Chapter LXVII: Part 2: , ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters (23)

“In this book Mr Sassoon describes warfare just as he did in his two
earlier books. But the last lyric in ‘Picture-show,’ [Every one sang,]
is, perhaps, the very loveliest of all the songs written to welcome
peace.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 140w

“Mr Sassoon sometimes is as shaken in his expressions as in his
emotion, and then he is apt to write as though art could not contain
him. But every poet must learn that no man feels too deeply or too
quickly to write well.... At its best here is a proud, tender poetry,
indignant often but magnanimous always, the creation of a loving and
aristocratic art.” J: Drinkwater

+ − =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 1550w

“When it comes to sheer poetry, I find in Mr Sassoon but two
outstanding merits, a feeling for phrase and a sense of the occult,
both present in the degree which redeems verse from insignificance
without lifting it to distinction.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 220w

=SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS.= Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada. il *$3 McBride 581.6

20–26546

The purpose of the book is to call attention to certain useful wild
plants, growing in the woods, waters and open country of the United
States, that have in the past formed an important element in the diet
of the aborigines and that could be both interesting and useful to
dwellers in rural districts, to campers, vacationists and nature
students. It is copiously illustrated by photographs and line drawings
and the contents are: Wild plants with edible tubers, bulbs or roots;
Wild seeds of food value and how they have been utilized; The acorn as
human food and some other wild nuts; Some little regarded wild fruits
and berries; Wild plants with edible stems and leaves; Beverage plants
of field and wood; Vegetable substitutes for soap; Some medicinal
wildings worth knowing; Miscellaneous uses of wild plants; A
cautionary chapter on certain poisonous plants; Regional index and
general index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

=SAUNDERS, MARSHALL.= Bonnie Prince Fetlar. *$2 (2½c) Doran

20–18408

The hero of this new story by the author of “Beautiful Joe” is a
Shetland pony, and there are many other characters, both animal and
human. The scene is a Canadian farm to which the pony and his master,
a delicate boy with over-strung nerves, are sent. Neither likes the
strange, wild country at first but in time both come to love it, the
young master’s health is restored, he makes new friends with a family
of six lively Canadian children and in the end the mother he had
believed dead returns to him. All this story is told in the words of
the pony.

* * * * *

“The author of ‘Beautiful Joe’ has written a horse story which friends
of Beautiful Joe will be disappointed in. But after all, comparisons
are unnecessary—and ‘Bonnie Prince Fetlar,’ left to itself, is an
attractive book, full of incident and interest.”

+ − =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w

=N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 60w

“It is hardly necessary to say that here is an offering which any
healthy boy or girl must enjoy, but to this it may be added that also
it makes a strong appeal to grown-ups.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 D 12 ’20 270w

=SAVI, ETHEL WINIFRED.= When the blood burns. *$2 (1½c) Putnam

20–22037

Marcelle was a typist in a London office. Her beauty attracted her
employer and his charming personality easily persuaded the
inexperienced girl that she loved him; also—since he was married to a
much older woman who would not hear of divorce—that it was right for
her to go away with him to India. The monotony of the life there soon
palled on David and he is glad, eventually, of the summons back to
England. Marcelle, left behind, suffers untold miseries and
excruciating experiences, and is finally rescued by the one friend who
has stood by her from the first and who takes her home as his wife.
The interesting feature of the story is its description of life in
India.

* * * * *

=Ath= p698 N 19 ’20 150w

“It is a very old situation upon which E. W. Savi bases her story. She
gives it no new twist, but she infuses into it so vital a sense of
reality that it draws us and holds us keenly interested in its
developments. She possesses the story-telling art in a very marked
degree, and her story is full of both the beauty and strangeness of
genuine romance.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2000w

“The author hero has been content to tell a plain, somewhat sordid,
tale of illicit love, with its inevitable penalties, which has little
more color than can be found in the records of the average divorce
suit. None of the characters commands much sympathy. As a whole, the
offering may be called just a passable novel.”

− + =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 500w

“The scenes which pass in India are much the most interesting.”

+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w

“The story has a certain sympathetic charm with a moral that cannot be
missed.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 220w

“Despite a great deal of burning talk about love and passion, the
story leaves one quite cold.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 120w

=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Leerie. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–13146

“Leerie” was what the patients at the “San” lovingly called their
nurse Sheila O’Leary, and like Stevenson’s “Leerie,” she brought light
into the lives of her charges as no other nurse could. Especially to
Peter Brooks, she brought light which they both felt could never die
out. Then just on the very eve of her marriage to him, she felt the
call to go to France, and went. But she did not leave him behind for
he too found his place over there. There, after her period of service
which offered experiences both bitter and sweet, they were reunited,
“glad they had both paid their utmost for the love and happiness that
she knew was theirs now for all time.”

