Chapter LV: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (11)

“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve
great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.

+ − =New Repub= 24:26 S 1 ’20 500w

“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words
or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with
its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s
readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has
been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its
form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of
modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= 25:228 My 2 ’20 880w

“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the
fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the
insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton,
this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes
the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”

+ − =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 300w

“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim
little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The
rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir
James Barrie at the end.”

+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or
whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is
left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope
of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are
distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and
‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are
better than the others.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 80w

=MILES, EUSTACE HAMILTON.= Self-health as a habit. il *$2.50 Dutton 613

20–6058

“Self-health, according to Mr Eustace Miles, is mainly an affair of
balanced (vegetarian) diets, good cooking and mastication, no alcohol,
but habitual sipping of hot water, deep breathing, and ‘sensible
exercises’—more particularly the ‘daily stretch.’”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p62 Ja 9 ’20 40w

“While experts will probably not agree with all that Mr Miles teaches,
his advice is stimulating and helpful.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 180w

“That he has a great deal that is extremely sensible to say about the
individual’s life and habits, both physical and mental, all will
admit.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 80w

=MILIUKOV, PAVEL NIKOLAEVICH.= Bolshevism: an international danger; its doctrine and its practice through war and revolution. *$3.75 Scribner 335

(Eng ed 20–10286)

“In view of the fact that most of the criticism of bolshevism that we
are privileged to read comes from non-Russian sources, we should
welcome this attempt of a great Russian scholar and statesman to
appraise both the doctrine and the practical outcome of bolshevist
rule from an international standpoint. Professor Miliukov, who will be
remembered as the leader of the first government formed after the
revolution of 1917, here traces the progress of bolshevism through war
and revolution into a practical experiment in government and exposes
the bolshevist propaganda in other countries, showing that its leaders
are aiming at nothing short of a world-revolution.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“An informative study to be recommended to the well read, discerning
type of reader.”

+ =Booklist= 17:54 N ’20

“When finally he traces the coal-strike and the steel-strike to
Moscow, we regretfully set his volume on the shelf, in its
alphabetical order, next to Baron Munchausen.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w

“Beyond any doubt, he here renders a great service to the bolshevist
cause by using ‘propaganda stuff’ which is so easy to refute. One
might expect from a man like Miliukov a sounder criticism of
Bolshevism, because it can and must be criticized from an entirely
different angle.”

− + =Nation= 111:sup423 O 13 ’20 1150w

“The book is too detailed and assumes too much knowledge of details to
be available for the general reader, but it is for this very reason
the more valuable for students.”

+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 120w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 100w

“M. Miliukov’s eminence in Russian politics and his first-hand
knowledge of conditions in Europe and the United States make him a
sure guide to those engaged in public affairs; his masterly handling
and clear exposition of so complicated a subject render the reader’s
task not only easy, but pleasant.”

+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 110w

“An instructive account.”

+ =Spec= 124:725 My 29 ’20 1300w

“His facts are wonderfully correct. No honest man reading this work on
Russian politics ... can come to any other opinion than that M.
Miliukov’s work carries conviction, not only because it is well
compiled, but because it is—at times almost painfully—correct in every
detail.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Je 17 ’20 1200w

=MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE.= Sportsman’s wanderings (Eng title, Wanderings and memories). il *$5 (5½c) Houghton

20–26324

The author fired his first gun (and almost his last) at the age of
six. At school his ornithological obsession repeatedly brought
disgrace upon him, but he lived to become one of the most versatile of
sportsmen and naturalists, as the book shows. The tropics and arctic
ice are alike familiar to him and with the motto “The great thing in
life is to live,” he has found being a “Jack of all trades” the most
interesting existence. “In turn I have been soldier, sailor, a British
consul, artist, zoologist, author and landscape gardener.” His
desultory accounts include a description of his father the painter,
and their family life, and of many distinguished personages. The
illustrations are from drawings by the author and from photographs.
Contents: When I was young; Some early experiences in shooting;
Travels in Iceland, 1889; All sorts and conditions of men; Arthur
Neumann, pioneer and elephant hunter; Scottish salmon-fishing; One
African day, 1913; The Lofoden Islands, 1915; An arctic residence,
1916; Fealar, 1918—highland deer-stalking.

* * * * *

“A story that is interesting, varied, and well spiced with anecdotes.”

+ =Booklist= 16:232 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 1 ’20 330w

“Here is a readable blend of lively reminiscence and first-hand
observation, without verbal or scientific excess baggage.”

