Chapter LII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (8)

Mr McSpadden, who had compiled an earlier collection of ghost stories,
touches on the difference between the “psychic” and the “ghost” story
in his introduction. In the latter the “old fashioned spook”
predominates, while the wide range possible under the term psychic is
disclosed by his analysis of the twelve stories. These stories are:
The white old maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The facts in the case of
M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; The dream woman, by Wilkie Collins;
The open door, by Margaret Oliphant; The stalls of Barchester
cathedral, by Montague Rhodes James; The man who went too far, by E.
F. Benson; Moxon’s master, by Ambrose Bierce; The beast with five
fingers, by W. F. Harvey; From the loom of the dead, by Elia W.
Peattie; The ghoul, by Evangeline W. Blashfield; The shadows on the
wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The widow’s mite, by Isaac K. Funk.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

=Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 140w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 90w

=MACVEAGH, EWEN CAMERON, and BROWN, LEE D.= Yankee in the British zone. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.373

20–3186

The object of the book which has a foreword by Major General Wood, and
which gives an account of the good understanding and mutual
helpfulness existing between the British and American troops is to
point a lesson for preparedness so that we may not “become too well
satisfied with the outstanding fact that the war was ultimately won,”
but may plan during the new phase of our history upon which we are now
entering what to retain of and what to add to our hastily constructed
military machine. Among the contents are: Getting acquainted; Reasons
for the Yankee in the British zone; Tommy Atkins’ estate in France;
The Yanks explore and rehearse: Off for the battle of a hundred days;
The breaking of the Hindenburg line; Hun opinions of the Yankee;
Accomplishments, discoveries, and results of the Yankee in the British
zone. There are many illustrations and four appendices.

* * * * *

“The humorous tone saves the book from the charge of propagandism.”

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

“The book contains a wealth of anecdotes, which throw light on the
failings of both American and English soldiers towards each other.” O.
McK.

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

“It is good-humoured, accurate, full of incident, and a bit ‘hurrah.’”

+ =Dial= 68:539 Ap ’20 40w

“A frank, brave, sportsmanly record.” Coningsby Dawson

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1200w

“The humorous as well as the serious side of soldier life comes out in
strong relief.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 120w

“The authors are announced as ‘trained observers,’ and the reader
concedes the title, adding that of trained or naturally facile
writers, for they have dressed their material with real skill.”

+ =Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 420w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 125:573 O 30 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 180w

=MAGNUSSEN, JULIUS.= God’s smile; tr. by Daniel Kilham Dodge. *$1.75 (4½c) Appleton 134

20–13992

A work translated from the Danish. The author is a Danish dramatist
whose plays have been produced at the National theater. At the age of
thirty-seven and at the height of his popularity he suddenly lost
interest in the comedy he was writing and found his attention turned
to psychic matters by a series of curious experiences. These are
described in this book. They began with table rappings, which aroused
only amusement and derision, and continued with automatic writings
which finally routed his scepticism. The book is said to have run thru
ten editions in the first month of publication in Denmark.

* * * * *

“There is little imaginative power and no trace of originality in
these supposed communications from the spirit world, which bear a
familiar stamp of vague and grandiloquent optimism. The translation
does not impress us as particularly good.”

− =Ath= p678 N 19 ’20 70w

“Deeply sincere, and well told in spite of excessive egoism and
introspection.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

“The book is spiritism watered and sugared; its ‘God’ will make
converts for atheism, and its ‘smile’ will beget pessimists.”

− =Review= 3:350 O 20 ’20 250w

“As a matter of fact, his self-revelation is more interesting than are
the psychical experiences that he narrates.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 320w

“Mr Magnussen begins his account in a vein of naive egotism, which—at
any rate when in the dress of another language—sometimes approaches
the comic; but as he proceeds his story assumes a literary quality by
means of its directness and simplicity.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p687 O 21 ’20 100w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 20w

=MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE.= Books and their writers. *$2 Dodd 824

(Eng ed 20–9510)

A series of literary essays and reviews. The author says, “All I have
sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained
from desultory reading of all kinds during the last few years.” In
part 1, Novelists and novels, he writes of Compton Mackenzie, Norman
Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Stephen McKenna, Jane Austen, Clemence
Dane, Dorothy Richardson. Part 2, Poetry and poets, is devoted to J.
C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols, Dora Sigerson, Chinese
poetry. Part 3, Books in general, contains reviews of Strachey’s
“Eminent Victorians,” Smith’s “Trivia,” and other recent works, also
papers on Alice Meynell as critic and Lafcadio Hearn. Some of the
essays are reprinted from the Fortnightly Review and To-day.

* * * * *

“A light and sketchy, appreciative and not over-critical, yet useful
contribution to the history of current literature.”

+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 90w

“There is not one author treated by Mr Mais of whom the reader will
get a just estimate, for frothy appreciation is not justice; but there
is one author whom the reader will come to know all too well, and he
is Mr Mais. Even in his interminable and ill-written summaries of
other men’s work, of which the bulk of the book consists, Mr Mais
obtrudes himself. He cannot create, he cannot judge, and with his own
clamour he deafens judgment.” O. W.

