Chapter LXV: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (21)

“In ‘Lancelot’ Mr Robinson has continued the study of Camelot which he
began three years ago in ‘Merlin.’” (Nation) “We open at the period in
the Arthurian triangle when Lancelot, who has seen the grail, has
determined to leave Camelot and Guinevere forever, and follow the
lonely marsh-light that the knights hailed as the true gleam.
Guinevere tempts him out of this. Arthur and his knights return, and
find what the purblind king has shut his eyes to so long. Lancelot
flees, and Guinevere is to be burnt at the stake. The greatest of the
knights returns and rescues her, taking her to his castle of Joyous
Gard; from which he later surrenders her. But the poison of the
situation has raised up enemies in the king’s own household,
especially his illegitimate son, Modred, and Lancelot, persuaded too
late to go to the king’s aid, arrives after the battle in the north,
in which king and bastard alike receive their death-wounds. He pays
one final visit to Guinevere, habited as a nun, but still enough of
her own self to listen to Lancelot’s belated plea that she rejoin him,
and now enough of her new self to refuse it. Then the passion-wrecked
knight rides away after that will-o-the-wisp whose presence men still
vainly seek without themselves.” (N Y Call)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“Any modern treatment of the Arthur material challenges comparison at
once with some of the illustrious names in English literature:
Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold, and Morris, to mention only the best
known. Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is no misbegotten changeling in this
notable company. The analysis is subtle, unsentimental, and
contagiously sympathetic.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 520w

“In this narrative Mr Robinson not only proves by reason of thought
and substance his position as the greatest of all living American
poets, but also by the supreme consciousness and evocation of beauty.”
W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 12 ’20 1350w

+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 80w

“The verse moves with dignity and attains at times even a detachable
beauty, and yet the memorable lines are comparatively few—for this
author.”

+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 120w

“It has no pictorial exuberance. Scarcely a line could be quoted for
self-sufficient imagery. For the rest, the beauty of the poem is a
low-keyed, intense but quiet beauty of cadence and rhythm. Its matter
speaks with restraint and with completion. Its power lies in the
immanence of its people and their struggle with their fate.” C. M.
Rourke

+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 550w

“The verse of ‘Lancelot’ is as athletic and spare as an Indian runner,
though it walks not runs. At the same time, he varies his verse in
admirable accord with situation and character. Since Browning there
has been no finer dramatic dialogue in verse than that spoken by
Lancelot and Guinevere and no apter characterization than the ironical
talk of Gawaine. One must go out of verse, to George Meredith and
Henry James, to find its match. But Mr Robinson has the advantage of
verse.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 110:622 My 8 ’20 650w

“Edwin Arlington Robinson can say more in two lines than most poets
can in several verses. His vision is somber; it is marked by an
uncompromising consistency in the handling of eternal values.” H. S.
Gorman

+ =New Repub= 23:259 Jl 28 ’20 1150w

“‘Lancelot’ is life, albeit a gray and grim vision of it. It is a
great tale, greatly told. American poetry is richer for the aching
disillusionment of Mr Robinson’s art.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p11 My 16 ’20 750w

“It has been well thought out, well felt and well made. This is not to
say that it is a great poem, however, or that no important criticism
can be brought against it. When he draws personality the lines are
firm and flawless. But can he show us the color and texture of life,
and make us feel the heat of it in those old days of myth and magic?”
Marguerite Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 1050w

“Its supreme beauty lies in its analysis of character and motive.”

+ =Outlook= 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 780w

“Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is a finer achievement than his ‘Merlin.’
Splendidly imagined and unerringly wrought, this book reaffirms the
conviction that Mr Robinson is today the most significant figure in
American verse.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R n s= 10:205 O ’20 280w

=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Three taverns. *$1.50 Macmillan 811

20–15484

“Edwin Arlington Robinson’s new volume of miscellaneous poems, ‘The
three taverns’ is likely to earn him—if he has not already earned—a
reputation as the Henry James among poets. His fondness for portraying
the complex facets of character in an oblique light and by means of
inscrutable hints and sinuous innuendoes has led him to further
workings of the vein of dramatic lyric opened four years ago by his
famous ‘Ben Johnson entertains a man from Stratford.’ The present
collection contains seven long poems of this sort, revealing in
monolog or dialog a moment in the life of St Paul, Lazarus, Brown of
Harper’s ferry, Hamilton, and real or imagined people of lesser
note.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:106 D ’20

“‘The man against the sky’ indicated very clearly the place of the
poet, it was very high—how high we had not the standards by which to
measure. ‘The three taverns’ brings us much nearer to him, closer
within the embrace of his sympathies, and, by the same law, lifts him
much farther above us.” S: Roth

+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 500w

“The substance of the longer poems in this book is more profoundly
grounded in Mr Robinson’s philosophy of human nature and experience
than in any of his other poems. Even in the shorter poems we find this
power distilled until almost achingly the meanings break through a
speech that is simplified to a bareness of figure or illusion. Take
the poem ‘The mill’ and say if a tragedy could be so mercilessly told
with the economy of speech by any other living poet.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 1850w

