Chapter LXIII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (19)

The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori
system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into
child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that
with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the
psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in
England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr
Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis;
The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the
new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson;
Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A
new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children;
The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.

* * * * *

“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the
book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually
sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not
necessarily final.”

+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w

“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative.
Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any
criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite
wanton and unnecessary.”

+ − =Spec= 124:619 My 8 ’20 900w

“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat
hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is
brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration
rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey

+ − =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 510w

=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI, pseud.).= Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920

20–9932

These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the
book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and
Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the
book is well illustrated.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 350w

“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of
the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a
light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the
American reader.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 18 ’20 490w

=RAEBURN, HAROLD.= Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796

“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the
broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to
the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the
outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in
many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of
rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every
published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the
principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The
book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering;
Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles.
The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth
Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and
index.

* * * * *

“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His
remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert
and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes
with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges
have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new
and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from
redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn

+ − =Ath= p579 O 29 ’20 1050w

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 250w

“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment.
The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their
instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes
with conviction and refreshing candour.”

+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 900w

“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has
done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which
sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and
mountaineering.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 Ag 19 ’20 820w

=RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA=, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces. 4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7

20–18302

A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of
presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove
acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of
Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in
each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes
biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin
and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof,
Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin,
Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen
Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.

* * * * *

“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of
dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever
got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and
accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 500w

“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of
Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the
collection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 180w

=RAGSDALE, LULAH.= Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner

20–11498

“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly
and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of
Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter,
were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard
work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though
Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of
their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in
action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:73 N ’20

“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and
not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of
‘light reading’ for a summer day.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 390w

“An excellent story for young people.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.=[2] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–19181

This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners,
whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of
Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very
heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but
the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here.
There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry
Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there
is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All
these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the
drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for
the deserving.

* * * * *

“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest
scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just
the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 190w

“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he
knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w

“The story has ‘punch.’”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton

20–6711

A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war.
Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen,
gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a
well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been
promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours
after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford
Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and
outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican
and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack
puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures
have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the
winning of Ramona.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w

“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn
material.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w

“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 100w

=RAINSFORD, W. H.=[2] That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane

20–20431

Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his
mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her
family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And
now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old
home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his
aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on
reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith
March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation
with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that
his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his
mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn
and it ends well.

* * * * *

“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first
novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr
Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The
only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a
trifle.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 240w

“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is
simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends
cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much
description.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w

“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the
seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults
as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations
being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes
possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip
Gray.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 510w

=RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR.= From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373

20–2288

The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th
regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction
calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He
also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy
activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly
trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and
photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate
from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the
introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and
two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the
British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval;
Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The
surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home
trail; Appendix.

* * * * *

“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is
the antithesis of war.”

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 850w

+ =Cath World= 112:116 O ’20 370w

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 200w

“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear,
expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing
sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the
maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in
books about the war.”

+ =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 460w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 170w

=RAMSAY, ROBERT E.= Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659

20–2516

A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and
publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title) Chapter one describes
a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a
month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly
or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise
which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house
organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying
principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part
2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in
applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of
appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject
of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.”
There is an index.

* * * * *

“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”

+ =Booklist= 16:228 Ap ’20

“His style is easy and readable.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w

“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge
of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 160w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 220w

=RAPEER, LOUIS WIN=, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner 379.17

20–4557

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and contains
articles by leading specialists and successful workers in this field.
Its object is to elucidate the general aim of the consolidated school:
social efficiency, with its subordinate aims of vital, vocational,
avocational, civic, moral efficiency. It shows how the new method
fosters cooperation, and socialization, how children may be physically
and mentally changed by suitable methods and how the consolidated
school can furnish opportunity for a school farm, homes for teachers
and a community centre. The first chapter, National and rural
consolidation, and many of the subsequent chapters are by the editor,
Louis W. Rapeer. Other chapters are: The American rural school, by
Philander P. Claxton; Community organization and consolidation, by
Warren H. Wilson; Rural economics and consolidation, by T. N. Carver;
The growth of consolidation, and Transportation of pupils at public
expense, by A. C. Monahan; A visit to a consolidated school, and The
country girl and the consolidated school, by Katherine M. Cook;
Methods and facts of consolidation, by W. S. Fogarty; The difficulties
of consolidation, by L. J. Hanifan. The book is indexed and has a
bibliography.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:14 O ’20

“The book is to be commended on its attempt to use the problem
approach to the various topics.”