− =Ath= p542 Ap 23 ’20 1300w

“The most interesting part of Mr Mais’s ‘Books and their writers’ is,
to my mind, that devoted to novels and novelists.” K. F. Gerould

+ − =Bookm= 52:264 N ’20 460w

“Although Mr Mais’s title is commonplace, his essays are not likewise
dull. They are variable in quality, to be sure, and there is in them a
revelation of the critical faculty their writer so explicitly denies
himself.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 22 ’20 750w

“An easily readable book, full of time beguiling extracts from the
authors under review—an excellent reference book to supplement more
critical and comprehensive works on contemporary literature.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 S 25 ’20 170w

“One likes Mr Mais because he likes all sorts of things, and writes
about them with a zest which compels you to like them, too, whether
you agree with his judgments or not.” R: Le Gallienne

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w

“He has undeniable talent, great industry, almost fanatical
enthusiasm: such qualities might carry a man far, but his untidy and
careless mind is in danger of wrecking his literary career almost at
the outset.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:280 Mr 20 ’20 950w

“Mr Mais has not much of value to say: he just flows on chatting
intelligently about the books people are reading (or supposed to be
reading) and the authors they are talking about.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 240w

=MAJOR, CLARE TREE.= How to develop your will power. (How to develop ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Clode, E. J. 170

20–14873

This volume, which follows “How to develop your personality” and “How
to develop your speaking voice,” has chapters on Self-examination;
Will: its power, function and development; Physical dominance (three
chapters); Be courageous; Learn the value of habit; Self-control;
Self-control and business power; Business success; Will in idealism;
with a Review of chapters at the close.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 50w

=MALDCLEWITH, RONSBY, pseud.= Professor’s love-life. *$1.50 Macmillan

19–19246

“The book comprises a series of genuine letters, written by a man who
here appears under the name of Ronsby Maldclewith to his fiancée,
Katherine, a woman of the old South now some years dead. They are
published in accordance with a wish expressed by her. The young
professor, devotee of literature and art, within a few months of the
discovery of their mutual love, becomes the victim of incipient lung
trouble. The letters to Katherine—from Denver during an apparently
beneficial sojourn; from New York city, where he settles in order to
be able to consult often with great specialists; from his home, to
which he returns full of courage and hope of ultimate recovery, and
lastly from Denver, where he loses the great fight—are intensely
pathetic and from beginning to end tell a story of measureless
devotion.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 80w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 7 ’20 120w

+ =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 60w

“Were it not for beauty of language, pathos, lofty sentiment and apt
quotations, there is no denying that reading the book would at times
be depressing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 9 ’20 360w

“It would be hard to trace the impalpable quality which stamps these
letters with the seal of truth: but it is there to illustrate the law
that style is the touchstone of all fine and sincere literature.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 15 ’20 600w

=MALINS, GEOFFREY H.= How I filmed the war; ed. by Low Warren. il *$4 Stokes 940.48

(Eng ed 19–19271)

“This stirring narrative describes the innumerable adventures that
occurred to Mr Malins in the pursuit of cinematograph records of the
fighting on the western front. Mr Malins’ devotion to his job is
surpassed only by his courage.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1083 O 24 ’19 40w

“Very few men have displayed such courage and devotion in winning an
empire or in winning a wife as Mr Malins has shown in taking his war
films. That he is alive to write a book (and an extremely good book)
about them is one of the incredible things of the war.”

+ =Ath= p1121 O 31 ’19 600w

“A brisk interesting account of soldiering with the camera. It gives
assurance that the scenes of war in the movies were taken at the
front, often in positions of danger.”

+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

“The pictures are good, and his story, told in a very conversational
and natural way, is especially instructive.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 500w

“No doubt Mr Malins’s volume is making a stir in cinematographic
circles; but apart from them, we question if it will have a long
career as a ‘library book.’ The films themselves were efficiently
done, but they were all that counted; there was not enough stuff left
to make a readable book.”

− + =Sat R= 130:99 Jl 31 ’19 370w

“Very readable account.”

+ =Spec= 123:512 O 18 ’19 50w

“There was excellent material for a book in all these adventures, and
Lieutenant Malins writes with great spirit, if without any special
distinction of style.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p598 O 30 ’19 440w

=MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL.= Memoirs of life and literature. il *$2.50 Harper

20–16292

“Memoirs,” says the author, “represent life as seen by the writers
from a personal point of view.... Thus if any writer attempts to do
what I have done myself—namely, to examine or depict in books of
widely different kinds such aspects and problems of life—social,
philosophical, religious, and economic—as have in turn engrossed his
special attention, he may venture to hope that a memoir of his own
activities will be taken as representing an age, rather than a
personal story.” (Chapter I) The first three chapters are devoted to
the author’s family antecedents and early life and some of the other
chapters are: Winter society at Torquay; The basis of London society;
Vignettes of London life; Society in country houses; From country
houses to politics; Cyprus, Florence, Hungary; Two works on social
politics; Religious philosophy and fiction; Politics and society in
America; Literature and action. The book has an index and a number of
portraits of famous writers.