+ =Dial= 68:666 My ’20 50w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 220w

+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 1250w

“He ought to be able to write an interesting book, and he has done so.
His reminiscences are disjointed, as—one imagines—his life has been;
but they are alive with his own enthusiasm for describing live
things.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1000w

=MILLEN, WILLIAM ARTHUR.= Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the newer Ireland. $1.50 Stratford co. 811

20–8530

The author of these poems is an American of Irish descent who lived
eight years in Ireland as a student and who believes that the National
university of Ireland will be the salvation of the country. With his
love for the land of his fathers and sympathy for the “Newer Ireland
spirit” he combines great faith in Ireland’s men of learning. The book
falls into two parts: At the dawning; and Echoes of Erin.

* * * * *

“Mr Millen is obviously pamphleteer rather than poet. One cannot help
feeling that he would be more pleased at winning converts to his cause
than at winning laurels for himself.” F. E. A. T.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:357 F ’21 200w

=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Beauty and the bolshevist. il *$1.50 (7c) Harper 20–18254

Ben Moreton, the radical editor of “Liberty,” runs off hastily to
Newport to prevent his brother’s marriage to Eugenia Cord, daughter of
a multi-millionaire. He is too late to do that but he does something
else, he falls in love with her sister. Crystal finds the common
ground that will unite her irate conservative father and her radical
lover and brings the story to the right ending. It appeared in
Harper’s Magazine, May-July, 1920.

* * * * *

“Not so good as some others by the author, but amusing.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“A clever and paradoxical comedy full of repartee.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 30w

=N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 210w

“One has come to expect clever conversation from Alice Duer Miller,
and ‘The beauty and the bolshevist’ does provide that, but it is far
from being as pleasing as some of Mrs Miller’s earlier novels.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 110w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 80w

=MILLER, ARTHUR HARRISON.= Leadership. *$1.50 Putnam 355

20–8069

“In the schooling of officers no course was included nor lectures
given in leadership as a human science or in its relation to military
success as a morale factor in peace or war.” (Preface) It is the
object of the book to standardize the acknowledged methods of
leadership in the army, and, for the sake of brevity, the methods and
“formulae,” merely, are given without their psychological reasons.
Contents: Foreword by Edward L. Munson; Leadership and morale;
Character and personality; The leader and the soldier; The leader and
the organization; Index.

* * * * *

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w

=MILLER, LEO EDWARD.= Hidden people; the story of a search for Incan treasure. il *$2.50 Scribner

20–16498

“The hair-raising adventures of a couple of shipwrecked college boys
among the wild Indians, ‘monkey men,’ reptiles and gorgeous birds of
South America, especially their adventures among a remnant of the old
Incan civilization with their horde of gold.”—Cleveland

* * * * *

=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 40w

“A scientific novel for boys, a really sound study of a remnant of an
ancient South American tribe in interesting natural surroundings.”

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w

=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 80w

“Neither youth nor age need form a barrier to the enjoyment of ‘The
hidden people.’ Mr Miller is particularly fortunate in the way by
which he applies his local color.” Kermit Roosevelt

+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1150w

“Is the kind of book that will appeal to all lovers of adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w

“Those who follow his fascinating story, gain also a knowledge of the
birds and beasts, the volcanic mountains and other interesting things
that a scientific observer may see in South America.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 80w

=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Ring-necked grizzly. il *$1.50 (2½c) Appleton

20–7922

A hunting story for boys. Sid Colvin is recovering from typhoid and
his father decides to give him a year in the open and sends him,
accompanied by his chum Scotty, out to the Rockies where the boys are
taken in charge by Big John, a trusted guide. They spend a winter in
the mountains and the story tells of their adventures and exploits,
which include, in addition to the killing of the ring-necked grizzly,
other hunting and fishing experiences, snow-blindness and an encounter
with outlaws. Mr Miller is author of “The boys’ book of hunting and
fishing” and other works.

* * * * *

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w

=MILLIGAN, HAROLD VINCENT.= Stephen Collins Foster; a biography of America’s folksong composer. il *$2.50 Schirmer

20–9485

By a careful sifting of material the author has sought to present an
authentic account of Foster’s career, taking special pains to dispel
some of the legends that have grown up around his later years and
death. The early chapters give an interesting picture of American
pioneer society and suggest the state of development of music in
America at the time. The concluding chapter gives an estimate of
Foster’s musical attainment and an analysis of the influence of his
environment on his career. Contents: The family; Boyhood; Youth; First
songs; Ambition; Drifting; Tragedy; The composer. Among the
illustrations are several facsimile pages from Foster’s manuscript
book.

