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 250w

“A few minor statements are incorrect. But none acquainted with the
situation can deny the accuracy of its statements of fact, or the
propriety of its positions.” A missionary

+ − =Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 300w

“Of Mr McKenzie’s trustworthiness as a witness there can be no
question.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

=Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.= Pussyfoot Johnson. il *$1.50 Revell

20–20628

“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent
of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in
a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his
assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating
liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this
and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled
‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A.
McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 560w

+ =Outlook= 125:714 Ag 25 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 70w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 240w

“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to
give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg

+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 460w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 250w

=MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES.= Future of medicine. (Oxford medical publications) *$5 Oxford 610

26–26322

“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification
of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of
‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to
diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods
in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it
may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate
instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn
how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able
to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What
the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals
outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of
clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university,
Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four
closely printed pages.”—Spec

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

+ =Sat R= 128:466 N 15 ’19 1200w

“One lays aside the book with a feeling of great respect and
admiration for this great and honest physician. All the same, one
cannot help feeling that the disadvantages of the present system of
teaching in the medical schools is exaggerated by the writer, and
that, were the attempt made so to alter it as to meet the demands of a
man of so keen an intellect as Sir James Mackenzie, a few giants might
be reared, but that the work of the average man would suffer.”

+ − =Spec= 122:476 O 11 ’19 1300w

“The social worker who expects to find in Dr Mackenzie’s book on ‘The
future of medicine’ a discussion of the socialization of medicine and
the solution of many of the medical problems of the future will be
disappointed. The medical and perhaps the lay reader, however, will be
amply rewarded by the brilliant and, sometimes, scathing criticism by
Dr Mackenzie of the present laboratory research and specialty aspects
of medical science.” G: M. Price

+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 Ag 14 ’19 80w

“Much thought has been devoted to the composition of this attempt to
influence the future of medicine. A good deal of this material is
highly technical, which is doubtless unavoidable, but has the
disadvantages of making the weighing of the evidence exceedingly
difficult for any except members of the medical profession.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 1400w

=MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.=[2] Story of a fortunate youth. $1.25 (7c) Atlantic monthly press

These “chapters from the biography of an elderly gentleman”
(Sub-title) are sketchy bits from the career of a minister who began
life as a little Scotch boy in the East Highlands. His first fortune
was a “bawbee” found in the dust, then came real earnings—beginning
with six-pence and the duties of a shepherd—to help eke out the family
income—until the great country across the water beckoned him. There
the usual course from farm hand and country school-teacher to college
and the ministry are gone through, all told lovingly and in whimsical
style by the old gentleman’s daughter. The chapters are: The boy and
the bawbee; The boy and the half-crown; The boy and the dollar; The
wages of youth.

=MACKENZIE, JOHN STUART.= Arrows of desire; essays on British characteristics. *$3.75 Macmillan 914.2

“The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is
as misleading as Ruskin’s ‘On the construction of sheepfolds.’
Professor Mackenzie’s book consists, in fact, of essays on our
[England’s] national character. He discusses ‘Henry V.’ on the
assumption that Shakespeare regarded the king as a typical Englishman.
He then considers the English character, taking in turn each of the
reproaches hurled at us by native and foreign critics. He contrasts
the sister-nations with England, and incidentally repeats what we
believe to be the fallacious statement that the Scotsman is more
democratic than the Englishman. In the end Professor Mackenzie seems
to conclude that we are not so bad after all, and that our chief
danger lies in a ‘superficial optimism.’”—Spec

* * * * *

“An analysis of British characteristics by a British professor is a
difficult task for any fair-minded man, which is probably why Mr J. S.
Mackenzie draws upon a consensus of other people’s opinions with which
to support his own. This continual reference to authorities is a
little wearisome to the flesh, the more so since Mr Mackenzie shows
himself a really competent judge of the matter, avoiding
self-gratification without the obverse fault of detraction in order to
prove himself just.”

