Chapter LIV: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (10)

A study of the religious revival of 1740 as it affected the middle
colonies, supplementing Tracy’s “Great awakening,” (1842) which dealt
mainly with New England. Writing so many years later the author found
himself “more in sympathy than was common in Tracy’s day with the
catholicity of Whitefield and with the democratic tendencies of the
revival which were so largely responsible for the destruction of the
ecclesiastical system of New England.” (Preface) Contents:
Introduction, and pietism in Pennsylvania; Frelinghuysen, and the
beginning of the revival among the Dutch Reformed; The Tennents, and
the beginning of the revival among the Presbyterians; George
Whitefield, and his alliance with the New Brunswick Presbyterians; The
year 1740, the great awakening at high tide; The schism in the
Presbyterian church in the year 1741; Period of expansion and
organization; Whitefield the pacificator; Triumphant evangelism in an
age of unbelief; Conclusion; Bibliography (seven pages).

* * * * *

Reviewed by F. A. Christie

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:105 O ’20 730w

“This little book is a worthy treatment of a most interesting and
important movement.”

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:160 S ’20 250w

=MAXWELL, DONALD.=[2] Last crusade. il *$7.50 Lane 940.356

20–20028

“With 100 sketches in colour, monochrome and line made by the author
in the autumn and winter of 1918, when sent on duty to Palestine by
the admiralty for the Imperial war museum” reads the informing
sub-title of this book. The author further informs us that hostilities
were over when he reached his destination and he had to hurry up with
his pictures and get over the ground as quickly as possible. He thus
obtained glimpses of things and places from every point of view
without rhyme or reason and found, in sorting out his drawings, that
he was much better off than he would have been with more leisure. The
pictures with his diary and explanatory notes make the story of the
“Last crusade.” The contents are: Over old roads; Pisgah Heights; The
streets of Askelon; Chariots of iron; Abana and Pharpar; The glory of
Lebanon; The coasts of Tyre and Sidon; Sea-plane ships; The gates of
Gaza; Armageddon; The valley of death; In terra pax.

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= For better, for worse (Eng title, Remedy against sin). *$2 (1c) Dodd

20–8240

A story based on the injustice of the English divorce law. Feeling
herself unloved and unwanted in her own home, Claire Gilmour marries
Roderick Vaughan. She knows nothing of marriage and the feeling of
admiration and affection which she had confused with love quickly
dies. Roddy is a spendthrift and a brute. He squanders all of Claire’s
fortune he can lay his hands on and bullies her into giving him more
by threatening to take her child from her. She endures every
indignity, but the members of her family, who had disapproved of the
marriage, are set absolutely against divorce. Roddy goes to America
and Claire learns the meaning of peace. He returns and consents to a
divorce, but withdraws his consent when Claire inherits money and
brings a counter charge of infidelity against her, quite false but
easily proved true in court. Roddy and Claire are both declared
unfaithful and hence forced to live in wedlock. Claire takes the one
way open and goes away with the man who loves her and whose career has
been ruined by the divorce scandal.

* * * * *

“The author who sets out deliberately to write a novel with a purpose
must content himself with being a little less than an artist, a little
more than a preacher. In ‘A remedy against sin’ Mr W. B. Maxwell has
chosen to obscure his talents under a wig and gown that he may deliver
a tremendous attack against the monstrous injustice of our present
divorce laws. Up to a certain point we must admit that ‘A remedy
against sin’ is a great deal better than the majority of novels.” K.
M.

+ − =Ath= p543 Ap 23 ’20 780w

“The end is one that few novelists would have the courage to record,
but it is a logical end, although it is not one that readers who seek
for a novel with a ‘high moral purpose’ will approve. But since Mr
Maxwell is writing the truth about life, he has made convincing the
culmination of the tragic tale of the marriage of Roderick Vaughan and
Claire Gilmour.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 1300w

“One of the strongest pleas ever made against the existing law in
England. As a work of art the novel suffers little from the evident
propaganda, because of the clearness of characterization, and the
gradual working out of an inevitable crisis in an intolerable
situation.”

+ =Ind= 104:384 D 11 ’20 130w

“One thing about this new novel cannot, in view of its subject, be too
strongly emphasized, and that one thing is this: it is absolutely
clean. Admirable in its construction, sane and realistic in its
development, intensely interesting from beginning to end, this new
novel by W. B. Maxwell is a thoughtful, conscientious and notable
book, a book worthy of the man who wrote ‘In cotton wool’ and ‘Mrs
Thompson.’”

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 1100w

“A more moving fiction character than Claire is not often drawn—and
all the more so that the author refrains from forcing the note of
pathos. There are a few passages in the book that may offend taste by
their baldness of statement, but the impact and purport of the novel
are the reverse of immoral.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w

“The character drawing is vivid and satiric. As in other books of Mr
Maxwell, the tale unfolds with flawless logic—it has the inevitability
of a Greek tragedy.”

