Chapter 4: deals with classification and tabulation; chapter 5 (pp (2)

The story is ostensibly the journal of a working man. He was not
always thus, this son of the idle rich, of New England birth, who had
lived fifty years of inactivity, addicted to theoretical speculations
of a critical and analytical nature, when the European war broke out.
The war brings him a sudden realization that he has been but a
looker-on in life, has not been a good citizen, not in immediate touch
and sympathy with his fellow men. He must act, must become a worker,
must undertake a handicraft. He chooses cobbling, settles in a typical
New England coast town, and gradually works himself into the
confidence of his fellow townsmen and into local influence. His
journal records his experiences, is full of philosophical criticism of
American life and character in general, of the flaws in our democracy,
of our attitude to the war before our entry into it and of the
imminence of a regenerated world after the war. Our actual
participation in the war fills him with satisfaction and pride and the
hope of future greatness.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“Of the high earnestness of her mood there are visible manifestations.
The delicate play of humor which we have so often noted in her work is
absent. The poetic trend of her prose has been almost as ruthlessly
stifled. Yet in spite of the handicap of abandoning two of her largest
assets, the spell of the book is very strong. Miss Sherwood here as in
‘The worn doorstep’ has lived up to the magnitude of her
opportunities.” D. L. Mann

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 1250w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“The cobbler of Mataquoit is a good thinker. He thinks through his
problems, whether they be of government, economics, education,
religion or sociology. He is, moreover, the master of a high style
which sounds the tocsin of hope for literature in America once again.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 N 14 ’20 460w

=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w

“Miss Sherwood has genuine literary power, and whatever she writes is
worth reading from the point of view of style as well as for its
subject. Miss Sherwood has spiritual insight and, looking through her
eyes, we have at least a vision of how the new world should be built.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 240w

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

=SHESTOV, LEO.= All things are possible. *$2 McBride 891.7

21–480

In this collection of aphorisms the author delivers himself of his
reflections on life and literature. The work is translated from the
Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and has a foreword by D. H. Lawrence, who
sees in Shestov the final liberating struggle of the Russian psyche to
shake itself free from the bondage of an alien European civilization.

* * * * *

“There is much that is brilliant in the book, much that is even
profound. Moreover, if Hamlin Garland is right in reproaching this
part of the United States with being ‘hopelessly sane,’ its influence
here might be salutary. But we wonder whether a native of Iowa could
be cajoled into reading beyond the first two pages. Nevertheless it is
well now and then to face a defiant arraignment of the entire fabric
of our civilization.” C. M. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w

Reviewed by Stark Young

=Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 450w

“His style is clear, uncollegiate and literary.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= p19 O 3 ’20 1000w

“In any proper sense of the word there is not an atom of originality
in the book, which is merely a decoction from Dostoyevsky and
Nietzsche. To exalt Shestov as original, or as in any sense a
philosopher, is mischievous nonsense. He is interesting as an
illustration of the Slavonic nihilism which is capturing the fancy of
so many of our half-educated modern youths.”

− =Review= 3:273 S 29 ’20 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’21 540w

=SHOWALTER, NOAH DAVID.= Handbook for rural school officers. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$2 Houghton 379.17

20–10062

The object of the book is to stimulate the rural school officers’
interest in education. The information given is based on personal
investigation of the best plans, methods and practices now in use in
the best rural communities of the United States. The foreword is a
creed of nine paragraphs for the school trustee or director and the
ground covered in the text takes in school organization, election and
work of officers, resources and finances; school sites, plants,
furnishings, apparatus and decorations; selection of teachers; the
daily program, home and school cooperation, and supervision; the
consolidation of rural schools; manual training and home economics;
the question of lunches, health education and medical inspection, and,
lastly, citizenship. There are also illustrations, appendices and an
index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 310w

+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 210w

=SHUGRUE, MARTIN JOSEPH.=[2] Problems in foreign exchange. *$2 Appleton 332.45

The principles and methods of foreign exchange are briefly described
in the introduction to the book which falls into three parts. Part 1
consists of typical problems and solutions fully worked out. Part 2
sets problems for the student to work out. They come under the
headings; Sources of supply and demand; Par of exchange; Theory of
foreign exchange rates; Conversions in foreign exchange; Financing
imports and exports; Arbitrage transactions and finance bills; General
problems. Part 3, Appendices, contains foreign exchange documents and
tables for the simplification of foreign exchange calculations.

=SHUTE, HENRY AUGUSTUS.= Real diary of the worst farmer. il *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 817

20–7300

The diary begins with March 10, the appearance of the first bluebird,
and gives a delightfully humorous account of all the haps and mishaps
of an amateur farmer’s summer, until the reader takes leave of him on
November 21, meditating before his empty pork barrel—he still had his
pork barrel left—after the pigs, reared with so much effort, expense
and expectation, turned out to have been tubercular. He consoles
himself with characteristic optimism, that, in spite of a pile of
unreceipted grain bills and other debts, he now has before him the
satisfying winter pleasures of milking, bedding, feeding and caring
for his stock twice a day by lantern light. The book is dedicated to
amateur farmers, particularly to professional and salaried men, whose
love of the soil and of domestic animals takes them to the country not
for the money profit that may result, but for the interest in the life
for its own sake.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“Professionally I am inclined to condemn the book as a piece of
deliberate manufacture by a man who knows too well that he is expected
to be funny; personally I like it very well indeed.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 51:686 Ag ’20 650w