+ =El School J= 21:231 N ’20 450w

=School R= 28:796 D ’20 240w

=RASHDALL, HASTINGS.= Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Bampton lectures, 1915) *$5.50 Macmillan 232.3

20–9571

“Mr Rashdall traces the history of the doctrine of the atonement down
from its pre-Christian origins through the New Testament, and then by
way of the Apostolic fathers, the Latin theology, the Schoolmen, and
the Reformers down to modern times. His main interest lies in the
controversy between the subjective and the objective types of
atonement doctrines.”—Nation

* * * * *

− =Ath= p412 Mr 26 ’20 420w

“Even so competent and scholarly a discussion as this of Mr Rashdall’s
carries with it a suggestion of belonging to a stage which we have
left behind us. Those who are acquainted with Mr Rashdall’s work will
find the sincerity and thoroughness of discussion which they have
learned to expect from him.” R: Roberts

+ − =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w

“This is one of the most important theological works that have
appeared for more than a generation. Its quality is scientific.”

+ =Spec= 124:311 Mr 6 ’20 1750w

“It is probably the most important constructive treatise on systematic
theology which has been published by an English divine during the
present century. Parts of it will be found difficult by readers who
are not experts in theology, for it deals with problems of great
complexity. But it is both subtle and lucid; it is a unity and not
patchwork; and, as compared with the reticence of some fairly recent
work, it is remarkably outspoken.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 Ap 22 ’20 1550w

=RASKIN, PHILIP M.= Songs and dreams. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811

20–9428

In a foreword the author tells something of the conditions under which
his poems have been written. He learned English after the age of
nineteen, published his first book of verse in English, with an
introduction by Israel Zangwill, in London in 1914, and has since come
to New York where he now makes his home. The poems are in five groups:
Love and longing; Autumn flowers; Echoes of exile; Chequered shadow;
The dawn of a nation. Some of the poems in the third group, such as To
free Russia (1917), The Torah and “No news” are racial in theme, but
the one purely Jewish section of the book is the concluding one,
devoted to the Zionist ideal.

* * * * *

“Despite Israel Zangwill’s opinion that ‘the best of Mr Raskin’s poems
might have been written by Robert Browning,’ there is much in them
that is merely ‘pretty work’—though the same thing might be said,
heaven knows, of the famous Victorian poet. In fact, the first of this
volume, dealing, as it does, with love, is fairly puerile. But toward
the end of the volume we happen upon a collection of poems entitled
‘The dawn of a nation’ which contains one or two verses worth while.
The one poem which makes the collection notable is that called ‘After
the British declaration.’”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w

=RAVEN, CHARLES E.= Christian socialism, 1848–1854. *$6.50 Macmillan 335.7

“This work is based on the Donellan lectures delivered by the author,
who is dean of Emmanuel college, Cambridge, at Trinity college,
Dublin, in May, 1919. It traces the ‘Christian socialist’ movement
from its origin in the reaction against the ‘laissez faire’ principles
of the early 19th century to the apparent failure of the effects of
Maurice, Neale and Ludlow in 1853, after the passing of Slaney’s act,
which gave recognition to the cooperative movement. The concluding
chapter deals with the ‘Foundation of the working men’s college’ after
the breakdown of the earlier hopes of the Christian socialists.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The volume as a whole is a genuine contribution to English economic
history and will doubtless be received as such. Mr Raven would have
been a little more convincing in some parts if he had been less
profuse in praising his heroes and at the same time had shown more
charity for Mrs Sidney Webb and other critics of the Christian
Socialists.”

+ =Nation= 112:sup247 F 9 ’21 410w

“Mr Raven’s contribution to the history of economics is valuable, and
has obviously entailed much research. But he does not go deeply enough
into the philosophic and historic interrelation of things, such as the
relation of socialism to liberalism, or to anarchism, or to naturalism
and supernaturalism.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:397 N 13 ’20 1700w

+ − =Spec= 125:405 S 25 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 100w

“Mr Raven has found a good subject for a book and has studied it
industriously. The best part of his book is his account of the men who
made the movement, especially of Ludlow, a man far less known than he
deserves to be. But it is a pity that he tries to exalt his heroes by
depreciating every one else.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 S 16 ’20 2100w

=RAYMOND, E. T.= All and sundry. *$2.25 (3½c) Holt 920

(Eng ed 20–6135)

The book consists of a collection of striking pen pictures of
prominent contemporaries in politics and letters, as seen through a
brilliant and witty man’s eyes. The author’s avowed object is to show
the “accredited hero,” as he really is and not in the effulgence of a
halo. Among the sketches are: President Wilson; Georges Clemenceau;
John Burns; G. K. Chesterton; Sir Eric Geddes; Dean Inge; Rudyard
Kipling; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Smillie; Harold Begbie; Lord
Robert Cecil.