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w

“Mr Maxwell’s novel with a purpose is entirely free from that
suspicion of dullness which, not always with justice, attaches to this
type of fiction.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:393 Ap 24 ’20 540w

“The story is told at great length and with considerable attention to
detail, but it is difficult to feel great interest in the heroine,
whose anæmic personality pervades the whole atmosphere of the book and
increases its dreariness.”

− + =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 120w

“The narrative is well handled—related with force and yet with
restraint. The book will, perhaps, excite more curiosity than
corrective resolution. But it is at least reasonably lifelike and
convincing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 300w

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON.= Glamour (Eng title, Man and his lesson). *$1.75 Bobbs

20–3060

“The hero of this story is a writer of popular plays who, after being
jilted by a very prominent beauty in favour of a duke, marries a more
common-place young woman, with whom he is exceedingly content.
Unfortunately his old love whistles him back, and his fall so preys on
his mind that he is about to commit suicide, when the war breaks out,
and he reflects that the enemy can probably ‘do the business’ as
expeditiously as he himself. His final redemption of character and his
wife’s forgiveness are effectively described.”—Spec

* * * * *

=Ath= p948 S 26 ’19 900w

=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1450w

=Lit D= p120 Ap 17 ’20 2050w

“It is a good and satisfying book, full of the stuff of life,
beautifully told.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 1100w

“Not a new story, you surmise, only the eternal triangle. But Maxwell
has seen it from a new angle.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 360w

=Spec= 123:478 O 11 ’19 90w

“Mr Maxwell presents his characters with an imaginative intensity and
emotional fidelity that win the reader’s sympathy with them in their
dilemmas.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 320w

“In this latter part of the story there are some fine descriptions of
phases of the Somme battles; moreover, the change in Bryan from
selfishness to altruism and nobility of outlook merging into
war-weariness and a more wholesome selfishness, is excellently given.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 S 11 ’19 650w

=MAYNARD, THEODORE=, comp. Tankard of ale; an anthology of drinking songs. *$1.75 McBride 821.08

20–18409

In his introduction the author bewails the triumph of the teetotaller
and the fact that “perfect social reform casteth out conviviality.”
“In this book,” he says, “I have tried to offer to my readers
practically the whole cream of our convivial songs. But ... I tried to
omit everything that was not English in its spirit and in its
authorship.... I have compromised to the extent of admitting poems by
Scotsmen and Irishmen, while excluding their work when in dialect....
There are some good American drinking songs, but a prohibitionist
nation does not deserve to be represented in the jolliest book in the
world.” Only a few modern songs have been included, for the author
holds that they lack spontaneity and appear to have been written out
of pleasant affectation or in order to point a moral. There is an
index of first lines.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1385 D 19 ’19 180w

=Booklist= 17:62 N ’20

=Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 120w

“The collection is sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently gay for
all practical and abstemious purposes.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 260w

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w

Reviewed by B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 800w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 150w

+ =Spec= 122:116 Ja 24 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 80w

=MAYO, KATHERINE.= “That damn Y”: a record of overseas service. il *$3.50 (2½c) Houghton 940.47

20–9934

Katherine Mayo, originally prejudiced against the Y. M. C. A., went to
France, so she says, on these terms: as a free agent, paying her own
expenses, and only receiving from the Y. M. C. A. the right to wear
its uniform and to examine its records. Her manuscript was not
submitted to any member of the Y. M. C. A. for criticism or approval.
The title she has given it she considers a disguised tribute: “They
both wanted and expected to find the Y everywhere.... So, as naturally
as breathing, always and all the time: ‘Where’s that damn Y?’” She
renders a high tribute to Edward Clark Carter, “the head and shaper of
the whole Y effort overseas.” The chapters giving her impressions
include: The point of view; The key man; Christmas with the A. E. F.;
The post exchange; Hot water, by gosh! Never dare judge; The way the
people’s money goes; How can we thank them? Contributing facts. There
are an index and two appendices: A. Partial lists of overseas Y
secretaries killed and disabled in service and decorations and
citations; B. Financial statement.

* * * * *

“A very timely and readable book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20

“The fullest, completest and most interesting account of Y. M. C. A.
activities which has yet appeared.”

+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 320w

“She tells her stories remarkably, with a crisp, dramatic style and
with vivid, forceful words. The judicial quality is not often found
mated in books with fire and force and vividness, but Miss Mayo has
achieved their commingling, in most of her work, with very great
success.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:9 Je 27 ’20 2600w

“Miss Mayo’s narrative is of many-sided interest; in style it is both
sprightly and intense; it expresses deep feeling and at the same time
shows an extraordinary grasp of facts, figures, situations. Every
sentence, stinging, appealing or probative, makes its impression.”