“‘The worst farmer’ satisfies all expectations with its dry wit and
skilfully woven humor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 460w

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“The book is amusing in its way, and no doubt many amateur farmers
will find their own experiences more or less accurately reflected in
this ‘Real diary of the worst farmer.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 450w

=Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 50w

+ =St Louis= 18:228 S ’20 20w

“Aside from the humor of the book one finds the author a genuine
nature lover.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 24 ’20 370w

=SIDGWICK, CECILY (ULLMANN) (MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK), and GARSTIN, CROSBIE.= Black knight. *$2 (2c) Holt

20–14287

When Michael Winter comes up with a jolt against the fact that his
father is a swindler and a suicide he ships for Canada with not a
friend to bid him farewell. But a compassionate young girl, noticing
his loneliness, proffers her hand as a good-bye for England and
cherishes the memory of her daring as her romance ever after. In
Canada he roughs it with the roughest and plunges with the rashest and
indeed makes a fortune but incurs a term of prison in the bargain.
Free again and rich he arrives in Paris in time to rescue his unknown
friend from the clutches of a wicked aunt. They marry first and he
pays the piper after, to settle his own and his father’s score, and
there is an interrupted honeymoon, with a happy ending.

* * * * *

+ − =Ath= p410 S 24 ’20 200w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 150w

“The workmanship of the novel bears intrinsic evidence of its
subdivision of labour. The Canadian scene is sketched with descriptive
vigour, and enlivened with incident. Mrs Sidgwick, however, scarcely
qualifies with her entries.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 210w

“The collaboration is only a juncture of opposites and not a mixture
of complementary elements. In short, however faithful and interesting
a collection of adventures the two authors may have chronicled,
however successful they may have been in parts, as a unified whole
their book fails because of a lack of unity in construction, in style,
in character and in place.”

− + =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 210w

“Life on the great wheat ranch, in lumber camps, and in other more
conventional scenes is described with vigor, knowledge, and a certain
robust sense of fun. The book holds the attention firmly.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 100w

“Having been given the first innings Mr Crosbie Garstin has scored so
fast and freely that the sequel inevitably partakes of the nature of
an anti-climax.”

+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 500w

“A live and busy story.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 100w

=SIEVEKING, L. DE G.= Dressing gowns and glue. il *$1 Harcourt 827

(Eng ed 20–8231)

A book of nonsense verse, with drawings by John Nash. It is published
“with an introduction about the verses by G. K. Chesterton and an
introduction about the drawings by Max Beerbohm and something about
all concerned by Cecil Palmer” and is edited by Paul Nash.

* * * * *

“Introductions, nonsense verses, and pictures are all alike absurd and
equally delightful.”

+ =Ath= p986 O 3 ’19 100w

“Nonsense in its finer form will be found in the illustrations more
frequently and more definitely than in the text. Captain Sieveking’s
verses have got extremely pleasant qualities; some of the poems that
he calls ‘examples of blatant naughtiness’ have a real charm of idea;
but he is not sufficiently severe, and allows himself to go on writing
when the humor of the idea has already been sufficiently illustrated.”
R. E. Roberts

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 O 4 ’19 1200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 320w

“There is not quite enough of this book—that is its only flaw.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S ’19 520w

=SIMONDS, FRANK HERBERT.= History of the world war. 5v v 4–5 il ea *$5 Doubleday 940.3

=v 4–5= “The fourth volume of Mr Simonds’ ‘History of the world war’
is concerned with the crucial developments of the year 1917—the German
retreat to the Hindenburg line, the entry of America into the war, the
Russian revolution and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the French and
British offensives and reverses on the western front, the Italian
defeat, and the aggressive submarine campaign on the part of Germany.”
(R of Rs F ’20) “The fifth volume marks the culmination of his account
of the allied campaigns. He tells with dramatic vividness the full
story of American participation.” (R of Rs S ’20)

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:276 My ’20 (Review of v 4)

“Here again we have, possibly displayed better than elsewhere, his
fine sense of historical proportion, his superlatively dramatic style
garnishing the most prosaic scientific manoeuvers, if important, with
all the color of romance. He has taken critical advantage of the books
by German military men published since the war.” Walter Littlefield

+ =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“The author’s running comment and interpretation are most illuminating
and instructive.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 160w (Review of v 4)

+ =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 180w (Review of v 5)

=SIMPSON, CHARLES TORREY.= In lower Florida wilds. il *$3.50 (4c) Putnam 917.59

20–15140

“A naturalist’s observations on the life, physical geography, and
geology of the more tropical part of the state.” (Sub-title) The
author has been a resident of the region he describes for more than
twenty years. He found it an almost unbroken wilderness in 1882, which
is now rapidly and forever disappearing. “Today most of its hammocks
are destroyed, the streams are being dredged out and deepened, the
Everglades are nearly drained; even the pine forests are being cut
down.” (Introd.) Many species of animals and plants, found only in
this area, have already been exterminated. The author has thoroughly
explored the territory in its virgin fecundity and describes it both
as a collector and a general naturalist. Contents: The building of the
land; The Florida keys; The Ten Thousand islands; Cape Sable; The
south shore of the mainland; The Everglades; The planting of our
flora; The lure of the piney woods; The origin of the hammocks; In the
primeval forest; Along the stream; Along the mangrove shore; The open
sea beach; The wonders of Ajax reefs; The secrets of the sea; The
story of the land snails; The beauty of the night; The survival of the
fittest. There are an index, a map, and numerous illustrations.

