Chapter 4: deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp (1)

42), with graphics; chapter 6, with averages and kindred terms.”—Am
Econ R

* * * * *

“The book will be serviceable as an introductory text.”

+ =Am Econ R= 10:388 Je ’20 40w

“No city official or head of a department or a business man who has an
annual report to make can afford to miss the suggestions contained in
Mr Secrist’s book.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 100w

“The particular methods explained by Mr Secrist are not new; but they
are presented with commendable clearness and brevity.”

+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 110w

=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Christmas roses, and other stories. *$2.25 (2½c) Houghton

20–21186

The titles of these stories are: Christmas roses; Hepaticas;
Daffodils; Pansies; Pink foxgloves; Carnations; Staking a larkspur;
Evening primroses; Autumn crocuses; and in each there is something in
the delicately complicated situation or in revelation of character of
which the flower is a symbol. The stories are all English in
background and reflect the war.

* * * * *

“Quiet delicacy of style and subtle character analysis mark these nine
flower-named stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“Her understanding of character, her appreciation of beauty in all its
forms, her ability to work quietly and effectively, yet with dramatic
intensity, all make up the sum total of the satisfaction which we find
here.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 580w

“With her happy choice of words and smooth rhythm of her style, the
artistry is invisible, yet produces a telling effect. The characters
and temperaments of her people are implied and evolved, not labelled.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 480w

=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Third window. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton

20–10315

The setting of this story is the parental estate of a soldier killed
in the war, and in it his young widow, Antonia, his maiden cousin,
Miss Latimer, of contracted but acutely intensified vision, and
Captain Saltonhall, the husband’s friend and now Antonia’s lover. Miss
Latimer, whose entire limited emotional life had been concentrated on
her cousin Malcolm, has succeeded in putting Antonia in an agonized
frame of mind. The latter is torn by misgivings that, by marrying
Saltonhall, she will be unfaithful to her first husband. By certain
telepathic powers Miss Latimer obtains a knowledge of the unspoken
thoughts in the two lovers’ minds and with it conjures up a vision of
Malcolm’s sorrowing ghost standing by the fountain (seen from the
third window of the drawing-room). The result is a tragedy, for the
distressed Antonia takes an overdose of her sleeping powders.

* * * * *

=Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 850W

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“Few writers of fiction today can equal in perfection of style the
work of Anne Douglas Segwick. But ‘The third window’ has an intrinsic
interest as a story.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1200W

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w

“It is a welcome relief to find, among the flood of books that exploit
the present interest in psychic phenomena, one that is both an
artistic piece of work, and a sincere attempt to penetrate beneath the
usual morbid sentimentalism of the theme to the vital problems
involved in a belief in survival.” H. W. M.

+ =Grinnell R= 15:260 O ’20 260w

“It has much of the delicate precision of line and enhanced effect of
perspective which the frame of a fine window can give to the view
which it reveals. But the perfection in arrangement is not complete,
and the flaws which appear come close to calling in question the
validity of Miss Sedgwick’s studied placement of events and deliberate
simplification. Yet even with these lapses, ‘The third window’ keeps a
singular and exquisite beauty.” C. M. R.

+ − =New Repub= 24:101 S 22 ’20 680w

“Her characters are drawn with deftness, delicacy and skill, the book
is beautifully written in a style at once clear and subtle, and all
the values of the picture are finely maintained. Yet for all its
excellences it has one great flaw, a defect at the very root of the
argument. The reader cannot but believe that Antonia’s fondness for
Malcolm was a very superficial thing, since she was not only willing
but even anxious so quickly to put another man in his place.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 800w

“Somber in theme, the story is written with exquisite delicacy and
grasping strength.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 180w

“The redeeming features of the book are its truth to English life and
its brevity. It may be added also that the delineation of the
characters, such as they are, is quite skilfully done but there is
nothing in the book as a whole which the world could not spare without
any great sense of loss.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 130w

“So tense and subtilized is the atmosphere of Mrs de Sélincourt’s
story that we fear to breathe lest we should break its charm. Indeed,
the story is its atmosphere. It seems to emanate from and surround its
characters like the perfume of flowers. Yet they affect us at length
as if they were mere automata.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 950w

“The story is told with fine artistry and will appeal to
discriminating readers with a taste for mental analysis.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 140w

=SEGUR, SOPHIE (ROSTOPCHINE) comtesse de.=[2] Old French fairy tales. il *$5 Penn

20–19079

“An octavo with full-page plates, both in color and in black and
white, by Virginia Frances Sterrett, is ‘Old French fairy tales,’
compiled by Comtesse de Segur.” (Springf’d Republican) “The titles
are: Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon; Good little Henry;
Princess Rosette; The little grey mouse and Our son.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20

“These tales are told in that simple and direct fashion that children
love and older folk find good. And the illustrations are in truth
among the loveliest that have ever translated fairy tale into fairy
scene.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 210w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 80w

=SEIFFERT, MARJORIE ALLEN (ELIJAH HAY, pseud.).= Woman of thirty, and Poems of Elijah Hay. *$1.50 Knopf 811

19–19879

This is vers libre that sings. There is elusive beauty, the sweet and
the bitter of life, and the wistfulness of passing youth. The opening
piece is a morality play: The old woman, in which the new that makes
place for the old is but the old in disguise. The poems are divided
into Love poems in summer; Studies and designs; Interlude; Love poems
in autumn; and the Poems of Elijah Hay.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

Reviewed by H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 100w

“The trouble with ‘A woman of thirty’ is its lack of synthesis. Colour
and a free movement, subtleties of thought and rhythm are here, but
they have not been integrated: they ravel out into many unconnected
loose ends.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Dial= 68:535 Ap ’20 160w

“The poems are sophisticated and a little cynical. She writes free
verse naturally, unaffectedly and effectively.”