+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“He is too attentive to detail, too eager to back up what he has to
say with chapter and verse. The professor in him is uppermost, to the
detriment of the writer. Nevertheless, in spite of these handicaps,
there is acute analysis in Professor Mackenzie’s book. In its parts
his book is good; as a whole it lacks coherence and smoothness.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 1100w

Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan

=Review= 2:546 My 22 ’20 1300w

− + =Sat R= 130:319 O 16 ’20 820w

“It is an entertaining book.”

+ =Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 160w

“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be
compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable
to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly
throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a
disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly
surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 Ap 1 ’20 1950w

=MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH.= Cattle and the future of beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2

Agr20–243

A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and
increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the
University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the
chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in
agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store
cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle;
Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F.
H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.

* * * * *

“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr
Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most
likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will
circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the
farming community generally.” C. C.

+ =Nature= 105:62 Mr 18 ’20 850w

“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not
profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”

+ =Spec= 124:278 F 28 ’20 1200w

“Mr Mackenzie is original and daring in some of his suggestions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p549 O 9 ’19 200w

=MACKIE, RANSOM A.= Education during adolescence. *$2 Dutton 373

20–4028

“Basing his arguments very largely on Stanley Hall’s ‘Educational
problems,’ the author proceeds to describe what are the essentials of
a high school curriculum.” (Cleveland) “In the introduction, Dr Hall
states that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and so-called
formal studies and methods of discipline are largely a delusion and a
snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. In chapter I the author
states that the purpose of education, based not only on the needs of
society but also on the needs of the adolescent, are, according to Dr
Hall, ‘to train character, to suggest, to awaken, to graft interest,
to give range and loftiness of sentiment of view, to broaden
knowledge, and to bring everything into touch with life.’ During this
age every effort possible should be made to ‘fill and develop mind,
heart, soul, and body,’ especially with a view to vocational training.
Such training demands vitalized and humanized materials of education
and methods of instruction.” (School R)

* * * * *

“A good summary written with forceful simplicity.”

+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

=Cleveland= p91 S ’20 50w

=El School J= 21:158 O ’20 200w

Reviewed by Paul Shorey

− =Review= 2:433 Ap 24 ’20 1600w

“Taken as a whole, this book is quite suggestive and inspirational.
Those persons who find the original works of G. Stanley Hall a little
weighty will have their minds refreshed with some of his doctrines by
reading Mr Mackie’s book, in which Dr Hall’s philosophy is presented
in a very readable style, yet with less tonnage than is found in his
own works.” J: B. Clark

+ =School R= 28:717 N ’20 820w

=MCKIM, WILLIAM DUNCAN.= Study for the times. *$2.50 Putnam 150

20–21213

The author calls his study “an inquiry into thought and motive,” and
this he considers imperative in these post-war times of restlessness
and impatience, of fads and crazes, of hasty formulation of rights and
noisy demand for their concession. Although much in this mad onward
rush may be of lasting value and help towards a rejuvenation of the
race, the latter, he holds, can only be accomplished through careful
patient thought and a study of the limitations and frailties of our
own individual natures. The book deals largely with human psychology
and the findings of psycho-pathology. Contents: Introduction; Social
influences; The individual mind; The knowing function; The feeling
function; Conclusion; Index.

=MACKINNON, ALBERT GLENTHORN.= Guid auld Jock. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes

19–18839

Jock had a keen relish for other people’s affairs, especially those of
Scotchmen. At the military hospital he ferreted out all such and
became their father confessor, their lawyer and general confidant. The
book is a collection of such confessions, of wrongs committed, of
secret sins, of weighted consciences. And every story had its
complement. The other man always turned up and in his turn made a
confession, and, thanks to Jock’s discretion, quick wit and sense of
humor, there was always a righting and a smoothing over. Some of the
titles are: Jock’s neebors; How Jock healed his comrade’s worst wound;
The barbed wires of misunderstanding; A prank o’ the post; A maitter
o’ conscience.