* * * * *

“Somewhat sentimentalized and improbable, but women and girls will
like it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“The book contains the correct philosophy of life throughout, showing
that happiness comes from making others happy, from giving freely.”

+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 210w

“A vivacious story, with plenty of sentimental appeal and written with
a good deal of cleverness and ingenuity, Ruth Sawyer’s new novel
springs lightly out of the conventional lines of fiction and goes its
own gait.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 400w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w

=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russia white or red. il *$2.50 Little 947

19–18648

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

“The author took with him his best gifts as critic—a quick eye, ready
critical discernment, and an easy pen. He added to these gifts
something of the historian’s grasp of the unity of events. The result
is a quite unusual freshness and lucidity in the view we get of the
Russian theatre.” T: H. Dickinson

+ =Bookm= 51:492 Je ’20 850w

“The value of his account is in its freedom from political interest.
Without prejudice toward either white or red but with sympathy for the
struggles and sufferings of both sides, he simply relates what he
observed of the surface and common movement of things.”

+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 200w

“‘Russia white or red’ is free of any taint of propaganda, and among a
torrent of writings full of distorted pictures of revolutionary
Russia, it stands out as a truthful and honest if by no means profound
contribution.” M. J. Olgin

+ =New Repub= 22:426 My 26 ’20 2000w

“Altogether, the book reveals a sympathetic understanding of the
Russian masses, and an appreciation of their yearnings for freedom and
peace. It does not pretend, however, to be a serious treatise on the
fundamental changes which have come about since the revolution.”
Alexander Trachtenberg

+ =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 320w

“It is neither a complete record nor an interpretation of events, and
will appeal primarily to those who may still be interested in getting
the background of revolutionary events and vivid glimpses of daily
living during the first months of the Bolshevist régime.” Reed Lewis

+ − =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 100w

=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russian theatre under the revolution. il *$2.50 (3½c) Little 792

20–692

The author chose the winter of 1917–1918, while the Bolshevik
revolution was in progress, for a study of the Russian theatre. It was
a time when the theatre had not significantly survived either in
England or France or even in neutral New York and war had revealed it
as being only too clearly a luxury, a pastime and an industry. But the
Russian theatre is one of profound introspection and inspiration. “Out
of their sorrows the Russians have builded all their art. And in the
days of their profoundest gloom, they return to it for the consolation
which nothing else affords.” In Moscow and Petrograd, the author
testifies, the modern theatre has been carried to its finest
achievement. Among the contents are: Plays within a play; The world’s
first theatre; The plays of Tchehoff at the Art theatre; From
Turgenieff to Gorky at the Art theatre; The Russian ballet in its own
home; The deeper roots of the Russian theatre; The Kamerny, a theatre
of revolt; Meyerhold and the theatre theatrical; Yevreynoff and
monodrama; Russian theories of the theatre. There are numerous
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20

“Interesting and remarkable book. It is a valuable contribution to the
literature of the theatre.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 800w

=Cleveland= p32 Mr ’20 170w

“A book so eager, so cordial, so intelligent, so frankly the
expression of a personal appetite that one would like to think of it
as typical of a new dispensation.”

+ =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 280w

+ − =Nation= 110:596 My 1 ’20 1250w

“He seems overstimulated by the shock of strangeness and the pervading
atmosphere of idealism and experiment so different from the atmosphere
of Broadway. Nevertheless, his book is tonic for the knowledge it
brings us of theatrical theories, experiments and striking
achievements in a land which is far ahead of ours so far as the
theater is concerned.” W. P. Eaton

+ − =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w

“The author presents his material in such a way that not only will
those interested in the theatre be attracted to it, but also those who
are drawn to the puzzling topic of the Russian revolution.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 500w

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“His sincerity is unquestionable but his temper runs to hyperbole. In
spite of all doubts and deductions, Mr Sayler’s book should be read by
all students of contemporary drama. If it is not a striking history,
it is a spirited and curious novel.”

+ − =Review= 2:259 Mr 13 ’20 420w

“A comprehensive and graphic account.” Reed Lewis

+ =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 80w

“It cannot be recommended too highly when considered merely as a
source of knowledge and inspiration to those who are organizing our
theatre guilds, Greenwich Village theatres, arts and crafts
playhouses, and other steps toward a native art theatre. The casual
reader will find the chapters absorbing with a human appeal quite
lacking in most books about the theatre; but the same reader will meet
something of a jolt when he reaches the last chapter—for here are
gathered in concentrated form (and often in darkly philosophical
terms) the most recent of revolutionary theories of the stage. A
handful of Americans will find these few chapters worth more than all
the rest of the book together—worth more, too, than scores of the
usual superficial books of criticism.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:173 Ap ’20 700w

=SCHAEFER, CLEMENS T.= Motor truck design and construction. il *$2.50 Van Nostrand 629.2