+ − =Ind= 104:65 O 9 ’20 130w

“Her figures, elaborate and excellent as they are, do not penetrate
that core of the memory which lives on tranquilly and forever.” M. V.
D.

+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 80w

“Almost one wishes that Mrs Seiffert could produce some disassociation
in her personality. Then she might give us, besides the poems that are
all too human, much more about the harsh black birds flying in the
design—more in the style of that odd and very memorable little
morality ‘The old woman.’ These are poems that evidence intellectual
conception.” Padraic Colum

+ − =New Repub= 25:54 D 8 ’20 150w

“It must be admitted that in her failing Mrs Seiffert is better than
many who achieve their limited successes; but the dominant overtone is
an attempt at a deft sophistication, which can never quite conceal
that it is the sophistication of rural Illinois, rather than the
sophistication of Chicago, London.” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 28 ’20 500w

“Mrs Seiffert writes equally well in free verse and in regularly
stressed rhythm. Her work is remarkable for a felicitous ease in
expression and a great variety of interests and ideas.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w

=SELIGMAN, V. J.= Salonica side-show. il *$4 Dutton 940.42

“There are four parts to the book, of which the first and last were
written in Macedonia during the summer of 1918. Beginning with a
description of the Seres road which was of the greatest importance for
the British line of communications and on which the writer ‘can really
claim expert knowledge’ after spending two years in various camps by
its side, he proceeds to give amusing accounts of life behind the
front among the British Tommies and Greek Johnnies.... The second
part, which explains the events that led to the final offensive of
September 15 to September 30, 1918, and gives an account of the battle
itself with more details regarding the Anglo-Greek attack at Doiran,
will prove of greater value to the historic mind.”—Review

* * * * *

“Mr Seligman’s book embodies a considerable amount of information
regarding the expedition, and is printed in a clear and readable
form.”

+ =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 80w

“There is a harmonious combination of humorous anecdote and serious
study expressed in an easy but by no means slipshod style. Equally
entertaining and instructing, the book is well worth reading.” A. E.
Phoutrides

+ =Review= 3:450 N 10 ’20 960w

“Mr Seligman treats the expedition so disconnectedly that his is a
terrible rag-bag of a book. Some of his stories are excellent.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:366 O 18 ’19 520w

“His chapter on ‘The tragedy of Constantine’ is worth reading; nothing
that he says about the allied diplomacy in regard to Bulgaria is too
strong, but he errs in putting all the blame on the British foreign
office.”

+ − =Spec= 122:411 S 27 ’19 190w

“Those who enjoyed ‘Macedonian musings’ will certainly take pleasure
in ‘The Salonica side show.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 600w

=SELIGMANN, HERBERT JACOB.= Negro faces America. *$1.75 Harper 326

20–10771

This book is a study of the negro problem in the United States today
from the friendly viewpoint of a former member of the editorial staff
of the New York Evening Post and the New Republic, who is now
connected with the National association for the advancement of colored
people, The author discusses race prejudice at length and tries to
show how many problems that most people consider to be racial are
fundamentally economic and political problems. There are chapters on
the negro in industry, the negro as scape-goat of city politics, and
the effect of the European war upon the American negro. The Chicago,
Omaha and Washington riots are explained and the Arkansas trouble of
1919 is treated under the caption “The American Congo.” There is an
appendix on the Bogalusa, Louisiana, trouble by the president of the
Louisiana state federation of labor. There is no index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 52:302 Ja ’21 300w

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

+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 20w

“‘The negro faces America’ is the best general survey yet written on
the negro in the United States. The book contains much fresh
material.” M. W. Ovington

+ =Freeman= 1:573 Ag 25 ’20 800w

“Besides reporting unanswerable facts Mr Seligmann gives us excellent
discussion of such questions as ‘social equality’ and sex
relationships.” O. G. V.

+ − =Nation= 112:121 Ja 26 ’21 890w

“Mr Seligmann has written an interesting book, a generous, ardent
piece of agitation, but its usefulness is greatly impaired by its
failure to make good upon the pretences of its arrangement. The issue
as to the evolutionary inferiority of the negro, which, if it was
relevant at all to his purpose, deserved thorough scientific
presentation, is superficially handled.” L. B. W.