* * * * *

=Ath= p31 Ja 2 ’20 60w

+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20

“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible
form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any
comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be
good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some
recent writers.” Theodore Maynard

+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w

“He is particularly good in his vivid sketches of John Burns, G. K.
Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Smillie, and Lord Robert Cecil.”

+ =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 150w

“The inside analyst should be in a class by himself, and generally is.
Mr Raymond demonstrated that he was one of the leaders of that class
in ‘Uncensored celebrities,’ and ‘All and sundry’ is merely the second
volume.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 S 12 ’20 2200w

“His second volume of character sketches is a worthy companion of his
first. No one will maintain that the portraits are all equally
successful, that all are speaking likenesses.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 1450w

“Entertaining and chatty essays.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 130w

“A mind full of ideas and a flowing pen are as exhilarating a
combination as a wet sheet and a flowing sea. But they tend to run
away with one. ‘All and sundry’ does—or do—not escape this danger. Nor
does it altogether escape the contagion of war-time opinion. But it is
a refreshing volume.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 1100w

“No man can seriously pretend that he is able to write with equal
authority on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, President Wilson, M.
Clemenceau, the Bishop of London, Mr Hilaire Belloc, Sir Thomas
Beecham, and Mr Frank Brangwyn—to take only a few names at random.
Another unfortunate thing for Mr Raymond is that in his ‘Uncensored
celebrities’ he had picked out the largest plums. However, even here
Mr Raymond has his effective flashes, for he is a clever draughtsman
with the pen, especially upon political subjects. There is real
humour, as well as observation.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p729 D 11 ’19 950w

=RAYMOND, E. T.= Life of Arthur James Balfour. il *$3 Little

20–20922

“Most distinct as an individual, Mr Arthur James Balfour belongs to an
easily recognisable type, represented both in England and France by a
number of statesmen who owe their fame less to any specific
performance than to the impression created by their intellectual
brilliance.... He has always been credited with an indefinable
superiority over his performances. They have been notable; but it is
vaguely felt that the man is more notable still; in the midst of his
greatest failures he was more interesting than other men in their most
triumphant success. With others the “might-have-been” is a reproach:
with men like Mr Balfour it is a tribute: they please in
disappointing.” (Chapter I) The book is indexed.

* * * * *

“Wit, irony, detachment—these a writer must have if he is to ‘do’ Mr
Balfour, and Mr Raymond has them. Why then does he leave us
unsatisfied? At bottom, we think, because he does not bring the
philosopher and the politician into any real relation.” S. W.

+ − =Ath= p808 D 10 ’20 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

“His book is not ‘A life’ in any vital sense; it being a mere
enlargement of a ‘Who’s who’ entry, with a few comments and quotations
thrown in. There are, to be sure, some bright and witty things in the
book.” F. P. H.

− + =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 520w

“Concise and serviceable biography.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 110w

“Mr ‘Raymond’s’ biography of Mr Balfour is an entertaining book. He
states the facts fairly, and his comments are lively and on the whole
sympathetic. But the author is obviously conscious of difficulties.”

+ =Spec= 125:856 D 25 ’20 780w

“He has not, in spite of the claim put forward in the title, produced
what is commonly understood by a biography. The study is, in the first
place, limited to a single aspect of Mr Balfour’s many-sided
personality, and, in the second place, objective; but to say that is,
by no means, to deny that it is worth reading. Within its limitations,
it is brilliantly clever.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 900w

=RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING.=[2] Ethics and natural law. *$2 Putnam 171

20–11578

“Intuitionalism is restated and made to account for all our ethical
judgments. Conscience is asserted to be the basis of obligation, and
the whole ethical problem is treated on psychological basis, as a
conflict of the desires of the mind and of the body. All the
particular problems treated, among them courtship and marriage, social
pleasures, commercial and business relations, government, are solved
by the exhortation to keep the mind’s desires uppermost.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 140w

“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge of the
history of ethical thought by reading the book, especially the first
twelve chapters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p862 D 16 ’20 440w

=READE, WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT.= Revolt of labour against civilization. *$1 (*3s) Longmans 331

(Eng ed 20–9138)