* * * * *

“The style is a curious, though pleasant, blending of the scientist’s
delight in naming, describing or explaining, and the artist’s
sensitiveness to vivid coloring, ethereal lights or deeps of forest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20

Reviewed by S: Scoville, jr.

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 23 ’20 1400w

“He has written well and he has presented his material in as popular a
form as was possible, but the reviewer would be failing in his duty if
he did not warn the casual book-buyer of the scientific nature of this
volume with so attractive a title.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 250w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w

=SIMPSON, EUGENE E.= America’s position in music. *$1 (14c) Four seas co. 780.9

20–9483

A brief essay in which the author points out “that America has for a
long time possessed a number of distinctive elements in music which
were found in no other country, therefore were inevitably American.”
He traces the pioneer efforts in American music, beginning with Lowell
Mason in 1821, and he takes special notice of the use made of Indian
and negro themes. The chronology at the end lists over ninety American
composers, with the titles of their best known works. The essay is
reprinted from “Modern music and musicians,” revised edition of 1918.

* * * * *

“Unfortunately Mr Simpson, who means well and has much common sense,
tries to write grandiloquently. It is often difficult to understand
him.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 450w

+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 180w

=SIMS, NEWELL LEROY=, ed.[2] Rural community. il *$4.50 Scribner 301

20–12477

“Regarding the present stage of rural community development as one of
transition from an individualistic to a co-operative economy, it is
the expressed purpose of the volume to bring together in organized
form the available ‘knowledge of the past communal order, both ancient
and modern, for the shaping and perfecting of the order that is to
be.’ The book is divided into three parts, each comprising four
chapters, each chapter presenting material from several sources so
organized as to constitute a comprehensive discussion of some unit
phase of the general topic. Thus, the first part treats of the Ancient
community, one chapter being given to each of the following topics:
The primitive village; The mediaeval manor; The village community in
America; and The disintegration of the village community. Part 2
considers the modern community under the headings, The modern
community defined; Types of communities; Institutions of the
community; and The evolution of the community. The latter half of the
book is devoted to Part 3, Community reconstruction.”—School R

* * * * *

=School R= 28:795 D ’20 450w

=SIMS, WILLIAM SOWDEN, and HENDRICK, BURTON JESSE.= Victory at sea. il *$5 (4c) Doubleday 940.45

20–18578

This is not a complete history of the operations of our naval forces
during the great war, but an account of the submarine campaign and the
means by which it was defeated. Little or nothing was made public of
the anti-submarine exploits at the time of their happening owing to
the necessity for secrecy. Contents: When Germany was winning the war;
The return of the Mayflower; The adoption of the convoy; American
destroyers in action; Decoying submarines to destruction; American
college boys and subchasers; The London flagship; Submarine against
submarine; The American mine barrage in the North sea; German
submarines visit the American coast; Fighting submarines from the air;
The navy fighting on the land; Transporting two million American
soldiers to France; Appendix; Index.

* * * * *

“This is a very interesting book carrying with it a comprehensive and
intelligent description of the submarine and anti-submarine warfare of
the late war, and is by far the best yet made known to the world.”

+ =Am Hist R= 26:332 Ja ’21 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1050w

“Among the numberless books about the war I have seen no other which
is so concise and clear and which shows the march of the main events
so unobscured by unessential details. From beginning to end, the
reader is never left in doubt on a single point.” B. A. Fiske

+ =N Y Times= p4 O 31 ’20 2600w

“The most illuminating account of the war against the submarines which
has yet appeared. It is a thrilling narrative, and we advise everybody
to read it.”

+ =Spec= 125:815 D 18 ’20 1850w

“It is in the highest degree authoritative.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p847 D 16 ’20 2100w

“The telling of this story is so attractive that the book ought to
have a wide popularity.” W: O. Stevens

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 180w

=SINCLAIR, BERTRAND WILLIAM.= Poor man’s rock. il *$1.90 (2c) Little

20–17084

A story of Puget Sound. Jack MacRae comes home from the war to find
his father dying. In a letter left to his son the father tells the
story of his youth and explains the reasons for his hatred of Horace
Gower. Jack also learns that he has been robbed of his inheritance by
Gower, and adding his father’s grievances to his own, he sets out to
compete with the rich man in the salmon industry. As an independent
buyer for his friend, Stubby Abbott, a rival canner, he makes inroads
on Gower’s business and soon merits the magnate’s open hostility. In
the meantime Jack has fallen in love with Betty Gower and the working
out of the story involves the old tangle of youthful love thwarted by
family disapproval, which in the end is triumphantly overridden.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“As a student of character, Mr Sinclair is rather clever than
profound. His interest lies primarily in the story he is telling and
not in its setting, and, fortunately, he has the power to make us
follow that story so keenly that only here and there do we miss the
background.” E. A. W.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w

“In the telling Mr Sinclair has revealed a strange mental combination
of psychologist, economist and artist. Nevertheless, ‘Poor man’s rock’
is an interesting story of an interesting phase of American endeavor.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 220w

“This is by far Mr Sinclair’s best novel. There is a great deal in it
that is worth while, and every page is real. The theme is handled with
such a blending of strength and beauty that it falls wide of the mark
of maudlin sentimentality.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 520w

“Altogether the novel is a strong piece of writing.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w

“Taken all in all, it’s a story that moves rapidly and with a lift
straight to the end.” L. M. Harbeson

+ =Pub W= 98:660 S 18 ’20 280w

=SINCLAIR, MAY.= Romantic. *$2 (4c) Macmillan

20–18389

This story of the first weeks of the war in Belgium is a psychological
study of cowardice. At the opening of the story Charlotte Redhead has
just broken off an episodic love affair with Gibson Herbert, her
employer. The qualities that attract her in John Conway are his
apparent cleanness and strength. The two work together as farm
laborers for a year, maintaining a very satisfactory relationship on
platonic terms. With the beginning of the war they go out, in company
with two others, as an ambulance corps. And here under danger
Charlotte sees John go to pieces. He welcomes the idea of danger and
death, but turns tail at the reality, and at the same time develops a
strain of cruelty. Charlotte gives in to the truth slowly and it is
only after he has been killed, when a psycho-analytic doctor gives her
the key, that she comes to understand, and so forgive, his weakness.