+ − =New Repub= 24:151 O 6 ’20 800w

“Mr Seligmann is a vigorous writer, very journalistic, who interests
you by the rapid flow of his thought. He has considerable power in
arranging his facts, but he quotes and quotes and quotes.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 500w

“The question is here discussed in an intelligent, fair-minded
manner.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w

“His book should be read by those who wish to know what negroes think
and feel.” W: A. Aery

+ =Survey= 45:24 O 2 ’20 450w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

=SERAO, MATILDE.= Souls divided; tr. from the Italian by William Collinge. *$1.75 Brentano’s

20–7144

“The telling of a story by means of a series of letters is a fictional
form which, though once exceedingly popular, is seldom used by modern
writers. This method is employed in the new volume by Matilde Serao,
the noted Italian writer. It is the hero, Paolo Ruffo, who does all
the letter-writing, the lady to whom all his passionate epistles are
addressed never replying to any one of them. She was an orphan, Diana
Sforza, eldest daughter of an ancient house, and practically
penniless. Gifted with a rarely lovely and very sympathetic voice, she
won Paolo Ruffo’s heart by her singing. For a year he worshipped her,
followed her about from place to place, and poured out his heart to
her in a long succession of most fervent letters. Then, at last,
utterly discouraged and broken, he left his native country,
accompanied by the faithful sister upon whose shoulder he had wept
more than once, and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth.”—N Y
Times

* * * * *

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 80w

“‘Souls divided’ is probably a better novel than the translator has
managed to project, yet even with this allowance its theme and
substance tend toward emotional futility.”

− + =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 50w

“The story is like a pressed flower suddenly found in the pages of a
Lamartine. For a moment it gives you the nostalgia of the past. Then
it crumbles.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w

“Though it is always difficult to judge of the style of a book read
only in translation, ‘Souls divided’ would seem to be very well
written. As far as its interest and its appeal to the reader are
concerned, these will depend largely upon whether that reader is or is
not a sentimental temperament.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 400w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 540w

“The fact that the whole story, except the epilogue, is related in
Paolo’s letters to Diana is bound to give it an air of unreality,
since he is obliged to write her a detailed description of her own
wedding. But the southern passion of the letters, though it strikes
one as a little strained in our colder northern tongue, has a genuine
ring about it, and the lady reader who falls under its spell will
readily forgive such little improbabilities. The translation is above
the average.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p689 N 27 ’19 700w

=SERGEANT, ELIZABETH SHEPLEY.= Shadow-shapes; the journal of a wounded woman, October 1918–May 1919. *$2 Houghton 940.48

20–20217

In this record of her hospital experiences the writer attempts to
envisage “a vast, embracing, unseizable truth that was essentially our
common possession. The heightened glow cast by danger and death on the
faces of the young, and its fading into the rather flat daylight of
survival; the psychological dislocation of armistice; the weariness of
reconstruction; the shift in Franco-American relations that followed
President Wilson’s intervention in European affairs; and the place of
American women in the adventures of the A. E. F.” (Preface) The three
parts of the book are: The wing of death; Pax in bello; The city of
confusion.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

“It is, indeed, amazing that Miss Sergeant is able to make her meagre
details of vivid interest, but such is her art that she ably succeeds
in holding attention throughout the pages of this novel journal.” C.
K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 390w

“The book derives a unity from its synthesis of fragments—a shade too
clinical at times, but otherwise sharply realistic and delicately
expressed.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 50w

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 200w

“Books so concentrated, so vivid, and so sustained in their spiritual
excitement rarely get written.”

+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 170w

“How readable ‘Shadow-shapes’ is, and what is more, how full of
feeling, of generosity, of the gold of human intercourse delicately
essayed, of difficult things bravely thought out, of fine things
appreciated, of good things described with sympathy, accuracy—this
quite outweighs in my impression of it that vast excess of the
sympathy over the accuracy, of the personal over the impersonal which,
artistically at least, is a serious fault.” R. L.

+ − =New Repub= 25:268 Ja 26 ’21 1100w

“Originality is a force everywhere, and Miss Sergeant’s
‘Shadow-shapes’ is a very original volume. Miss Sergeant is an
accomplished stylist, her art conceals itself. Picture after picture
rises before us, in its very color, form and significance. If Miss
Sergeant is supremely sensitive to the drama of minds, she is no less
sensitive to the beauty of nature. Truly, every one should read this
book.” Amy Lowell

+ =N Y Times= p10 N 14 ’20 3200w

“A book of fine perceptions, enriched by a background of feeling and
intelligence.”

+ =Review= 3:622 D 22 ’20 820w

“Miss Sergeant has done much more than give a vivid record of hospital
experiences. That indeed, although interesting, is the least part of
an unusual book. The figures which Miss Sergeant draws from real life,
frequently giving initials or only first names, are extraordinarily
vivid and human.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 540w

Reviewed by E. B. Moses

+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 130w

=SETON-WATSON, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Europe in the melting pot. *$1.50 Macmillan 940.3

20–2792

“One of the most authoritative writers on eastern European politics
here brings together a series of important papers which he has written
during the war. For the most part they are reproduced from The New
Europe, the weekly review which he founded in 1916 to represent the
policy of himself and of those who cooperated with him. These embraced
a league of nations, looking forward ultimately to all-round
disarmament; support of the Slav movement; an advanced democratic
programme for Russia; a federal solution for the border nations;
agrarian reform throughout eastern and southern Europe; parliamentary
control over foreign policy; equality of treatment for big and small
nations; ‘satisfied nationalism’ as ‘the first essential preliminary
to a new international order.’ A few of the papers have appeared in
the Round Table or the Contemporary Review and one in the English
Review. There are seven maps.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 180w

=Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 400w

“Especially well informed, competent, and obstinate in dealing with
southern Europe.”

+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w

“The book is the work of a historian at grips with reality, and has
the stamp of the best qualities of political writing.” N. C.

+ =Int J Ethics= 30:345 Ap ’20 180w

“The author’s history merely records diplomatic and military events.
Of history as a series of processes, dependent mainly on regional
economics and national tradition, he shows little conception.”