“Here is a great virtue that belongs peculiarly to Mr Robinson among
American poets. His work is always packed with thought. ‘The three
taverns’ is a big book and it grows with each reading. It is the work
of lonely hours, of unfailing meditation, and of authentic genius, if
such a thing may be admitted to exist in these troublous times.” H. S.
Gorman

+ =Freeman= 2:186 N 3 ’20 1150w

“It is a sombre book, ‘The three taverns,’ sombre and polished to a
high dark sheen, and the bitter tang of it remains in the memory after
reading.” C. F. G.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:332 Ja ’21 340w

“Separate enough in themselves, they yet stand with respect to each
other in a sort of pattern, like the monoliths of a Druid circle....
What holds them in the pattern is that tone of mingled wisdom and
irony, that color of dignity touched with colloquial flexibility, that
clear, hard, tender blank verse and those unforgettable eight-line
stanzas and dramatic sonnets which go to make up one of the most
scrupulous and valuable of living poets.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:453 O 20 ’20 1300w

“‘The three taverns’ is a finished product. It is a book such as only
a master, touched with the authentic fire of genius, could make
possible. Within its 120 pages is crystallized the best of modern
American poetry. No European could find better introduction to
American achievement in letters than through the poems that are
contained in ‘Three taverns.’” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ja 16 ’21 1250w

“Little of his old magic of intonation and rhythm is lacking from ‘The
three taverns,’ even though the intellectual appeal overmasters at
times the poetic.”

+ =Outlook= 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 680w

“Mr Robinson’s verse, as always, flows with limpid purity, but his
quaintly compounded vocabulary and his intellectual penetration compel
the closest attention to his pages. Readers who have the patience or
the agility to follow Mr Robinson are not meanly rewarded.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 7 ’20 450w

=ROBINSON, EDWIN MEADE (TED ROBINSON, pseud.).= Piping and panning. *$1.75 Harcourt 811

20–16520

The author conducts a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and this is
a volume of his humorous newspaper verse. Among the titles are: To a
lady; The lecture; The story of Ug; Things I despise; Things I like;
Some Anglicisms; The drawbacks of humor; Love lyrics; We Olympians;
The critic’s apology; In various keys; The typewriter’s song; Rural
delights; Butter and eggs; The average man.

* * * * *

“Of its kind, Edwin Meade Robinson’s ‘Piping and panning’ is of a
pleasant quality. No man may trifle with the muse day after day with
impunity, but Mr Robinson has been able to command her support in a
fair average of instances. His book discloses a nimble fancy, a facile
dominion of vocabulary and verse forms, and a ready wit.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 160w

“Many of the verses, it is true, are occasional and uninspired; but
the book is a wholly satisfactory one for the good things it has in
abundance.” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 180w

=ROBINSON, ELIOT HARLOW.= Maid of Mirabelle. il *$1.75 (2c) Page

20–12599

A story of the last days of the war and the period immediately
following. The scene is laid in a village of Lorraine. Here Daniel
Steele, an American Friend who has come to France to do relief and
reconstruction work, falls under the spell of Joan le Jeune, the maid
of Mirabelle. When Daniel had left home he had taken with him the
promise of his foster-sister Faith to be his wife on his return. But
for a little time Joan makes him forget Faith, and Joan, to whom he
brings the romance of strange lands, almost forgets her own soldier
lover Jean. But when Jean is under suspicion she turns to him, and
Daniel, too, recovering from a wound, finds his thoughts bound up in
Faith and is ready to return to his own country leaving Joan to her
happiness.

* * * * *

“Somewhat too sentimental in execution, but simple and pretty.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 20w

=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Uneasy street. il *$1.75 (2c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–2645

He was an impecunious clerk before the war, but won a commission and
was swept into New York gilt-edged society by his millionaire chum
after their discharge. He goes the pace and one night of it finds him
in debt and in love and temptation staring him in the face in the form
of a trunkful of money under his hotel bed. He falls for it, takes
what he needs with intentions to refund, but is found out before that
happy event can take place. Then his manhood reasserts itself, he
returns the stolen money and makes a clean confession of his guilt to
his employer, his chum’s father. He is forgiven and is reinstated in
the good graces of his fiancée, his chum and gilt-edged society.

