Chapter LXXIII: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (1)

project method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern
American principles of education; The project method in the modern
public school; Project work in trade education. Part II contains: The
evolution of the project subject; The broader conception of the
content of the project subject; The necessity of more direct teaching
of the project subject; Summary; Outline.

=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Rising tide of color against white world-supremacy; with an introd. by Madison Grant. *$3 Scribner 327

20–7502

“Mr Stoddard has written an analysis of the present-day relations of
the white and colored races throughout the world. What he describes as
the rising tide of the yellow, brown, black and red races is
graphically described in a series of tersely written chapters. This is
followed by an historical account of The ebbing tide of white, and the
book concludes with brief chapters on The outer dikes, The inner
dikes, and The crisis of the ages. Mr Stoddard’s immediate program,
involving what he regards as ‘the irreducible minimum,’ calls for a
thorough revision of the Versailles treaty and a provisional
understanding by which the white races will give up their tacit
assumption of domination over Asia, while the Asiatics forego their
dreams of migration to the lands of white and other races. Without
some such understanding Mr Stoddard looks forward to a race war on a
world scale.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“On the resurgence of Asia Mr Stoddard writes wisely, yielding neither
to panic nor to ignorant optimism. His views on the future of his own
North American continent display less sanity.”

+ − =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 200w

“Interesting to read in connection with Du Bois’ ‘Darkwater.’”

+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 52:301 Ja ’21 780w

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 850w

“Mr Stoddard’s book is one of the long series of publications devoted
to the self-admiration of the white race. The books must be
characterized as vicious propaganda, and deserve an attention not
warranted by any intrinsic merit in their learning or their logic. The
fundamental weakness of all books of this type, and eminently so of Mr
Stoddard’s book, is a complete lack of understanding of the hereditary
characteristics of a race as against the hereditary characteristics of
a particular strain or line of descent.” Franz Boas

− =Nation= 111:sup656 D 8 ’20 980w

“A brilliant and highly suggestive survey.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 160w

“Many people will regard this book as highly dangerous and
provocative. This verdict, though it might at first sight seem just,
would be, we are convinced, short-sighted and unfair. When we say this
we do not mean that we agree with every word of the premises put
forward by Mr Stoddard or with all his conclusions; for we do not.
What we do feel, however, is that it is a book which gives with
vigour, and yet with essential moderation, most important and often
most necessary warnings.”

+ − =Spec= 125:336 S 11 ’20 1550w

+ − =Spec= 125:367 S 18 ’20 2150w

“Because of its profound knowledge and eloquence this is a book that
must be reckoned with. Had he been more moderate in his diagnosis and
prognosis of the impending racial conflict, his book may have found
fewer readers, but it would have been more convincing to the student
of history and of public affairs.”

− + =Survey= 4:450 Je 26 ’20 450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 130w

“Mr Stoddard’s work is more convincing and useful when he deals with
subsidiary questions, such as the real peril of Asiatic industrial
competition or the serious pressure of overpopulation brought about in
‘coloured’ lands by the humanitarian hygiene of the whites. But his
vision of the ‘rising tide of colour’ fails to carry conviction.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p692 O 28 ’20 1450w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 130w

“Mr Stoddard’s book is the work of a pseudoscientist with a
considerable skill in writing who, sincerely enough no doubt, jumbles
assumptions and facts in a plausible and dangerous combination.” N. T.

− =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 680w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=STODDART, JANE T.= Case against spiritualism. *$1.50 Doran 134

(Eng ed 20–4476)

“This book assembles articles from various writers, culling even from
believers every clause usable as antagonistic comment. It is not
backed by personal experience.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Perhaps the best Protestant manual opposing the cult.”