=MCKISHNIE, ARCHIE P.= Son of courage. il *$1.75 (2c) Reilly & Lee

20–17187

Billy Wilson was one of the boys in a small settlement on the north
coast of Lake Erie. He was full of fun, always ready for some boyish
deviltry and the leader among his chums. The other side of his
character was love of nature and animals, undaunted courage and love
of fair dealing. He was afraid only of ghosts and even against those
he felt secure with his rabbit’s-foot charm. His exploits are many and
exasperating but he wins the heart of his stepmother and of the
prettiest girl in the settlement and becomes instrumental in solving
several mysteries and discovering a treasure.

* * * * *

“A satisfying story of outdoor life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 70w

=MCKOWAN, EVAH.=[2] Graydon of the Windermere. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–21188

Kent Graydon of the Windermere is a young Canadian engineer who has
gone West and made good. Since his schoolboy days he has cherished the
memory of Alleyne Milburne as his ideal of womanhood. Then one summer
he meets her again in his own western country. He woos her ardently
and it is not until he loses out to his rival of earlier days that he
realizes that it is not she who embodies his ideals, but her cousin
Claire, who is “honourable and generous, sportsmanlike and fair,
sympathetic and womanly.”

=MCLACHLAN, HERBERT.= St Luke, the man and his work. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 226

20–14133

“In a dozen chapters, Mr McLachlan, lecturer in Hellenistic Greek in
the University of Manchester, discusses St Luke, the man of letters,
the linguist, the editor, the theologian, the humorist, the letter
writer, the reporter, the diarist, etc. The work gives in brief the
views of German and English Protestants and Rationalists on every
phase of the Lucan problem—authenticity, language, accuracy, doctrine
and the like.”—Cath World

* * * * *

“This is a book from which the student of the Lucan writers will learn
much, whether he is among the conservatives or the revolutionaries in
textual criticism.”

+ =Ath= p540 Ap 23 ’20 800w

+ − =Cath World= 111:686 Ag ’20 320w

“This scholarly book is to be commended to the notice of New Testament
students.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 290w

=MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW CUNNINGHAM.=[2] Steps in the development of American democracy. *$1.50 Abingdon press 342.7

20–8377

“A small volume comprising the lectures delivered by Professor
McLaughlin at Wesleyan university. This series of lectures was the
first to be given on the George Slocum Bennett foundation ‘for the
promotion of a better understanding of national problems and of a more
perfect realization of the responsibilities of citizenship.’ The
author tells us in the preface that his purpose ‘is simply to recount
a few salient experiences which helped to make America what it is, ...
as also to describe certain basic doctrines and beliefs, some of which
may have had their day, while others have not yet reached
fulfillment.’”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“In a work of this character, the presentation of new historical facts
is not to be expected, but rather a new and fresh treatment of them
and of their significance. This latter task is what Mr McLaughlin
essayed in this series of lectures and this he has most successfully
achieved. Mr McLaughlin’s firm grasp upon the history of the country
is apparent throughout his treatment, and his discussion is
characterized by brilliant exposition and frequently enlivened by
flashes of wit and even restrained sarcasm.” H. V. Ames

+ =Am Hist R= 26:344 Ja ’21 540w

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 50w

“Necessarily, the treatment of the subject is broad but it is marked
by a sense of proportion and by genuine insight.”

+ =Bookm= 52:368 D ’20 120w

=MCLELLAN, ELEANOR.= Voice education. *$1.75 (7½c) Harper 784.9

20–16097

The author claims to have discovered a system of scientific vocal
technique through many years of practical research work by beginning
with correcting abnormalities of speech and voice action. “This means
rectifying conditions such as hoarseness, thickness of the vocal cords
and surrounding muscles, nodules, paralyzed vocal cords, loss of high
or low notes, stuttering, and all allied phonation and action
troubles.” (Preface) The contents are: Breath; Tone versus vowel;
Attack and poise of tone; Consonants; Interpretation; Requirements of
a great career; Emotions and characteristics of singers.