* * * * *

“In construction the present story is by far the best he has written.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 120w

“That the story is devoid of all plausibility will not detract from
its interest to such readers as enjoy this sort of a book.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 220w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

=Pub W= 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 260w

=ROCHECHOUART, LOUIS VICTOR LÉON, comte de.=[2] Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart; auth. tr. by Frances Jackson. *$5 Dutton

20–17881

“These memoirs are a first-class historical document of the period
before and after the Napoleonic wars. The Count de Rochechouart was
only a lad when the revolution broke out, and practically without
money he made his way across Europe and took service with the Emperor
of Russia, whom he served until 1814, when he was appointed to a
military post under the restored Bourbons in Paris, and took a
prominent part in the refounding of royalist France.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“His narrative is of absorbing interest, in itself: material enough
for a dozen historical romances, told with vivacity, a wealth of
illuminative anecdote. The version is faithful and admirably written,
a valuable contribution to French and European history in our
language.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 360w

“The Rochechouart memoirs become thin and unsatisfactory after the
peace, and give few details of the new French society which Balzac was
afterwards to describe so brilliantly; and with the count’s retirement
into the country in 1822, they practically cease. But as they stand,
they are a valuable contribution to a period of which we can never
have too much information.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:340 O 23 ’20 630w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p648 O 7 ’20 950w

=ROE, A. S.= Chance and change in China. il *$3 (3c) Doran 915.1

20–11512

A book devoted not to political affairs but to the little alterations
in custom that indicate social change and the influence of the outside
world. Among the chapters are: The seductive city; The city of the
river orchid; The black smoke [opium]; The dragon house; The gem-hill
city; The serpent month; On the “river of broad sincerity”; The city
of western peace; The pepper month; The contemptible one [woman]; A
painted cake. The title given to this last chapter signifies “a thing
that has come to nothing,” and refers to the republic, altho the
author says, “Though to many the republic has become a ‘painted cake,’
some at least of the seeds scattered here and there in the days of its
first youth have taken root.” There are many illustrations and an
index.

* * * * *

“The accounts of travel and life in New China are fascinating, and
Miss Roe’s book both promises and provides some rare hours of
entertainment.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 400w

=Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 70w

“A varied and entertaining account of modern life in the Far East. It
is by no means a serious book. Rather it appears to be a collection of
more or less coherent reminiscences carried away by the author after
traveling through parts of the country.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 13 ’20 280w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 100w

“Her book does not lend itself to continuous reading, for it is both
discursive and disjointed. Too retiring to weave a connecting thread
out of the accidents that befell herself, too logical to put forward a
reconciliation of contradictions that defy it, too honest to suggest a
whole where she had seen but a small part, she leaves on the mind an
idea of confusion—and that, perhaps, is the truest impression she
could give of China at this period of chance and change.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 950w

=ROGET, FRANÇOIS ROGET.= Altitude and health. (Chadwick lib.) *$5 Dutton 612.27

(Eng ed SG20–68)

“Professor Roget, of Geneva, was invited by the Chadwick trustees to
form one of their panel of lectures. The subject which he treats in
the three lectures which he delivered for the Trust in 1914, and which
are contained in this volume, has become, since the development of
aviation, one of increasing importance; but the professor, though he
does not ignore aviation, explores with great care and fullness the
effect of altitude upon health and physique mainly from the point of
view of the Alpine pedestrian climber and resident.”—The Times
[London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The information contained in this book regarding climate appears on
the whole to be accurate and reasonably complete. So much cannot be
said regarding matters physiological. Whether on account of war
prejudice or other cause a large mass of valuable German work is
passed over almost in silence and even in the selections from English
and American investigators the most important modern contribution is
merely mentioned.” Yandell Henderson

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 30 ’20 1000w

“If, as undoubtedly is the case, there are still many people who dread
the effects of unmitigated fresh air, and especially that of mountain
resorts, these lectures should help to convert them to saner views.”

+ =Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 900w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 D 11 ’19 90w

=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Golden scorpion. *$1.75 (2c) McBride

20–7137

Mystery, magic and an element of indefinable horror enter into this
story by the author of the Fu Manchu tales. Gaston Max, a famous
Parisian detective, Inspector Dunbar of Scotland Yard, and Dr Keppel
Stuart, an obscure London practitioner with an unusual knowledge of
poisons, are all concerned in the case of the golden scorpion. For a
time no one of them knows who or what the scorpion may be, altho this
symbol is known in some way to be associated with a series of
mysterious deaths in both London and Paris. Dr Stuart is drawn into
the case when the beautiful and alluring Mlle Dorian comes to him as a
patient. As in the author’s other stories there is a strong tinge of
the oriental.

* * * * *

“A good mystery story.”

+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 51:582 Jl ’20 130w

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 530w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 360w

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

“It is a relief to have mystery and magic mixed up with good detective
work after so great a glut of German espionage, and the reader will
find the golden scorpion in a pleasing variety of unusual and
unexpected situations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 300w

=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).=[2] Green eyes of Bast. *$2 (2½c) McBride

20–18256

This story is of the unreal, and presupposes the existence of hybrid
beings, half woman and half cat, born in Egypt in the month sacred to
the goddess Bast. The fate of the individual or family upon which the
enmity of such a being rests, may be imagined. The Coverly family in
England is so marked, and one by one its members meet their deaths in
various ghastly manners. To the police, who are naturally not in
possession of the secret of the cat-woman, it is very mysterious.
Altho they make many discoveries, what finally clears it all up is the
confession of the Eurasian, Dr Damar Greefe, who had brought up the
hybrid monstrosity in the interests of science. Though they are in
league together, she finally masters him and the final tragedy is his
death, for she eventually adds his murder to the already long list of
fatalities of the story.