* * * * *

=N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 520w

=MILLIN, SARAH GERTRUDE.= Dark river. *$2 (2½c) Seltzer

(Eng ed 20–4268)

Human destinies rather than events form the interest of this South
African story. Of the three men and three women that figure in it,
John Oliver and René van Reede bungle their lives through defects in
character. George Buckle possesses the substantial social virtues that
make good in this workaday world and even enable him to take his
rebuff in love philosophically. The three women, sisters, untouched by
feminism, are more passive instruments in the hands of fate and are
reduced to watchful waiting for the right man. Alma’s marriage to
George is frustrated through the untimely interference of the flighty
René, who goes off and forgets. Hester, feeling youth slipping away
from her, marries the regenerate John, to her sorrow. Ruth, the
youngest, eventually becomes the happy wife of George, although Alma’s
shadow occasionally flits by.

* * * * *

“To read ‘The dark river’ is, after so much wind and brass, to listen
to a solo for the viola. Running through the book there is, as it
were, a low, troubled throbbing note which never is stilled. Perhaps a
novel is never the novel it might have been, but there are certain
books which do seem to contain the vision, more or less blurred or
more or less clear, of their second selves, of what the author saw
before he grasped the difficult pen. ‘The dark river’ is one of
these.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 380w

“So well does the writer of this story know her South Africa, and more
particularly the diggings, that she has not attempted to add the
glamour usually found in tales of these regions. In fact, so clearly
defined has been her purpose to tell ‘the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth’ that the story would be rather depressing in
its sombreness and worse than drab details were it not enlivened by
bits of real humor and by a delightful background of local color.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 270w

“‘The dark river’ is well written, in a clear and vigorous style, it
is interesting, it gives that sense of reality which makes us feel
that we are actually observing the lives and fortunes of a group of
living people. Moreover, it has the rare quality which distinguished
Arnold Bennett’s ‘The old wives’ tale’—it gives an effect of the
passing of time. ‘The dark river’ is a notable novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 780w

“Outside of Hardy it would be difficult to find a setting which
affords a more harmonious background for the characters whose sombre
destiny is recorded in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s ‘The dark river.’”
Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 98:1192 O 16 ’20 310w

“It is written not unpleasantly, but with a serious simplicity, and
the characters introduced are well and distinctly drawn.”

+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p89 F 5 ’20 90w

=MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.= Adventures of a nature guide. il *$3.50 (5½c) Doubleday 508

20–2049

“Storm, sunshine, night, desert, stream, and forest are crowded with
waiting attractions and moving scenes. To have the most adventures and
the greatest enjoyment in a given time, ramble the wilds alone and
without a fishing-rod or a gun.” (Preface) This is the author’s advice
to nature lovers. He calls the wilderness the safety zone of the world
and declares its experiences less dangerous than staying at home;
while the hunter, armed and killing, multiplies dangers and enjoys
less variety and fewer adventures. The book gives a solitary and
unarmed camper’s adventures in the wilds of the continent. Contents:
Snow-blinded on the summit; Waiting in the wilderness; Winter
mountaineering; Trees at timberline; Wind-rapids on the heights; The
arctic zone of high mountains; Naturalist meets prospector; The white
cyclone; Lightning and thunder; Landmarks; Children of my trail
school; A day with a nature guide; Play and pranks of wild folk;
Censored natural history news; Harriet—little mountain climber;
Evolution of nature guiding; Development of a woman guide. The many
beautiful illustrations are from photographs by the author.

* * * * *

“Boy scouts will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20

Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers

=Bookm= 51:103 Mr ’20 1450w

“The humor with which he relieves a tense situation, and his keen
observations on the habits of the wild life of the mountains add to
the interest of the book. A number of remarkably good photographs.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ja ’20 80w

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 40w

“It is altogether a fascinating book; and its best title to
recognition is that it approaches nature study from new angles, and
with an unflagging and ever new interest.” Phillip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 96:1697 D 27 ’19 380w

=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 70w

=MILLS, JOSEPH TRAVIS.=[2] Great Britain and the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 327

20–9352

“An English scholar’s critical review of the historical relations
between the two countries. The book is made up mainly of extracts from
lectures that were delivered to various units of the American army of
occupation in Germany in May and June, 1919. The author naturally
takes the ground that in the family dispute of 1776 ‘Britain’s policy
was logically defensible, however unwise her action.’ In other words,
he contends that there really is a British ‘case.’”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“His audiences considered, Mr Travis Mills was outspoken indeed, and
there must have been some shaking of wise young heads over the
Kiplingesque patriotism of this Britisher. No harm is done, however,
by a ‘straight talk,’ and the lecturer advanced a sound argument when
he contended that want of understanding, rather than the intention to
oppress, produced the rupture between the American colonies and Great
Britain.”