* * * * *

“Every teacher and singer—and just people—would do well to take the
chapter on ‘Emotions and characteristics of the singer’ in this book
to heart. But there the practical help of the book to a singer or
teacher ends.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 150w

=MACMANUS, SEUMAS.= Top o’ the mornin’. *$1.90 (3c) Stokes

20–17081

A collection of old and new tales in the Irish dialect. Some of the
copyright dates go back to 1899. Others belong to the present year.
The titles are: The lord mayor o’ Buffalo; The Widow Meehan’s
Cassimeer shawl; The cadger-boy’s last journey; The minister’s
racehorse; The case of Kitty Kildea: Billy Baxter’s holiday; Wee
Paidin; When Barney’s trunk comes home; Five minutes a millionaire;
Mrs Carney’s sealskin; The capture of Nelly Carribin; The bellman of
Carrick; Barney Brian’s monument; All on the brown knowe; The
heartbreak of Norah O’Hara.

* * * * *

“Splendid for reading aloud and full of fun and good Irish wit.”

+ =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“Mr MacManus has a certain delicate whimsicality of utterance that
transforms his somewhat sordid characters into beings of real
interest. They provide a volume of extremely pleasant little stories,
all quite indelibly branded with the mark of the shamrock.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 220w

“Mr MacManus makes potent use of the folk-flavour: he draws his
inspiration from the touchstone of common humanity; but he never
hesitates to take what liberties he chooses with his material.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 3:238 N 17 ’20 170w

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 60w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 380w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 28 ’20 130w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w

=MCMASTER, JOHN BACH.= United States in the world war (1918–1920). v 2 *$3 Appleton 940.373

20–12608

This is the second volume of Professor McMaster’s history of the war.
It deals with the work of the American troops in France and ends with
the peace conference and the rejection of the peace treaty by the
United States senate. Contents: Submarines off our coast; War work at
home; Fighting in France; Peace offensives; The armistice; The
president goes abroad; The peace conference; The treaty of peace; The
treaty rejected; Appendices; Index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“The arrangement may be registered at once as both logical and, within
the scope of logic, rhetorical, even dramatic. He did not make as good
use as he might have done of the reports of Pershing and March. When
the chapter ‘War work at home’ is so well written it is a pity that no
attention should be paid to the efforts the enemy was making to render
that work futile.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 29 ’20 2500w

+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 100w

“The second volume is a distinct disappointment. Even considering the
haste with which it must have been prepared, the single chapter
devoted to the military phase of the war is almost absurdly inadequate
and our naval participation is snubbed still more severely. The
chapter headed ‘War work at home,’ however, is well done, and the one
entitled ‘The treaty rejected,’ considering all the difficulties of
the topic, is also handled with considerable skill.”

− + =Review= 3:508 N 24 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 160w

“We do not observe that Professor McMaster has utilized any sources of
information which are not readily accessible; he seems indeed to have
relied largely upon the reports in the newspapers. The book is
disfigured by some careless mistakes.”

− + =Spec= 125:643 N 13 ’20 170w

=MCMASTERS, WILLIAM HENRY.= Revolt. il *$1.60 Small

19–18647

“William H. McMasters has produced ‘Revolt,’ a tale of the
presidential election in the year 1940. The hero is Roger Morton, a
young multi-millionaire of thirty-eight, son of the world’s first
billionaire, John Paine Morton, president of the Universal trust
company, which has controlled both political parties of the United
States for many years. This marvelous young man, being urged to do
so by one of the professors on his death bed, forms the
revolutionist party, outwits his father at every point, and elects
Dan Holman, one of his Harvard classmates as president of the United
States.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=N Y Times= 25:297 Je 6 ’20 340w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 100w