* * * * *

=Ath= p583 O 29 ’20 1300w

“To some the philosophy will seem too self-satisfied and the ease of
tone, varied only by urbane satire, indicative of a class heedlessness
of much of the passion, discontent and injustice below the surface.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

Reviewed by H: L. West

+ =Bookm= 52:269 N ’20 480w

“His ingenious mingling of the records of his own life and mental
progress and achievement with accounts of his contact with other men
and women of his time, give to Mr Mallock’s memoirs a rare quality.
Its pages are all filled with an exceptional sympathy for the mental
attitude of even those from whom he differed on problems of vital and
lasting importance.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 18 ’20 1800w

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

=Dial= 70:217 F ’21 2100w

“It is with something of shock that we discover Mr Mallock’s
conservatism as unyielding as when in the complacent days before the
war he came to expound it from the rostrums of our universities.
Events have marched, but Mr Mallock has not marched with them. And
yet, disappointing though it is, Mr Mallock’s volume contains chapters
that redeem it from the commonplace.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p6 S 18 ’20 1100w

“Too much of the memoirs are snobbery, genealogical dissertations and
comments on the author’s own novels and economic studies. He possessed
the opportunity for a surprisingly good book but he has not wholly
availed himself of it.” H. S. Gorman

− + =N Y Times= p12 O 3 ’20 2100w

“What the author has given us in his books, with all sincerity, has
been, so it seems, not ‘confessions’ by any means, but his real inner
thought without compromise or unexpressed reservations. This, rather
than its suavity of style, its variety of interests, its numerous
personalities, explains the charm of the volume. There is an air of
intellectual and moral success and good-breeding about it such as one
rarely finds.”

+ =No Am= 212:713 N ’20 1850w

“His comments and anecdotes are not always agreeable or calculated to
give the reader high ideals.”

− =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 220w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:249 S 22 ’20 150w

“This constant didacticism goes far to spoil what is otherwise so
good. If only Mr Mallock had expended his energies more exclusively on
the descriptive and anecdotal parts of his book, he might have
produced a work of rare charm; he has the insight and the literary
skill to have done this.”

+ − =Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 950w

+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 80w

=Spec= 125:470 O 9 ’20 1500w

“Delightfully entertaining work. Not once in a blue moon do lovers of
good literature fall upon anything so richly suggestive, so charmingly
satisfying.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 2300w

“Mr Mallock in the lucidity of his style, in his confident logic and
graceful sense of proportion, in his fastidiousness and his cynical
undertones, betrays the mind of the eighteenth-century aristocrat.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 S 16 ’20 1800w

=MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE.= Russian republic. *$1 (4½c) Harcourt 947

20–5655

As the basis for an opinion as to the possibilities of peace
negotiations with Soviet Russia, the author undertook an examination
of the political, social and military conditions there at first hand,
by a personal visit. The book records his findings in diary form
interspersed with interviews, conversations and personal reflections.
Throughout, the author draws a comparison with the French revolution
and concludes that the only way to head off a military dictatorship in
Russia is through one of two policies; the unthinkable one of making
war on her on a grand scale, or “to make every effort to give the
Soviet republic internal and external peace, and to establish
commercial bonds with them, to the great blessing of mankind and to
the prosperity of all countries.” Contents: Introductory; To
Petrograd; Moscow; Social reconstruction; Trotsky and the red army;
Industry; Religion and women; The peace terms; Homeward bound;
Conclusions; Appendix—Prinkipo and Nansen.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

“Colonel Malone’s attitude is one of a somewhat suspicious solicitude;
he is aware of the danger of being taken in, and this gives to his
report an air of special authenticity. Perhaps the most interesting
chapter is that dealing with the Red army.”

+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 300w

“Colonel Malone’s book will be popular among sympathizers with Soviet
Russia, especially those of a more or less conservative stripe. It
explodes the grosser fabrications about Russia without implying too
much violence against what cautious folk conceive to be a properly
centered world. Its superficiality from this point of view may prove
an asset: for no one can deny that it is essentially a superficial
study.” Evans Clark

+ − =Nation= 111:47 Jl 10 ’20 750w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p90 F 5 ’20 150w

=MANDER, JANE.= Story of a New Zealand river. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

20–4462

A story by an author apparently familiar with the country of which she
writes. For its beginnings it goes back a full generation to a pioneer
age in a new country. Alice Roland is as unfitted for this life as her
husband is fitted for it. An English woman, adrift with a young child,
she accepts Tom Roland’s offer of marriage and goes with him up the
river to the wild country where he is to carve out his fortune. She
has never loved him, and finds her life, with its hardships and
recurrent child bearing, dreary enough. Then love for her husband’s
partner, David Bruce, comes to complicate the situation. Alice’s
scruples and David’s loyalty to his partner keep them from
transgression. In the meantime Alice’s daughter, Asia, grows up, with
ideals very different from her mother’s, with a sure knowledge of what
she wants, and she doesn’t let the fact that the man she loves is
already married stand in her way. There are good pictures of the New
Zealand landscape and of its developing civilization.

* * * * *

“She lacks confidence and the courage of her opinions: like the
wavering, fearful heroine, she leans too hard on England. There are
moments when we catch a bewilderingly vivid glimpse of what she really
felt and knew about the small settlement of people in the lumbercamp,
but we suspect that these are moments when she is off her guard. These
serve nothing but to increase our impatience with Miss Mander. Why is
her book not half as long, twice as honest?” K. M.

− + =Ath= p49 Jl 9 ’20 600w

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 160w

“The author not only knows her country, but those who live in it, and
she describes both with strong feeling and yet with artistic
restraint.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 17 ’20 250w

“The theme of this book is good but it is not good enough for 430
pages of closely printed matter. Of the characters that create ‘The
story of a New Zealand river,’ which, by the way, is an extremely bad
title, nothing but praise may be given.” H. S. G.