* * * * *

“It is not possible to doubt the sincerity of Miss Sinclair’s
intentions. She is a devoted writer of established reputation. What we
do deplore is that she has allowed her love of writing to suffer the
eclipse of psycho-analysis.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p552 O 22 ’20 860w

“Into ‘The romantic,’ which for its greater part is scarcely anything
more than a sketchy record of war-time incident, Miss Sinclair has put
a curious jumble of pseudo science and pretentious psychology.”

− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 1400w

“In ‘The romantic’ the psycho-analytic purpose stands out like a
framework. It is a semi-scientific study rather than a novel, missing
almost entirely the effect of mixed, unguided, concrete life which
belongs to fiction.” C. M. Rourke

+ − =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 450w

“Her Charlotte Redhead is new and authentic both as a type and as an
individual. The implications of Miss Sinclair’s fable and analysis are
of the broadest significance. It is these implications that give Miss
Sinclair’s book an extraordinary intellectual suppleness and
strength.”

+ =Nation= 111:567 N 17 ’20 600w

“A more difficult subject than this one which Miss Sinclair has chosen
it would be almost impossible to find. And she has treated it sanely,
admirably, with a certain clean honesty which renders it void of
offense. ‘The romantic’ is a most unusual and most noteworthy book.”
L. M. Field

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 1100w

“The story in all its poignant brevity has that assured touch of
artistry which we have a right to expect from the author of ‘The
divine fire.’” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 420w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 660w

“The book is a notable achievement in psychoanalysis, and Miss
Sinclair is to be congratulated on the close study of character which
she has given us.”

+ =Spec= 125:641 N 13 ’20 640w

“‘The romantic’ is a rather curious book in that it is written almost
spontaneously according to fixed theory. Its mechanism is flawless.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 620w

=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= Brass check. *$1; pa *50c U. B. Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal. 071

20–11913

The book is a fierce arraignment of our present-day journalism. “When
you have read this story, you will know our journalism; you will know
the body and soul of it, you will know it in such a way that you will
not have to be told what it is doing to the movement for industrial
freedom and self-government all over the world.” (Introd.) It falls
into three parts: part 1, The evidence, which is one half of the book,
is a personal story telling what the author himself has seen and
experienced in his struggles with the press for a period of twenty
years. In part 2. The explanation, other witnesses are heard, “the
wisest and truest and best people of our country” and the author
pledges his honor that his statements are based on facts and facts
only. Part 3, The remedy, has among its contents a practical program
for a “truth-telling” weekly to be known as the National News.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H: L. West

=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w

“Mr Sinclair’s book is a brave and sincere effort carried out in the
worst of all tastes—so that your attention becomes focused on the
writer instead of his writing.” Edwin Björkman

− + =Freeman= 2:212 N 10 ’20 1850w

“Is Mr Sinclair telling the truth? If he is not, the Associated press
and every newspaper he includes in his amazing revelations owe the
American public the solemn duty of bringing him to justice but if Mr
Sinclair’s statements go unchallenged by the press, every honest
American must possess himself of the facts. Fascinating as his book
is, incredible though it may appear to the dazed reader, it is a
treatise based on names, places and dates, convincing despite our
great desire to remain unconvinced.” J. J. Smertenko

+ =Grinnell R= 16:329 Ja ’21 1000w

=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 140w

“This is a most important book which every reader will want to pass on
to his neighbor. It is a complete, masterful study, and the
presentation of its facts is wholly convincing. With Mr Sinclair’s
conclusions, drawn from his facts, it is not necessary to agree. Mr
Sinclair is a Socialist. He sees everything through the spectacles of
class-consciousness. Also, at times he is humorless, and he has been
persistently naive.” E. H. Gruening

+ − =Nation= 111:72 Jl 17 ’20 1050w

“There is nothing here even remotely approximating a rational survey
of the conditions and practices of American journalism. There is a
vast deal about the topic most interesting to Mr Sinclair—and that is
Sinclair himself. The picture, while more or less true in many of its
details, is, as a whole, a caricature. Is the book worth reading? It
is; indeed, it should be widely read. But it should be read with the
intelligence and information which will enable one to sift the truth
from the mass of absurd and misleading statements which it contains.”
W. J. Ghent

− + =Review= 3:420 N 3 ’20 1350w

“The effectiveness of the facts in ‘The brass check’ for the average
reader, not to mention a hostile critic, is seriously marred by the
intermittent ‘bow-wowings’ of the writer. Can the author bring to the
tragic theme of the prostitution of modern journalism no language but
that of the yellow press? The people have been too deeply betrayed by
the illusions of language not to demand the facts without the
fireworks.” M. C. Crook

+ − =Socialist R= 8:382 My ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 160w

“A passionate, intimately personal, elaborately detailed and
documented indictment.” J. G. McDonald

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w

“For the sake of the honour of the American press—the better elements
in which cannot but be glad to see the worse exposed—one would like to
know that this book was being widely read.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 720w

=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= 100%; the story of a patriot. *$1.20 (1½c) pa *60c Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal.