* * * * *

“Persons of experience know that, in shockers as in life, it is not
the goal but the road there that matters, and their gratitude to the
author will suffer no diminution because the villain’s explanatory
discourse reveals some weak points in the construction of the story.”

+ − =Ath= p275 Ag 27 ’20 150w

+ − =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 540w

“Mr Rohmer devotes himself to the production of atmosphere with his
old skill.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 130w

=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Liluli. il *$2 Boni & Liveright 842

20–11590

“In ‘Liluli’ Romain Rolland has given to the world one of the most
daring satires that have ever been written. Liluli is illusion, the
ideal, the chimera, the eternal vamp of history. The time and place of
the drama are fanciful. The stage is a ravine spanned by a footbridge.
The human race is on the march—toward a mirage. There are peasants and
intellectuals, diplomatists and socialists, satyrs and mountebanks,
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Truth and Opinion, the Gallipoulets
and the Hurluberloches (who are at war), shopkeepers, peddlers and
fettered brains. And Polichinello. He is the laughing brain. He is the
eternal mocker. He believes in nothing and smiles at all things. He is
the wisdom of folly. In the general crash on the bridge of the world,
when the human race goes into the abyss, Polichinello goes with it.
Everything collapses on him—the fighting people, furniture, crockery,
poultry, stones, earth and the grand chorus of idealists. On top of
the mess sits Liluli, her legs crossed, smiling and showing the tip of
her tongue, her fore-finger to her nose.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

“The play is a farce and a savage satire all in one. It is
Aristophanic in its conception and working out, now bitter, now
blatant, now indecent, and at times blasphemous. It would have been
entirely possible to satirize hypocrisy and venality as playing potent
parts in the stirring up of war without insulting religion and its
God.”

− =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 170w

“It is a strange and powerful book, this monstrous comedy of
world-wide calamity. The logical necessity of the catastrophe, the
inevitableness with which not only the vices, but even the virtues of
her victims play into the hands of Liluli, make them susceptible to
her lure, and hasten their doom, gives this weird farce the
impressiveness of a Greek tragedy.” H. M. Evers

+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 620w

“It is a pity that M. Rolland has chosen the now dominant symbolical
forms for the embodiment of his fable. Never so much as today did art
need to speak directly. ‘Liluli’ is beautiful and memorable. But its
literary sophistication stands in the way of its broader
effectiveness.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 370w

“Probably Rolland had in mind to write somewhat after the manner of
Aristophanes. Certainly he has the necessary verve and gusto and
satiric sting. But the Greek stuck to themes that could be represented
on the stage. The Frenchman has tried to sweep all humanity into the
scene, and the result is that you, the reader, have to create a brain
theater for the work in order to realize its true values. It would
have been far more effective for most people in some other form.”

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 550w

“‘Liluli’ is a memorable book. It demolishes with great Rabelaisian
and Aristophanic guffaws the ridiculous and anarchistic societies that
we live in. The book is a bridge to a new world—still nebulous, not
even yet a mirage.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:2 Jl 11 ’20 860w

=Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 30w

“‘Liluli’ is written in behalf of what is, or was or should be, a
noble cause; it is written with an art and grace which should have
fitted it to charm and to serve; yet its spirit and methods are such
as to dispel that charm and to annul that service.”

− + =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 950w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ’20 950w

“Perhaps Romain Rolland is scarcely of the race and lineage of the
master satirists, and his ‘Liluli’ may not be the ideal satire for
this crazy age; but Rolland shows many of their great traits, and
‘Liluli’ is so far the one outstanding satire of its time.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:348 O ’20 410w

“Here are all the arguments and experiences with which the pacifist is
familiar incisively personified—not without a certain strong tang of a
former literary age.”

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w

=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. trappers. (U.S. service ser.) il *$1.50 (2c) Lothrop 639

19–17885

This unusually well illustrated volume follows the plan of the other
books of the series in combining information with narrative. In
telling the story of young Gavin Keary, from the time he is left alone
to shift for himself till he is engaged as a trapper by the U.S.
biological survey, the author manages to impart a great deal of
information about the work of this branch of the government service,
the conditions of modern trapping and the ways of wild animals.

* * * * *

“The average reader will find it interesting and boys will find it
even thrilling.”

+ =Booklist= 16:208 Mr ’20

“It avoids the insipidity that goes with most boys’ books and is
packed full of information about ranch life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w

=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Great demonstration. *$2 (3c) Appleton

20–19435

Roger Lessing and Terry Endicott are both in love with Lucretia Dale.
She is in love with neither until on the eve of Terry’s departure for
the war, she realizes that he has her heart. But report comes that he
is dead, and half against her own will, she consents to marry though
she cannot love Roger. Roger has always been a disciple of New
thought, believing “What I desire, will come to me,” but even his
desire for Lucretia’s love cannot bring it to him. Then Terry is
miraculously returned to life from a German prison; and Roger’s desire
for Lucretia’s love is intensified. From the creed of New thought he
advances into more dangerous forms of eastern mysticism to gain his
end until finally the power that he sought to use masters him, and he
meets his death in his last effort to control Lucretia’s mind and
love.