+ =Ath= p12 Jl 2 ’20 370w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 80w

“Much of it will probably be new to English readers, whose notions of
the American revolution are derived from text-books with a strong
Whiggish bias.”

+ =Spec= 124:659 My 15 ’20 220w

=MILN, LOUISE (JORDAN) (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Invisible foe. *$1.25 (1½c) Stokes

20–11300

This story, adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, is based on the
possibility of communication with the dead. Helen Bransby is loved by
two brothers, Stephen and Hugh. Thwarted in his love by Hugh’s success
with Helen and smarting under a business failure as well, Stephen
commits a crime which he contrives so that Hugh is blamed for it. The
only person to discover the true state of affairs is Helen’s father,
and the shock of it proves too much for his weak heart and he dies
before he can right the wrong. Helen is positive of Hugh’s innocence,
and as time goes on she is made more confident by the impelling
feeling that her father is trying to get some message thru to her from
the other world. The crisis of the story comes when she actually
receives the message, and the hiding place of the paper that clears
Hugh is psychically revealed to her.

* * * * *

“‘The invisible foe’ could easily stand on its own merits as a crime
story without the aid of the spooks.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 650w

=MILN, LOUISE JORDON (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN).= Mr Wu; based on the play “Mr Wu” by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes

20–7524

Wu Li Chang, one of the richest, most powerful of Chinese mandarins
had had an English education and was an Oxford man. His daughter, Nang
Ping, whose mother died when she was born, and who was reared in the
utmost Chinese luxury, was betrayed by a young Englishman. How Wu, the
father punished his daughter’s transgression in the time-honored
Chinese way, by killing her, and how he took revenge on her seducer
through the latter’s mother makes an impressive tale. It abounds in
vivid descriptions of Chinese social customs and traditions and
reflections on the habits of Englishmen in China, that are not much to
the credit of our western civilization.

* * * * *

“It differs from most novelized plays in that the bones are not
visible or even suggested. Mrs Miln must have put into it sufficient
of her own personality to make the story quite her own. It is
probable, moreover, that all three authors contributed something to
the impression we have of being for the first time actually in the
heart of China.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 420w

“Though the vengeance of Wu Li Chang’s forms the climax of the book
the best and most interesting part of it is the introductory portion,
closing with the tragic fate of poor little Wu Nang Ping.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w

“Poignant emotions and a portrayal of oriental manners and customs
combine to make ‘Mr Wu’ of more compelling interest than the ordinary
run of adventure fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 330w

=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= First plays. *$2 Knopf 822

(Eng ed 20–12856)

A volume of five plays, written during 1916 and 1917. They are not,
the author says, “the work of a professional writer, but the
recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.” The first,
“Wurzel-Flummery” is a one-act comedy in which two distinguished
members of Parliament are offered an inheritance of fifty thousand
pounds—on condition of accepting the name Wurzel-Flummery. A two-act
version of the play was produced in London in 1917. “The lucky one” is
a three-act play. “The boy comes home,” a comedy in one act, is the
one war play in the volume. “Belinda” is a comedy in three acts that
has been performed in London and in New York, where Ethel Barrymore
played the title rôle. “The red feathers,” the final piece, is an
operetta.

* * * * *

“The lightness and irresponsible gaiety of Mr Milne’s dialogue are
equalled by his wit.”

+ =Ath= p1017 O 10 ’19 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“They are intelligently amusing and have all the quality of admitting
a thousand technical imperfections and carrying them off with wit or
the grace of nice human relations.” Gilbert Seldes

+ − =Dial= 69:214 Ag ’20 140w

“Throughout all these ‘First plays’ of Mr Milne’s the word whimsical
haunts us. It is the trademark of the school, the school of Barrie;
and as in so many plays in the Barrie manner the form has taken the
place of the substance. What these plays show is simply that no
glamour of pictorialism, no colouring of language can atone for an
indifference to the fundamental requirements of drama.” J. C. M.

− + =Freeman= 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w

“No young continental artist, discovering himself to be a playwright
during the very years of the war, would have written with this
sobriety, good humor, and straightforward realism. Such an artist
would, no doubt, have written more profoundly and imaginatively, but
also more obscurely and, in no low sense, less usefully. Mr Milne, to
be sure, is capable of being both trivial and sentimental. But his
dialogue is deft and natural, and his observation of human nature cool
and sane. His best play, The lucky one, is an admirable piece of
dramatic writing.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 280w

“Mr Milne’s plays belong to what might be termed the Barrie school of
drama. It is the idea of whimsicality raised to terms of life.
Situations that in the hands of another would be either broadly comic
or broadly depressing are made by this school of dramatists into a
fantastic realism. While these plays are extremely diverting to read,
one will sometimes doubt their adaptability to the stage.” H. S.
Gorman

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 550w

“The others are excellent entertainments, they abound in high spirits
and good nonsense, but ‘The lucky one’ cuts deeper. They are all
excellent fun, superficial, naturally, but thoroughly sound and
wholesome of its kind.”