+ − =New Repub= 23:234 Jl 21 ’20 650w

“The novel presents an interesting picture of pioneer life on the
unnamed river and some of Alice’s struggles are well portrayed, but
there is so much reiteration and so much of what can only be called
padding that the effect of the novel is greatly weakened and it loses
its hold on the reader long before the climax is reached.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w

“The author handles this tale of an isolated New Zealand lumber camp
with considerable romantic effect.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 220w

“The authoress has a real ability to describe character and
differences of outlook; but she does not allow the plot to become lost
in disquisitions. The book would have been more emphatic if it could
have been shortened, but in its present form it is a patient study of
one example of the immemorial clash between impulse and convention.
The authoress never exactly hits the bull’s-eye, but she is always on
the target.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 220w

=MANNERS, JOHN HARTLEY.= All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast. *$1.25 Doran 812

20–4129

These three plays: All clear; God of my faith; and God’s outcast,
“written during the horrors of the unjust and cruel war forced by
Germany upon civilisation ... founded on actual incidents, may serve
to keep alive remembrance of some of the barbarous outrages
perpetrated by the Hun on innocent and wretched peoples.” (Foreword)
They are songs of hate and the Germans, in the author’s opinion, are
“a race apart, unfit to associate with and to be shunned forevermore.”

* * * * *

=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 480w

=MANSBRIDGE, ALBERT.= Adventure in working-class education. *$2 (*6s) Longmans 374.2

“This book chronicles the genesis and growth of the Workers’
educational association which was founded to promote the higher
education of working men and women by means of an alliance between
co-operation, trades unionism, and university extension. It began in
1903, not without opposition and with very little financial support,
which Mr Mansbridge, to whose enthusiasm the organisation owes much of
its vitality, counts like a true fighter amongst the reasons for its
success. Mr Mansbridge and his colleagues preserved their eager
optimism even through the depressing years of the war until, at the
present day, they can number over seventeen thousand members in the
British islands and many prosperous branches in Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. The vivifying idea of the movement
is that most workers have an interest in education if they would only
realize it; and to stimulate that interest and provide facilities for
its gratification are the objects for which the association was
formed.”—Spec

* * * * *

=Ath= p814 Je 18 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:85 Jl 17 ’20 480w

“This book is a short but inspiring introduction to the spirit of the
whole movement. In passages it rises to levels of fine eloquence. The
prologue should be read by every teacher; and the whole spirit of the
movement should become known to social workers and lovers of democracy
everywhere.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 320w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p304 My 13 ’20 40w

=MANTLE, MRS BEATRICE.= In the house of another. *$1.90 (2½c) Century

20–17410

When the heroine of the story comes back to consciousness after an
auto accident, she finds herself in a strange environment and among
unfamiliar people. She even realizes she has a husband, Alan Leland,
whose existence she has no remembrance of, and a circle of friends
whom she does not recognize. But they take her quite for granted,
which adds to her mystification. She wonders if she is out of her
mind. The difficulties of the situation are increased by Willett
Renshaw’s attitude to her which is that of a recognized lover. His
attentions are distressing to her, but she does not understand the
situation clearly enough to be able to straighten it out. Renshaw’s
attitude finally results in her separation from Alan, to her sorrow.
But she bravely tries to reconstruct her life on a new plan, until a
wise friend who realizes that there is some big trouble in her life
goes to the bottom of her fears and paves the way for her future
happiness and Alan’s.

* * * * *

“It needs a Wells or at least an Anstey (as in ‘Vice versa’ or ‘The
statement of Stella Maberly’) to carry out this idea of exchanged
personalities satisfactorily.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 90w

“As a novel written to divert and mystify, ‘In the house of another’
succeeds in its purpose.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 220w

=MANTLE, BURNS=, ed. Best plays of 1919–20, and the Year book of the drama in America. *$2 Small 822

20–21432

This volume marks the first appearance of a new annual which attempts
to do for the professional drama what Mr Braithwaite’s anthology does
for poetry and Mr O’Brien’s year book for the short story. Mr Mantle
has selected ten of the successful plays from the New York season of
1919–20 and has presented them, partly in summary, partly in dialog.
They are: Abraham Lincoln, by John Drinkwater; Beyond the horizon, by
Eugene O’Neill: The famous Mrs Fair, by James Forbes; Declassee, by
Zoe Aikins; Jane Clegg, by St John Ervine; The jest, by Sem Benelli;
Wedding bells, by Salisbury Field; Mamma’s affair, by Rachel Barton
Butler; Adam and Eva, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton; Clarence, by
Booth Tarkington. The volume opens with “The season in review” by Mr
Mantle and the year book at the close includes surveys of the season
in London and in Paris, along with statistical summaries and other
data relating to the stage.

* * * * *

“As to at least five of the ten, there will be general acquiescence in
Mr Mantle’s choice, and as to the other five there will be general
diversity of opinion.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 360w

“Friends of the drama in America owe Mr Mantle a real debt of thanks.”
Dorothy Grafly

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 400w

“Altogether a much-needed piece of work, and well done. If the next
time Mr Mantle will include some account of the significant
achievements in stage-craft, his year-book will prove even more
valuable.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:85 Ja ’21 230w

=MANUEL, HERSCHEL THURMAN.= Talent in drawing; an experimental study of the use of tests to discover special ability. (School and home education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 136.7

20–4546

Account of a pioneer investigation in the province of specialized
ability, or talent, conducted by Professor Whipple, Miss Genevieve L.
Coy, and Dr T. S. Henry among selected public school pupils and
college students of Urbana, Illinois. The problem the investigators
set before them was to discover “the essential psychophysical
characteristics of persons talented in drawing,” and to learn how the
test methods could best be used in the diagnosis of such talent. To
the individuals selected were given certain tests of: general
intelligence; higher thought processes; memory and learning; reading;
observation; sensory discrimination; handwriting and drawing; also
physical and motor tests. Tests given were taken from Binet-Simon,
Whipple, Thurstone and other authorities. The investigation,
completely described in this little volume, together with a list of
the tests, and a bibliography of books used, “resulted in a somewhat
detailed statement of the nature of talent in drawing and has yielded
a tentative program of tests for the measurement of this talent.”
(Conclusion)

=MAPU, ABRAHAM.= Sorrows of Noma. il *$1.50 (1½c) National bk. publishers, 200 5th av., N.Y.