− =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 1200w

“His treatment of the Adriatic question in this volume seems to us
unfortunate, especially in regard to Fiume.”

+ − =Spec= 123:623 N 8 ’19 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 O 23 ’19 180w

“They are an excellent illustration of the best kind of political
writing, viz., the application of genuine knowledge and settled
principles to the immediate situation which from time to time presents
itself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p682 N 27 ’19 1300w

=SEWALL, MRS MAY (WRIGHT).= Neither dead nor sleeping; introd. by Booth Tarkington. *$2.50 Bobbs 134

20–8214

“There is a peculiar difference between Mrs Sewall’s communications
with the world beyond and most of those with which the public is
familiar through books without number. For she says that she found the
discarnate spirits, urged and led by that of her husband, anxious to
give her help and direction. The whole of Mrs Sewall’s nearly 300
pages is filled with the continuous, detailed, personal story of her
intimate association and communication with these spirits. There is
not much about conditions of life with them, as there usually is in
books of this kind, but its place is taken instead by her account of
what they did for her, what they taught her, and what she learned of
their anxiety to help human beings. Their efforts in her behalf were
mainly inspired, she says, by their wish to make it possible for her
to give their message to humanity.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Strains certain tenets of temperate spiritualism but is brightly
written and replete with interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:50 N ’20

=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 300w

“The story is told with such full detail and sincerity, all resting,
too, on the character of a woman so widely and favorably known, as to
make on any reader a profound impression.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1000w

=SEYMOUR, HARRIET AYER.= What music can do for you; a guide for the uninitiated. *$2 Harper 780

20–22166

The author holds that we need a new scheme of education which will be
based upon the idea that man is his own salvation, that within himself
are all the possibilities for harmony and growth. The new education
must furnish the stimulus that will awaken this larger self. This
stimulus is music and in this sense music is no longer a luxury but a
necessity. Contents: Awakening to life through music; Melody, rhythm,
and harmony; Melody; Rhythm; Harmony; Music for children; Practicing;
Technique; Music for grown-ups; Phonographs and pianolas; Music and
health; The philosophy of music. The appended bibliography contains
three groups of book: books on psychology taking cognizance of music;
biographies and books on music. There is also a list of phonograph
records chosen from the catalogue of the Columbia Graphophone Company.

=SEYMOUR, WILLIAM KEAN=, ed. Miscellany of British poetry, 1919. *$2 Harcourt 821.08

A20–533

“This ‘Miscellany of poetry, 1919,’ is issued to the public as a truly
catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are
new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their
authors in book form.” (Prefatory note) Among the contributors are:
Laurence Binyon; Gilbert K. Chesterton; William H. Davies; John
Drinkwater; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Theodore Maynard; Edith Sitwell;
and Alec Waugh. There are decorations by Doris Palmer.

* * * * *

“Mr Seymour is to be congratulated on having brought together what is
on the whole a very interesting collection of verse. The list of
contributors on the cover is in itself reassuring, and when we read
the book we find that almost all of them are worthily represented.”

+ =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 180w

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

=Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 60w

=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w

“Chesterton’s St Barbara ballad contains touches as magical as his
Lepanto, although the sustained flight does not equal the earlier
chant. Lawrence Binyon is represented by verses full of magic, Davies
is his own naive self, Drinkwater is faultless and polished, Edith
Sitwell is whimsically delightful, Muriel Stuart is sharply dramatic,
and, best of all, W. W. Gibson appears in verses equal to his best.”
Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 900w

“To sum up, Mr Seymour’s book can be recommended to those who already
possess collections of contemporary poetry in which poets of more
modern temper are represented, or to those reactionaries who will read
nothing but the most conservative verse.” Marguerite Williams

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 360w

“Mr Seymour has not exercised, or indeed sought to exercise, the
faintest critical faculty in forming his collection.”

− + =Sat R= 129:391 Ap 24 ’20 950w

“There is a wholesome (one means esthetically, not morally wholesome)
departure from the preciosity, the fine-spun, over-intellectual,
finically phrased impressionism that was, in prewar days, the
distinctly Georgian note.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 100w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w

=SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST HENRY.= South. new ed il *$6 (4½c) Macmillan 919.9

20–1604

The book is the story of Shackleton’s last expedition, 1914–1917,
undertaken to achieve the first crossing of the Antarctic continent.
It failed in its object, owing to the loss of one of its ships, but,
says the author: “The struggles, the disappointments, and the
endurance of this small party of Britishers, hidden away for nearly
two years in the fastnesses of the polar ice, striving to carry out
the ordained task and ignorant of the crisis through which the world
was passing, make a story which is unique in the history of Antarctic
exploration.” (Preface) Contents: Into the Weddell sea; New land;
Winter months; Loss of the Endurance; Ocean camp; The march between;
Patience camp; Escape from the ice; The boat journey; Across South
Georgia; The rescue; Elephant island; The Ross sea party; Wintering in
McMurdo sound; Laying the depots; The Aurora’s drift; The last relief;
The final phase. The appendices contain: Scientific work; Sea-ice
nomenclature; Meteorology; Physics; South Atlantic whales and whaling;
The expedition huts at McMurdo sound. There are eighty-eight
illustrations and diagrams and an index.

* * * * *

“The volume is extremely well illustrated.”