“The author’s main thesis we shall best summarize in his own
words:—‘Progress in civilization does always and everywhere manifest
the working of a single and fundamental law—the greater the necessity
of things, the smaller their importance.’ To pass on to the
application of his thesis to the present situation, we find him in
whole-hearted opposition to the ideal, as he conceives it, of
Bolshevism, and the labour movement in general. In this he detects the
main and imminent danger to civilization. The conflict between the
Allies and the Germans was, he holds, of comparatively minor
importance, not because he defends or justifies our enemies, but
because he discovers no plain or clear-cut conflict of principle. The
real danger he descries in the attempt, on the part of the so-called
working-class, to evade or reverse his fundamental law of
civilization, to make the satisfaction of the most primitive needs the
only social activity of any value or deserving of any reward.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p1410 D 26 ’19 100w

Reviewed by H. J. Laski

=Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w

“Mr Reade has no specific remedy to propose: that indeed is a merit of
his essay, which is intended to make the reader think furiously, and
which achieves its purpose.”

+ =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 200w

=Survey= 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p679 N 20 ’19 300w

“Mr Reade’s book is one that provokes to disagreement; but for all
that, perhaps even because of it, it demands to be read. After all,
mere assent or dissent matters little compared with the pleasure to be
derived from contact with so vigorous and sincere an intellect, and
though we may traverse every one of his conclusions, it is with the
sense that Mr Reade is, at least in spirit, on the side of the
angels.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p728 D 11 ’19 1350w

=READE, WINWOOD.= Martyrdom of man; with an introd. by F. Legge. *$2.50 Dutton 909

“This book was published in 1872. Its author’s first intention was to
write on the part which Africa had played in the world’s story. But
the conception grew under his hands until it became a full-fledged
philosophy of history. His guiding principle of explanation is given
in the last pages of the book. ‘I give to universal history a strange
but true title—“The martyrdom of man.” In each generation the human
race has been tortured that their children might profit by their
woes.’ The successive stages in this painful upward struggle he
designates as war, religion, liberty, and intellect, and to each of
them he devotes a section of his book. But another stage is yet to be
traversed: we must in the interests of right thinking rid ourselves
forever of anthropomorphic religion. It was mainly owing to Reade’s
attack on Christianity that his book was passed over in disdainful
silence by so many. ‘The martyrdom of man’ has now reached its
twenty-first edition.”—Review

* * * * *

“Everything is made simple and clear with a few bold strokes, and the
multiplicity of the trees never obscures the woods. The lively style
is an added stimulus to the reader, for the author possessed an
undeniable talent for direct and forcible statement. When he becomes
enthusiastic in his narrative he can revivify the past as tellingly as
Macaulay, whom he resembles also in the crispness of his sentences.”
W. K. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1000w 550w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20

=RECOULY, RAYMOND.= Foch: the winner of the war. *$3 (4½c) Scribner

20–3252

This volume has been translated from the French by Mary Cadwalader
Jones. The author has been closely associated with Marshal Foch as a
brother-in-arms and in his estimation the co-ordinated military talent
in the Allied leaders found its highest expression “in the keen
intelligence and strategic genius of their generalissimo—Foch.” The
account of Foch’s career in the great war is preceded by a short
description of his family and earlier life. Contents: Some glimpses of
Foch; His family and his career; His lectures at the Ecole de guerre;
In command of the twentieth army corps; At the head of the ninth army;
The pursuit and the check; The battle of Flanders; The French
offensive of 1915; Verdun; The Somme; A visit to Foch; The change of
command; Foch, generalissimo; The widening battle; Illustrations,
maps, index.

* * * * *

“While Captain Recouly’s is not a very inspiring study of one of the
few men of undoubted military genius in the late war, it does help the
reader to some understanding of the man and to make clearer to him the
battles fought by Foch.”

+ − =Ath= p273 Ag 27 ’20 230w

=Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 4 ’20 450w

=REED, EARL H.=[2] Tales of a vanishing river. il *$3 (5c) Lane

20–22228

The river was the Kankakee, near the southern end of Lake Michigan,
and once the main confluent of the Illinois. Once it lapped its
leisurely course with many ramifications through low marsh lands,
teeming with natural beauty and bird life, the home of the Miami and
Pottowattomie Indians. Now the Indians and the beauty and the birds
are gone and a mighty ditch of straight-channelled course has drained
away the marshes. The book is an attempt at the interpretation of the
life along the river that has vanished and is illustrated with
sketches by the author. The contents are: The vanishing river; The
silver arrow; The brass bound box; The “Wether book” of Buck Granger’s
grandfather; Tipton Posey’s store; Muskrat Hyatt’s redemption; The
turkey club; The predicaments of Colonel Peets; His unlucky star.