+ =No Am= 212:283 Ag ’20 1100w

“It would be difficult to imagine a more complete vindication of the
work as a whole than it affords. As to the book itself, it is
brilliantly written, with a vivid style, and it is full of humor and
pathos. Taken altogether, it is one of the very best war books that
has appeared.” F. H. Potter

+ =Outlook= 126:66 S 8 ’20 2450w

“We hope that no one who contributed to the Y. M. C. A. war fund will
be deterred by the title from reading this book; for in it will be
found the most complete account of the ‘Y’ work in France that has yet
been published as well as the ablest defense of its management. It is
truly an inspiring story.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 180w

“The book is frankly personal, emphasizes personalities, and in its
generous hero- and heroine-worship sometimes fails to do justice to
the less spectacular phases of the collective effort that made
possible the achievements recorded.” J. D. Spaeth

+ − =Survey= 45:72 O 9 ’20 1000w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p792 D 2 ’20 950w

=MAYRAN, CAMILLE.= Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten; tr. by Van Wyck Brooks. (Library of French fiction) *$2 Dutton

20–11072

“Although this series of translations from the French is described by
the publishers as ‘illustrating the life and manners of modern
France,’ the first of the two exquisite tales which make up the
present volume has to do, not with France, but with Flanders. It
relates the history of the bellringer’s motherless daughter,
christened Marguerite, but always called Gotton Connixloo, telling of
her pathetic childhood, into which there entered few caresses and
little play, and of her love for the lame, red-haired smith, Luke
Heemskerck, who for her sake deserted his shrewish wife and five
little children. Very delicately, very surely, does the author trace
the slow development of remorse and of that consciousness of sin which
at last, when the German inundation swept over the countryside, caused
Gotton to become a martyr, ransoming by her sacrifice the lives of all
those in the village. ‘Forgotten,’ the second of the two tales, is
also a story of the German invasion, but a story of a very different
kind, and of a very different class of people.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The first story is told with a penetrating appreciation of lowly
life. The appeal of both stories is to those who appreciate artistic
workmanship.”

+ =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“As delicate as two brooches, they are as appealing to the heart as
they are fragile to the eye. Set in English by Van Wyck Brooks they
constitute an unusual ornament to the library of Franco-American
literature.”

+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 60w

“The sympathetic quality, the deep, strong feeling, the lovely style
and fine artistry shown by these two simple tales make the volume a
welcome and a notable one.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 640w

=MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE.= Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854. il *$5 Lane

21–207

In the introduction E. F. Richards, the editor of these letters, gives
a short sketch of the career and character of Mazzini with their
historical background and describes the various members of the English
family, the Ashursts, to whom the letters were written. The value of
the letters themselves, she says, lies in their exhibition of
Mazzini’s character, his great and tender heart, never yet adequately
shown. Explanatory paragraphs by the editor, throughout the book, help
to unify the contents. The book contains several portraits of Mazzini
and of the Ashurst family, and an index.

* * * * *

“The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the
Mazzini legend in all its magic.” D. L. M.

+ =Ath= p433 O 1 ’20 1750w

+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 700w

“A notable addition to the Mazzini literature.”

+ =Review= 3:652 D 29 ’20 700w

“Mrs E. F. Richards, as editor of the ‘Letters,’ has done her work
with a refreshing enthusiasm tempered with a rare conscientiousness
and a notable grasp of the events as well as the personnel of her
period.”

+ =Sat R= 130:240 S 18 ’20 760w

“The letters do not add much of importance to Mazzini’s biography, but
they help to show why he was beloved by his friends. The editor has
taken great pains with the introduction and the commentary to these
interesting letters.”

+ =Spec= 125:446 O 2 ’20 180w

“The world can never know too much of a man so noble as Mazzini. His
life is at once an inspiration and a warning to the world in its
present condition. Almost every page is a warning to those idealists
who have not learnt that the very alphabet of the art of politics is
to act gradually, step by step.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 Ag 12 ’20 1900w

=MEAD, ELWOOD.= Helping men own farms. il *$2.25 Macmillan 334

20–10715

“A practical discussion of government aid in land settlement.”
(Sub-title) The author is professor of rural institutions in the
University of California, and he devotes himself chiefly to the
methods and results of land settlement in California, that state
having taken the lead in this form of agricultural development. He
also draws extensively on Australian experience. The chapters are:
State aid in California due to economic and social needs; National
carelessness in the disposal of public lands; Australia’s influence on
the land policy of California; State aid in Italy, Denmark, Holland,
and the British Isles; Methods and results of state aided settlement
in Victoria; The practical teachings of Australian state aided
settlement; The defects of private colonization schemes as shown by
practical results in California; California’s first state settlement;
Aid to farm laborers in the Durham settlement; Social progress through
coöperation at Durham; The capital required by settlers; The lessons
of the Durham settlement; Homes for soldiers; The function of
government in social and industrial development. The California land
settlement act is given in an appendix. There is no index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:14 O ’20