21–1179

In fiction form Mr Sinclair has told the story of the Mooney case,
bringing in other recent events that show the methods used by business
interests and their secret police, under-cover men, and agents
provocateur. Peter Gudge is near the scene of the explosion on
preparedness day. He is knocked senseless, arrested as a suspect, and
given the third degree. Taking his measure, Guffey, the chief of
police, decides that Peter is the man for his purpose and uses him
first as star witness in the Goober case and later as one of his
secret agents, detailed to spy on the “reds.” Peter is faithful and
painstaking and rises to the top in his profession, a true 100%
American. The data on which the story is built is supplied in an
appendix.

* * * * *

“Mr Sinclair has abandoned the Zolaist symbolism and declamation of
his earlier books and has chosen an intellectual and artistic method
which is none other than that of Swift. Mr Sinclair has gods and a
great subject burning, literally burning, out his heart. And so it
comes about that this pedestrian mass of graceless prose achieves—in
the most fundamental sense—literary values that young intellectuals
seeking cultural modes for our American life can never reach. The book
is a literary achievement of high and solid worth.”

+ − =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 320w

“Dealing in certain facts that we all know to be true, it carries an
impression of verisimilitude, despite elements of sentimentality and
exaggeration. It gives a graphic insight into some of the ugliest
phases of the class struggle.” G. H.

+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:30 Ja ’21 160w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Basil Everman. *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton

20–5404

Basil Everman, who never once appears in person, nevertheless
dominates the entire story. The scene is laid in a small college town,
lying a little north of Mason and Dixon’s line, where “the Civil war
was still the chief topic of discussion among the older men.” The
chief characters (after Basil) are: Richard Lister, son of the
president of Walton college; Richard’s mother who is violently opposed
to the musical career on which he has set his heart; Eleanor Bent, who
has promising literary talent and with whom Richard falls in love; Mrs
Bent, formerly Margie Ginter, an innkeeper’s daughter, who conceals
Eleanor’s parentage from her; Dr Green, a physician; Thomasina Davis,
spinster, who loved Basil Everman; and Mr Utterly of Willard’s
Magazine, who has come across a story, an essay and a poem of Basil’s
so wonderful that they have sent him to Waltonville to learn all he
can about the defunct genius. The story ends happily.

* * * * *

“A good armchair story for people who enjoy this kind of character
study, which is pervaded by kindly humor and gentle satire.”

+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

=Lit D= p87 S 4 ’20 3500w

“Miss Singmaster gives us a warm and charming picture of her little
college town; she catches the external characteristics and harmless
little oddities of her people. But she will not let herself regard
their real lives with a critical eye.”

+ − =Nation= 110:401 Mr 27 ’20 500w

“Carefully and skillfully written, showing a restraint and finish far
removed from the hasty, slipshod performances of so many writers of
contemporary fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 500w

“Told with care and dignity, this novel has the quality we call
distinction.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“A fine piece of work.”

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 80w

“Both in plot and in character delineation Miss Singmaster has been
very successful in this story. ‘Basil Everman’ ought to be one of the
star volumes of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 550w

=SIRÉN, OSVALD.= Essentials in art. il *$3.50 Lane 704

20–20086

The author of this volume is professor of the history of art at the
University of Stockholm and has a world reputation as lecturer on art,
especially primitive Italian art, in other European countries, in
America and Japan. The essays in this volume are: Rhythm and form; Art
and religion; Art and religion during the renaissance; The importance
of the antique to Donatello; A late Gothic poet of line. The last two
essays are profusely illustrated. The poet of line in the last essay
is Parri Spinelli, a list of whose works is appended.

* * * * *

“His book on Leonardo da Vinci is better worth reading than many
others that have been written on that, apparently inexhaustible
subject. But his new volume can hardly be said to satisfy the
expectations that the title might legitimately arouse.” E. M.

+ − =Ath= p836 Je 25 ’20 860w

“Most of the book is objective criticism of the highest order; the
essay on ‘Rhythm and form’ is both penetrating and remarkable.
Professor Sirén understands art—his volume is a distinctive
contribution to aesthetics.”

+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w

“Really touches essentials only in the initial essay on ‘Rhythm and
form,’ in which an important matter is treated with more fulness than
precision or originality. The rest is agreeable padding from the
author’s recent magazine articles. The book is well made, and has the
merit, in a critical work, of being easy to read.”

+ =Review= 3:564 D 8 ’20 90w

“Professor Sirén is a typical modern student, who has travelled much,
and has first-hand knowledge of many arts. In his more purely
historical essays he does not, in the pursuit of facts, lose sight of
underlying principles. The essay ‘On the importance of the antique to
Donatello’ is actually marred by a too careless treatment of material
facts, and by a strange misconception of the character of Gothic art.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:97 Jl 31 ’19 1200w

“We welcome Professor Sirén’s collection of essays, for, although they
contain nothing that is very fresh in point of view, they breathe a
reasonable spirit, and state the modern position with moderation and
sense.”