* * * * *

“All have a rich flavor of newness, of freshness, of originality.” E.
J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 15 ’21 620w

“When you establish yourself in front of a wood fire in an easy chair
with an hour or two of leisure to look forward to, an excellent book
to have at hand is ‘Tales of a vanishing river.’”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 100w

“Mr Reed writes with a queer, mellow philosophy and humor and in a
gently meandering style which seems to recapture something of the
slow, placid course of the river whose loss he mourns.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Ja 8 ’21 230w

“They are invariably quaint and whimsical. Perhaps the most diverting
is ‘The “wether book” of Buck Granger’s grandfather.’ Like the
companion volume on the dunes of Lake Michigan, this work is rather
unusual in character and invariably entertaining.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ’20 420w

=REES, ARTHUR JOHN.= Hand in the dark. *$2 (1½c) Lane

20–13345

A house party at an English country home is going on. The guests are
at dinner when they are startled by a woman’s shriek of horror,
followed by the report of a pistol. They flock upstairs, to find Mrs
Heredith, a bride of three months, the victim of murder. The police
start investigations which result in the arrest of Hazel Rath, the
daughter of the housekeeper. Altho she pleads innocence there are many
suspicious things in her conduct which she refuses to explain. Philip
Heredith, husband of the murdered girl, does not believe her guilty,
and hires a private detective, who suspects Captain Nepcote, a house
guest at the time of the murder. Then, from an unexpected quarter,
comes a clue to the actual criminal, who had planned his crime with
such diabolical skill and cunning, aided by chance, that it was only
by as strange a chance that he was ever discovered.

* * * * *

“A detective story above the average, though to some readers it will
seem too long drawn out and to others too tragic.”

+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“The details are rather gruesome, but the plot is one of the best of
the year.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w

“Mr Rees has set before the reader a mystery whose blind and baffling
qualities are likely to puzzle and lead astray the most astute and
skillful of lovers of detective fiction. For the author writes well,
with a good, forceful, interesting style, makes graphic and pleasing
pictures of his background, and puts vitality and individuality into
the delineation of his characters.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 620w

“The book is better written than the average crime tale.”

+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 50w

“In this detective story the murderer is really ingenious, and will
not easily be discovered. Mr Rees has spent too much time at the
beginning in picturing old-world details, and elsewhere by being
‘literary’ he delays the action of the story which is everything in a
tale of this sort.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:525 D 25 ’20 130w

“Mr Rees spins us with deft entanglements another of his first-class
mystery yarns.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 80w

=REES, BYRON JOHNSON=, ed. Modern American prose selections. $1 (1c) Harcourt 810.8

20–10539

A selection of some twenty examples of modern American prose. The
compiler’s aim has been to bring together examples of “typical
contemporary prose, in which writers who know whereof they write
discuss certain present-day themes in readable fashion.” Among the
selections are: Abraham Lincoln, by Theodore Roosevelt; American
tradition, by Franklin K. Lane; Our future immigration policy, by
Frederic C. Howe; A new relationship between capital and labor, by
John D. Rockefeller, jr.; My uncle, by Alvin Johnson; When a man comes
to himself, by Woodrow Wilson; The education of Henry Adams, by Carl
Becker; The struggle for an education, by Booker T. Washington;
Traveling afoot, by John Finley; Old boats, by Walter Prichard Eaton.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

=REID, FORREST.= Pirates of the spring. *$1.90 (2c) Houghton

20–26325

The story is of a boy, Beach Traill, not clever at books, but of
unusual integrity of character, and of his friends. They are all at
the same school, three of them, and a fourth has recently been added
as a sort of disturbing element. This fourth is Evans, a handsome,
intellectual, timid lad, a bit off-caste socially, and somewhat
lacking in manly spirit and upstanding courage. Troubles come, partly
through bad influence, partly through irrepressible animal spirits,
but the boys’ uprightness finds a way out. Beach wins out with his
widowed mother and against a suitor of hers whom he detests. Beach and
Miles fight it out in fierce battle which rivets their friendship.
Palmer, the most clever, subtle and daring of the three, holds his own
through his strong sense of justice, and it is in him that Beach
eventually discovers, with an exuberant sense of happiness, his real
friend.

* * * * *

=Ath= p338 Mr 12 ’20 500w

“There is no climax in the story, but only the flow of everyday
happenings, no progress but the development of the boys’ characters;
and the whole is told in a narrative of quiet beauty.”