+ =New Repub= 23:180 Jl 7 ’20 840w

+ =N Y Times= p13 O 10 ’20 1050w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 60w

=MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD.= Great menace: Americanism or bolshevism? *$1.25 (4c) Dodd 335

20–6569

A sensational appeal to the people of the United States to arise and
combat the great menace of “ultra-radicalism.” Contents: The great
menace; The relation of the people, labor, and capital in the
impending revolution; Conditions favoring bolshevism that do not right
themselves; and reasons for faith in the people; The new patriotism;
Vital messages of religion for today; Appendix: a citizen’s working
creed.

* * * * *

− =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 50w

=MEADER, STEPHEN WARREN.= Black buccaneer. il *$1.75 Harcourt

20–16856

The story of a New England boy of colonial days who is kidnapped from
an island off the Maine coast by pirates. Among the cruel and
bloodthirsty crew he finds one friend, Job Howland, a New Englander
who is ready to abandon his reckless career. After a terrible sea
fight the two make their escape but Jeremy is recaptured and there is
every reason to believe Job dead. His life is now more filled with
danger than before but a companion is brought to join him, young Bob
Curtis of Delaware, who is held for ransom. In the meantime Job, who
has escaped, joins Bob’s father in his search for his son and the two
boys are rescued. The pirates are captured, Jeremy returns to his home
and the buried treasure for which the pirates had sought is found on
the very island from which Jeremy had been taken.

=MEARS, DAVID OTIS.= David Otis Mears, D. D., an autobiography, 1842–1893. il *$1.50 (2½c) Pilgrim press

20–9024

The autobiography is an incomplete record of Dr Mears’ life, written
for his children. It is edited and supplemented with a memoir and
notes by H. A. Davidson. The whole commemorates the career of a
successful minister who was “preeminently a man of vision, of
decision, of action.” (Editor’s note) The book falls into two parts:
The autobiography, 1842–1893; and the Chapters by the editor. The
appendix contains appreciations and resolutions and a list of
publications written or edited by Dr Mears. There are five
illustrations.

* * * * *

“As a piece of agreeable autobiography the pages by Dr Mears are
unusually interesting.”

+ =Bib World= 54:651 N ’20 100w

“The biography has many interesting features.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 320w

=MECKLIN, JOHN MOFFATT.= Introduction to social ethics. *$3 (1½c) Harcourt

20–8267

In defining democracy the author holds that equity is more fundamental
to it than popular sovereignty and that the insistence of equality
must be limited to equality of opportunities. “Deeper than the notion
of popular rule or of equality is that of fraternity, of spiritual and
moral like-mindedness.” On this basis he looks upon the development of
a social conscience as the task of democracy. Part 1 of the book which
is Historical and introductory contains: The problem of democracy; The
religious background; Calvinism; The triumph of individualism; The
great society; Our uncertain morality. Part 2. Psychological,
contains: The organization of the moral sentiments; The social
conscience; Public opinion and the social conscience; Limitations of
the social conscience; The problem of moral progress. Part 3, The
social order, contains: The rôle of the institution in the moral
economy; The individual, and the institution; The home; The
ecclesiastical ethic; The school and the social conscience; The ethics
of private property; Mechanism and morals; The worker and the machine
process; The ethics of business enterprise; The problem of the city;
Political obligation in American democracy. There is a bibliography at
the end of each chapter, with a list of magazine articles and there is
an index.

* * * * *

“Professor Mecklin’s book, like every other that is vital, contains
many provocations to controversy, but from beginning to end it moves
in a healthy atmosphere. It is an educative book, not a package of
predigested dogmas.” A. W. Small

+ =Am J Soc= 26:245 S ’20 550w

“Largely theoretical; will appeal to the reflective reader.”

+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20

“For a treatise on ethics, it is exceptionally interesting; it is
unusually well written; it is peculiarly free from the conventional
jargon of the schools; in short, it is a very readable book. The main
criticism to which he exposes himself is that he does not go far
enough, and that he stops short of the natural conclusion of his own
logic.” R: Roberts

+ =Freeman= 1:596 S 1 ’20 1450w

“The book offers much good material for college classes and the
references at the end of each chapter make it still more useful in
this respect. It is a welcome sign of broader ethical interest by the
teacher and a contribution to further development of the field.” J. H.
Tufts

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:111 O ’20 750w

“The book is excellently written and will be enjoyed by moderate
liberals, who will find in it abundant matter with which to buttress
their liberalism. To the more radical-minded the book will make little
appeal.”