+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

+ =Brooklyn= 12:122 My ’20 30w (Reprinted from The Times [London]
Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19)

“It will require mightier counter-thrusts than the slight rebuff of
Miss Stoddart to make any headway against the encroachments of the
insidious brand of personalism sponsored by psychical research.”
Joseph Jastrow

− + =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 100w

“A short but effective and well-considered statement of the case.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 40w

=STOLL, ELMER EDGAR.= Hamlet; an historical and comparative study. (Studies in language and literature) pa $1 Univ. of Minn. 822.3

20–2038

“A close analytical study; reaching the conclusion that Hamlet is
meant for an heroic, not a pathetic, figure, and not for one who
falters or who deceives himself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“His results afford a wholesome check to introspective and romantic
criticism, and may be accepted as the starting-point for a reasoned
consideration of Shakespeare’s intentions.” G: F. Whicher

+ − =Nation= 110:433 Ap 3 ’20 800w

=New Repub= 25:326 F 9 ’21 360w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w

=STONE, GENE.= Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. il *$1.75 Crowell

20–15505

The Lees are a jolly western family living in a mountain valley in
Nevada. Nancy is a cousin from New York who comes to spend a year with
them. Nancy has been used to every luxury and there are many things
about her cousins’ way of life that surprise her. She is not used, for
one thing, to being introduced to delivery boys and she doesn’t see
Ralph Mariner’s outstretched hand. But Nancy is a “real girl” after
all. She easily adapts herself and enjoys the hearty fun and the
impromptu good times her cousins offer her, and comes to appreciate
Ralph’s worth, at the same time that he comes to see that she isn’t a
snob. Nancy changes her mind about finishing schools too and decides
to go to college and a great discovery, made on one of their
expeditions, makes it possible for the others to go too.

=STONE, GENE.= Jane and the owl. (Sage brush stories) il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell

A series of fairy tale adventures for young readers. The initial
setting is unusual. Jane lives in the sage brush country and her
playground is a rocky canyon. Climbing its steep slopes one day, she
sits down on a broad flat rock to rest and falls asleep and then begin
her adventures in company with Oskar the owl. The stories are: Jane
and the owl; The wobbly wudgets; The tremendous terwollipers; The moon
sprites; The strike of the stylish young ladies of Fairtowers; The
land o’ nod; The joyful mermaids; Break o’ day country.

=STOREY, MOORFIELD.= Problems of today. *$1.50 Houghton 304

20–18501

A volume containing the Godkin lectures for 1920. These annual
lectures, delivered at Harvard, must deal in some manner with “the
essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen.” Mr
Storey chose five unrelated subjects of vital present interest. These
are: The use of parties; Lawlessness; Race prejudice; The labor
question; Our foreign relations. The author is a lawyer and member of
the American bar association. He has been president of the
Massachusetts civil service reform association, the Anti-imperialist
league, and of the National association for the advancement of colored
people.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“Mr Storey is at his best when he is considering conditions that are
not complex, where rightmindedness and neighborly feeling and a
willingness to do one’s share are enough to remedy human ills. When we
turn to discussion of the distribution of wealth and the relations
between employer and employed we find Mr Storey less adequate.”

+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 450w

=STORM, MARION.= Minstrel weather. il *$1.50 (8c) Harper 814

20–20910

A volume of nature essays, one for each month of the year, with such
titles as: Faces of Janus; A woodland valentine; Ways of the March
hare; The April moment; The crest of spring; Hay harvest time. The
author has a keen eye for the delicate shadings of the seasons’
changes, and the book will appeal to those of similar tastes. In
addition to the twelve essays for the months, she writes of Landscapes
seen in dreams; Hiding places; The play of leaves; The brown frontier;
Far altars.

* * * * *

“The style is full of color and highly charged with meaning. It is not
a smooth papershelled almond, but a shagbark hickory nut. If you want
the full sweetness of the kernel, you must pick it out carefully. It
well rewards the trouble. I am glad she has chosen to send out her
first book, not in some strange form of free verse, but in clear,
spicy, juicy prose. It is alluring and refreshing, a cupful of
cordial.” H: Van Dyke

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 700w

=STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.).= Present day Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4

20–15940

“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the
battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are
devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable
Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle
ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious
Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the
final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional
guide book features are omitted. There is no index.