20–4891

A translation, by Joseph Marymont of the Hebrew historical romance,
“Ahavath Zion,” the first novel that appeared in Hebrew literature.
The story, beginning with sinister treachery and deceptions, and a
bitter tragedy, centers about the motive so often recurring in the
great Greek narratives—that of a noble son hidden away from evil
intrigues of enemies, and raised in rural simplicity as a lowly born
shepherd. In this case there is also a mother falsely accused by her
husband’s enemies, and a beautiful daughter. The finding of the lad
Ammon by an exalted lord’s only daughter, his restoration to his
birthright both of nobility and property, the vindication of his
mother Noma from false accusations, the inevitable punishment of the
followers of iniquity, the loves of Ammon and his sister, are
interwoven with a picture of the city of Zion during the reign of
Ahaz, and the austere fear of God and love of nation inextricable from
any conception of the ancient Hebrew.

* * * * *

“The story is well told in language borrowed for the most part from
the Old Testament, and the manners and customs of the Jewish people
are well described.”

+ =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 60w

“As a contribution to the cause of acquainting the world with Hebraic
literature, ‘Sorrows of Noma’ comes as a valuable addition. But aside
from the literary and classical considerations there is still a third
value to this book. The human interest of it.” Rose Karsner

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 430w

=MARBLE, ANNIE RUSSELL (MRS CHARLES FRANCIS MARBLE).= Women who came in the Mayflower. $1.50 (13½c) Pilgrim press 974.4

20–8510

“This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in
the Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in the Ann and the
Fortune.... There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any
family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during
1621–1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual
matrons and maidens.” (Foreword) Contents: Endurance and adventure;
The voyage and landing; Communal and family life in Plymouth
1621–1623; Matrons and maidens who came in the “Mayflower”: Companions
who arrived in the “Fortune” and the “Ann.” Index.

* * * * *

+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 200w

“A very attractive little volume. It is well worth reading.” W. A.
Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 60w

“Full of pleasant gossip about the Mayflower folks is this little
volume.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w

=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 180w

“Within its limits it is extremely comprehensive, and well worth
reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 300w

=MARCH, NORAH HELENA.= Towards racial health. *$2 (2c) Dutton 612.6

19–15994

A book on sex hygiene and sex instruction designed for parents,
teachers and social workers. It is an English work and is brought out
in America with an introduction by Dr Evangeline W. Young of Boston,
in addition to the original foreword by J. Arthur Thomson of the
University of Aberdeen. The subjects covered include: The physical
development of the child; The mental and emotional development of the
child; Care of children; Supervision—psychological aspect; Nature
study in the service of sex instruction; Further aids towards
understanding the biology of sex; Ethical training; Education for
parenthood (two chapters); Social safeguarding. Other important matter
is presented in appendices, including suggested ways of answering
children’s questions. There is a bibliography of seven pages and an
index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:290 My ’20

“The soundness of the author’s biological background is attested by
Professor J. Arthur Thomson’s commendatory foreword, while her
willingness to deal with delicate practical difficulties betrays the
sympathetic understanding and intimate personal knowledge of the
teacher.”

+ =Dial= 67:274 S 20 ’19 60w

“What Miss March has done is well done—her chapters are poorly named,
however. The American edition would be improved if statistics from
American institutions and organizations were added.” E. M. Achilles

+ − =J Philos= 17:192 Mr 25 ’20 320w

“The author exhibits a singular ignorance of the ways of real boys and
girls and is to be credited with an extensive knowledge of the
literature of the subject.” H. C. M.

− + =School R= 28:159 F ’20 140w

“It is an unusually successful attempt in this difficult field.” L. B.

+ =Survey= 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 130w

=MARCHANT, JAMES=, ed.[2] Control of parenthood. *$2.50 (5½c) Putnam 176

20–21358

Arguments for and against birth control are presented in this volume,
to which distinguished men and women of Great Britain contribute. The
Bishop of Birmingham writes the introduction. J. Arthur Thomson and
Leonard Hill write of Biological aspects; Dean Inge and Harold Cox of
Economic aspects; Dr Mary Scharlieb, Dr F. B. Meyer and Dr A. E.
Garvie of Social and religious aspects; and Sir Rider Haggard and Dr
Marie C. Stopes of Imperial and racial aspects.