+ − =Nation= 111:381 O 6 ’20 610w

“‘An introduction to social ethics’ is one of the most interesting and
valuable [volumes dealing with the subject] that have appeared
recently.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 220w

“The chapters entitled Mechanism and morals and The workers and the
machine process are particularly good. The chapter on Public opinion
sounds somewhat less in touch than the other chapters with the
realities of today through its omission of the hurtful effects of the
various kinds of war propaganda and wartime coercion. The best thing
about the book is its repeated insistence upon a positive and creative
conception of democracy.” H: Neumann

+ − =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“A comprehensive and useful survey of its subject.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p879 D 23 ’20 160w

=MEES, CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH.= Organization of industrial scientific research. *$2 McGraw 601

20–5221

“‘Conceding the value of a research laboratory, the head of a large
manufacturing firm will ask: “What will it cost?... Where shall I get
the men?... What should it do? What may I expect to get from it, and
when?... What should be its organization?” It is to answer these
questions that this book has been written.’ The discussion is based on
an extensive study of laboratories both in this country and
abroad.”—Booklist

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20

“The scope of the book and the method of presentment employed in its
preparation are excellent, and both industrialists and scientific
workers will find it interesting and informative. It is thought,
however, that most of its readers will regret that the author has
given such brief treatment to certain of the aspects of the subject,
that no attention is accorded to the co-ordination of research, and
that more space is not devoted to the systematic collection and
distribution of scientific information.” W. A. Hamor

+ − =Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering= 23:641 S 29 ’20 270w

“The scope of the book and the sequence of chapters are admirable.
Many readers will doubtless wish that the author had gone further into
detail than is the case in many chapters. In general, however, the
book bears the marks of experience throughout, and will well repay
perusal.” A. P. M. Fleming

+ =Nature= 105:771 Ag 19 ’20 650w

“Clearly, forcefully, tersely written, this book merits a wide reading
in professional and business circles.” O. T.

+ =New Repub= 23:260 Jl 28 ’20 650w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 150w

=MEIGS, CORNELIA.= Pool of stars. il *$1.60 Macmillan

19–18455

“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman
whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from
a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its
heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in
order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance
of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the
property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow
hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and
before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she
applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and
the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of
their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly
anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the
‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There
are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”

+ =Booklist= 16:176 F ’20

“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and
good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C.
Moore

+ =Bookm= 50:381 N ’19 40w

“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives
color and life to that period of our history following the war with
the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to
completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main
narrative.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 51:91 Mr ’20 150w

“The style is vague and indefinite.”

− =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w

+ =Cleveland= p80 Ag ’20 50w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 220w

“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 100w

=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7

This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a
defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to
believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues
that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the
vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended,
both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of
the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British
colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days
are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author
has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun
and Thomas H. Benton.

* * * * *

“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high
authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual
leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 550w

“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the
subject, though it is not without value for the general reader.
Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably
be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than
for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S.
Corwin

− + =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 300w

=MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER.= Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall 378

20–18040

The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be
known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and
addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college.
The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief
misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it
makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not
made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken
too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The
determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in
educational theory; The curriculum.

* * * * *

“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare
strength and clarity.” H. T. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 260w

“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of
the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we
have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse,
well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a
new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 440w

“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or
not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a
position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a
noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved
Smith

+ =Nation= 111:734 D 22 ’20 780w

“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the
fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 31 ’20 1400w

“It is written in a clear, earnest, straightforward, and convincing
style, never abstruse and never platitudinous, but always fresh and
always interesting. In spite of the author’s professed fondness for
inviting misunderstanding, the book is throughout lucid and single in
its aim.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 11 ’20 1150w

“Dr Meiklejohn’s discussion maintains a high level practically
throughout the book. He meets many of the criticisms that have been
brought against the college and liberal education.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 660w

=MEIKLEJOHN, NANNINE (LA VILLA) (MRS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN).= Cart of many colors. (Little school-mate ser.) il *$1.65 Dutton

19–19357

“It is the tale of a small Sicilian lad, dowered with artistic gifts
and aflame with desire to make the most of his talents who, at the
instance of his wise and indulgent mother and through the kindness of
an uncle who recognizes his possibilities, accompanies the latter to
Florence, there to study art. The greater part of the story is
concerned with his life in the cultured family with whom he makes his
home in the beautiful Tuscan town, and through whom he is given
opportunity to see Rome, Siena and other cities of note. Its earlier
chapters, however, have to do with his happy days in the midst of his
own people in Palermo.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20