* * * * *

“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it
is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important
omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book
has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 540w

=STRATON, JOHN ROACH.= Menace of immorality in church and state; messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176

20–6996

A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city,
all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of
the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of
immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time,
and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history
of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are:
Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social
vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians
attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way
of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze;
God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath
observance as social sanity.

* * * * *

“The book is all emphasis. Ring the bell for church a few times and it
has an effect; toll the bell and the stridence of its tone wearies.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w

=N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 700w

“The value and importance of his appeal, which might have been great,
are largely lost by lack of perspective, grotesque exaggeration,
superficial reasoning, and inaccurate statements of important facts.
To those abreast of the times in the field of social hygiene effort
and accomplishment, the book offers an object lesson in unscientific
method and presentation.” B. J.

− + =Social Hygiene= 6:580 O ’20 240w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 28 ’20 450w

Reviewed by F: H. Whitin

=Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 500w

=STRATTON, CLARENCE.= Public speaking. *$1.48 Holt 808.5

20–12400

“This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules
and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective
speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea
underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing
much more speaking than studying.” (Prefatory note) The chapters take
up: Speech; The voice; Words and sentences; Beginning the speech;
Concluding the speech; Getting material; Planning the speech; Making
the outline or brief; Explaining; Proving and persuading; Refuting;
Debating; Speaking upon special occasions; Dramatics. Additional
exercises are given in the two appendixes and there is an index. The
author is a member of the English department of Central high school,
St Louis, and of the Division of university extension, Washington
university.

* * * * *

“The chief value of the book is its excellent organization of the
large variety of activities which make up a worthy course in public
speaking.”

+ =School R= 28:635 O ’20 180w

=STRAUS, RALPH.= Pengard awake. *$2 Appleton

20–17317

Pengard was first discovered by some English tourists, as a bookdealer
in Chicago. According to the testimony of his friends, he had been
queer for some time and was getting queerer, disappearing from time to
time for increasingly long intervals. As he also appeared to be
suffering, Sir Robert Graeme sets himself to fathoming the mystery. A
famous English physician is requisitioned for the probe. That Pengard
is a victim of amnesia, is coming more and more under the influence of
another personality and is living in dread of complete surrender, is
certain from the start. And this is what gradually reveals itself:
John Pengard and Hartley Sylvester are one and the same person, and
the latter, author of a book that has made him famous, is gaining in
sinister influence. By the aid of psychoanalysis, hypnotism and shrewd
guesses, Dr Arne achieves the unexpected result that Pengard fades
away as a dream person and Sylvester comes to stay. After more patient
experimenting, more startling disclosures, Sylvester transforms
himself into John Mathieson, one-time pal and brother-in-arms to Sir
Robert’s dead brother.

* * * * *

“We must admit that even an inveterate novel reader will scarcely be
able to forecast the various developments which arise, and in
particular the utterly unlooked-for conclusion.”

+ =Ath= p555 O 22 ’20 130w

“The story becomes more and more baffling as we proceed. The mystery
is well worked out and the unraveling is exciting up to the very
close.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 190w

“An uncommonly good story of this kind. Based upon actual
psychological fact.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w

+ =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 200w

“While the plot is clever enough to carry the book, the pleasant
literary style it is that will attract the average reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 470w

“Anybody who wants to be entertained will thoroughly enjoy this story,
but most readers will probably agree that Lucius Arne is the least
convincing part of it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p651 O 7 ’20 640w

=STRAUS, SIMON WILLIAM.= History of the thrift movement in America. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott 331.84