* * * * *

“It cannot be said that the psychic element in this novel is either
interesting or convincing. On the other hand, the sketches of daily
existence in the ‘studio’ are amusing and the general atmosphere of
the story is pleasing.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 430w

=ROOSEVELT, KERMIT.= Happy hunting-grounds. *$1.75 Scribner 799

20–19277

“In the opening chapter, the author gives an intimate picture of his
father, as he remembers him in the rôle of companion during numerous
hunting expeditions. There are numerous personal incidents and
reminiscences. Other chapters have to do with hunting in America,
including trips into Mexico. ‘Book collecting in South America’
recalls another purpose of a trip into a foreign land. At the end of
the volume a sketch is given of Seth Bullock, his father’s friend,
sometimes called the ‘last of the frontiersmen,’ a type celebrated and
adored by Roosevelt.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 420w

“The volume is interesting and well written throughout—Kermit
Roosevelt has inherited his father’s knack of clear description and
vigorous English.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 130w

+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D 20 140w

“Will be welcomed by the many admirers of the former president, those
who admired him as a man, and not only as a political leader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 190w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p843 D 9 ’20 150w

=ROPER, WILLIAM W.= Winning football. il *$2 (4½c) Dodd 797

20–17071

The author distinguishes between an old and a new way of playing
football. The old way “was first and last a trial of speed and
strength and weight and courage” in which cleverness was at a discount
and mere pounds and inches at a premium. The new way is “thinking
football,” for which the author claims every manly virtue and that it
is “a splendid preparatory school for life.” Of this game the book
proposes to set forth the underlying principles. Contents: Modern
football a battle of wits; The spirit behind the team; The routine of
early season practise; Every man in every play; A real quarter-back
must have brains; Running the team; The kicking game; The schedule;
The day of the big game; Illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

“A readable unusually valuable book for any one who is coaching
football.”

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w

“It is not only informational, but inspirational. The attitude
throughout is that of the highminded amateur sportsman of the best
type. For this reason, if for no other, it is a book that most men and
all boys should read.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 210w

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 30 ’21 160w

=ROSE, JOSHUA.= Complete practical machinist. il $3 Baird 621.9

20–2274

In the twentieth, greatly enlarged edition of this work, the reader is
introduced “to the machine tools in which the cutting tools are used,
whereas in the earlier editions the cutting tools only were treated
upon.” (Preface) The present edition has 432 illustrations. The work
originally appeared in 1894.

=ROSEBORO, VIOLA.= Storms of youth. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner

20–8273

Just before Perry Grantley left college, a faculty incident revealed
to him in a flash what “a sporty thing” it would be to be a man. It
clinched his decision to stay in the old home town and fight the
political graft that had crept into the local government there. In the
story we follow Perry’s crusade against the insidious corruption of
the town and his personal vicissitudes in matters of the heart—how his
unguarded marriage to a flower-like girl with an unborn soul resulted
in early widowerhood and his final union with the playmate of his
youth whom he had always loved. Incidentally a picture of small town
life, its outstanding figures, with their normal, their sub- and
super-normal qualities, unfolds itself, leaving the reader with the
impression that life with its successes, its failures and its sorrows
is all a part of “the beauty and wonder.”

* * * * *

“There is a very vivid picture of the life of the town from the
beginning of the book. One must admire the author’s skill in
visualizing these varied elements.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 370w

“The characters are well realized, the situations are poignant, and
the method of narration becomes progressively more coherent and
telling.”

+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 100w

=N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 180w

“The book would be a better one if the end were reached a little
sooner. The novel contains a good many characters, but the author
keeps firm hold on each one of them, and their variety helps to give
verisimilitude to this tale of love and politics in a small American
town.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 700w

=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“My feeling about the whole book is that it is too elaborate a
mechanism, with a weakness at its vitals. Finally, we are reluctantly
aware of the style as artful in its polish and saliency. We feel that
the writer has labored well, but we feel that she has labored.” H. W.
Boynton

− + =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 280w

=ROSENFELD, PAUL.= Musical portraits. *$2.50 (3c) Harcourt 780

20–8863

In these “interpretations of twenty modern composers” (Sub-title) the
author characterizes the music of each and shows how each composer
reflected the age in which he lived either in its entirety or in
certain phases and according to the musician’s temperament. The
composers are: Wagner; Strauss; Moussorgsky; Liszt; Berlioz; Franck;
Debussy; Ravel; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Rachmaninoff; Scriabine;
Strawinsky; Mahler; Reger; Schoenberg; Sibelius; Loeffler; Ornstein;
Bloch. The appendix consists of short biographical notes of each
composer.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

“Mr Rosenfeld knows how to write. This fact alone would make him of
the minority among those who write at and about music. His style is
nervous, clear, ironical if not humorous, and he uses words with
precision. A well-written, interesting, sincere, exasperating book. In
other words, a book worth reading.” Deems Taylor