+ =Ath= p1304 D 5 ’19 40w

+ =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1100w

+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20

“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s new book adds another to those priceless
records of high human quality, and the story that it tells, aside from
its scientific value, will have many readers who will find its pages
enthralling and deeply moving.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:42 Ja 25 ’20 1500w

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 200w

“Few modern authors have so effectively utilized the pent-up force of
sturdy Anglo-Saxon monosyllables.” Philip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 97:607 F 21 ’20 480w

+ =R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 260w

“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s book is written in a vigorous style.”

+ =Spec= 123:862 D 20 ’19 1100w

“The story of the voyage that six men made in an open boat across
eight hundred miles of the roughest water in the world, to bring
relief to the twenty-two companions who remained on the island, rivals
the best sea tale ever written. It is good for any one to read such a
narrative as ‘South!’ We see what men may be.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 2500w

“The story is told simply, for the most part without much passion; but
there is no need for that to hold our interest. This book, and many
another like it, are written for the general reader; and the general
reader (who would not read a scientific treatise if it were set before
him) is rather prone to forget the scientific aspects of polar
exploration. Sir Ernest Shackleton yields, perhaps too far, to this
consideration.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 N 27 ’19 1250w

=SHACKLETON, ROBERT.= Book of Chicago. il *$3.50 Penn 917.7

20–19424

“To Chicago goes Mr Shackleton, after having exhausted New York,
Boston, and Philadelphia. The Art institute, the clubs, the theatres,
the elevated, the freight subway and the river all come in for his
inspection, and Mr Shackleton has apparently gone over, under, around
and through Chicago with a thoroughness that not many of its citizens
would care to duplicate. Anon, he varies a charming style by telling
stories, and by gallant attempts to rake up some worth-while poetry
that has been written concerning the city.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 120w

“For each matter which Mr Shackleton has not set down, there are a
dozen that he has. Mr Shackleton is always interesting.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 24 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 70w

“A truly interesting and broadly conceived tribute to the much abused
‘Windy city.’”

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w

“The book is far from being a catalogue of land-marks and monuments,
or even of merits and faults. It gives to the city a personal quality,
and to the reader a sense that here is a mass of people, living,
breathing, and enjoying life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 250w

=SHAFER, DONALD CAMERON.= Barent Creighton. *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–11224

“An old time story of youthful romance and hot adventure, well
seasoned ... with simple love and pleasant humor”—thus the author
himself correctly describes his story. In the early forties, when the
hero’s fortunes are at their lowest, an old aunt leaves him a legacy
of four old keys, a box full of small gold figures of Inca gods, an
undecipherable manuscript and the family estate with 5000 acres to
hold in trust for his wife to be. The first three items point to
family secrets all of which develop and unravel in the course of the
story in quaintly romantic fashion with underground passages and
chambers and hidden treasures. Of immediate interest to Barent,
however, is to find a wife that is to save him from a debtor’s prison.
How a wealthy land greedy neighbor of the Creighton estate offers his
daughter to fill the place; how the daughter resents the bargain; how
Barent tears up the contract when he finds he loves her and faces a
variety of troubles instead; how the tables turn and how Ronella comes
to require Barent’s help; and how the two really love each other more
than gold and acres, make a fascinating tale.

* * * * *

“Very readable romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 350w

“This is Mr Shafer’s first novel, and it is one of considerable
promise, colorful and related with no little spirit.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 360w

“A broad vein of humor rescues the tale from melodramatic lapses.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 220w

=SHANKS, EDWARD BUXTON.= People of the ruins. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes

20–17169

According to this “story of the English revolution and after,”
(sub-title), the revolution broke out in 1924. During its first
skirmishes Jeremy Tuft, physicist, is overtaken by a bomb while
inspecting a new scientific discovery. Thanks to the new “ray” he
awakens from the shock and crawls out of his hole in the ground in the
year 2074 into a ruined and degenerate world. Almost all traces of our
civilization are gone and the people are too ignorant and tired to
restore what is left or to rebuild better. What is left is a ruling
house in England, landlordism, and a degenerate industrialism in the
north of England. In the ruler—an old Jew known us the
“Speaker”—however, some of the old ambition survives. The form it
takes to desire to reconstruct, with the aid of the oldest surviving
mechanics, the onetime efficient gun. Now Jeremy Tuft is pressed into
his services and the gun becomes a fact. Immediately there is war and
more disaster in which the Speaker, his daughter Eva, and Jeremy, her
lover, all go down to destruction together.

* * * * *

“The author writes entertainingly, imaginatively, and with a creative
skill that makes his work pleasant if not nutritious reading.”

+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w

=N Y Times= p22 O 24 ’20 800w

=SHANNON, ALASTAIR.= Morning knowledge: the story of the new inquisition. *$5 Longmans 192

“For two years and a half a prisoner of war in Turkey, the author
devoted nearly half of that period to the writing of this work. If,
perhaps, somewhat premature as a presentment of philosophy, the book
is at all events an essay at the expression of a young man’s ‘positive
assurance in the value of man as a real creator.’ Beginning with
negations, the author advances by degrees to the conclusions that
there is ‘more in life than mechanism, and more in reason than
intellect’; that intellect is ‘so formed as to grasp mechanism
wholly’; and that reason is so formed as to reflect life wholly and to
find for life a purpose which is not yet palpable, though
psychologically evident.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p125 Ja 23 ’20 120w

=Cath World= 111:691 Ag ’20 140w

“A very beautiful and a very sane philosophy will be found in these
pages. The poetry in them has a lyrical quality reminiscent of Mr W.
B. Yeats, and the prose at times glows at white heat. Although Mr
Shannon’s work is uneven, and sometimes baffling, it is never
commonplace.”