+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

“Lovers of boys will appreciate the sympathetic understanding of Mr
Reid’s portraying. The story gives added pleasure in its descriptions
of the countryside and is altogether an artistic delight.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 360w

“The narrative is of a singular though very quiet beauty—a beauty
gained partly by the writer’s marvellous closeness to his subject,
partly by his cool tenderness, partly by his sense of the almost pagan
interpenetration of nature and the lives of his characters.”

+ =Nation= 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 260w

“‘Pirates of the spring’ is less a story than a study of character
development during the troubled and turbulent years of adolescence, a
study handled delicately and sympathetically; with much subtlety and
many deft touches of humor. It is of course admirably written.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 400w

=Review= 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 500w

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w

“One thinks of this book with Richard Pryce’s ‘Christopher,’ Hugh
Walpole’s ‘Jeremy’ and E. F. Benson’s ‘David Blaize.’ But
discriminating taste will accord a higher degree of artistry to Mr
Reid’s work than to the efforts of these able delineators of
adolescent boyhood. The mentality and philosophy of boyhood are an
open book to Mr Reid.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 600w

“The boys are boys, and not merely the mouthpieces of ideas.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Mr 11 ’20 220w

=REIK, HENRY OTTRIDGE.=[2] Tour of America’s national parks. il *$4 Dutton 711

20–18059

“Colonel Reik’s book brings out the distinctive features of the
greatest of these western parks. He shows that no two of them are
alike, that each is worth seeing on its own account. While he has not
attempted to write a guide book in the ordinary sense of the term, his
chapters contain much of the kind of information that is sought in
guide books and that will be found indispensable to anyone attempting
a tour of the parks for the first time.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p30 O 23 ’20 270w

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 100w

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 160w

=REPINGTON, CHARLES À COURT.= First world war, 1914–1918. 2v *$12 Houghton 940.48

20–22246

“Colonel Repington in two stout volumes has recorded his ‘personal
experience’ of the great war, and in so doing has given to the public
the first of the great books of the war that is not simply military,
political or diplomatic, but a combination of each that is focused on
the personal activity and relationship of a single individual who was
behind the scenes and in touch with almost every phase of the war.
These pages of personal experiences during the war are a ‘contribution
towards the elucidation of the truth so far as I was able to ascertain
it at the time, and will, I hope, enable many to understand better the
events of these memorable years,’ Colonel Repington declares. They are
given from his diaries as he scrupulously kept them, recording the
most trivial incidents innocently tucked away in some social
engagement of chance meeting of soldiers, statesmen, journalists, or
comments of the larger events which followed each other with such
amazing rapidity.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Colonel Repington is, in fact, so simple that we cannot take any
interest in him. His views on the war, in any important sense, are
negligible. The only portions of his diary of any interest are his
items of political and military information and the light he throws on
prominent personages connected with the war. For the rest, and except
when his professional interests are awakened and he gives lists of
troops and ‘wastage’ figures, the whole diary is at the gossip level.”

− + =Ath= p436 O 1 ’20 1250w

=Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 1150w

“Colonel Repington moves between a bloodbath and a stale spittoon, and
is apparently prouder of dipping his pen in the latter than in the
former.” Shane Leslie

− =Dial= 59:64 D ’20 1050w

“The book is a curiosity. We have not been able to find in it the
slightest evidence that Col. Repington, viewing the supreme tragedy of
secular history, was even remotely aware of its human implications. He
could observe a world convulsed, and report upon it without
compassion, without gravity, without understanding.” Lawrence Gilman

− =Freeman= 2:499 F 2 ’21 1800w

“As a diarist he is intimate and unaffected and racy and explicit like
Pepys, and he is almost as disconcertingly complete.”

+ =Nation= 111:786 D 29 ’20 320w

“The self-assurance of Colonel Repington is to be noted. It is to that
self-assurance, plus his vanity, that we owe this monumental book. But
if we do not get too weary of his ‘practically no English articles are
read and discussed except mine,’ we may find illumination—most of it
unintentional—in his accounts of his work running to and fro between
the generals, the politicians and the press.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 24:274 N 10 ’20 3500w

“He has produced an extraordinarily interesting gossip-book which will
doubtless be widely read and extensively commented upon. It is
apparent from the briefest characterization of this amazing book that
it is on the delineation of society in the war that the readers will
linger longest. It is one long indiscretion.” W. C. Abbott

− + =N Y Evening Post= p2 N 27 ’20 1350w

“To an American reader the chief criticism to be made of all these
accounts of luncheons, dinners and concerts in the company of the rich
and fashionable is that they are intolerably wearisome. Colonel
Repington continually speaks of the play of wit in these high circles,
but gives very few examples of it.”