+ − =Spec= 123:477 O 11 ’19 750w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 360w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 S 18 ’19 70w

“They are delightful parlour-games, all five. They do not affect, like
the newest of Mr Shaw’s parlour-games, to be fantasies in the Russian
manner. They are modestly and tactfully and good-humouredly in the
English manner.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 O 16 ’19 700w

“‘Wurzel-Flummery’ is what high comedy should be—satirical yet not
bitter, amusing yet not farcical. The reader of a play is perhaps too
apt to dwell upon its style; but, other qualities being equal, a play
is really none the worse for being well written. And Mr Milne writes
well.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 240w

=MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER.= Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814

20–13982

“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed
to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the
war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be
‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of
subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the
seasons.”—Review

* * * * *

“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne
knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w

“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer
than ‘Not that it matters.’”

+ =Review= 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w

“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect
suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive
informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having
introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with
a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would
adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his
writings for the pages of a book.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 500w

“There is the satisfaction of knowing that wherever you may dip into
this book you will be amused. So much of modern literature is only
rough hewn that a finely finished work—even on goldfish—is welcome. In
that respect ‘it’ does ‘matter.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 680w

=MINNIGERODE, MEADE.= Laughing house. *$1.90 (3½c) Putnam

20–18258

Laughing house is another name for Shirley House, the ancestral home
of the Shirley family in Shirley, Connecticut. It is packed with
family lore and tradition, which Francis and Mary Elizabeth love and
respect. There they have a happy childhood, whose joys are shared by
Newell and Isabelle Rushmore and Billy Vane, who are almost as much at
home at Shirley House as the Shirleys themselves. When the children
grow up they are still the best of comrades. In fact, they know each
other so well that all their future relations are taken for granted
and it is tacitly understood that Mary Elizabeth is to marry Billy.
But then a stranger comes into their midst, a nouveau-riche neighbor
who tramples on their traditions and upsets all their calculations.
But altho her methods are a trifle ruthless, she opens the eyes of
several people to their real feelings toward various other people.
Billy suffers most, but deservedly so. Mary Elizabeth does not marry
him, but Newell, and Isabelle who had fancied herself in love with
Billy, too, finds it is Francis after all.

* * * * *

“When Mr Minnigerode is dealing with this family he is altogether
charming. Perhaps he cannot write of ugliness: when he brings in a
member of the nouveau riche, and introduces us to a vulgar and
‘designing woman,’ his skill departs.” W: L. Phelps

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 380w

“There is a pleasantness about the tale, and the reader will relish
the quiet old Shirley homestead, the quiet of the village and
surrounding hills, and the principal characters. The story is natural
in its telling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 120w

“Slight both in matter and in length, and not free from preciosity.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 50w

=MIRZA, YOUEL BENJAMIN.= When I was a boy in Persia. (Children of other lands) il *$1 (3c) Lothrop 915.5

20–7997

The author is a young man of Persian birth who served in the United
States navy during the war. He begins his story with an account of his
parents’ marriage, thus giving a glimpse of the Persian caste system
as well as of marriage customs. Subjects covered in other chapters
include: The birth and care of a child; Schooldays; Persian games,
amusements and massalie (stories); Persian fasts and festivals;
Persian rugs and rug-makers. The final chapter, Preparations for a far
journey, tells of the departure for America.

* * * * *

“An unaffected sincerity and a ring of truth and intimate knowledge
are the fascinating things in this story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

“This is a delightful book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 360w

=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:198 N ’20 70w

=MISCELLANY= of American poetry, 1920. *$2 Harcourt 811.08

20–16870

“This volume is as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most
recent work of eleven American poets. These eleven form no particular
group, illustrate no single influence, constitute no one
‘movement.’... Each poet has been his own editor. As such, he has
selected and arranged his own contributions.... The poems that follow
are all new. They are new not only in the sense that they have not
been previously issued by their authors in book form but, with the
exception of seven poems, none of them has ever appeared in print.”
(Publisher’s foreword) The eleven poets are: Conrad Aiken; Robert
Frost; John Gould Fletcher; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; James
Oppenheim; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Carl Sandburg; Sara Teasdale;
Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“Some of the poems have come out in magazines; and, what is really
important, most of them are below the author’s level. For a first
number this volume might pass. But the next should be made to count by
the contributors looking ahead and planning for it. Otherwise it is
only a pleasant venture.” Stark Young

+ − =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 550w

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1200w

“An eminently sane and revealing experiment, and one which justifies
itself in the results.” Lisle Bell

+ =Freeman= 2:213 N 10 ’20 490w

“Containing whatever it does, it vindicates with unusual accuracy the
critical preferences which seem to prevail just now and so embarrasses
the reviewer who would like to declare something newer than that John
Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin
Arlington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg are better than other poets
today.”