“His characters are rather wooden at first, and he has to jerk hard on
the strings to make them do the next thing next, but as the story
gathers speed and momentum, they almost run away from him.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 280w

=MCMICHAEL, CHARLES BARNSLEY=, tr. Short stories from the Spanish. il *$1.50 Boni & Liveright

20–8278

“The present volume is published with the intention of interesting
American readers in the Spanish short story—a form in which the
Spanish excel. There are three stories by Ruben Dario, three by
Jacinto Octavio Picon and one by Leopoldo Alas. In addition there is a
helpful introduction giving a short sketch of the life of each of
these authors.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The translation is on the whole effective though sometimes awkwardly
literal.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 320w

“Exquisite little word pictures of a way of living full of delicate
grace and beauty.”

+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 30w

“These seven tales are marked by charm and delicacy, rather than by
strength and passion. Judge McMichael’s translation is generally
effective, although it sometimes suffers from excessively
conscientious literalness.” W. H. C.

+ − =New Repub= 23:183 Jl 7 ’20 260w

“The publishers of this volume have performed a genuine service in
offering to American readers in an attractive form these literary gems
from a language in which public interest is constantly increasing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 280w

“There is a clear simplicity and naive directness to be found in the
work of all three writers which marks them as of the same race.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 300w

=MACMURCHY, HELEN.= Almosts: a study of the feeble-minded. *$1 50 (4c) Houghton 132

20–5606

The book is a study of “the fool” in literature, the author
maintaining that valuable suggestions for the treatment and care of
the feeble-minded can be obtained thereby. “Sometimes the poet sees
more than the scientist, even when the scientific man is playing at
his own game. The novelist can give a few points to the sociologist,
and the dramatist to the settlement worker.” The great writers have
studied the feeble-minded from life. They have “discovered long before
the modern ‘uplifter’ was born, that we must reckon with the mental
defective as one of those many things in heaven and earth that are not
dealt with by some philosophers, and yet that make a great difference
to the community and social progress.” The writers from whom the
characters are taken are: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, Bulwer
Lytton, Charles Reade, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawthorne and others.

* * * * *

“The value of the book is perhaps the greatest in pointing out
concretely to the general reader the common characteristics of
defectives through these well known examples.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“It is not only valuable, but it has as the clever author doubtless
intended, the delight of recalling to one’s mind, old time favorites
and old familiar friends.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 18 ’20 360w

=Cleveland= p74 Ag ’20 40w

=N Y Evening Post= p11 My 1 ’20 600w

“Although slight and relatively unimportant, the book will doubtless
reach many persons with its message of the need for segregation and
institutional treatment who would not have been attracted by a work
couched in the more prosaic terminology of science.” K. M. G.

+ =Social Hygiene= 6:594 O ’20 130w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 2 ’20 180w

“‘The almosts’ will surely help the recognition and adequate care of
the feebleminded. It should help to form public opinion.” Alexander
Johnson

+ =Survey= 44:449 Je 26 ’20 550w

=MACNAMARA, BRINSLEY.= Clanking of chains. *$1.90 Brentano’s

19–17481

“The tale is called a story of Sinn Fein, yet it is not the history of
that party or a novel that deals primarily with party matters: rather
it is the study of an individual, whose finer instincts are never
understood by his daily companions and whose efforts do not prove
immediately fruitful. Michael Dempsey, the hero, we first meet taking
the part of Robert Emmet in an amateur play given in the town of
Ballycullen. The novel, then, is only incidentally a story of Sinn
Fein, and chiefly the tale of Michael Dempsey’s two loves—Ireland and
‘Mirandolina.’ In the first case, he wooes and loses; in the second,
his victory is, one is almost sure, partly defeat.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 80w

“An extraordinary and tragic book.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:345 My ’20 250w

“On the whole, ‘The clanking of chains,’ though a very readable piece
of work, does not measure up to ‘The valley of the squinting windows’;
its characterization is less clear, its incident less varied, its
impress less lasting.” I. G.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 950w

=Lit D= p94 S 4 ’20 1650w

“The story is very vivid and very interesting. Irish village life is
satirized with considerable skill. But one wonders what exactly Mr
Macnamara intends us to infer.... Emigration seems to be his own
counsel to the better spirits, as it was Dickens’s counsel in ‘David
Copperfield’ to the disappointed English Chartist. But then, as now,
this was a counsel of despair.” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:462 My 1 ’20 1050w

“This is a strong, sombre, and disquieting book.”