20–991

“This volume has been written to fill a pressing want; to give a
practical discussion of the gasoline propelled commercial car of the
present type, and to present this subject in the plainest possible
manner by the use of numerous illustrations.” (Preface) A chapter on
the general layout of the chassis is followed by chapters devoted to
the various details, engine, cooling system, carburetion, ignition
systems, etc. The illustrations number 292, consisting largely of
figures in the text. There is an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:229 Ap ’20 (Reprinted from Pratt p21 Ja ’20)

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p33 Ap ’20 100w

=Pratt= p21 Ja ’20 50w (Same as Quar List New Tech Bks O ’19)

=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ’19 50w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.= Fiddler’s luck. *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton

20–9475

Being “the gay adventures of a musical amateur.” (Sub-title) The young
son of a family in which the flute was hereditary finds a cello in the
garret and sets about to teach himself. He is sent to a musical cousin
for his education and returning, as a fairly well equipped fiddler,
has a falling out with his puppy love, Priscilla, because her progress
on the piano has not kept pace with his, and she plays an
ear-splitting fortissimo for his accompaniment. After many musical
vicissitudes in the army he comes unexpectedly on Priscilla in Paris.
She no longer strums but is a finished pianist and the harmony is now
complete.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w

“One of the most thoroly enjoyable books—whether you are a musician or
not—that you have read in a long, long while.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 170w

=Lit D= p94 S 18 ’20 2750w

“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is full of love, laughter, music and good drink. It
is worth a ton of best sellers and ‘serious studies’ in these
melancholy days that are upon us.” B. De C.

+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 800w

“‘Fiddler’s luck’ is a charming series of war sketches that Mr
Schauffler tries to make impersonal, but his own engaging personality
sparkles through the sketches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 170w

“A cheerful vein of optimism is in evidence continually, and its
influence on the reader will be anything but depressing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 120w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.=[2] White comrade; and other poems. *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–19672

Poetry in many forms and in many moods is represented in this volume:
the ballad, the ode, the lyric, the sonnet, thoughts of this life and
of the beyond, of the country, of love and of war. They fall into four
groups: Between two shores; Magic casements; Conflict; and Other
poems.

* * * * *

“Out of all the book—and it contains much which repays reading and
re-reading—there is nothing which more fully satisfies the high poetic
mood than does the little poem called ‘Worship,’ as lovely and
distinguished a bit of verse as Mr Schauffler has ever given us.” D.
L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 520w

=SCHEM, LIDA CLARA (MARGARET BLAKE, pseud.).= Hyphen. 2v *$6 Dutton

20–17964

“The book is really a pamphlet masquerading as a novel, and it offers
an analysis of the state of mind and fundamental character of the
large German element in the United States, and also a vision of the
ideal of American democracy as it appears to a thoroughly un-English
observer. Her hero is presented as a personification of acquired
Americanism. The son of a Prussian-American father and a Nihilist
Russian princess, he is conceived as a synthesis. Brought up in a
wholly German environment (Hoboken is thinly disguised as Anasquoit),
the boy aspires to become a ‘real American.’ Curiously enough, and yet
convincingly, he gets the strongest stimulus toward Americanism from a
young Englishman. The war disillusions him as to German kultur, and he
concludes that the only way out for those of German blood who truly
aspire to Americanism is to ‘go and fight Germany.’”—Review

* * * * *

“The story is very rich in material, a novel to be read slowly and
thoughtfully for it contains a wealth of contemporary opinion and
criticism. It is a colossal work and yet it is human.” D. L. Mann

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 1200w

“Excellent in parts, it is dismally unsatisfactory as a whole; rich in
promise, it is a triumph of frustration. The author, apparently, drew
the plans for an imposing work of fiction, but as the business of
construction proceeded she became so engrossed in ornamental details
and features of dubious importance that she mislaid her drawings.” B.
R. Redman

− + =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 520w

“Complicated, and presenting many divergent points of view, the book
is nevertheless full of repetitions. It impresses one as a kind of
storehouse in which the author has stowed away a number of opinions on
a number of subjects; the story merely provides a sort of makeshift
for these opinions. There is no artistry shown in its construction.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1150w

“It is especially interesting to those who are concerned about the
Americanization of immigrants, because it shows so clearly what the
reactions of the newcomers are to the influences which begin to
surround them almost as soon as they set foot in their new country.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w

“Regarded merely as fiction, ‘The hyphen’ would be of small moment.
The book’s chief interest lies in its minute portrayal of many and
variant types of German-Americans both before and during the war.”