+ − =Dial= 69:313 S ’20 3150w

“Each is a sort of snapshot of the essential personality of a
musician, and all taken together make up a gallery of modern composers
so penetrating, vivid and trenchant that no reader is likely to forget
them. The method used is the impressionist. Inevitably, the special
pitfall of a method like Mr Rosenfeld’s is over-subjectivity and
sentimentalism, with its resultant turgidity and tendency to ‘fine
writing.’ Mr Rosenfeld’s first book of essays at once establishes him
as one of the few writers on music able really to illuminate their
subject.” D. G. Mason

+ − =Freeman= 1:332 Je 16 ’20 1600w

+ =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w

“Many of the fundamental ideas set forth have been voiced at one time
or another by the more penetrating of European critics. Yet Mr
Rosenfeld has displayed a marked faculty for reinvesting these ideas
in fresh and striking habiliments, embroidering them with such
originality and skill that they take a new aspect. The whole book, in
fact, is an astounding exhibition of virtuoso writing.” Henrietta
Straus

+ =Nation= 111:sup411 O 13 ’20 1550w

“For its many good qualities, this book is deserving of unstinted
praise. For one thing, it is, I believe, the first noteworthy attempt
to take an accurate and full-size measurement of the music makers of
our day, and for another, the critical yard stick is applied by a hand
equally as artistic as it is dexterous. The only annoyance I
experienced in reading the book was due to a feeling that, in parts,
many of the pages were overwritten.” Max Endicoff

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 260w

“Mr Rosenfeld delights in vivid colors. At moments, to be sure, one
sees a tendency to overdo this eloquence; to pass too suddenly from
rhapsody to invective, and from praise to blame. But even with such
faults—perhaps because of them—these ‘Twenty portraits’ are in their
own field unique.” C: H: Meltzer

+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 950w

“There is an abundance of subtlety, of ‘style,’ of smart theories that
are more preoccupied with themselves and their inner consistency than
with their subject-matter.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 31 ’20 380w

=ROSS, EDWARD ALSWORTH.= Principles of sociology. (Century social science ser.) *$4 Century 301

20–9364

“This is not merely another textbook in sociology but the exposition
of a system of sociology which is the result of seventeen years of
work. The work begins with a brief treatment of social population.
In a limited but strong treatment of Social forces, Ross contends
that social laws are not physical but psychical, following Ward in
the theory that the social forces are human desires. Part III, on
Social processes, contains the bulk of the book—480 pages. This is
subdivided into thirty-eight chapters, including such subjects as
association, domination, exploitation, opposition, stimulation,
personal competition, adaptation, cooperation, stratification,
gradation, commercialization, expansion, ossification, estrangement,
individualization, liberation, and transformation. Under Social
products are treated uniformities, standards, groups and
institutions. The book closes with four chapters on sociological
principles—anticipation, simulation, individualization and
balance.”—Survey

* * * * *

“No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his
particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book,
or even only superficially acquainted with it. Henceforth the student
of social science who has not assimilated it is undertrained. It is a
luminous revelation of realities of the common life.” A. W. Small

+ =Am J Soc= 26:110 Jl ’20 1250w

+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

“Mr Ross’s cardinal fault is lack of historical-mindedness. He accepts
as absolute the standards found or conceived in his own social
environment and seems generally incapable of a Kantian critique of
their validity. Yet with all its defects ‘The principles of sociology’
remains a work of real utility. Though the author’s resolute
determination not to think anything through may deter the
philosophical student, the vast scope of the book with its wealth of
illustrative material may commend it to the teacher of sociology.” R.
H. Lowie

+ − =Nation= 111:sup418 O 13 ’20 1450w

“The tone of this book is generous and whole-souled and the reader is
thereby predisposed from the outset. The style goes with the tone. It
is generously expansive to the verge of breeziness. By reason of its
qualities of tone, style, and the rest this book ought to be of use in
colleges and to the general reader.” A. G. Keller

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1100w

“Few writers have the ability to present a subject in as interesting a
manner as Ross. His style is pungent, clear and clean-cut.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 680w

“It is not only the most important sociological work of the past few
months but without question the most important since the appearance of
Todd’s ‘Theories of social progress,’ and possibly since Ward’s ‘Pure
sociology.’ The book is not only a masterpiece as a scientific work
but it is intensely interesting.” G. S. Dow

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 740w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 90w

=ROSS, SIR RONALD.=[2] Revels of Orsera. *$2.50 (2c) Dutton

21–665

This medieval romance purports to be based on some historical facts
and on a manuscript by one Johannes Murinus, found in the library of
the University at Bâle. The story is illustrative of the mystical
conception that good and evil flow from the same source and are
interchangeable and the result is a novel interpretation of dual
personality. A proud mother of twins—one of whom is a deformed dwarf,
albeit with a beautiful poetic spirit—thinks that by murdering him his
spirit will enter into a corporeally beautiful demon, who obtrudes
himself upon her in a dream, and thus make spirit and body one in
beauty. She is correct in her first surmise but to her dismay, the
body of the son also lives on with the spirit of the demon she has
ousted. A second time she attempts to kill him in his new guise but
only effects another exchange.