+ =Spec= 124:247 F 21 ’20 750w

“The picture is painted in drab colors, and in the narration of the
slender story the author is never at pains to cater to any party’s
sympathies or prejudices.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 30 ’20 180w

“The story is told in a confused way, and in several places the action
hangs fire. The book also contains too much rhetoric. But the analysis
both of the inhabitants of Ballycullen and of the problems which these
individuals personify is acute and honest. Mr Macnamara is, for a
writer on Irish topics, impartial, and he makes a great effort to
consider the case from every aspect.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 540w

=MACNAUGHTAN, SARAH BROOM.= My war experiences in two continents; ed. by her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young). *$5 Dutton 940.48

(Eng ed 19–8145)

“The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to
some extent for her earlier book, ‘A woman’s diary of the war,’ but
there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the
description of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her
soup-kitchen at Furnes, is vivid and moving. After a year in Belgium
and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Macnaughtan went to give her
help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition
made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian
dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her
physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships
she had to endure, she was forced home by illness in the following
spring, and she died a few months later. If the chapters dealing with
this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader
feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her
pen.”—Spec

* * * * *

“Though one feels that her deliberate aim was to set down faithfully
what she saw—the result is infinitely more than that. It is a
revelation of her inner self which would perhaps never have been
revealed in times less terrible and strange.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p237 Ap 25 ’19 1200w

=Brooklyn= 12:43 N ’19 40w

+ =Pittsburgh= 24:612 D ’19 40w

+ =Sat R= 127:426 My 3 ’19 700w

+ =Spec= 122:637 My 17 ’19 200w

“The definite opinions she expresses are so often at variance with one
another that the reviewer must tear up his laboured analysis and plead
ignorance. But her inconsistency is only superficial; through it all
she is affirming her love for what is noble and disinterested.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p176 Ap 3 ’19 1100w

=MCPHERSON, LOGAN GRANT.= Flow of value. *$2.50 (2c) Century 330.1

20–1957

Proceeding from the premise that human energy ought to be directed to
the service of human kind, it is the author’s object to ascertain how
human activities can be so coordinated as to result in the general
good. His problem is to assemble the findings of economists and
sociologists into a body of scientific facts from which the trained
investigator can draw correct conclusions. The book is a continuation
of the presentation embodied in a previous volume: “How the world
makes its living,” and presents the sequence of cause and effect in
determining prices, wages, and profit. A partial list of the contents
is: Human effort and human wants; Property in matter and property in
force; Utility and utilities; The exchange of utilities and the unit
of exchange; The actual development of industry and commerce in the
United States; The relativity of human effort and the relativity of
human wants; The interrelations of effort, prices, and profit; Value;
Capital; The ultimate units of production and consumption; Money; The
trend of the monetary and banking system; Sound minds in sound bodies;
Index.

+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 80w

“The value of the present work lies in the clearness with which the
fact is developed that all commodities and services are the product of
human effort. The vigorous enforcement of this truth at a time when
the world seems bent on a hunger strike is a real service.”