+ − =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 540w

=SCHINZ, ALBERT.= French literature of the great war. *$3 (2c) Appleton 840.9

20–8608

The author distinguishes three periods in the war literature of France
between 1914 and 1918. “The first was one of spontaneous, sudden and
strongly emotional reaction, following immediately the first
bewildering shock; the second, one of documentation on the causes of
the war and on the war itself; and the third, a period of calm
philosophical consideration of all that was involved in the gigantic
struggle.” (Introd.) Although the lyric and satirical note
predominated in the first period, memoir literature in the second, and
philosophical essays and treatises in the third, no period can be said
to have produced one type of literature to the exclusion of all
others. The contents of the book fall into two parts, part 1
discussing in successive chapters the three periods and part 2
containing: Poetry of the war; The stage and the war; War-time
fiction; Epilogue. The appendices contain a bibliography; documents
relative to the war; and a catalogue, in alphabetical order, of some
of the best war diaries and recollections. There is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

“The French literature of the late war is very adequately discussed by
Professor Schinz. The chief defect of his treatise is a tinge of
partisan feeling, somewhat out of place in work of this kind, and his
attack of Romain Rolland is hardly just.” C. K. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 300w

“A very interesting and scholarly account.”

+ =Cath World= 112:267 N ’20 280w

“The scholarly orderliness and completeness of Mr Albert Schinz’s
‘French literature in the great war’ contrast glaringly with its
temper. He prefers polemics to poetry. Instead of writing the history
of a literary movement which is memorable even if not great, he still
is battering the Teutonic hordes with the familiar accumulation of
civilian energy unspent on any other field.”

+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 280w

“We consider the work, as a whole, timely and important. It must have
been the labor of love, for no other motive could have produced a
result so eminently satisfactory.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:13 Jl 18 ’20 950w

+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 12 ’20 650w

“He is quite prodigiously well read in French war literature. But
unhappily there is hardly any criticism in the book, nothing profound,
nothing illuminating, nothing very thoughtful even—except for a few
passages—and none of those fortunate phrases by which the real critic
‘gets at’ the significance, the vitals, so to speak, of the work he is
discussing.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 580w

=SCHLEITER, FREDERICK.= Religion and culture. *$2 Columbia univ. press 201

19–9320

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

“Dr Schleiter has given us a critique of method which not only
challenges modern methods and theories but deliberately drives them
all from the field, some more gently than others.... As a preparation
for a methodology—a destruction of methods to make way for method—Dr
Schleiter’s work deserves the serious attention of all workers in the
field of origins, social and religious, and may well be the most
significant work of recent years.” A. E. Haydon

+ =Am J Theol= 24:293 Ap ’20 850w

“On page after page the false assumptions, the blundering reasoning,
and the erroneous conclusions that have hitherto characterized
comparative religion are laid bare with a detachment of judgment and a
wealth of erudition that make the book a model of criticism. Dr
Schleiter has put out of action a good many of the heavy guns that
were to batter the walls of the citadel of religion.”

+ =Cath World= 111:393 Je ’20 400w

“Dr Schleiter, though an acute critic, is not a lucid writer, and his
work is critical rather than constructive.”

+ − =Nature= 105:451 Je 10 ’20 260w

“He deserves special credit for rescuing from obscurity the principle
of convergence, i.e., the doctrine that like cultural results may
evolve from unlike antecedents. However, it is the more original
treatment of casuality that not only arrests attention but makes one
hunger for more.” R. H. L.

+ − =New Repub= 21:364 F 18 ’20 600w

“The book is a signal illustration of two characteristic features of
American thought—the tendency to concentrate on what authorities have
written about a subject rather than on the subject itself, and the
neglect to cultivate any grace or clarity of literary style.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 100w

=SCHMAUK, THEODORE EMANUEL.= How to teach in Sunday-school. (Teacher-training handbook) $1.50 (2c) United Lutheran publication house 268

20–3582

A book devoted to the art, the method, the material and the act of
Sunday-school teaching. The author suggests that for a short and
effective teacher-training course chapters 20–22 (comprising the
discussion of the act of teaching) be used. For a more comprehensive
course the sections devoted to method and material are suggested. The
author is professor of pedagogy in the Theological seminary at
Philadelphia and has had “twenty-five years’ experience in
Sunday-school reconstruction.”

=SCHOFF, WILFRED HARVEY.=[2] Ship Tyre. il *$2 Longmans 224

20–18184

The dooms of the ship “Tyre” and of the “King of Tyre” as pronounced
in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of the book of the
prophet Ezekiel are here shown to be entirely symbolic and the
material things mentioned to refer not to any real commerce but to
matters of a political and religious significance. According to the
sub-title, the ship “Tyre” is “a symbol of the fate of conquerors, as
prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh,
Babylon and Rome.” Contents: Introduction; The tabernacle; Division of
spoil; The temple and palace; Ophir voyages: Profanation and pillage;
Captivity; The ship “Tyre”; The prince of Tyre; The king of Tyre;
Notes to the allegory; The second temple; The great city “Babylon”;
The Holy City; The pomp and the trappings; Precious stones; The
specifications compared; Date of the tradition; Appendix; Index.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 420w