“A well-written story of life in Italy. We have seen nowhere so
informing and so humanized an account of Italian life in America as
Miss Converse gives in her introduction.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 50:33 S ’19 240w

“Though throughout the tale much stress is thrown on description both
of places and customs, yet there is sufficient incident of a simple
sort to focus its interest upon the fortunes of Nello and his
associates.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 D 20 ’19 300w

“Pictures with insight and sympathy the life of children in Italy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 180w

=MEISSNER, MRS SOPHIE (RADFORD) DE.= Old naval days. il *$3 Holt

20–20090

The author of these sketches from the life of Rear-Admiral William
Radford, U.S.N. was the latter’s daughter and her record abounds in
reminiscences, private and public. The admiral began his naval career
in 1825 as midshipman on the “Brandywine” which conducted Lafayette
back to France after his visit to America. He served through the Civil
war and was retired in 1870. The book is illustrated and has an
appendix.

* * * * *

=R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 80w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of burlesques. *$2 Knopf 817

20–26583

“The present edition includes some epigrams from ‘A little book in C
major,’ now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller
sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole
contents of the book appeared originally in the Smart Set.” (Author’s
note) Contents: Death: a philosophical discussion; From the programme
of a concert; The wedding: a stage direction; The visionary; The
artist: a drama without words; Seeing the world; From the memoirs of
the devil; Litanies for the overlooked; Asepsis: a deduction in
scherzo form; Tales of the moral and pathological; The jazz Webster;
The old subject; Panoramas of people; Homeopathics; Vers libre.

* * * * *

“Mr Mencken is a clever and witty satirist, with an encyclopædic
knowledge of the latest crazes and imbecilities.”

+ =Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 160w

=Booklist= 17:85 N ’20

“The great difficulty about this book is that it will not irritate the
intelligent and none but the intelligent can be amused by it.”

+ − =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 100w

“Satire at times extravagantly and cheaply cynical, but also at times
keen and entertaining is to be found in ‘A book of burlesques.’”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 200w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Prejudices: second series. *$2.50 (4c) Knopf 814

20–20969

In the present volume the author continues his tirade on American
letters, generalizing on his theme in the first essay, ‘The national
letters.’ In spite of the prophetic optimism of such men as Emerson
and Whitman and, to some extent, even the pessimistic Poe, we have so
far achieved nothing but a respectable mediocrity which he attributes
to the absence of a cultural background, and of a civilized
aristocracy. The other essays of the book are: Roosevelt: an autopsy;
The Sahara of the Bozart; The divine afflatus; Scientific examination
of a popular virtue; Exeunt omnes; The allied arts; The cult of hope;
The dry millennium; Appendix on a tender theme. There is an index.

* * * * *

=Dial= 70:232 F ’21 80w

=Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 290w

“As for his second series of prejudices, they are even as his first;
his prejudices have not changed; nor his manner of hurling them at the
fat heads of us Philistines. Some of his missiles are true dynamite,
some—in my humble opinion—are duds; but not one of them is discharged
at random.” L. W. Dodd

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 880w

“Nothing is sacred in his hands, and by the same token is he
interesting and unreliable. His style is as vigorous and bold as his
ideas. It is a little hard to keep up with Mencken, but at any rate
you will not be bored if you try.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’21 480w

=MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND.= Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331

20–17254

“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of
view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to
decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention
points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on
labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem
still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the
welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon
excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates
to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals
with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and
militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy
the existing unrest.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 O 31 ’20 230w

“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book
will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 200w

=MERCER, JOHN EDWARD.= Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2 Dutton 236

“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more
usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we
should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt;
but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither
biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have
the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the
solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and
Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of
the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with
that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Int J Ethics= 30:113 O ’19 100w

“Though it is doubtful whether either scientists or philosophers would
heartily endorse all the positions taken by Dr Mercer, it is pleasant
to read a book written with good temper and rationality, without
appeal to the prevalent superstitions of mediums and table-tipping.”

+ − =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 300w

“Bishop Mercer pursues an extremely interesting and richly suggestive
line of inquiry. It is one distinctly removed from that involved in
psychical research. It is the purely religious inquiry of an eminent
scholar and thinker who is familiar with all modern scientific
thought, and whose wide culture and liberal mind endow him with
vision.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 700w

=MERCIER, DESIRÉ FÉLICIEN FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, cardinal.= Cardinal Mercier’s own story: prefatory letter by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$4 (3½c) Doran 940.3493

20–5912

The book consists chiefly of Cardinal Mercier’s correspondence with
the German governor general in protest to the latter’s régime as
imposed on the Belgians. The work of collecting and editing these
letters has been delegated by the Cardinal to Professor Fernand
Mayence, of Louvain university, who has supplied them with an
explanatory preface. Most of the correspondence is with Baron von
Bissing and Baron von der Lancken and some with Baron von
Falkenhausen. The correspondence on the Belgian deportations is of
special interest.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w

+ =Cath World= 111:390 Je ’20 1150w

“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which
makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a
definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a
moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”

+ =Ind= 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w

Reviewed by Muriel Harris

+ =Nation= 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w

“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact
with a really great personality, and will be the better for the
feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant
figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’
The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a
story for the young as it is for the old.”