+ − =N Y Times= p1 O 24 ’20 2400w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 340w

“In short, his tendency to take his hostesses overseriously, apart
from some waste of space, does little to impair the value of an
enlightening book. His taste may be a bit at fault but rarely his
judgment.”

+ =Review= 3:559 D 8 ’20 800w

“This is the best book on the war that has appeared, and we hope it is
the last. Everybody is sick of the war, its horrors and its squabbles,
and wants to forget it. The excellence of the book consists in its
twofold claim on our attention. There is the exhaustive criticism of
the conduct of the war by a military expert of European reputation:
and there is the picture of manners in that section of society ruled
by American women, drawn by one who lived in its favour.”

+ =Sat R= 130:260 S 25 ’20 1450w

“Go into a shady part of the garden, or better still, into a damp
shrubbery and lift up some big flat stone. Underneath you will find a
quantity of crawling creatures, disturbed by the light so suddenly let
in upon them.... Such a garden adventure recurs irresistibly to the
mind as one reads Colonel Repington’s diary of the war years.... As to
the enlightenment which his book should bring in regard to the way in
which public affairs are too often handled, as to the advantages of
the lessons to be learnt, and finally as to the value of this first
step in the reform which comes with knowledge, we have no doubt
whatever.”

+ =Spec= 125:434 O 2 ’20 2900w

=REPPLIER, AGNES.= Points of friction. *$1.75 (4c) Houghton 814

20–19680

Essays reprinted from periodicals. Six have appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, two in the Century, one in the Yale Review and one in the
Nation. Contents: Living in history; Dead authors; Consolations of the
conservative; The cheerful clan; The beloved sinner; The virtuous
Victorian; Woman enthroned; The strayed prohibitionist; Money; Cruelty
and humour.

* * * * *

“Keen and original, upholding recognized standards.”

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“I find myself liking best the essay on ‘Dead authors,’ because it
gives us more of the humor we have come to look for in Miss Repplier’s
presentment of human error. But I confess myself at a disadvantage in
dealing with her: I have almost never found myself failing to agree
with her on any essential point, and my appreciation is apt to take
the form of gratitude for the distinguished expression of what would
seem to civilized people to be obvious.” K. F. Gerould

+ =Bookm= 52:265 N ’20 290w

“Miss Repplier upholds many wholesome truths which in these days seem
in danger of oblivion, and her ironic shaft pierces many a sham notion
high in popular esteem. The noble art of the essay suffers at her
hands neither diminution nor dishonor. ‘Points of friction’ is a
stimulating and eminently readable book.”

+ =Cath World= 112:386 D ’20 680w

“A halfscore of the delightfully keen-witted and observant papers
which Miss Repplier is kind enough to write from time to time for the
enjoyment of appreciative readers. They are always welcome and
invariably worth while.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w

“It would not be amiss to call Miss Repplier the Chesterton of
America. Both are Tories of a sort, lovers of the good things mankind
has found by long toil and is now so childishly anxious to discard.”

+ =Review= 3:563 D 8 ’20 400w

“Miss Repplier’s essays are sound in workmanship and sound but not
granitic in thought. Not often does finished and pungent phrasing
serve merely as a covering for thin or tawdry ideas. Usually there is
an edge to the thought, and it will be found suggestive to those who
may not accept all its implications.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 10 ’21 680w

=REW, SIR ROBERT HENRY.= Food supplies in peace and war. *$2.25 (*6s 6d) Longmans 338

20–4724

“In this essay, Sir Henry Rew considers briefly the world’s supply and
demand and the extent to which the United Kingdom met its own demands
for food before and during the war, and then discusses the outlook now
that the war is ended.... [He concludes] that the cries of ‘Famine!’
are wide of the mark, inasmuch as nature, upon which the recovery of
agriculture mainly depends, never goes on strike. He thinks that after
the harvest of 1921 Europe will be producing as much food as before.
He evidently believes that the Germans are deliberately exaggerating
their troubles. He defines the British nation’s interest in
agriculture as two-fold—to secure the maximum quantity of food, and to
maintain the maximum number of persons on the land. He points out that
insurance against famine caused by war implies not only a large wheat
crop, but also a large stock of cattle, since milk and fat are as
necessary as bread. He concludes with a reminder of the importance of
the human factor in agriculture and the necessity for a life of wider
scope and variety in the villages.”—Spec

* * * * *

“A very sane and reasonable discussion of the food problem.” T. N.
Carver

+ =Am Econ R= 10:590 S ’20 260w

“It is written in popular style and in this lies its real value.”