+ =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 840w

“The most interesting thing about this volume is the curiously
stratified cross section which it offers of contemporary poetry in
America.” J: L. Lowes

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 25 ’20 2200w

“Here are all fashions, from free verse to the most conservative
lines, and all done with exceptional finish and comprehension of
poetic values. The book suggests in its general scheme those excellent
Georgian anthologies. But a difference must be noted between these
books and this American miscellany. In the American book is a wider
range, the dissimilitude of the poets included is far greater than
that of the Georgian group.”

+ =N Y Times= p11 D 5 ’20 1250w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 2:292 O 6 ’20 350w

=MITCHELL, ROY.= Shakespeare for community players. il *$2.50 Dutton 822.3

20–3019

“Mr Mitchell’s authority as director of the Hart House theater of the
University of Toronto and former technical director of the Greenwich
Village theater, New York, is unquestioned. Taking Shakespeare as his
text, he teaches the fundamentals of stagecraft which are applicable
to community production, starting with the choice of a play, and
discussing organization, rehearsal, stage-setting, furniture, dresses,
lighting, make-up, music and other important elements.”—Survey

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

+ =St Louis= 18:227 S ’20 40w

“His advice is sufficiently detailed to permit a clear grasp of all
that is required. His principles are sound and scholarly.”

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 220w

“Many a professional man of the theatre could learn something from Mr
Mitchell’s book. The ordinary amateur actor will find it full of
‘tips.’ To the community theatre it will be necessary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 5 ’20 700w

“Suggestions on acting and stage-directing, and full illustrations
covering every phase of the text, round out the volume as one of the
most helpful of the many recent contributions to what may be termed
the practical literature of community drama.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 300w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:116 Je ’20 80w

=MIX, JENNIE IRENE.= At fame’s gateway. *$1.75 (1½c) Holt

20–6128

Josephine Prescott was a musical prodigy in her little town of
Parksburg and the admiration of her townspeople made it possible for
her to continue her studies on the piano with a famous teacher in New
York. There her personal charms secured her many friends among musical
and literary people whose Bohemian life she shared. A great violin
virtuoso chose her for his inspiration and she loved the man in him
while the artist left her indifferent. Her teacher, the great Brandt,
dubious about her artistic testing, tried her out; one year, two
years. In the third year he tells her that, with all her talent, she
will never be a great artist, for she lacks understanding. Despondent
and with all her hopes shattered, she again hears the great violinist
and suddenly awakes to the realization that she understands and
thrills to his music, that she no longer loves the man but the artist.
And outside of the hall on the sidewalk romance stands waiting for
her.

* * * * *

“Although conventional, the well-sustained suspense and the pleasant
characterization give it an interest that will appeal to women and
girls.”

+ =Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20

“The illuminating discussions of temperament, technique and the larger
understanding necessary to genius, should prove valuable to many
seeking a career in music, or indeed in any of the arts.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w

“A moral tale but interesting, it has a lot of musical good sense and
is highly to be recommended to the concert-stage struck girl.”

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 50w

“The book lacks character development. The novel drags badly at times,
but some of the scenes are well written. Brandt’s speeches are usually
good, and as a whole it is a conscientious piece of work with an
excellent moral.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 180w

=MOELLER, PHILIP.= Sophie. *$1.75 Knopf 812

20–13983

Sophie Arnould, famous Parisian singer, actor and wit of the
eighteenth century, is the heroine of this comedy in three acts for
which Carl Van Vechten writes a prologue giving the historical
background of the play with a brief sketch of the life of Sophie
Arnould. Although it is based on history, says Mr Van Vechten, the
historical facts of the play are negligible while the author has
“lighted up the atmosphere and the period, and re-created character.
Sophie lives in this comedy, lives as she must have lived at the
height of her career.” We see her as a triumphant lover, get glimpses
of her as the superb artist, as the kind-hearted woman, but chiefly as
the resourceful wit who cleverly outflanks her enemies.