+ =Sat R= 129:373 Ap 17 ’20 490w

“The condemnation of Mr Shannon’s method lies in the obscurity of his
own conclusions.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 F 26 ’20 760w

=SHARP, DALLAS LORE.= Patrons of democracy. 80c (8c) Atlantic monthly press 379

20–4555

Professor Sharp of the English department of Boston university, holds
that the true end of American education is not life or the getting of
a living, but “living together,” “getting-on-together.” For this
purpose the higher schools and colleges are negligible and the
secondary schools are everything; for all the fundamental things of
life are learned by the time a person reaches his eighteenth year. The
spirit of democracy is one of these fundamental things and it is a
matter of education. The book, therefore, is a plea for the common
school and an arraignment of the private, parochial and vocational
school.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20

“The book is a witty and idealistic appeal for a truer democracy.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 120w

+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 80w

“Dallas Lore Sharp’s belief in democracy is a tonic for us all.
Moreover, he has a simple and, within limits, entirely practical
prescription for democracy.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 1050w

=SHARP, HILDA MARY.= Pawn in pawn. *$1.90 (*7s) (1½c) Putnam

20–8275

Julian Tarrant, a distinguished English poet, comes into a fortune
somewhat late in life. He has never married and has no close kin and
he one day expresses his intention of adopting a child whom he may
make his heir—and then forgets all about it. But his friend, Richard
Drewe, who has taken him seriously, goes to the orphanage flippantly
known as the Pawn shop, and returns with a little six-year old girl.
The story thereafter is concerned with the development of this child,
her relations to her adoptive father and uncle, and to one other man,
a younger friend of the two others. An anonymously published book of
poems proves the girl to have unusual poetic talent and then the
secret of her birth and parentage is revealed. The story covers the
last years of the nineteenth century and the period up to and
including the world war.

* * * * *

=Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

=Lit D= p96 N 20 ’20 700w

“‘A pawn in pawn’ is an example of excellent writing, and in point of
vital interest and ingenuity of plot quite out of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 500w

“It is a tale which will really give great pleasure in the reading;
but its weak construction and the hackneyed coincidences which lie at
the back of it must prevent its ranking very high among novels of the
moment.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 120w

=SHAW, CHARLES GRAY.= Ground and goal of human life. (Studies in philosophy and religion) $3.50 N.Y. univ. press 171

“The problem which Professor Shaw presents and endeavours to solve is
the establishment of a ‘higher synthesis’ between an individualistic
egoism and a scientifico-social self-suppression. The ‘higher
synthesis,’ when he arrives at it in book three, is expounded in three
sections, The joy of life in the world-whole, The worth of life in the
world-whole (to be found in work), and The truth of life in the
world-whole (to be found rather in culture than in æstheticism).”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“In formulating his code of ethics, Dr Shaw has succeeded in adding an
illuminating and clearly written volume to the already large library
dealing with the origins and values of human conduct.” L. M. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 550w

=Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 60w

“Prof. Shaw’s presentation of his case is far from shallow and
unconsidered—and has the inestimable merit of making no concessions to
prejudices, of being absolutely unafraid. Moreover, it is a positive
and too rare joy to find a book with exact footnote knowledge of the
history of thought and literature.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 Mr 13 ’20 1350w

“It may be doubted whether this very substantial volume makes any very
definite fresh contribution either practical or theoretical to its
subject; and Professor Shaw is by no means free from the tendency
among American philosophers to avoid clear logical exposition and to
smother their thought under a heavy load of philosophic verbiage.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 180w

=SHAW, FREDERICK JOHN (BROUGHAM VILLIERS, pseud.), and CHESSON, WILFRID HUGH.= Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865. *$2.50 Scribner 327.73

(Eng ed 19–18602)

“‘Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865,’ deals with the causes of
friction and misunderstandings between Great Britain and the United
States during the trying years of the Civil war. The reasons which,
for a time, gave prominence to the southern sympathies of the British
ruling classes, while rendering almost inarticulate the far deeper
feeling for the cause of union and emancipation among the masses of
our people, are examined and explained. W. H. Chesson, grandson of
George Thompson, the antislavery orator, who was William Lloyd
Garrison’s bosom friend, contributes a chapter which attempts to
convey an impression of the influence of transatlantic problems upon
English oratory and the writings of public men.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“While Mr Villiers’s general presentation of national attitudes is
excellent and very well worth reading in both countries, the facts of
history which are brought into his narrative are unfortunately not so
well understood by him.” E. D. Adams

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:715 Jl ’20 500w

“The whole book is instructive and very timely.”

+ =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 100w

=Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 N 13 ’19 60w

=SHEDD, GEORGE CLIFFORD.= Iron furrow. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–7422

An American engineer of indomitable grit and perseverance sees
possibilities in a barren tract of Arizona desert if the land is
irrigated. He buys the land and sets to work in the face of the
intrigues of a Mexican plutocrat, the wiles of eastern capital, his
own shortage of funds, and the inclemencies of an Arizona winter. With
all these troubles he still finds time to fall in love with a girl of
fickle affections. The successful termination of his work on the canal
is marked by the termination of his engagement by the faithless girl
and the crowning of his efforts by a true woman’s love.