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Adventures in interviewing. il *$4 (4c) Lane 920

20–645

The book, the author tells us, grew out of a series of articles
dealing with war-time interviewing. He believes in making a record of
people and events while they are alive and when the interest in them
is keenest and he has met many of the commanding figures of the day.
He introduces the reader to them both by word and picture. All the
most prominent contemporary journalists, statesmen, military men,
novelists and actors pass review along with the history of the
launching of many a popular book and touches of personal friendships
with the author. The contents are: Watterson and the early days; New
York and the world’s work; A great American editor; The art of
interviewing; Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; The real Lloyd
George; Northcliffe, the king-maker; Haig and other British notables;
Kerensky and the revolution-makers; Pershing and Wood; Foch and
Clemenceau; The Wall street sphinxes; Some literary friendships; Other
literary associations; The story of “The jungle”; Plays and players.
There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p751 Je 4 ’20 120w

+ =Booklist= 16:167 F ’20

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice

+ =Bookm= 50:562 F ’20 1550w

“Mr Marcosson’s book is good reading for the general reader and a good
text book for young writers and young newspaper men.” J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 440w

=Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 260w

“This is a rarely readable volume. It is also excellently illustrated;
the photographs with which its pages are generously adorned are
exceedingly well reproduced, and the volume takes on value, therefore,
as a popular portrait gallery.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:26 Ja 18 ’20 1200w

“It is packed with big personalities described in a most entertaining
way by a man who has a genius for interviewing and has had rare
opportunities for its exercise.”

+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 50w

“The style is already familiar to hosts of readers—popular, fluent,
rapid, pointed, occasionally showing irritating haste and
carelessness, yet never losing the good journalist’s knack of telling
his story interestingly and vividly.” E. M. Brown

+ − =Pub W= 97:181 Ja 17 ’20 220w

“A book of many limitations. Mr Marcosson is not even an observer, he
sees only the most obvious features in a man’s face and the most
conspicuous qualities in his mind. Nevertheless his book is
interesting. He sees little, but he sees clearly; and, again, he
writes barbarously, but he writes clearly.”

+ − =Review= 2:135 F 7 ’20 360w

“Mr Marcosson seems to have been especially fortunate in his
intimacies with writers.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:333 Mr ’20 120w

“Unfortunately, Mr Marcosson has not the gift of revealing his
personality in his writing, nor do any of the famous men whom he
describes emerge from his pages bright and clear-limned. His book,
indeed, is a pedestrian piece of work. But though its sole interest
lies in the various subjects presented to the reader, that interest is
substantial and well recompenses one for the momentary boredom
produced by certain appallingly vapid statements.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:589 Je 26 ’20 650w

“A bright, racy and interesting account of interviews with a host of
notables. From start to finish the personal pronoun ‘I’ looms up with
great frequency. This detracts much from the delightfulness of the
book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 150w

=MARDEN, ORISON SWETT.= You can, but will you? (Marden inspirational books) *1.75 (1c) Crowell 170

20–9415

A collection of the author’s essays on right living. Among the
subjects are: The new philosophy of life; The new idea of God; Facing
life the right way; Winning out in middle life; How to realize your
ambition; The web of fate; The open door; Do you carry victory in your
face?

=MARKHAM, EDWIN.= Gates of paradise, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811

20–7451

This is Edwin Markham’s fourth volume of verse. It is made up of short
poems arranged in eight groups: Van-couriers; At my lady’s window;
Wings for the spirit; Deeper chords; Finger-posts for the highway;
Echoes from the world war; Memorable men; Songs to the supernal woman.
There is a frontispiece portrait of the author.

* * * * *

+ − =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“Is, at its best, rhymed moralizing: eloquent, sincere, restrained,
but withal too absorbed in immediate domestic and sociological
interests to touch the deepest mysteries of the heart of man.” R. M.
Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 51:453 Je ’20 100w

“‘Gates of paradise’ is pleasant for its simple yet technically
capable lines only. The thought contained therein is as old and
hackneyed as ham and eggs for breakfast. If he is not careful the
mantle of Ella Wheeler Wilcox will descend upon him.” H. S. Gorman

− + =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 150w

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

=Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 420w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Many Junes. *$2 (2c) Dodd

20–6431

Something stronger than himself had always dominated over Hugh
Lelacheur even from infancy. First it was a strong-willed father that
interfered with his destiny at the death of his mother. Later a too
well disciplined reasonableness always triumphed over his strongest
desires to make him give up what he liked best for the second best.
The best things came too late and kept his life a lonely one with few
high lights and many shadows. The shadow’s turn into bitterness and a
hardening of the heart when on a memorable June day, given over to
memory and a reliving of his past life, it comes to him that he could
offer his unloved wife a measure of spiritual companionship, as the
only remaining second best thing that he had so far withheld.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“Reaching us twelve years after its first appearance in England. ‘Many
Junes’ reveals the constant quality of Mr Marshall’s genius. It might
as well have been written yesterday, as far as internal evidence
discloses. To ‘Many Junes,’ therefore, we may turn for the reading of
a novel in its writer’s best and most characteristic manner.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 1200w

“Archibald Marshall has told the story pleasantly and neatly enough to
hold one’s interest; and yet he fortunately does not make one take the
book seriously enough to object to some of the incredibilities in the
plot.” J. C. L.

+ =New Repub= 22:428 My 26 ’20 220w

“Mr Marshall’s new novel is something of a departure from his
customary type of fiction. This new book is in a different vein, one
more serious and more sorrowful.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 1100w

“The present novel has the same attractiveness with the exception that
it lacks that pervading humor which made some of Mr Marshall’s earlier
books so delightful.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 240w

“‘Many Junes’ is a rambling, disjointed series or sequence of episodes
in the life of an extremely disagreeable Englishman. Hugh Lelacheur is
a prig, a snob, and an egotist.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 250w

“The characters all are vividly portrayed flesh-and-blood people.
Altogether the story is admirably conceived and developed, and will
afford agreeable entertainment to Mr Marshall’s readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 600w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Peggy in Toyland. il *$2.50 Dodd

20–18754

A story about a little English girl and her two favorite dolls, one of
them made of wood, one a very handsome person known as Lady Grace.
There is a teddy bear too, and one night in her dreams the three of
them conduct Peggy to Toyland where she has many strange adventures.