+ − =Spec= 124:620 My 8 ’20 520w

“With the subject of line-drawing and rhythm, he is especially happy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 360w

“He is not a lively writer, at least in our language; and his thought
is so abstract that, dealing as it does with a subject so concrete and
particular as art, it is often hard to follow. He is, by the present
condition of aesthetic thought, forced to use a number of general
terms without defining them; we ourselves have to supply the
definition as we read, and we may supply it wrong; but those who are
really interested in the subject will find his essay [Rhythm and form]
worth reading.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p211 Ap 1 ’20 1750w

=SITWELL, OSBERT.= Argonaut and juggernaut. *$1.50 Knopf 821

20–3704

This volume by one of the young soldier-poets of Great Britain opens
with a preface poem “How shall we rise to greet the dawn?” written in
November, 1918. The four parts of the volume are entitled: The
Phœnix-feasters; Green-fly; Promenades; and War poems. In the war
poems satire predominates.

* * * * *

“Poems by one of the more notable exponents of the modern manner, who
seems as yet to be uncertain both of his aim and method.”

+ − =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 80w

“Some will applaud Mr Sitwell’s political sentiments; others, when
they read such things as ‘Sheep song,’ will be profoundly irritated.
The intensity of their irritation will be the measure of Mr Sitwell’s
success as a writer of satire. When we turn from Mr Sitwell’s
satirical to what we may be permitted to call his ‘poetical’ poems, we
are less certain in our appreciation and enjoyment.”

+ − =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 600w

“Mr Sitwell is thought by many, and doubtless considers himself, to be
extremely wild and daring, when in reality he is merely a bad rider of
his hobby. The only pieces in this volume in which he betrays genuine
feeling are some of the vers libre efforts written in protest against
the attitude of society towards the war.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 360w

“As a satirist, and he is nothing if not a satirist, he never is
vivid; he nowhere bites or breaks. His abuse is oratorical in its
plenitude, oratorical and round and blunt. He by no means has mastered
the indirectness, the cut, the slant, the side-sweep, the poetry of
satire.” M. V. D.

− =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

“He is moved to write by unbelief in the ideals of other people rather
than by the passionate force of ideals of his own. He is a sceptic,
not a sufferer. His work proceeds less from his heart, than from his
brain. It is a clever brain, however, and his satirical poems are
harshly entertaining and will infuriate the right people. They may not
kill Goliath, but at least they will annoy Goliath’s friends.” Robert
Lynd

+ − =Nation [London]= 26:352 D 6 ’19 650w

“Mr Sitwell’s impressive title is about the only impressive thing in
his book.” Clement Wood

− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 380w

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 80w

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 300w

“There are passages in these pages which show that Mr Sitwell has
embryonic poetic talent that may develop significantly, if he can get
far enough away from the disturbing moods and reflections of war to
give it free rein. He has the love of nature that is the poet’s best
teacher. In ‘Argonaut and juggernaut’ Mr Sitwell is primarily not a
poet, but a prophet. And his prophecy is full of flaming indignation
and scorn.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 1000w

“When Captain Sitwell is not occupied with telling home truths he
discloses an imaginative mind and a subtle sense of the value of
words. Nor can his word-pictures fairly be criticised as rhetorical;
each embodies an unobtrusive idea. Thus his ‘Sailor-song’ expresses
with Elizabethan freshness the Elizabethan delight in the wonders of
ocean and the life marvellous.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 280w

=SKELTON, OSCAR DOUGLAS.= Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor. (Chronicles of America ser.) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 971

20–3361

“Volume forty-nine of the series is about ‘The Canadian Dominion’ and
is by Oscar D. Skelton, professor of political science at Queen’s
university. The book takes up the story of Canada from where it was
left off by G. M. Wrong in ‘The conquest of New France’ at about 1760
and continues it to Canada’s entry into the great war.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The limitations are insignificant in comparison with the high
intrinsic merit of the whole book. Its delightful literary form,
together with its accuracy and suggestiveness, make it both the most
readable and the most valuable of the general histories of the
Canadian Dominion. The volume, in short, is a credit to Canadian
scholarship.” C. D. Allin

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:350 Ja ’21 620w

“While thoroughly Canadian and more intensely patriotic than the
self-styled scientific historians may favor, Mr Skelton is broad
visioned, never provincial. To write impartially of Quebec
Nationalists and Ontario Orangemen and of the language and separate
school questions, required the restraint of a scholar.”

+ =Cath World= 112:392 D ’20 1100w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 52:223 Ag ’20 40w

=SKILLMAN, WILLIS ROWLAND.= A. E. F. who they were, what they did, how they did it. il *$2 Jacobs 940.373

20–7445

“We all have hobbies,” says the author, and his is the collection of
facts and figures. From his habit of noting down “bits of information
about army organization, divisions, insignia, casualties, dates,
awards of medals, and a dozen other subjects of interest to soldiers”
(Foreword) grew this book, and its object is to “explain, in terms any
civilian can understand, the system by which the American army
accomplished its work in France.” Among its distinctive features are
statistical tables, maps, charts, diagrams, collar insignia, officer’s
insignia, chevrons and a large colored chart of the shoulder insignia
of the United States army. The table of contents is: A soldier’s
survey of the world war; America’s part in the world war; System of
command; The American divisions; The branches of the service; Army
honors and symbols; Reminiscences; Appendix; Index.

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Child’s book of modern stories. il *$3.50 Duffield

20–15344

Sixty-six stories by such authors as Louisa M. Alcott, Julia Darrow
Cowles, Abbie Farwell Brown, Josephine Scribner Gates, Mary Stewart,
Patten Beard, Thornton Burgess, and others. They are grouped as: Home
tales; The story garden; Cheerful stories; and Tales and legends
beautiful. There are eight pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smith.