+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 80w

“This book is not very big, but it is full of information and of
sagacious comments on the facts set out for the reader’s benefit.”

+ =Ath= p428 Mr 26 ’20 160w

“Sir Henry Rew has the happy and unusual faculty of making statistics
interesting. The book was badly needed, for it is highly important
that the average man should realise the facts.” E. J. Russell

+ =Nature= 105:320 My 13 ’20 950w

+ =Spec= 124:464 Ap 3 ’20 250w

“The book is stimulating, authoritative and well worth reading.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 440w

=REYMONT, WLADYSLAW STANISLAW.=[2] Comédienne. *$2 (2c) Putnam

20–20943

The story is translated from the Polish by Edmund Obecny and relates
the fate of a young actress. Janina Orlowski is driven from home by an
insanely tyrannical father, whose choice of a husband she has refused.
Her ambition is to become an actress and she goes to Warsaw and is
taken on by a third-rate company. Her experiences there are a series
of disillusionments, the actors she meets are not interested in art
but are a sordid, coarse lot. She falls into dire poverty and on the
verge of starvation and about to become a mother, she commits suicide.

* * * * *

“It is almost inconceivable that the novel has lost anything in
translating, so delightfully lyric are the descriptions of the Polish
countryside, so poignant the characterization, so diverting the
dialogue.” W. T. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 770w

=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Also Ran. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–19180

Jacynth Pennant had spent her early life away from her home, having
been adopted as a baby by an aunt. When she returned to it as a young
lady, she found an air of mystery enveloping everything. Her father,
though affectionate, was unhappy and worried. The neighborhood had not
ceased talking about the murder of Guy Warristoun some time before.
His brother Ranulf was suspected of the murder, but acquitted upon the
testimony of a chauffeur. Ran subsequently disappeared and had not
been heard of since. Shortly after Jacynth’s return, he unexpectedly
put in his appearance once more. When he persuaded Jacynth to marry
him after a short acquaintance, her impelling motive of acceptance was
that her father was under heavy obligations to him. He explained as
his reason for asking her that he wanted to put it out of her power to
marry his cousin Hector, a worthless fellow with whom she was half in
love, and to whom, though his lawful heir, he did not wish to leave
his property. His one biggest reason he did not give—he was in love
with her. How she came to realize this, after doubt and heartache for
both is the culmination of the story, and in the process of its
development is revealed the true explanation of Guy’s death and the
chauffeur’s part in it.

* * * * *

“Though not always convincing the story is wholesome and ingenious and
will interest men or women.”

+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“The tale, although not very convincing and one in which it would be
easy to pick holes, is ingenious and interesting.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 3 ’20 400w

“The author makes a fairly interesting book with a happy ending to
this rather hackneyed theme.”

+ − =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w

=REYNOLDS, MYRA.= Learned lady in England, 1650–1760. il *$2.25 Houghton 396

20–26551

The book is one of the Vassar semi-centennial series, published in
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar college.
Although it is specifically limited to the learned women in England in
the period between 1650 and 1760, the first chapter is devoted to
those before 1650, beginning with Juliana Barnes, who, although a nun,
wrote a book on “hunting, hawking and fishing” in 1481. The outcome of
the research is that in all ages “there have been individual women who
by force of native endowment and through some favorable conjunction of
circumstances, have risen into prominence in realms not ordinarily
open to the women of their time,” but they have been isolated cases
and “what was actually accomplished in the century before 1760 was a
lavish sowing of seed, a steady infiltration of new ideas, a breaking
up of old certainties as to woman’s place in domestic and civic life,
and an accumulation of examples proving women capable of the most
varied intellectual aptitudes and energies.” Contents: Learned ladies
in England before 1650; Learned ladies in England from 1650–1670;
Education; Miscellaneous books on women in social and intellectual
life; Satiric representations of the learned lady in comedy; Summary;
Bibliography; Index; and illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:331 Jl ’20

“It is an interesting and original piece of work and covers ground
that has hardly been touched before.” Martha Plaisted

+ =Bookm= 51:689 Ag ’20 300w

Reviewed by C. M. Rourke

=Freeman= 2:68 S 29 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster

=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 800w

“Years of research must have been devoted to gathering materials for
this illuminating treatise. The presentation is clear and orderly; nor
is it anywhere swamped by the multitudinous and clear-cut detail.”