* * * * *

“It is written with a swash-buckling air, which reproduces with
curious effectiveness the mediæval period in which it is laid.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 13 ’20 140w

“Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness
of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he
lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the
stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 600w

“The author’s invention remains at a high level throughout the story,
and it is not till near the end that the practised novel reader begins
to suspect his secret, but his vocabulary every now and then becomes
too modern for the atmosphere such a story imperatively demands.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:486 D 11 ’20 130w

“‘The revels of Orsera’ would claim admiration on its merits quite
apart from the antecedents of the author. When they are taken into
account it moves the critic to something like amazement. Regarded
merely as a story, ‘The revels of Orsera’ is continuously exciting,
prodigal of surprises and often genuinely if grotesquely humorous.”

+ =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 480w

“It is an extraordinary story, in which most of the principal
characters come to a bad end, for which the reader cannot honestly be
very sorry. But there is one thing that he will have noticed by that
time, which is that the descriptions of Alpine scenery and atmosphere,
which can only be due to personal observation, stand out with a far
brighter vividness then all the medieval fineries.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 850w

=ROSS, VICTOR.= Evolution of the oil industry. il *$1.50 (5c) Doubleday 665

20–19271

Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in
Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest
historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively
new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches
man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the industry
is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the present
time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum in
history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s petroleum
industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum as a world
industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well; Collecting and
transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and manufacturing
petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries; Petroleum on the
seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s investment in
petroleum; Petroleum in the future.

=ROTHERY, AGNES EDWARDS (MRS HARRY ROGERS PRATT) (AGNES EDWARDS, pseud.).= Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. il *$2.50 (6½c) Houghton 974.4

20–26574

Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a foreword,
the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip along the
earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast road,
connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel comfortably
“picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten history we
most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a pleasure trip
into history and old traditions, as the table of contents reveals:
Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the Blue hills;
Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth; Ecclesiastical
Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate shore; Marshfield,
the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes; Kingston and its
manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and chapter vignettes are by
Louis H. Ruyl.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w

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

“A pleasant, friendly guide book. It is charmingly illustrated.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 50w

“If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to Plymouth,
he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He will find
each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 1000w

“The pen-and-ink illustrations are unusually attractive.”

+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 200w

=ROUTZAHN, MRS MARY BRAYTON (SWAIN).=[2] Traveling publicity campaigns. il *$1.50 Russell Sage foundation 374

20–12390

The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby
M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried
on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e.
“the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other
campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor
trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a
continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of
traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning;
Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization;
The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train;
Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.

* * * * *

=Ann Am Acad= 93:226 Ja ’21 40w

“Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will
find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews

+ =J Home Econ= 13:89 F ’21 220w

=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–1699

The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry
and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in
the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang.
He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas
Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff
although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their
methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and
killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he
realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample
restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s
daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas
becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil
woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist,
dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is
really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.

* * * * *

“Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an
unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a
singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting
reading.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 300w

“The tale is cheerfully improbable, swift-moving, and very
entertaining.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Peddler. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–15959

The somewhat erratic peddler of the title carried his miscellaneous
stock of wares in and on an immense ex-army truck, so that his
approach was invariably heralded by a clanging and banging of
hardware. In this way he made his entry into the exclusive New England
colony where the Kirkland family of four sons and a daughter was
justly famous. To the same resort in less spectacular style came a
small band of European crooks, who proceeded at once to work silently
and effectively along their own original lines of robbery. Not until
William Kirkland was accused of the thefts, did the peddler reveal the
fact that he was there as a member of the secret police incognito. But
when an attempt upon William’s life was made, the peddler was on hand
to rescue him and to try to capture the criminals. Altho the result
was not satisfactory to him, the others concerned seemed to be quite
content, and the bonus which he claimed in the person of Diana
Kirkland reconciled him to what he considered his failure. Some of the
characters and some of the stolen jewelry figured previously in Mr
Rowland’s novel “Duds.”

* * * * *

“Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

“It is a rattling tale, full of new complications and exciting
incidents. The interest does not flag, the characters are sharply
differentiated human beings, and not automata. It is an admirable
mystery story.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 120w

=ROYCE, JOSIAH.= Lectures on modern idealism. *$3 Yale univ. press 141

20–7505

“The ground covered by the book is largely the same as the substance
of Royce’s ‘Spirit of modern philosophy,’ but the treatment is wholly
different, being as professedly technical as the earlier book was not.
And, whether wisely or unwisely, the author has avoided repeating what
is contained in the ordinary histories of philosophy by emphasizing
the neglected aspects of the thinkers whose systems he
expounds.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Interesting as a pre-war study of German philosophy.”