+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20

“Filled with seventy or more of the best short stories for children
that have been written in recent years.”

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 100w

“The stories have been edited with tact and put into a style easy of
comprehension by the simplest minds.”

+ =Lit D= p95 D 4 ’20 240w

“The pictures are characteristically charming.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 40w

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. and eds. Garnet story book. (Jewel ser.) *$1.75 (3c) Duffield

20–3194

For this collection the compilers have brought together “tales of
cheer both old and new.” The collection opens with The good-natured
bear, by Richard H. Horne, a story praised by Thackeray. The other
stories are: Christmas wishes, by Louise Chollet; The man of snow, by
Harriet Myrtle; Butterwops, by Edward A. Parry; Finikin and his golden
pippins, by Madame De Chatelaine; The story of Fairyfoot, by Frances
Browne; The snow-queen, by Hans Christian Andersen; The merry tale of
the king and the cobbler, from Gammer Gurton’s Historie; The story of
Merrymind, by Frances Browne.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 170w

=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= Adventurers of Oregon; a chronicle of the fur trade. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Tale univ. press 979.5

20–4768

“Constance Lindsay Skinner’s ‘Adventurers of Oregon’ describes the
Lewis and Clark expedition and the cruise of the Tonquin, through
which John Jacob Astor hoped to ‘control a mighty fur-trading system
reaching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific ocean and on to China and
India.’” (N Y Times) “The titles are: The river of the West; Lewis and
Clark; The reign of the trapper; The Tonquin; Astor’s overlanders;
Astoria under the Nor’westers, and The king of old Oregon. The period
covered is from the beginnings of exploration to the settlement of the
Oregon boundary dispute in 1846, and the themes represented by the
above chapter-heads are essentially two—discovery and exploration, and
the fur-trade.” (Am Hist R)

* * * * *

“This book is a delight. The author treats the dramatic scenes and
incidents in the background of Oregon’s history, achieving therein a
wholly unusual degree of literary perfection. Thus she has produced a
narrative which, for adult readers, deserves to take very high rank in
its special field.” Joseph Schafer

+ =Am Hist R= 26:117 O ’20 650w

“Occasionally it would seem that the effort to maintain a swiftly
moving narrative has betrayed the author into sacrificing clarity. As
a ‘Chronicle of the fur trade’ this work fulfills the purpose of the
editors of the series in presenting an interesting account of a
romantic phase of American development; historical perspective appears
to have suffered in ‘Adventurers of Oregon.’” L. B. Shippee

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:171 S ’20 660w

“The book has the true pioneering tang.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w

=SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE, and SKINNER, ADA MARIA.= Children’s plays. il *$1.25 Appleton 812

19–1207

The authors urge the use of dramatic material in school work and have
designed these plays to that end. They say “The little plays in this
book, planned primarily for class room reading lessons, may be used
(1) for practice in oral reading, (2) for original dramatizations in
language work, (3) for school entertainments.” Some of the plays are
original, others are adaptations. Contents: Nick Bluster’s trick;
Cicely and the bears; The happy beggar; Professor Frog’s lecture;
Cock-Alu and Hen-Alie; Mother Autumn and North Wind; The one-eyed
servant; Little rebels; Everyday gold; The village shoe maker; The
faithful shepherd; A royal toy-mender; The new New year. There are
pictures by Willy Pogany.

* * * * *

“The simple, natural dialogue of these thirteen plays makes them
excellent for reading and acting or for exercises in language work.”

+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

=St Louis= 17:312 O ’19 50w

=SLATER, THOMAS.= Foundation of true morality. *$1.25 (9c) Benziger 171

20–12834

The author holds that man is not a mere physical machine but a moral
agent, endowed with freedom to choose between good and evil. What is
needed is a moral standard by which man can judge their actions. That
this standard can be supplied by the Catholic conception of Christian
morality rather than by the Protestant conception is the contention of
the book. Contents: Man a moral agent; Legalism; Casuistry; Counsels
and precepts; Sin; Grace.

=SLATTERY, JOHN T.= Dante. *$2 Kenedy 851

A course of lectures delivered before the student body of the New York
state college for teachers in 1919 and 1920. The author treats of
Dante as “Christianity’s greatest poet” and adopts for him Ruskin’s
descriptive phrase “the central man of all the world.” There are five
lectures: Dante and his time; Dante, the man; Dante’s “Inferno”;
Dante’s “Purgatorio”; Dante’s “Paradiso.” There is a preface by John
H. Finley.

=SLATTERY, MARGARET.=[2] Highway to leadership. *$1.50 Pilgrim press 174

20–19286

In a series of essays the author expounds all the qualities necessary
for leadership and incidentally the necessity of leadership. In the
first essay: “A leader—one who leads,” the illustrations of born
leadership are taken from children’s playgrounds with the conclusion
that the requirements are three: “some knowledge and the hunger for
more, an abandon of self-effacing consecration to the purpose, and a
real passion for the goal.” The other essays are: The eyes that see;
The ears that hear; The heart that feels; The mind that interprets;
The practice that prepares; The courage that faces facts; The patience
that teaches; The will that persists; The confidence that dares dream.