+ =No Am= 212:139 Jl ’20 1500w

“A serious omission which ought to be supplied in any new edition is
the lack of any index.” Lyman Abbott

+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 2450w

+ =Spec= 125:146 Jl 31 ’20 1550w

“The correspondence, always written in the lofty tone and closely
reasoned manner of state papers, is interesting throughout; but the
most engrossing pages of the book are those which deal with the
deportations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p392 Je 24 ’20 950w

=MEREDITH, MRS ELISABETH GRAY (LYMAN).= Terrier’s tale. il *$1 Houghton

20–19080

“Although of a retiring disposition, I have always known that I am a
person of importance, but recently I have become a person of note, and
I have been asked to write my memoirs.” Thus the terrier begins his
tale and it is full of interest and excitement and some wise
reflections. It contains: Early days; Domestic life; Concerning baths;
Sport; Travel; On being left behind; Fatherhood; Guests; Social life;
As to cats; My great adventure; Through the window; Conclusion. The
illustrations are by Mia E. Rosenblad.

* * * * *

=N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 70w

=MERIAM, JUNIUS LATHROP.= Child life and the curriculum. $3.60 World bk. 375

20–8866

A work by the professor of school supervision and superintendent of
university schools, University of Missouri. That the subject matter of
modern life should be used as the means of instructing boys and girls
is his thesis. “In working out the details of this curriculum the
effort has been, not, as some critics have erroneously judged, to get
away from the traditional curriculum, but, on the positive side, to
get as close as possible to the lives of children as found in the home
and in the larger community.” (Preface) The book is divided into five
parts: Point of view; The traditional curriculum; Principles in the
making of curricula; The contents of a curriculum; Methods and
results. Supplementary readings are suggested at the end of each
chapter, and special reading lists, as well as lists of songs, games,
etc., are given in appendices. In addition there is a general
bibliography of fifteen pages, followed by an index.

* * * * *

“Not a course that can be adopted in a moment or by any school, but a
virile, well presented point of view which has something of value for
every elementary teacher.”

+ =Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“The reader may be unable to agree with all of the conclusions of the
book, but it furnishes material for critical thought, and will be of
interest to those dealing with courses of study. The manner of
presentation is somewhat tedious at times, and one feels that
occasional condensations would serve to emphasize the content.”

+ − =El School J= 21:150 O ’20 680w

“One may find some of his conclusions from well-known studies in the
field of education surprising; and may be unwilling to see measurement
deferred until after the attainment of seemingly impossible
conditions. Nevertheless he will recognize in the book and the
experiment it reports a contribution to the great effort to provide a
curriculum more closely related to life.”

+ − =School R= 28:552 S ’20 560w

=MERLANT, JOACHIM.= Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence (1776–1783); tr. by Mary Bushnell Coleman. *$2 Scribner 973.3

20–7496

“‘Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence’
is an account of the part played by our allies during the Revolution,
written by one who participated in the world war. The author is Capt
Joachim Merlant, assistant professor of the faculty of letters in the
university of Montpellier, who, after a few months with the
territorials, joined an active unit as infantry officer. Severely
wounded in 1915 he never fully recovered, and being unable to fight
resolved instead to write and talk for his cause. Thus he came to
America, and from January to May in 1916 he lectured throughout the
country. And through his gratitude toward America he decided to
investigate the Franco-American alliance of 1778–1783 and retell the
story of Rochambeau and LaFayette.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 420w

=MERRICK, HOPE (BUTLER-WILKINS) (MRS LEONARD MERRICK).= Mary-girl; a posthumous novel. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8792

“Ezra Sheppard is a man with a consuming ideal. A devout Quaker, it is
his dream to build a seemly meeting-house instead of the dilapidated
barn where the Friends have hitherto met. The lavish terms offered for
the services of Mary in nourishing the Earl of Folkington’s heir would
convert his dream into real stone and lime. So he lets Mary go. Mary,
poor girl, with the best will in the world, finds when her year is up
that the life of a working gardener’s wife is not so pleasant as it
used to be. And Ezra behaves badly about it, too. He repents, it is
true, and realizes that his idol has cost him too dear, but not before
Mary has been brought to shame, and his repentance takes the form of
attempted arson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