+ =Review= 2:282 Mr 20 ’20 1000w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 140w

“Teachers of college courses in economics will find in Mr McPherson’s
‘The flow of value’ an admirable book for collateral reading. The
clarity of exposition, the wealth of concrete illustration, and the
refreshing novelty of some of the analysis deserve special
commendation.” E. R. Burton

+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 170w

=MCPHERSON, WILLIAM LENHART.= Short history of the great war. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.3

20–6967

This volume “dealing particularly with its military and diplomatic
aspects and the part played in it by the United States” (Sub-title),
offers a general outline story of the war with the main object of
giving a clear and accurate running account of its origin and
progress. It is a complement to the author’s other book, “The strategy
of the great war,” and gives in detail all the outstanding facts and
principal operations of the war with appendices and an index.

* * * * *

“Because this book relates to military policy, it is equally
interesting to the trained soldier and to the intelligent civilian.”
X. Y. Z.

+ =Nation= 111:106 Jl 24 ’20 950w

“The only regret of the reader in regard to Mr McPherson’s one-volume
history of the war is that it has no maps; otherwise, within the
limitations of space set, it leaves nothing to be desired.” Walter
Littlefield

+ =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“Clear and good it is, but it leaves the impression in one’s mind of
newspaper material dished up into a book. On the score of originality
of presentation, freshness of statement, vigor of style, it suffers by
comparison with Pollard’s, nor does it exhibit the same nicety of
proportion and balance.”

+ − =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 170w

=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 100w

+ =St Louis= 18:238 O ’20 40w

=MACQUARRIE, HECTOR.= Tahiti days. il *$4.50 (7½c) Doran 919.6

20–19772

The author was ordered to the Tahiti Islands for his health and found
it there, and now invites the reader to step onto his magic carpet and
follow him thither, to the fairy land of the South seas, to the
“Island of tranquil delight” where the gentle Polynesians will pluck
oranges for him, climb the cocoanut palms for nuts for him and regale
him with their bananas and breadfruit and where he can see the natives
diving for pearls. Among the contents are: Raratonga; The Moana;
Tahiti; Babies; The hula-hula; Hikuero, the pearl island; Pearl
diving; Breakfast on Hikuero; The Marai and Miggimiggi; Firewalking on
Tahiti; The epidemic. The book is profusely illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

“He writes of his stay in Tahiti in an interesting fashion, although
he spoils his book by his coarseness and his contempt for the moral
law. He is at his best when he describes the pearl diving near Kikuero
Island, the pagan rite of the fire-walkers of Tahiti, or the customs
of the natives.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:695 F ’21 130w

“It is a charming book, and one well calculated to disturb the
contentment of any city dweller.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p12 D 26 ’20 1450w

“It is one of the most entertaining of the recent books about
adventure in the islands of the Pacific.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w

“Hector MacQuarrie’s ‘Tahiti days’ is a much more creditable book than
some other recent works on the same subject. Mr MacQuarrie writes with
appreciation of the islands and the people, he writes with directness
and humor, and best of all he writes like a man, not like a snickering
little boy with naughty stories to tell.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 110w

=MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER=, ed. Famous detective stories. *$1.50 (2c) Crowell

20–15065

The stories selected for this collection are: The purloined letter, by
Edgar Allan Poe; An interview with M. Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau; A
scandal in Bohemia, by A. Conan Doyle; The adventure of the hansom
cabs, by Robert Louis Stevenson; The adventure of the toadstools, by
Sax Rohmer; Gentlemen and players, by E. W. Hornung; The black hand,
by Arthur B. Reeve; The grotto spectre, by Anna Katherine Green; The
mystery of the steel disk, by Broughton Brandenburg; The sign of the
shadow, by Maurice Le Blanc; The mystery of the steel room, by Thomas
W. Hanshew.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

=Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 150w

“There is much entertainment in J. Walker McSpadden’s eleven ‘Famous
detective stories.’ One thing is certain, the detective story,
entertaining as it may be, is the most thoroughly standardized product
in modern literature, as bright and hard and competent as a jackknife,
and hardly one iota more humane.”

+ − =Nation= 111:354 S 25 ’20 220w

=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 130w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w

=MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER=, ed. Famous psychic stories. *$1.50 (2½c) Crowell

20–16801