* * * * *

“Philip Moeller, the creator of ‘Madame Sand’ and of ‘Moliere,’ has
developed in ‘Sophie’ more searchingly his gift of satire and
sparkling repartee. The lines of his play are closely interwoven in
thought, and their significance is often multiple. In the repartee and
in the rapid interplay of ideas lies the individuality of Mr Moeller.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 450w

“The play fails not because its plot is unreal, its ‘morality’ frankly
unmoral, its characters exaggerated. All this is true of many of those
great comedies ‘which are in the best traditions of the English
stage.’ It fails because it is not good of its kind.”

− =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:258 Jl ’20 200w

=MONASH, SIR JOHN.= Australian victories in France in 1918. il *$8 Dutton 940.394

20–11507

“The part played by the Australian corps under Lieutenant General
Monash in France during the closing months of the war is recorded in
this volume. The corps commanded by Lieutenant General Monash was the
largest on the western front, and while the body of his troops were
Australians it contained some imperial divisions and the 27th and 30th
American divisions. These troops went into action in the defence of
Amiens when it was menaced by the great drive of the ‘Kaiser’s
battle,’ and fought up to the taking of Montbrehain on Oct. 5.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

“Not only a valuable document but a human chronicle that adds
distinctly to the literature of the war.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 730w

+ =Spec= 124:244 F 21 ’20 1050w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 850w

=MONEY, WALTER BAPTIST.= Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. il *$2 Lane 827

20–16287

Mr Walter Herries Pollock in the introduction to this book of
reminiscences pays tribute to the author as clergyman and cricketer.
The book itself is a collection of anecdotes and stories, part of the
accumulated store from thirty years of work as a parochial clergyman.

* * * * *

“Mr Money’s anecdotes are good, but one has the tantalizing feeling as
one reads them that the printed version is only the palest reflection
of the real thing.”

+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 140w

“Embedded in Mr Money’s book of anecdotes there are an extraordinarily
large number of really delightful stories; but the book on the whole
suffers, as do most books of good stories, in being too long.”

+ − =Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’20 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 490w

=MONKHOUSE, ALLAN NOBLE.= True love. *$2 (2c) Holt

20–13704

A psychological novel with special emphasis on the psychologic
reactions of the war on its characters. Geoffrey Arden is an
introspective journalist and playwright in love with Sibyl Drew, an
actress. The war finds him on neutral ground and his comprehensive
view leaves small room for narrow enthusiasm. Nevertheless the
patriotic appeal wins out and he enlists. On proposing to Sibyl he
finds that her stage name covers a German ancestry and that she is
German to the core. They make a compact to be “chivalrous enemies” and
lovers at the same time and in this lies the gist of the story: that
to intellectually honest, well meaning people the war has presented
two phases—the one the international human aspect, the other the
national and patriotic.

* * * * *

“Mr Monkhouse is a professional novelist, quietly confident, carefully
ironical, and choosing always, at a crisis, to underrate the
seriousness of the situation rather than to stress it unduly.
Admirable as this temper undoubtedly is, it nevertheless leaves the
reader a great deal cooler than he would wish.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1259 N 28 ’19 800w

“‘True love’ adheres to a course as conventional as its title,
unrelieved by plot invention and unredeemed by emotional
significance.”

− =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 50w

“But those who like much fine and high feeling and good talk and whose
interest in character study is strong will find it very satisfying.
There is in it a great deal of clever, sometimes brilliant, and always
interesting, conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 600w

“As fiction the book is not appealing, but it is keenly and sometimes
brilliantly written.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w

+ =Sat R= 128:589 D 20 ’19 400w

“‘True love’ is an interesting and painfully engrossing story, in
which the author practises a most artistic self-effacement.”

+ =Spec= 122:733 N 29 ’19 750w

“His style is careful, neat and polished. His skill at play-writing
has taught him how to make his novels dramatic, and the book advances
in a good, orderly well-drilled fashion. Mr Monkhouse has given us a
most readable novel.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 D 4 ’19 620w

=MONTAGUE, JAMES J.= More truth than poetry. *$1.75 Doran 811

20–19075

A volume of reprinted newspaper verses, many of them for or about
children. Irvin Cobb, who writes the introduction, confesses that his
favorites are “Healthy” and “Thoughts on pie,” of the Doughboy
ditties, and “The Sleepy-town express.” Other poems are: The evening
suit; Around the corner; The pictures on the panes; Why the katydids
sing; Peter Pan; The mine sweepers; The road to success; The farmer’s
idle wife; In behalf of the movies.