* * * * *

“It is a pleasant story in a quiet key, and is restful after the many
stories where gun-play is a prominent practice.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 300w

=SHEDLOCK, MARIE L.= Eastern stories and legends. *$2 Dutton 294

20–18410

An enlarged edition of a collection of stories of the Buddha published
in 1910, now issued with a foreword by T. W. Rhys Davids and an
introduction by Annie Carroll Moore. “In India, Prof. Davids tells us,
crowds may be seen listening all night long to these tales. There are
many hundreds of them from which Miss Shedlock has selected only a
few, and of these we are assured that their appeal to an audience
never fails. She has told them again and again, and Miss Moore, of the
New York Public Library, adds her conviction of their admirable
suitability for telling.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20

“In rearranging and expanding this selection of stories from the
Buddha rebirths, Miss Shedlock has wisely freed the book from
limitations, which in the earlier edition gave it too much the
appearance of a text-book to look readable.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 51:315 My ’20 140w

“Discriminating and valuable selection of stories.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 60w

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 150w

=SHEEHAN, PERLEY POORE.= House with a bad name. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright

The house was an anachronism in a part of New York that had fallen
from a former grand estate. The neighborhood would have it that it was
haunted. The people living in it were anachronisms and as such full of
mystery. Old Nathan Tyrone and his daughter Mélissine lived in an
older generation in thought, in dress, in habits. They were paragons
of virtue and unworldliness, and their butler a good second to
themselves. In due time Mélissine falls in love, and, about the same
time, an evil woman appears upon the scene with blackmail and
corruption. After the death of Mélissine’s father she insinuates
herself into the house and for a time the air is dense with mystery
and evil forebodings. But before so much virtue and saintliness even
the wicked Belle becomes repentant and the evil mysteries she conjured
up fade away. All but one, which comes to light after Mélissine’s
marriage: through some estrangement between her father and
grandfather, the former had been disinherited and had unwittingly been
living on the bounty of the butler, the sole heir, all his life.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 480w

“Mr Sheehan is a facile, delicate artist in the weaving of such a
theme; the texture of it is excellent and his people, especially the
two women, are admirably real.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 150w

“With a slight, old-fashioned plot, little dramatic action and
characters that have been worn threadbare, it still must be conceded
that the lazy reader, desiring mild bookish entertainment, will find
it worth while to work his way through this placid novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 420w

“The mingling of love and mystery is well sustained.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 210w

=SHEFFIELD, MRS ADA (ELIOT).=[2] Social case history; its construction and content. *$1 Russell Sage foundation 360

20–19858

The book belongs to the Social work series and deals with the
recording of the relief workers’ cases and the purposes it subserves.
The record is made with a view to three ends: (1) the immediate
purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, (2)
the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, and (3) the
incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical
thinking. To expound these three ends from every point of view is the
purpose of the book. It is indexed and contains: The purpose of a
social case history; A basis for the selection of material; Documents
that constitute the history; Composition of the narrative; The
narrative in detail; The wider implications of case recording.

* * * * *

“‘The social case history’ is a new landmark in the profession of
social case work. No one hereafter can undertake case work without
first mastering the material and the method put into permanent form by
this book. It does for the case record, and incidentally for certain
phases of treatment, what Miss Richmond’s book on ‘Social diagnosis’
has done for investigation.” Frank Bruno

+ =Survey= 45:432 D 18 ’20 980w

=SHEFFIELD, LYBA, and SHEFFIELD, NITA C.=[2] Swimming simplified. il $1.75 The authors, box 436, San Francisco 796

20–9362

“The purpose of this text book is to simplify the learning and
teaching of swimming from a scientific point of view. Our further
objective has been to arrange a series of lessons in their logical
progression to meet the demands of schools, playgrounds, clubs and
aquatic centers.... A special section upon the class man-procedure for
mass instruction and class management has been arranged for teachers
of swimming.” (Introd.) Contents: The method of procedure in learning
or teaching swimming; The beginner’s first lessons; Analysis of the
various swimming strokes; Racing turn—treading water—plunge for
distance; Diving; Life saving; The safety valve and the swimming and
life-saving tests; Water sports; Suggestions to instructors. There are
numerous helpful illustrations. The authors are teachers of swimming
in the San Francisco high schools and the University of California.

=SHERARD, JESSE LOUIS.= Blueberry bear. il *$1 Crowell

This biography of a bear cub forms an entertaining story for children
altho it belongs to the type of story in which human psychology is
attributed to animals. Blueberry with his father and mother lives near
the home of Farmer Green. The father is shot by one of the farmer’s
men and the little bear thereafter does all in his power to take
revenge. Finally the farmer’s boys make him a captive and take him
home with them and he learns that his father is still alive and a
prisoner. The two escape and the bear family seeks a new home in the
canebrake far from the haunts of man.