20–7771

The book is one of Lippincott’s thrift text series edited by Arthur H.
Chamberlain. In his introduction Mr Chamberlain says of the author:
“He clearly saw the wasteful tendencies of our people, and deplored
the results, bound, he well knew, to come from them. He saw the
problem in its totality. He appreciated thoroughly the distinction
between proper spending and useless wasting; between common-sense
saving and narrow parsimony.... He alone could write the history,
indicate the need and significance and point the way of the thrift
movement, of which he is the apostle.” The book falls into two parts.
Some of the chapters in part 1 are: Characterization of thrift;
America’s record of thriftlessness; The organization of the American
society for thrift; The international congress for thrift; Resolutions
recommending the teachings of thrift in the public schools of America.
Among the contents of part 2 are: Little talks on thrift; Money-making
and money-saving; How thrift shapes the character; The need of
personal account keeping; Waste in the kitchen; Personal standards of
thrift; Thriftlessness among the poor. There is an index and five
symbolic cartoons by Rollin Kirby.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

“Certainly, the gospel of thrift which Mr Straus expounds needs to be
spread far and wide. The little talks on thrift contained in part II
will be helpful to teachers as illustrations of the thrift idea.” G:
F. Zook

+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w

=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and ENGELHARDT, NICKOLAUS LOUIS.= Classroom teacher at work in American school. il *$1.48 Am. bk. 371.2

20–7789

“This volume is one of the American education series, of which Prof.
Strayer is the general editor. It treats exhaustively of the
organization and administration of public education, as well as of the
technique employed by the teacher in his daily work. Chapters are
included dealing with records and reports, the organization of public
education, the classification and progress of children, the
measurement of the achievements of children, the health of school
children, as well as extra-curricula activities that make possible an
intelligent and sympathetic cooperation with the plans of the
administrator.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 80w

“Contains little that is new, but is a restatement of material which
is already familiar to all except elementary students of education. It
will doubtless be used in many introductory courses.”

+ − =El School J= 21:152 O ’20 500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w

=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= Sunbeams, Inc. il *$1.25 Doubleday

20–16499

Henry Bell Brown is introduced to us first as he is leaving the staff
of the New York Evening Dispatch, and is given a farewell banquet. He
is leaving to join a firm of “advertising engineers,” and subsequently
becomes H. Bell Brown. It is only when he goes into business for
himself that he rises to the glory of “Belwyn Brown.” It is his big
idea of “merchandising” (one of his favorite verbs) sunshine that
brings him success. He becomes a sort of a commercial Pollyanna
spreading Gloomer Chasers broadcast on boiler-plate pages—something on
this order: “No business is busted when there’s a smile left in the
bank.” The war threatens the business of Sunbeams, Inc., but he
enlarges its scope, goes to France and helps “win the war with
sunshine.” Upon his return he is more convinced than ever that his
name and fame shall be a household word and spares no effort to
accomplish this result. At the end of a successful banquet given in
his honor by the Pundits he is able to “indulge himself in a brief
self-gratulatory yet philosophical reflection. ‘One thing is sure,’ he
said to himself; ‘In this world a fellow gets just about what’s coming
to him.’”

* * * * *

“Not only is the story so thin that it will hardly hold together, but
it is impossible to feel any sympathy with the leading character—a
state of things which often is fatal in a work of this kind. That it
is not so in this instance is immeasurably to the credit of the
author. It affords whimsical entertainment of unique quality.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 350w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 200w

“Short story with a lot of humor and various amusing exhibitions of
psychology.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w

=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN, ed.= Spirit; the relation of God and man, considered from the standpoint of recent philosophy and science. *$2.50 Macmillan 231