“‘Mary-girl’ deserves something better than so foolish and inept a
designation. If it were merely one among a thousand sentimental
romances, its title would be unobjectionable, but it is something more
than that, and it is a pity that it should be so misrepresented. As a
whole, it is a notably truthful record of a soul conflict and an
absorbingly interesting story.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 800w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“A delightful human and unpretentious story, well written and very
interesting, the tale has realism without pessimism, sentiment without
sentimentality. A delightful book, vivid, human, dramatic at times and
always entertaining, is this story of ‘Mary-girl.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 11 ’20 750w

“The late Mrs Leonard Merrick was endowed with the rare gift of being
able to write a thoroughly sentimental story with undoubted charm. The
episode of Mary’s downfall is the least satisfactory thing in the
book. It is false to the character, and for all its disguise is mere
‘novelette’ in essence.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 250w

=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Hills of Han. il *$2 Bobbs

20–6286

“Betty Doane, the heroine, daughter of a missionary, returns to China
after six years in the United States. On the steamer she meets
Jonathan Branchy, author, explorer and newspaper man and a somewhat
unromantic love affair develops between them. The development of their
emotions is interwoven with the dangers threatening all foreigners in
China from a new society, a recrudescence of the old Boxer
organization, known as ‘the Lookers.’ The chief item in the creed of
this society is the extinction of all ‘foreign devils.’ Betty’s
position becomes increasingly difficult and complicated through the
intolerance of her father’s missionary coworkers, and through a want
of a sense of humor on the part of her lover. The adventures of the
principals attain a climax at the headquarters of a French mining
concern; this form of foreign activity excites the particular
antipathy of ‘the Lookers.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Both the story and the setting hold the reader though one dislikes
the pictures of the mission teachers and the incidents are
melodramatic. Some people will object to this.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:72 N ’20

“As for the Chinese atmosphere and personnel of the story, one may
accept them as sound—if that matters in a story of this kind, and if
atmosphere and personnel can be sound when the action is unsound or
patently artificial. All this, you may say, is the breaking of a
butterfly on the clumsy wheel of criticism. ‘Hills of Han’ is not a
butterfly; it is a sort of gilded bat with the butterfly label.” H. W.
Boynton

− =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 320w

=Dial= 69:320 S ’20 60w

“Samuel Merwin has written better novels than ‘Hills of Han,’ but it
offers agreeable entertainment for an uncritical hour.”

+ − =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 70w

“While neither as entertaining nor as vivid as some of Mr Merwin’s
earlier romances, the story is an interesting one and has some
dramatic moments.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w

“There is good fiction stuff here, but it is clumsily put together.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w

“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel
writing.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w

“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his
descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the
unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the
story holds the reader’s close attention.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 700w

=MERZ, JOHN THEODORE.= Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192

(Eng ed 20–10637)

“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author
considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science.
The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by
a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but
he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the
method used in studying the development of the race, going back to
primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual
life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the
latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are
discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values,
the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each,
the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by
a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical
business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the
wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 850w

“Admirable both in clarity of style and depth of matter.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:63 Ja 17 ’20 900w

“The treatise, small as it is in bulk, fragmentary as it confessedly
is, is a worthy crown to a lifetime of devotion to the task of
instructing and enlightening the mind of its author and his numerous
readers as to the history and nature of themselves and the world they
live in.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p97 F 12 ’20 2000w

=MIDDLETON, GEORGE.= Masks. *$1.60 Holt 812

20–8218

Here are six one-act plays of modern American life all more or less
satiric and all with the same implication as the title play. In
“Masks” we are introduced to the shabby home of a hitherto
unsuccessful dramatist at the moment of his first success. While he is
musing at his desk over the change in his fortune he is haunted by two
of the characters of a former, rejected play, which now having been
remodeled is making him rich and famous. They are the bitter
reflections of one who knows that he has killed the real artist in
himself in courting public favor. The other plays are: Jim’s beast;
Tides; Among the lions; The reason; The house.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“The present volume not only maintains the high level of those
preceding, but contains some work that challenges comparison with
anything done earlier, while suggesting a new vein. This is
particularly true of the title-piece. In all the six plays the trained
hand of the practical theatre artist is evidenced in the stage
directions and the conductment of the action.” R: Burton

+ =Bookm= 51:472 Je ’20 700w

“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader,
and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these
dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its
title seems a bit forced in treatment.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 380w

“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of
characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes

− + =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 120w

“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but
they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have
become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”

+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 350w

“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he
is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are
confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling
one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one
should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little
folk-speech.”

+ − =Nation= 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w