+ =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 240w

=SCHOFIELD, ALFRED TAYLOR.= Modern spiritism. pa *$1.25 Blakiston 134

“Dr Schofield, a student for over thirty years of psychological
problems, and a rather copious writer upon them, especially from the
medical point of view, gives an instructive review of the history of
spiritism, and of its modern developments, and discusses, with many
examples from his own experience and with an open mind, the strange
phenomena of ‘possession,’ ‘second sight,’ etc. His own position is
that, while the facts of spiritism cannot all be explained by purely
human agencies, communications with ‘spirits’ are certainly not with
the disembodied spirits of the dead. He regards spiritism as practised
today to be full of the gravest dangers, mental and spiritual, and to
be definitely anti-Christian.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 60w

Reviewed by B: de Casseres

=N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 80w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19)

“The author’s argument is trenchantly expressed and is supported by
evidence. But the fact that he has a religious belief of his own to
uphold against the beliefs of the spiritists somewhat weakens his
argument.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 750w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 120w

=SCHOFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY.= Mythical bards, and The life of William Wallace. (Harvard studies in comparative literature) *$3 Harvard univ. press 821.09

20–9501

“This is primarily a discussion of the authorship of the metrical
fifteenth century life of the Scottish patriot (d. 1305), which is
ascribed to ‘Blind Harry.’ Mr Schofield contends that ‘Blind Harry’ is
a pseudonym, and that the biographer was no quiet scholar or amiable
ecclesiastic like Barbour, but ‘a vigorous propagandist, a ferocious
realpolitiker without principle when it was a question of Scotland’s
place in the sun.’ The writer diverges from this problem to chapters
on ‘Blind Harry and blind Homer,’ and on Conceptions of poesy which
occupy the last two chapters.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“It is all readable enough and often not uninteresting: whether it
proves anything must be left to the reader to decide.”

+ − =Ath= p761 D 3 ’20 450w

“Every page of it betrays the author’s enjoyment of an opportunity to
build a huge structure of learning around—a soap bubble.”

− =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 950w

“In general, ‘Mythical bards’ is marked by the broad scholarship and
the keen vision of literary problems which have always been the chief
characteristics of the author’s work.” T. P. Cross

+ =Mod Philol= 18:53 Ag ’20 1200w

“Like most of Prof. Schofield’s books this shows originality as well
as the result of deep research, with an undoubted power of holding the
attention of the reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w

=SCHOLEFIELD, GUY HARDY.= Pacific, its past and future, and the policy of the great powers from the eighteenth century. il *$5.50 Scribner 990

(Eng ed 19–8578)

“Mr Scholefield, a New Zealander, adds materially to our knowledge.
There is a growing tendency, on wholly right and sound lines, to treat
of the vast Pacific ocean as a single unit. ‘The Pacific: its past and
future’ is a short political history of the Pacific from the first
days of European exploration and intrusion, excluding in the main the
history of Australia and New Zealand, but by no means excluding their
Pacific aspirations and policy. The appendices contain selections of
the principal treaties and conventions relating to the Pacific, and a
chronological table. The maps are adequate, the last being a map of
the whole ocean.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“His book is illuminative and opportune.”

+ =Ath= p351 My 16 ’19 300w

+ =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

“There are numerous books on the subject of the Pacific and its
problems, but in none will be found so careful and discriminating an
account of the past history as is here given. It is based mainly on
the British parliamentary papers, and, though the author has strong
views, he shows himself commendably free from exaggeration or
prejudice.” H. E. E.

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:157 Ja ’20 240w

=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 400w

“Mr Scholefield’s narrative is well arranged and most interesting.”

+ =Spec= 123:219 Ag 16 ’19 180w

“Mr Scholefield has spared no pains in consulting the best sources of
information, and gives chapter and verse for his authorities. In a
book of 311 pages, excluding appendices, he has produced a clear,
well-arranged, temperate and accurate account, which was wanted and
will be used and valued.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Je 19 ’19 1400w

=SCHOLL, FRANK B.= Automobile owner’s guide. il *$2.50 Appleton 629.2

20–14778

“The purpose of this book is to serve as a practical guide for those
who own, operate, or contemplate purchasing an automobile. The
contents cover the entire field that would be of value to the owner or
chauffeur in making his own repairs.... Technical terms, tables and
scales have been entirely eliminated.... Since there are many
different makes of cars, motors, and equipment, the functional action
of all is practically the same, therefore we use for illustration only
those which are used by the majority of manufacturers.” (Preface) An
introductory chapter gives the history of the gasoline engine and of
early automobile construction. The parts of the automobile are then
taken up chapter by chapter and a Ford supplement of sixty pages
occupies an appendix. There are 154 illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p61 Jl ’20 50w