19–19611

“The movement toward a scientific and philosophical conception of God
is materially aided by the publication of a book called ‘The spirit,’
edited by Canon B. H. Streeter of the Church of England. ‘This
volume,’ says the editor, ‘puts forward a conception of
spirit—considered as God in action—which is definite but not
scholastic, and which is capable of affording a basis both for a
coherent philosophy and for a religion passionate and ethical,
mystical and practical.’ The chapter on Immanence and transcendance is
by Prof. A. Pringle-Pattison. Miss Lily Dougall writes on God in
action. The psychology of power is treated by Capt. J. A. Hadfield of
the Ashhurst neurological war hospital at Oxford. A. Clutton-Brock’s
customary distinction of mind and style is apparent in two chapters on
Spiritual experience and Spirit and matter. Other chapters are What
happened at Pentecost by Rev. C. A. Anderson Scott, The psychology of
grace, by Rev. C. W. Emmet, The language of the soul, by Miss Dougall
and Christ, the revolutionary by Canon Streeter.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 320w

“Its temper is frank, its thought, for the most part, keen and clear,
and its language, though frequently employing the terms of traditional
theology, simple and eloquent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 19 ’20 680w

“Alike in its fearlessness, in its refusal to make terms with narrow
types of orthodoxy, and in its strong Christocentric theology it is a
characteristic product of modern English religious thought. Its main
defect is that it only implicitly recognizes the affirmation of modern
research that Christianity is a synthesis.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 My 6 ’20 2300w

=STREIT, CLARENCE K.= “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” il *$1; pa *50c Huebsch 940.318

20–19447

The booklet comes under the “Freeman pamphlets” series and is “a note
on the relation of privilege and monopoly to war.” (Subtitle) It is an
exposé of the stock and bond morality of big business and shows “that
the interests of a nation and the interests of private property are
two separate and distinct things. Whether the money and mineral
international did or did not prepare and start the war ... it is
certain that the fifty-one months during which millions of men were
killed was a most profitable era for these interests.” Some of the
topics discussed are: The basin of Briey; Interlocking directorates;
Nickel not contraband; The French trust favors Krupps; Patrioteers;
When is a fort not a fort? The agreement for a Lorraine offensive; The
flag of big business; Bloody profits.

* * * * *

“Mr Streit tells the story simply, straightforwardly, with ample
citation of authority, but almost too unjournalistically. The booklet
is marred by awkward translations and by careless proof-reading of
place names.”

+ − =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 300w

=STRINGER, ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT.= Prairie mother. il *$2 Bobbs

20–11073

“Those who met ‘Chaddie’ McKail in ‘The prairie wife’ will be glad
that Arthur Stringer has embodied her later experiences in ‘The
prairie mother.’ Many of the characters of the earlier story of the
Canadian prairie appear here. The story is in the form of a diary in
which she sets down the details leading up to, and during, her
greatest trial. The McKails have passed the first material
difficulties of home-making in the new land, and their condition
borders on opulence. But unfortunate speculation sweeps away their
broad acres and solid home, and they are faced with the necessity of
starting all over again. The ‘prairie mother’ gladly surrenders her
charming home to the husband’s titled English cousin, and moves her
household and three small tots to an unbroken half section which is in
her name. The new owner of the old home is a woman who had entrusted
funds to McKail. The former speedily proves the fly in the ointment,
for she seems to fascinate ‘Dinky-Dunk’ and ere long there is a
virtual separation. With deep sympathy, Mr Stringer details Chaddie’s
efforts to mend her broken life.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

“Mr Stringer’s public is accustomed to expect good work from his pen
and we venture the opinion that in ‘The prairie mother’ he has
surpassed himself.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 600w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 390w

=STRONG, EDWARD KELLOGG, jr.= Introductory psychology for teachers. il $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1

A series of lessons in psychology arranged to form a classroom course.
The author has planned the course on the well-known principles of
proceeding from the known to the unknown, of learning by doing, etc.
He describes his method in the preface: “Instead of beginning with the
most uninteresting phases of psychology and those most unknown to
students, the course takes up concrete experiences of everyday life,
relates them to the problems of learning and individual differences,
and so develops these two topics. Each general principle is discovered
by the student out of his own experience in solving specially
organized problems. Only after he has done his best is he expected to
refer to the text and by then the text is no longer basic but only
supplementary.” The sections of the book following the introduction
are devoted to: The learning process; Individual differences; Some
physiological aspects of psychology. There is a brief general review
at the close. Charts and diagrams illustrate the book, references
follow most of the chapters, and there is an index. The text is also
printed in the form of seventeen booklets. The author is professor of
vocational education, Carnegie institute of technology.