* * * * *

“The illustrations have the charm of the narrative; a child would like
both story and pictures.”

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p836 D 9 ’20 170w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Spring walk in Provence. il *$3.50 (4½c) Dodd 914.4

20–17745

The original preface to this book is dated August, 1914, but events
immediately following that date delayed its publication. In an added
word the author says: “I have been over the manuscript again and made
a few alterations here and there, but have altered nothing that shows
it to have been written five years ago.” Among the chapter titles are:
Hills and olives; Flowers and scents; In old Provence; Aix; Les baux;
Mistral; Saint-Remy; Avignon; The palace of the popes; Vaucluse;
Villeneuve-sur-Avignon; Arles. There are illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“A volume of finished excellence, written without affectation, but
with due regard for the stateliness of English prose.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 80w

“Mr Marshall’s journeyings through Provence inspire us with a desire
to follow his footsteps.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 1350w

“The accompanying photographs are good.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p30 O 23 ’20 120w

“Mr Marshall has produced a book that is interesting and quietly
entertaining, but it is not one that will add to his reputation as a
writer of finished prose. The book bears the marks of hasty
composition, of a haste that has resulted in an occasional
slovenliness and a frequent awkwardness of expression.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 720w

=MARSHALL, EDISON.= Voice of the pack. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–26323

Dan Failing, the grandson of a frontiersman, has spent all his life in
cities. In his twenty-ninth year he finds that he is far gone with
tuberculosis and is told that he has but six months to live. He feels
a yearning toward the mountain country he has never known except
through his grandfather’s stories and he goes out to the Cascades. An
old mountaineer who remembers the elder Failing takes him into his
home, altho he cannot conceal his disappointment in this weak
descendant of a mighty man. But Dan wins his host’s respect almost at
once, for he is a natural born woodsman. He regains his health and
later wins the love of Lennox’s daughter, a girl called Snowbird.
There is much of forest and animal lore in the story.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:245 Ap ’20

“Again and again Mr Marshall leaves his commonplace style to indulge
in some really good writing, but as often he returns to the dull
monotone.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 260w

“The story in the main is merely a woodsman’s idyl, rich in poetic
fancy—although stern in its fidelity to the truth as that woodsman
sees it—and throbbing with reverent love for nature.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w

“Mr Marshall’s story runs close to nature’s heart. Thru a most
engrossing and intimate presentation of forest life, develops a fine
love drama.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 220w

=MARSHALL, F. HENRY.=[2] Discovery in Greek lands. il *$3.40 Macmillan 913.38

“Mr Marshall has written an attractive sketch of the chief results
attained by excavations in Greater Greece since 1870. He treats the
subject historically, starting with the age of Knossos and Mycenae,
and describing under each period the main sites examined. He gives
special chapters to temples, to the famous centres like Delphi and
Olympia, and to isolated discoveries like the Sidon sarcophagi or the
fine statues dredged up near Cerigotto in 1900–1.”—Spec

* * * * *

“Though so highly compressed as to be little more than a skeleton
review, his narrative is not without interest. The illustrations that
accompany the text add much to its value.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 160w

“He provides a useful bibliography and a number of good photographs.
As an introduction to a large and fascinating subject, the book is
much to be commended.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 100w

=MARSHALL, ROBERT.= Enchanted golf clubs. il *$1 (3½c) Stokes

20–3577

At the war office he was “Major the Honourable John William Wentworth
Gore, 1st Royal light hussars”; to his friends: “There goes good old
Jacky Gore, the finest sportsman living!” But he despises golf. The
beautiful American widow, Katherine Clendenin Gunter, with a fortune
of £2,000,000 sterling, is an enthusiastic golfer. To win her he
decides to play a match with a golf champion and enters into a compact
with the ghost of a cardinal to use his enchanted clubs. With the
ghost’s aid he wins the game, but not the lady.

* * * * *

“Of course what the author describes in his shallow plot could not
take place, for the book is admittedly a burlesque. But as a burlesque
it is too extravagant to be funny.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 60w

=MARTIN, EDWARD SANFORD.= Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. 2v il *$10 Scribner

20–21406

“The reader will promptly discover that this life of Mr Choate is not
so much a biography after the manner of Plutarch as a compilation. The
chief contributor, by far, is Mr Choate himself, whose writings,
public and private, make up four-fifths, or more, of the book.”
(Introd.) The first volume opens with Mr Choate’s own story of his
boyhood and youth, a fragment of autobiography dictated by him in 1914
while convalescing from an illness. The editor says further, “I have
borrowed—whenever it could be done to advantage—from newspapers,
commentators, and eulogists. A series of scrap-books, kept for forty
odd years and covering more or less Mr Choate’s experiences as
ambassador, supplemented the long series of letters which could be
drawn upon.” Volume 1 covers the period to the nineties. Volume 2
covers the years of ambassadorship to England and the period of the
war, closing with a review of his life. There are interesting
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

“It is a difficult task to cover adequately the many-sidedness of such
a man in a biography unless it is systematic and well rounded. The
career of Mr Choate merits such a biography. It has not yet been
written. When it is, Mr Martin’s interesting and richly filled volumes
will be the biographer’s chief source book.” S. L. Cook

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 1450w

“The two volumes are a new thing in biography. They will constitute a
classic in editing.”