=SHERIDAN, SOLOMON NEILL.= Typhoon’s secret. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday

20–7516

John Wentworth, a bank president’s son, is suddenly stranded, when the
bank fails and his father mysteriously disappears out to sea. John’s
friends scent a mystery and foul play connected with the failure and
send John in a wild goose chase over the Pacific in search of clues
and his father. The rest is a sea yarn full of thrilling incidents
which culminate in a yacht’s wild flight before a typhoon, a burning
ship, a companion yacht with romance on board, and finally a restored
father, a restored fortune and a bride for John Wentworth.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:283 My ’20

=SHERINGHAM, HUGH TEMPEST.= Trout fishing memoirs and morals. il *$5 (5c) Houghton 799

The author begins his fishing reminiscences with an account of
eel-fishing by hand as a child of nine, newly escaped from London. But
he soon found that trout fishing is the sport par excellence and that
trout fishers “by-nature,” not merely because sporting fashion
prescribes it, belong to the pick of humanity. Among the contents are:
Early days; A little chalk stream; The fishing day; The fly question;
Minnow and worms; In a Welsh valley; Weather and wind; New waters.
There are illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w

“It is rather long drawn out, and not straight to the point....
Anyway, the angler who can’t learn something and get many new thrills
from the book will not be found hereabouts.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 D 26 ’20 410w

“His volume is as delightfully written as any work on angling which we
have recently seen. American anglers will find themselves very much at
home in the atmosphere of this work, even though it deals with
unfamiliar waters.”

+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 600w

+ =Spec= 125:309 S 4 ’20 860w

“Mr Sheringham’s latest book on fishing is delightful for its humour
and sound English as well as for the range of its reminiscences and
its insight into the ways of trout. Its morals make it as
companionable as its memories.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Je 24 ’20 920w

=SHERLOCK, CHESLA CLELLA.= Care and management of rabbits. il *$1.25 (4c) McKay 636.9

20–14848

The purpose of the book is to set forth the commercial possibilities
of rabbits and to point out to beginner and breeder alike the most
economical way to success. It is intended as a handy, companionable
guide on all phases of the care, breeding and management of rabbits. A
partial list of the contents is: Some reasons for raising rabbits; The
domesticated rabbit; The commercial breeds; The fancy breeds; The
hutches; Feeding adult stock; Feeding young stock; Breeding; Utility
value of rabbits; Fur farming; Pedigrees; Diseases and remedies;
Appendix-handy feeding schedules. The book is illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

=SHERRILL, CHARLES HITCHCOCK.= Have we a Far Eastern policy? with an introd. by David Jayne Hill. il *$2.50 Scribner 327

20–7581

“One-half of Mr Sherrill’s book is not suggested by its title, and
deals with matters which have no political implications—with the flora
of the Hawaiian islands, with Japanese umbrellas, footwear, lanterns,
street games, chrysanthemum shows, and private gardens. As to whether
the United States has a definite Far Eastern policy, a negative is not
distinctly asserted but is clearly implied. At any rate our author
presents us with one of his own which he considers worthy of adoption
by our government. Shortly stated, it is as follows: That the United
States should refrain from all opposition to Japan’s expansion north
and west upon the continent of Asia, that is, in the regions of
Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia; that, in return, Japan should agree
to abandon her southeasterly development and transfer the Caroline and
Marshall islands to international control or to administration by
Australia; and, thirdly, that Japan, Australia, and the United States
should jointly guarantee the independence of the Philippines.”—Review

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

“General Sherrill’s ten months in the East seem to have been
insufficient to awaken him to an adequate sense of the intricacy of
problems that with such bland simplicity he has undertaken to solve.”
R. M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 51:632 Ag ’20 420w

Reviewed by Harold Kellock

=Freeman= 2:188 N 3 ’20 580w

=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1500w

“This book, though spirited enough, lacks verity of perception, and is
typical of the thanks propaganda of foreigners who visit Japan and
spend their time with hospitable officials.” F: O’Brien

− + =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 560w

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

+ − =Review= 2:655 Je 23 ’20 850w

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 100w

=SHERWOOD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS.= Glimpses of South America. il *$4 Century 918

20–20207

The author knows South America well, as a business man having made
several prolonged trips throughout its extent. He calls his book an
informal one, covering the ground and containing information about
that part of South America that a casual visitor would be most apt to
visit and about which he would be less likely to get information from
more formal treatises. It is compiled from notes jotted down for
personal amusement and is illustrated with the author’s own
photographs. It has six maps, a geographical and a general index and
the text contains: The beaten track around South America; New York to
Kingston and Panama; Panama and the Panama canal in war time; Down the
west coast—Panama to Lima, Peru; Lima—the city of the past; Southern
Peru and northern Chile; Iquique, Antofagasta and the nitrate desert;
Valparaiso and Viña del Mar; Santiago—the capital of Chile; Over the
Andes to the Argentine Republic; Buenos Aires—the Paris of America;
Montevideo and the republic of Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and
the way home.

* * * * *

“He gives many valuable tips about hotels, boats, and railroads in an
entertaining way. His chapters on Lima and Buenos Aires are rather
long, but his chatty method of writing gives charm to the volume.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’20 90w

“‘Glimpses of South America’ is frankly a book of travel—and a very
entertaining one—but it will prove highly educational for the man who
wishes to learn something of Latin Americans, their customs, mode of
living, needs and psychology.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 30w

“Mr Sherwood’s characterizations of people and places are terse and
vivid and he makes no pretensions to an elaborate study of any of the
matters of which he treats. What he has to say is intended to be
helpful to the ordinary traveler.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 100w

“If there are traces of exaggeration, or of facetious inference, the
reader, amused thereby, will not be disposed to be too inquiring. The
work, as a whole, is vivid and informing—a thoroughly animated travel
book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 660w

=SHERWOOD, MARGARET POLLOCK.= World to mend. *$2 (2c) Little

20–17008