* * * * *

“There is growing up a pronounced distinction between two schools of
educational psychologists. The one is interested in dealing with the
relatively tangible outcomes of learning activities and is satisfied
to put all explanations in the form of Professor Thorndike’s easy, but
quite meaningless, formula of bonds. The other is interested in
finding out in detail the steps by which a pupil acquires his mental
results. Professor Strong may be described as belonging to the first
type. For that school he has rendered the service of getting together
a large body of interesting examples, and he has put these examples in
a more teachable form than any writers of that group who have preceded
him.”

+ − =El School J= 20:793 Je ’20 300w

=STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.=[2] Secrets of Crewe house. il *$2 (*7s 6d) (4½c) Doran 940.342

20–22069

Crewe house was the headquarters of the department of propaganda in
enemy countries under the directorship of Viscount Northcliffe. The
story of its activities and successes during 1918 are revealed in this
book. According to a quotation from the Tägliche Rundschau on page
127, “It cannot be doubted that Lord Northcliffe very substantially
contributed to England’s victory in the world war. His conduct of
English propaganda during the war will some day find its place in
history as a performance hardly to be surpassed.” The book is indexed
and contains besides the portraits of the various members of the
committee on propaganda and other illustrations several maps and
facsimiles of the leaflets distributed by means of balloons. The
contents are: Propaganda: its uses and abuses; Crewe house: its
organization and personnel; Operations against Austria-Hungary:
propaganda’s most striking success; Operations against Germany;
Tributes from the enemy; Operations against Bulgaria and other
activities; Inter-allied cooperation; From war propaganda to peace
propaganda; Vale!

* * * * *

=Ath= p333 S 10 ’20 260w

“Although there is much that is eulogistic of his chief, Sir Campbell
does not overdraw the picture. He uses none of the arts of the
professional writer, preferring at all times to tell the story without
attempting the dramatic.” H. D. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 780w

“This complacent book is ludicrous, not because it takes for granted
that all it aimed to achieve was achieved; nor because it omits due
credit to French propaganda (more extensive than British) and Russian
(not even mentioned); but because it tries to get glory out of war.”
Heber Blankenhorn

− =Nation= 111:594 N 24 ’20 1600w

“Sir Campbell’s lively style and his keen enjoyment of what he has to
tell engross the reader.”

+ − =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 1750w

“‘Secrets of Crewe house’ is rather hastily put together, and is too
much a eulogy of Lord Northcliffe by his chief assistant. But it
contains a good deal of interesting description of the sundry
ingenious devices by which Lord Northcliffe spread his propaganda.” H:
W. Bunn

+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

“In Lord Northcliffe’s mentality we have always been struck with a
strong vein of simplicity, which the charitable call naïveté, and the
uncharitable call knavery, or stupidity. There are two signs of this
quality in this book. Again and again it is explicitly stated that the
propaganda told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
This is childish. No propaganda could succeed which told the truth.”

− =Sat R= 130:239 S 18 ’20 1100w

+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 300w

“A very lively and exciting story, which the many illustrations in the
volume help to diversify. Yet the book is more than a piece of good
reading about the war, and more than a historical record. It will have
a permanent value as a handbook to the principles of propaganda in
enemy countries.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 S 2 ’20 450w

=STUCK, HUDSON.= Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. il *$6 (5c) Scribner 979.8