+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 60w

=SCOTT, ARTHUR PEARSON.= Introduction to the peace treaties. *$2 (2½c) Univ. of Chicago press 940.314

20–7755

The book is an attempt at an altogether impartial statement of the
causes leading to the war, and the treaties and peace conference
resulting from it. The author states that he has no inside knowledge
of what went on in Paris or of any unpublished documentary material,
that he has relied largely on newspaper and magazine material,
unsatisfactory as that may be, and that his object is to give his
readers a clearer idea of what is going on in the world. “A
considerable part of the book is taken up with a detailed summary of
the treaty with Germany, including more or less extensive explanatory
comments on many of its clauses,” (Preface) and an attempt has been
made to summarize as fairly as possible the arguments on both sides.
Contents: War causes and war aims; Peace plans and negotiations during
the war; The peace conference; The framing of the treaty of
Versailles; The supplementary treaties; The Austrian settlement; The
Bulgarian settlement; Hungary; Elements of the Near-eastern
settlement; Italy, the South Slavs, and the Adriatic; Public opinion
and the settlement; References for additional reading; Index.

* * * * *

“Mr Scott’s book is an excellent illustration of the value of
perspective combined with careful study of documents, as opposed to
the impressions of first-hand observation. It seems to the reviewer
that he has succeeded admirably in a difficult task.” C: Seymour

+ =Am Hist R= 26:137 O ’20 320w

“The author’s comments are discriminating, unbiassed, and always
helpful.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 100w

“A useful aid to the reader or voter who wishes to form intelligent
opinions.”

+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 100w

“Though the author escapes the criticism of partisanship to which
Keynes, Dillon, Baker, and other commentators on the peace have been
subjected, his book lacks the interest and color of theirs. A good
many of the author’s comments upon treaty clauses might be
questioned.” Quincy Wright

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:165 S ’20 480w

“A volume which may be especially commended to students and teachers.”
W: MacDonald

+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 100w

“Professor Scott’s ‘Introduction to the peace treaties’ should prove
an invaluable volume to students of the great settlement. Not all of
Mr Scott’s conclusions can be passed without challenge. For the most
part, however, Mr Scott has done his work extremely well and it was
work worth doing.” E. S. Corwin

+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 280w

“If the question of treaty ratification is to be one of the leading
issues of the coming presidential campaign, this book will prove an
invaluable source of information.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 120w

=SCOTT, CATHARINE AMY DAWSON.= Rolling stone (Eng title, Against the grain). *$2 (2c) Knopf

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Harry King is an unusual boy. He is uncommonly well built and strong
and active. He does his own thinking in his own way, has little use
for books and the conventions, is direct and honest to a fault in his
dealings with men and a little hard. But he saves a school-fellow’s
life at the risk of his own. At an early age he runs away from school
and sees a bit of the world and on his return learns a trade and
becomes a practical engineer. But youth and strength lure him on: he
becomes a foot-ball champion and a pugilist. When his family frowns
upon such fame he goes to India. Returning, he enlists as a volunteer
in the Boer war where his love of fair dealing leads to
insubordination and he barely escapes the firing squad. Later on in
New Zealand his experiences include women. He is not averse to making
a fortune and plans for the future, but his innate restlessness plays
with opportunities and at the age of thirty-five he is back in
England, without a career and looked upon askance by his family. The
reader leaves him possessed with a new craving for a settled life, a
family and children of his own and haunted by the hazel eyes of a
young widow.

* * * * *

“Mrs Dawson-Scott has created in Harry a notable character, though not
a likeable one. Mrs Dawson-Scott has not the resource of style to fall
back on, and her descriptive powers are not of the best. As it is
written ‘The rolling stone’ is an excellent example of masculine
psychology as seen by a woman. It is not an excellent portrait of a
man.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 420w

“If the book has no weaknesses neither has it passion or exaltation.
If it is not absurd neither is it poignant, exotic, or brilliant. It
moves steadily onward, never wandering; it is competent, well-fed,
without beauty of conception or expression. It is realism without
passion or accuracy.”

+ − =New Repub= 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 440w

“A minute and interesting study of character.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 950w

“In her latest work she has elected to adopt a masculine standpoint,
and we feel that she is, as a result, less convincing.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:322 O 4 ’19 300w

“As Harry is interested merely in himself, he is not very interesting
to other people. In fact, he proves himself real not by his
doings—about which one is sceptical—but by boring the reader just as
in real life he would have bored the people he met.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 600w

=SCOTT, EMMETT JAY.= Negro migration during the war; ed. by D: Kinley. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 326.1

20–9134

In this volume of Preliminary economic studies issued by the Carnegie
endowment for international peace, the movement of population among
negroes during the war is handled by Emmett J. Scott, a member of that
race and secretary-treasurer of Howard university. The introduction
compares the recent migration with earlier movements of similar
character. The chapters then take up: Causes of the migration;
Stimulation of the movement; The spread of the movement; The call of
the self-sufficient North; The draining of the black belt; Efforts to
check the movement; Effects of the movement on the South; The
situation in St Louis; Chicago and its environs; The situation at
points in the middle West; The situation at points in the East;
Remedies for relief by national organizations; Public opinion
regarding the migration. There is a nine-page bibliography of books
and periodicals, followed by an index.