+ =N Y Times= p6 N 14 ’20 1700w

“This is an ideal method of combining biography with autobiography.”
R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

=MARTIN, EVERETT DEAN.= Behavior of crowds; a psychological study. *$2 Harper 301

20–20958

The book is somewhat of a critical enlargement on Le Bon’s “The
crowd.” Its conclusions are based on the latest research in analytical
psychology originated by Freud. The author holds that “as a practical
problem, the habit of crowd-making is daily becoming a more serious
menace to civilization. Events are making it more and more clear that,
pressing as are certain economic questions, the forces which threaten
society are really psychological.” (Foreword) As a remedy to this
menace he suggests re-education along the lines of humanism expounded
by such writers as James, Schiller, Dewey and others. Contents: The
crowd and the social problem of today; How crowds are formed; The
crowd and the unconscious; The egoism of the crowd-mind; The crowd a
creature of hate; The absolutism of the crowd-mind; The psychology of
revolutionary crowds; The fruits of revolution—new crowd-tyrannies for
old; Freedom and government by crowds; Education as a possible cure
for crowd-thinking; Index.

=MARTIN, GEORGE (MADDEN) (MRS ATTWOOD R. MARTIN).= Children in the mist. *$1.75 (3c) Appleton

20–11222

In a series of eight sketches the writer, who has lived with the negro
in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in Florida, the Carolinas and Kentucky,
shows him as he is, neither praising him as his over-zealous advocate,
nor indulging in race hatred. It is an arraignment of the white race
for keeping this primitive people so long in confusion, discouragement
and ignorance. The stories cover the period from the emancipation to
the present and are arranged in chronological order. The stories are:
The flight; The blue handkerchief; An Inskip niggah; Pom; The sleeping
sickness; Fire from heaven; Malviney; Sixty years after.

* * * * *

“The stories are very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“The eight stories in this book are written with a commendable
intention, but that intention does not after all extend beyond a
limited field and a circumscribed aspect of the negro.” W. S. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 S 8 ’20 600w

“Unfortunately, while Mrs Martin writes with the authoritative manner
of one who has known the black man intimately, she has, as she
concedes, laid no emphasis in her tales upon negroes who have, to use
her phrase, forged ahead. The result is an obvious struggle between
the complacence which comes of having met coloured people as servants
chiefly, and the feeling that it is inconsistent to deny them
opportunity and to charge their race with the consequences.” H. J. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 210w

“Mrs Martin avoids both sentiment and indignation; her tone is warm
but quiet; she lets the stern implications arise in their bare and
tragic force.”

+ =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 350w

“They are typical of the kind of studied work in short-story writing
which carefully applies principles of preparation, suspense,
contributing effect, and climax, and never achieves the dynamic
impulsion and the artistic inevitability of a directly told
unpremeditated tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 360w

“This book will prove her to have advanced in her art. Mrs Martin is
too good an artist to let the purpose obtrude itself. It is there,
none the less, and it gives her book a permanent value aside from its
quality as fiction.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 1550w

=Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 60w

“A broad vein of humor runs through the tales, but invariably there is
a serious note at the ending.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w

=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Schoolmaster of Hessville. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

20–16342

The schoolmaster of Hessville, a Pennsylvania Dutch village, was John
Wimmer, fine and strong of character but with the cravings of youth in
his young body. It was flesh calling to flesh that made him love
Irene, the glowing beauty with the coarse instincts. She played cat
and mouse with him and her wiles were finally responsible for John’s
marriage to Minnie, Irene’s opposite. Minnie’s winsomeness never quite
compensated John for Irene’s more sensuous charms and when a cruel
accident deprives Minnie of her reason leaving John with two
motherless children on his hands, the now, on her part, widowed Irene,
offers her services as housekeeper and becomes John’s mistress. He has
fallen an easy prey but in time his eyes are opened, and when a
successful operation restores Minnie to him he blesses her breadth of
view that can condone his lapse.

* * * * *

“Not alone are the main characters well drawn, even the most minor
minion is unforgettably sketched. The author has studied children and
has thoroughly expressed her understanding of them.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 240w

=MARTIN, MABEL WOOD.= Green god’s pavilion. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes

20–14601

This novel of the Philippines shows in almost lurid colors the
irreconcilable difference between the East and the West. It is
symbolized in the figures of two women, one, Julie, an American of a
fair and spiritual beauty who goes out to Manila as a teacher and with
the spirit of a crusader. The other, a native woman, Isabel, the
“Empress of the East,” with the fierce passion of life that stops not
at evil. It is a tragic story of how the East breaks all who come to
her with the best of intentions of uplift and improvement, except they
miraculously rise from the dead for a second birth. It broke Julie and
left her for dead among the plague stricken huts of the natives. It
broke Barry McChord, the man with the “Excelsior” face, who fell a
victim to the plague after his high hopes were gone. But something
selfless in both finally triumphs over all self-deceptions, even over
death. Much philosophizing and much gruesome realism are a part of the
story.

* * * * *

“Smoothly written and vivid tale of love and faith and hardship.”

+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 220w