=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= England to America. *$1 (14c) Doubleday

20–8625

A reprint of a short story that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in
September 1919. It is the story of an American soldier on leave who
visits his English friend’s family in Devonshire. The strange reserve
of his hosts puzzles him and he interprets it, as coldness towards
himself or his country. On the last day the truth comes out and he
learns that for his sake they have been concealing the tragic news
that had just preceded his own arrival. John Drinkwater writes an
appreciative introduction. The story was awarded the O. Henry memorial
prize for the best American short story of 1919.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 40w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:195 N ’20 80w

=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. *$1 (11c) Doubleday

20–11895

A short story reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. The old southern
mountaineer known as Uncle Sam, for his likeness to that national
figure, has carried the fervor of the Civil war patriotism all through
his life. In that spirit he gives up his only son and receives the
tidings of his death in France without flinching. After the war he is
heart and soul for the treaty and at the news of its rejection by the
Senate takes his own life in the mystic belief that he is offering
atonement for his country’s failure. The story has been commended by
President Wilson.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20

+ =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w

=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 30w

“The simple, homely, genuine appeal of the central figure of Miss
Montague’s parable makes a much needed call to the better spirit of
the country, the real spirit of the great masses of the people.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 600w

“It is one of those rare, great little books that all patriotic people
will read eagerly and pass on to their friends, just as sixty or
seventy years ago people read and passed on ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ’20 220w

=MOODY, JOHN.= Masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street. (Chronicles of America ser.) per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 332

19–19139

“In the course of the forty-first volume in the Chronicles of America
series, Mr Moody discusses the necessity and value of capital as an
accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use
in the production of more wealth, and he outlines in a series of nine
chapters the leading factors in its development. His starting point is
the rise of the house of Morgan, and thereafter he chronicles briefly,
in scarcely more than two hundred pages, the development of American
railroads, the rise of the ironmasters and the Standard oil company,
with successive chapters on The steel trust merger, Harriman and Hill.
The apex of ‘high finance,’ The panic of 1907 and after, and Wall
street and the world war.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Both books are written from the Wall Street standpoint. However, Mr
Moody has given us two interesting, authoritative, and impartial
narratives describing dramatic and not unimportant episodes in our
economic history. And his firm biographies and stories of great
financial deals—accompanied as they are by a constant flow of
informing comment—enable an understanding reader to deduce more than
he specifically tells.” V: S. Clark

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w

“The entire story of the development of American capital and
capitalists is picturesque in itself and especially romantic as told
by Mr Moody.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 12 ’20 1250w

“One of the most fascinating volumes in the entire series.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=MOODY, JOHN.= Railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 385

19–19138

“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading
American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who
pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in
this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of
first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author
founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and
corporation securities.’” (St Louis)

* * * * *

Reviewed by V: S. Clark

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:120 O ’20 380w

“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious
pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In
the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in
transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s
volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His
bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:158 S ’20 250w

“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is
an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself
at the present time.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has
contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most
distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most
vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 70w

=St Louis= 18:100 Je ’20 30w

=MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD.= Local government in ancient India; with a foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford 352

20–4025

“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient
India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s
survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from
the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all
sources of information. The systems of self-government, which
communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved
for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare,
were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong
social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political
changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations,
which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various
institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term
‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern
Europe.”—Eng Hist R

=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w

“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr
Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real
service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together
and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for
the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:260 Ap ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p433 Ag 14 ’19 1050w

=MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL.= Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5

20–20904

Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children
in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman.
Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book
exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books;
Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A
spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation
reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in
the text.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither
sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s
reading.”

+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 150w

“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn
upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and
with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”

+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 110w

Reviewed by Annette Wynne

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ja 8 ’21 520w

“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 100w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w

=MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.=[2] West and East. *$4 Scribner 266

(Eng ed 20–12838)

“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered
at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of
history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity
in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919
increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures,
setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.”
(Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no
account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have
conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different
from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth
the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists
is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious
traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London]
Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold
our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders
clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page
from a multitude of footnotes and references.”

+ =Bib World= 54:650 N ’20 210w

=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to
Professor Moore’s book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 S 2 ’20 2000w

=MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT.= Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710

20–19679

The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for
it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The
little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world,
past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the
author and his family are reflections on historical, literary,
artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et
al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A
number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 90w

“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight
value as information.”

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd
criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running
commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that
he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”

+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 220w

“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into
the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 800w

=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 30w

“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the
stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 820w

“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and
reflection with their gardening and their reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 40w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 90w

“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently
recommended.”

+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 270w

“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly
jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:109 Ja 31 ’20 950w

=MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.= Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday

20–5120