* * * * *

+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 30w

“This monograph is a valuable addition to the limited number of
carefully made studies of negro life. The oversight of data about the
investigations and activities of several state governments, of the
United States Shipping board and the Department of labor, needs
correction in subsequent editions. Constructive suggestions would add
to the utility of the study.” G: E. Haynes

+ − =Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 290w

=SCOTT, JAMES BROWN=, ed. Judicial settlement of controversies between states of the American union; an analysis of cases decided in the Supreme court of the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 353.9

20–6766

This volume of the Publications of the Carnegie endowment for
international peace is a companion to the two volumes of cases which
precede it. It has been prepared in the belief that the experience of
the United States holds “a lesson for the world at large.” As the
editor’s preface states: “The experience of the union of American
states shows that a court of justice can be created for the society of
nations, occupying a like position and rendering equal, if not
greater, services, applying to the solution of controversies between
its members ‘federal law, state law, and international law, as the
exigencies of the particular case may demand.’” The volume is indexed.

* * * * *

Reviewed by J. P. Hall

+ =Am Hist R= 26:345 Ja ’21 1100w

“Dr Scott has rendered a most useful service in bringing this material
into such form that men can readily lay their hands on it.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:167 F ’20 450w

“The absence of any classification enhances the uselessness of the
volume. By abstracting from its setting the material he presents, Dr
Scott offers a delusive palliative to a sick and suffering world. He
would have done better had he done nothing.” T: R. Powell

− =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 1000w

“A lucid and detailed analysis which may be read with interest by
laymen.”

+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 200w

=SCOTT, MARTIN J.= Credentials of Christianity. $1.50 (2½c) Kenedy 239

Father Scott, author of “God and myself,” “The hand of God,” etc.,
writes this book in the belief that “Christianity has not failed, but
mankind has failed Christianity.” The one thing that can save the
world from disaster is “the adoption in private and public life of the
principles and spirit of Christianity.” Contents: Christianity the
most startling innovation in the history of the world; Christianity’s
need of the soundest credentials; A judicial examination of the
credentials; The gospels as a historic document; The truth of the
gospel facts; The resurrection; The establishment of Christianity;
Christ Himself; Christ and the world; The world after Christ;
Christianity and men of genius; The world restorer; Your verdict.

* * * * *

“The best pages are those that contrast pagan and Christian life—the
world before Christ and after.”

+ =Cath World= 111:820 S ’20 390w

=SCOTT, SIR PERCY MORETON.= Fifty years in the royal navy. il *$6 (7c) Doran

20–205

These reminiscences were begun, the author states, after his
retirement, by way of recreation and amusement, yet he hopes that they
will show “how opposed the navy can be to necessary reforms, involving
radical departures from traditional routine; the extent to which
national interests may be injured owing to conservative forces within,
and without, the public services; and what injury the country may
suffer from politicians interfering in technical matters, which they
necessarily do not understand.” (Preface) Contents: Entry into the
navy; A cruise around the world; With the naval brigade in Egypt;
H.M.S. Edinburgh and Whale island; H.M.S. Scylla and gunnery; How the
4.7–inch gun reached Ladysmith; Martial law in Durban; In the Far
East; The Boxer rising; Gunnery on the China station; Wei-hai-wei and
the cruise home; Gunnery muddle; Inspector of target practice; H.M.S.
Good Hope with the channel fleet; An imperial mission; Vicissitudes of
director firing; My retirement from the navy; War—back to work, 1914
and 1915; The defence of London against zeppelins; War
reflections—1915–1917.

* * * * *

“This, book is a grave pronouncement by a distinguished expert in
gunnery, and should receive the attention which it assuredly
deserves.”

+ =Ath= p1274 N 28 ’19 440w

Reviewed by C. C. Gill

+ =Bookm= 51:274 My ’20 1450w

“Altho more sober and restrained in style, Sir Percy Scott’s book is
quite as critical in substance as Lord Fisher’s.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 80w

“A work of value to anyone interested in the technique of naval
gunnery.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Ja ’20 80w

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 200w

“Apart from opinion on professional matters, the narrative of these
recollections is rather unequal. We get too much of ‘the mayor in
proposing the toast of “our guests” referred,’ etc., and ‘in reply I
said,’ etc.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:536 D 6 ’19 1000w

“We associate the name of Sir Percy Scott with naval gunnery. It is no
surprise, then, to find that his memoirs are mainly devoted to this
question. The book deserves careful reading, for the subject is of
prime importance.”