* * * * *

“In the clear convincing style which is usual with her, Miss Slattery
gives the world another of her inspiring volumes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 180w

=SLOANE, THOMAS O’CONOR.= Standard electrical dictionary; a complete manual of the science; with addition by Prof. A. E. Watson. il *$5 Henley 621.3

20–12131

To this 1920 edition a second part has been added to the first. “In
this part all the recent advances in appliances, new developments and
refinements in theory have been very fully treated. The second part
includes a series of short treatises on a multitude of topics which
have arisen in the short period since the last enlarged edition
appeared. There are also a large number of what may be properly termed
definitions, which are required because of the increased terminology
of the science.” (Preface) The new section comprises 175 pages of text
with new illustrations and diagrams.

* * * * *

=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w

=SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN.= Balkans; a laboratory of history. 4th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Abingdon press 949.6

20–14471

“The first edition of this work was issued a few months before the
outbreak of the world war. Beginning with the fall of the Byzantine
empire, the history of this section of Europe, where the blood of so
many races have mingled that the author considers it an ethnological
museum, the history is followed down to the opening of the year 1914.
To make his story of the Balkans complete it was necessary for the
author to revise it in the light of the last six years. Seven new
chapters have been added. They make a concise and very broad sketch of
the events leading up to the war, of the war, and of events up to and
including the peace conference.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The author transforms his pre-war volume so that it becomes one of
the best books on the war that we have.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 880w

=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w

“In this difficult work he well maintains his reputation for fairness
and impartiality as an historian.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 70w

=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Easy lessons in Einstein. il *$1.35 Harcourt 530.1

20–8295

“A discussion of the more intelligible features of the theory of
relativity.” (Sub-title) Dr Slosson, literary editor of the
Independent, has attempted a simple explanation of the Einstein
theories, making use of “such crude and absurd analogies as trains and
elevators and projectiles flying through space and Coney island
mirrors.” A paper by Dr Einstein on Time, space, and gravitation is
reprinted from the London Times, and there is a bibliography of eight
pages and an index. Parts of the book have appeared in the
Independent.

* * * * *

“He is to be congratulated on the enthusiasm he has brought to what
must have been a difficult and fatiguing performance.”

+ =Ath= p618 N 5 ’20 260w

“The main points of the Einstein theory and the experiments leading to
it are explained in an interesting, informal way so that those not
trained in mathematical physics can grasp them.”

+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20

“Slosson’s ‘Easy lessons in Einstein’ is a good attempt written in an
easy style far above the breezy smartness of the Sunday supplements;
it is trustworthy and throughout entertaining, if not always
instructive. There is perhaps too much about the fourth dimension and
somewhat too much striving ‘to loosen up,’ as he puts it, ‘our
conventional ideas of the fixity of time and space.’” R: F. Deimel

+ − =Freeman= 1:422 Jl 14 ’20 1700w

=Ind= 102:371 Je 12 ’20 650w

“A book with which the absolute layman may amuse himself for a few
hours.”

+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 60w

“If the reader will take the time to read this little book only as
fast as he can really understand it—say a few pages at a time, with
intervals of a day or more to let the ideas soak in, or to think them
over—he will find this both stimulating and informing.” B. C. G.

+ =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 500w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 40w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 5 ’20 650w

=SMALLWOOD, WILLIAM MARTIN, and others.= Biology for high schools, il *$1.40 Allyn 570

20–17589

“Specifically the book aims to do six things: (1) To teach the pupil
to see accurately what he looks at and describe exactly what he sees.
(2) To teach him to think clearly and to base his conclusions upon his
facts. (3) To broaden his knowledge of his own body through the study
of the structure and functions of other animals and plants. (4) To
show him by the adaptations of plants and animals how he can adapt
himself to the varying conditions of life. (5) To make him a good
citizen through his knowledge of good food, good health and good
living conditions. (6) To teach him how biology has helped human
progress and welfare.” (Preface) The contents are in four parts:
Animal biology; Plant biology; Human biology; General biology. There
are numerous illustrations and an index.

=SMITH, CHARLES HENRY.=[2] Mennonites. $2.25 Mennonite bk. concern, Berne, Ind.

289.7

“The volume falls into two parts: the Mennonites in Europe, and in
America. Beginning with the Anabaptists in Switzerland, and the
indigenous movements of a similar character in Germany and the
Netherlands, and their unjust and unwarranted identification by the
authorities with the tragedy at Münster, the book leads to the
systematizing of Anabaptist views by the Dutch ex-priest, Menno
Simons, after whom the religion is named. The early scattered
congregations in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Cleves-Julich, East and
West Prussia, East Friesland, Hamburg, Holstein, Bavaria, Württemberg,
Alsace-Lorraine and France, Moravia and Galicia, and their leaders all
find their place. The story is one of martyrdom, division,
confiscation, dispersion, but of abounding willingness to die for
faith. The source for much of this is Thielman von Bracht’s ‘Martyr’s
mirror,’ one of the monuments of Mennonite literature. The section
devoted to the Mennonites in America is a reworking of Dr Smith’s
earlier treatise on the ‘Mennonites in America.’ The final chapters of
Dr Smith’s study are given over to special topics.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“Dr Smith is to be complimented on the patience and skill which has
enabled him to produce what is undoubtedly the most authoritative work
on the Mennonites in our language. His impartiality in dealing with
the present-day rival branches of the sect is also worthy of
commendation.” E: Krehbiel

+ =Am Hist R= 26:310 Ja ’21 1500w

=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 80w

=SMITH, CHARLTON LYMAN.= Gus Harvey, the boy skipper of Cape Ann. il *$1.65 (6c) Jones, Marshall

20–14706