+ =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20

Reviewed by Hartley Alexander

=Nation= 111:sup409 O 13 ’20 2600w

“Throughout, Royce’s accurate scholarship and gift of sympathetic
interpretation are at their best, but nowhere more so than in the
three lectures on Hegel’s ‘Phaenomenology of spirit.’” R. F. A. H.

+ =New Repub= 25:325 F 9 ’21 900w

“The initial presumption that we have a book here worthy of careful
study is amply justified by the reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 1150w

=RUSH, THOMAS EDWARD.= Port of New York. il *$3.50 Doubleday 387

20–10357

The purpose of this book, by the surveyor of customs of the port of
New York, is to make it easier for business men, officials, teachers
and students, to understand New York harbor, and to estimate its
importance for the city, the country, and the world. It tells its
history from the very beginning and points out five agencies as
responsible for its improvements: the cities within the port areas;
New York and New Jersey state governments; the federal government; the
projected bi-state unified port control; and extra governmental
agencies voicing the public’s demands and needs. Many drawbacks and
inefficiencies are pointed out and the fact emphasized that New York
is “first and foremost a port.” Among the contents are: Birth,
christening, and youth; Piracy and privateering abolished; Eternal
vigilance against smugglers; Giant growth in commerce; Government
far-sightedness and short-sightedness; The port awakening of New
Jersey; Forts and fortifications; New York, the nation’s first air
harbor; Advertising New York port’s nautical school; Immigration’s
gateway to America; Bibliography and illustrations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

“The port of New York is deserving of a more comprehensive and more
technical study of its processes than is provided by Thomas E. Rush.
An adequate study of the port from the transportation or engineering
point of view it emphatically is not.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 450w

=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Bolshevism: practice and theory. *$2 Harcourt 335

20–20991

A book containing the articles which appeared in the Nation together
with new material. Bertrand Russell writes as a communist who finds
much to criticize in the bolshevist method of putting communism into
practice. He says: “A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing
with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in
philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary
if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his
master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I
criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure
from their own ideals.” (Preface) The book is the outcome of a brief
visit to Russia. Part 1, The present condition of Russia, has chapters
on: What is hoped for Bolshevism; General characteristics; Lenin,
Trotsky, and Gorky; Art and education (written by Mr Russell’s
secretary, Miss D. W. Black); Daily life in Moscow; etc. Part 2,
Bolshevik theory, is a criticism of the materialistic conception of
history and other accepted doctrines, with chapters on: Why Russian
communist has failed; and Conditions for the success of communism.

* * * * *

“We have found the most interesting part of Mr Russell’s book to be,
on the whole, his analysis of the theory of Bolshevism.” J. W. N. S.

+ − =Ath= p695 N 19 ’20 780w

+ =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

“A clear and convincing critique of Bolshevism as a social theory.” E:
E. Paramore, jr.

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 700w

“No such remarkable book as his ‘Bolshevism: practice and theory,’ has
been published on this subject. Small as the volume is, only 192
pages, it is amazing how much he says.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 D 26 ’20 1400w

“Bertrand Russell is not a clear thinker. The chief value of this book
lies in the fact that it is a condemnation of the spirit of Bolshevism
by one whose prejudices for its avowed principles would naturally make
him its apologist if not its defender.”

− + =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 180w

=Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w

“Mr Bertrand Russell’s book is likely to remain the most damning
criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered
as a faith or as a political institution. Although Mr Russell seems to
us to be no more practical than a Russian Bolshevik, he is beyond
doubt a brilliant philosopher, and often one cannot help finding
fineness in his thought, even when he seems to us least to understand
the ways of the ordinary man. Among the most interesting things in the
book are the accounts of Mr Russell’s meetings with Lenin and
Trotsky.”

+ − =Spec= 125:705 N 27 ’20 1900w

“Not the least interesting chapters are those on ‘Revolution and
dictatorship’ and ‘Mechanism and the individual,’ in which Mr Russell
reveals his own views as to the future industrial system which is to
replace the present. Mr Russell himself is sanguine as to a new
economic order emerging from the present chaos. But his grounds of
faith are unconvincing.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 N 18 ’20 1200w

=RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD.= Story of the Nonpartisan league; a chapter in American evolution. il *$2 Harper 329

20–11024

Altho covering practically the same ground as Herbert E. Gaston’s
“Nonpartisan league” this book goes more fully into the conditions out
of which the league movement developed, bringing together much
illustrative material and documentary evidence to show the workings of
the system under which the farmer was exploited. The author says in
beginning, “I have no idea that in the succeeding pages I can remove
the fixed belief of the dwellers in cities that the farmer of America
is becoming clog-footed with wealth, but it has occurred to me that a
plain record of the tragic struggles of a large body of American
farmers for bare justice and a chance to live ... might have some
interest as a human as well as a social and political document of
facts.” The part devoted to the rise and present organization of the
league is correspondingly less complete than Mr Gaston’s, but the main
facts are sketched. The book has been carefully indexed.

* * * * *

“Rather more interestingly and dramatically written than Gaston.”

+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

“Admirable book.” W. H. C.

+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 480w