+ =Spec= 123:694 N 22 ’19 1750w

“His book is to be carefully read, not without skipping over shrewish
passages here and there, but with thought.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 N 13 ’19 2000w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 880w

=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Blue pearl. il *$1.75 (3c) Century

20–17413

This story introduces all the characters of “Boy scouts in the
wilderness.” Jim Donegan, the lumber king, offers to give the boys
$50,000 if they will bring a blue pearl like the one Joe Couteau, the
Indian boy, remembers to have seen in his childhood. Joe and Will
Bright, the heroes of the earlier book, with two chosen companions,
start on the quest. It takes them out to the Pacific coast and into
the far north to the old home of Joe’s people, and after many
adventures they return with the prize.

* * * * *

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 20w

=Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 70w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 120w

“This is a story of some literary value.” H. L. Reed

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 110w

=SCOVILLE, SAMUEL, jr.= Everyday adventures. il $3 (4c) Atlantic monthly press 590.4

20–19518

A book of nature essays, most of them describing personal adventures
with birds or other forms of wild life. The photographs which
illustrate the book are especially noteworthy. Contents: Everyday
adventures; Zero birds; Snow stories; A runaway day; The raven’s nest;
Hidden treasure; Bird’s-nesting; The treasure hunt; Orchid hunting;
The marsh dwellers; The seven sleepers; Dragon’s blood. The papers are
reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, the Youth’s
Companion, and other periodicals.

* * * * *

“In these papers he proves himself among the fortunate few who can be
called interpreters of outdoor things.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 150w

+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 120w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 40w

=SCHRIMSHAW, STEWART.=[2] Bricklaying in modern practice. il *$1.50 Macmillan 693.2

20–4712

“The author, who is Supervisor of apprenticeship for the state of
Wisconsin, has written more inspiringly than his title suggests. He
would have the artisan appreciate his possible opportunities in the
erection of buildings that ‘shall reflect in their appearance the
character of a substantial and refined people.’ The first chapter,
largely historical, shows that lumber scarcity is leading to a wider
use of brick and that opportunity is not lacking. Materials, tools and
the outlines of practice are described. Estimating, safety and
hygiene, economics, the bricklayers’ relation to the public, trade
organizations, and apprenticeship are discussed in a way to interest
the boy or young man who leans toward the trade. The ten pages
descriptive of fire-place construction should appeal to many a lay
reader. A good glossary.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 120w

=Pratt= p19 O ’20 40w

=SEAMAN, AUGUSTA HUIELL (MRS ROBERT R. SEAMAN).= Crimson patch. il *$1.75 (4c) Century

20–14215

Mrs Seaman’s latest mystery story for girls involves a German spy
plot. Patricia Meade is staying in a large hotel with her father, who
is on a secret government mission. He can not disclose his business to
her and she unwittingly allows an important paper to be stolen.
Suspicion falls on Virginie de Vos, the little Belgian girl with whom
Patricia has made friends. Patricia refuses to believe the girl
guilty, and with the aid of Chet Jackson, the bell boy, sets out to
find the missing paper. The two suspect one of the waiters, but he
proves to be a friend in disguise. The paper is restored, the mystery
of Virginie and her relation to her supposed aunt, Mme Vanderpoel is
disclosed and happier days dawn for the little Belgian. The story has
been running as a serial in St Nicholas.

=SECHRIST, FRANK KLEINFELTER.= Education and the general welfare; a text book of school law, hygiene and management. il *$1.60 Macmillan 370

20–4978

“Professor Sechrist has prepared a general introduction to the study
of education. One of his early chapters deals with broad social facts
such as illiteracy and Americanization of immigrant children. He also
deals with the efforts of the federal government to subsidize
education in the states and to promote the development of higher
institutions. The third chapter treats the costs in the different
states of conducting schools of various grades. The fourth chapter has
to do with child labor, reviewing the legislation which has been
attempted and the effects of this legislation. Following these
introductory chapters there is a discussion of the material equipment
of the school and the psychological characteristics of children. One
chapter deals with the question why children are dull and reviews the
medical facts which come out in inspections of school children. There
are chapters of a psychological type and suggestions throughout of the
possibilities of standardizing the work of the school in a scientific
way.”—El School J

* * * * *

“Of the many educational books recently published this is one of the
best and deserves the attention of all teachers and school
supervisors.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 110w

+ =El School= J 20:712 My ’20 400w

“By his title and subtitle Professor Sechrist describes a rather
unusual combination of material, presented in a valuable way.”

+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 170w

=SECRIST, HORACE.= Statistics in business: their analysis, charting and use. il *$1.75 McGraw 310

20–4489

“A concise, practical, and systematic treatment, more particularly for
the use of business executives and students in schools of commerce.