20–9131

This is the author’s fourth book of Alaskan travel and describes a
journey with dog-sled around the entire Arctic coast of Alaska in the
winter of 1917–18. It is not a record of discoveries of exploration
and does not describe an already “scientifically known” people
anthropologically but rather socially during their “normal life” which
is their winter life. “My purpose was an enquiry into their present
state, physical, mental, moral and religious, industrial and domestic,
into their prospects, into what the government and the religious
organizations have done and are doing for them, and what should yet be
done.” (Preface) Besides many illustrations, two maps and an index the
book contains: From Fort Yukon to Kotzebue Sound; Kotzebue Sound to
Point Hope; Point Hope; Point Hope to Point Barrow; Point Barrow; The
northern extreme; Point Barrow to Flaxman Island; Flaxman Island and
the journey to Herschel Island; Herschel Island and the journey to
Fort Yukon.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

“There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this
narrative.” F: O’Brien

+ =Nation= 111:537 N 10 ’20 680w

“This book is readable from cover to cover—entertaining, thoughtful,
wise in its recommendations concerning our great territory, and
attractive in its illustration.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 80w

“Mr Stuck is a man of many interests, and his narrative is the more
absorbing for being discursive.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p576 S 9 ’20 900w

=STUDENSKY, PAUL.= Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. *$3 Appleton 371.17

20–2739

The book is published under the auspices of the Institute for
government research, in the series Studies in administration, and is
both a critical and descriptive study of the subject. It “should be
not only a substantial contribution to the science of administration,
but an immediate and practical aid to teachers, school authorities,
legislators and all other persons interested in solving the problem of
reorganizing their own systems or establishing systems ... upon bases
that have been tested by experience and are in accordance with sound
social, economic, and financial principles.” (Editorial introd.) Part
1: The problem of teachers’ pensions, contains: The evolution of
teachers’ pensions in the United States; The teachers’ pension problem
outlined; Superannuation benefits; Disability benefits; Death and
withdrawal benefits; Determining the cost of benefits; The division of
cost between government and teachers; The government’s contribution;
The teacher’s contribution; Compulsory participation and the right to
management. In Part 2 an account is given of the movement in the
United States and an examination made of the history and present
condition of the more important systems now in existence. There is
also an appendix, actuarial tables and a bibliography.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

“In his efforts to inculcate the sound principles, Mr Studensky errs
rather on the side of overloading his discussion with too much detail,
which for the readers most concerned will probably lead to confusion
rather than clarification. While general agreement will be found with
the principles of a sound pension system discussed in the volume, Mr
Studensky’s acceptance of the salary scale as the basis of the pension
considerably diminishes the value of his work.”

+ − =Nation= 111:622 D 1 ’20 350w

“The book covers the subject critically and thoroughly.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w

“The volume will serve the purpose of a work of reference and will be
of value to committees of teachers considering the establishment of a
pension system. The average teacher, however, will perhaps be a little
more confused by the problem after reading the book than before,
mainly because it is over-loaded by too much detail and because the
discussions of theory and practice are too widely separated.” I. L.
Kandel

+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 390w

=STURGEON, MARY C.= Studies of contemporary poets, rev. and enl. *$2.50 Dodd 821.09

“These short studies, warmly presenting the merits of a number of
contemporary poets with much illustrative quotation, first appeared in
1916. The additional chapters are on John Drinkwater, ‘Michael Field,’
(Katharine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper), Thomas Hardy, J. C.
Squire, Contemporary women poets (Anna Wickham, Helen Parry Eden, Anna
Bunston, Olive Custance, Eva Gore Booth, Margaret Radford), and W. B.
Yeats.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The best one can say about Miss Sturgeon’s work is that it is the
outcome of a wide knowledge of the poets and versifiers of her time.
But she fails to do justice to whatever understanding of them that
knowledge might have given to her.”

− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 240w

“One does not receive in these pages the keen analysis, the subtle
interpretation of contemporaries such as Arthur Symons gave to his
public in ‘Studies in two literatures,’ but they do give an honest,
workable survey of the figures and qualities among the contemporaneous
poets of England that is serviceable and informative.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 840w

“The fact is that Miss Sturgeon’s criticism leans toward
sentimentalism, and not only because she tends always to stress the
good, the true, the perennially sad. Her writing clings too close to
its matter even when she is at her best, which is in interpretation of
the thought and melody in giving passages; and her exquisiteness of
appreciation tends in one way or another to impede the flow of
critical thought. One poet seems in retrospect very much like
another.” C. M. Rourke

+ − =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 780w

“Miss Sturgeon’s book, taken with the necessary ‘grano salis,’ has
much to recommend it. Its value as criticism would have been higher if
Miss Sturgeon had not been so uniformly enthusiastic.” R: Le Gallienne

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 60w

=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Personal prejudices. *$1.65 (4c) Houghton 814

20–16519

In these chatty essays the author gives her opinions on many subjects,
as the table of contents reveals, with much wit and humor. Her husband
in his preface to the book says of it that it is not immoral and
therefore not really modern, but commends it for its patriotic
enthusiasm. Contents: Gardens; Husbands and housekeeping; Autres
temps, autres mœurs; The lost art of letterwriting; My Bolshevist; Old
friends; New acquaintances; House and home; Quality versus equality;
Differences and distinctions; Epilogue by the favourite nephew.

* * * * *

“Sweet, homely essays with the humor which pleased readers of ‘Random
reflections of a grandmother.’”

+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“The odd thing is that this book of informal essays will probably
please readers of sharply different types, though perhaps not always
in the way in which the writer would choose. She has the real gift of
the familiar essayist, the gift for self-revelation.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 300w

“Her originality is as clearly reflected in her refreshing style as in
her prejudices. Her commentaries sparkle with the same charming wit,
compounded of shrewd common sense and abundant humor that made such
delightful reading of her ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 30w

=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Rapids. *$1.75 (2) Appleton

20–11223

The story is a fairy tale of what the genius of one man can achieve in
developing the powers of nature. Robert Fisher Clark was a man of
vision, of action, of unusual concentration, and of hypnotic
personality. At a glance he takes in the possibilities of the Rapids
of St Mary’s and the surrounding wilderness. Immediately he is at work
developing plans and attracting the necessary money and good-will by
his personal magnetism. But the test of his greatness comes when human
covetousness and stupidity wrests the fruits of his labor from him
after the end of seven years and he is ready to acknowledge that he
has worked in the service of humanity not for his own gain. He
abandons everything, even the woman he loves, to the equally
wholehearted love of his engineer and seeks new fields for his
activity.

* * * * *

“Men will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

“It is an interesting and well-told story, with vivid presentation of
its scenes. In its purpose and manner and spirit the author has made a
successful venture in turning aside a little from the usual lines of
fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 460w

=Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 620w

“A fine romance of industrial enterprise from the western world.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 40w

=SULLY, JAMES=, My life and friends. *$5 Dutton

(Eng ed 19–4187)

“James Sully’s latest book, ‘My life and friends: a psychologist’s
memories,’ is the record of a man devoted to music and literature as
well as to his technical subject. The book is not burdened with formal
information about himself. It does not tell us the date of his birth,
or the name of his wife, or the number of his children. It begins the
narrative of his life by a description of the sleepy Somersetshire
town of Bridgwater, where he was born, and ends with a chance remark
on Sicilian painted carts. It touches upon the circumstances of his
childhood in a Nonconformist family and of his early education in
Baptist schools; upon his student days in Germany under Ewald and
Lotze; upon his literary and professional work in London, where he
became professor of philosophy in University college. But it dwells
most affectionately upon his vacations and upon the men and women
whose intimacy or acquaintance he enjoyed.”—Nation

* * * * *

“An inspiring reminiscent volume.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Je 7 ’19 1400w

“A very readable contribution to biographical literature and to the
intellectual history of an important period is offered in Professor
James Sully’s volume of reminiscences.” R. H. Lowie

+ =Freeman= 2:524 F 9 ’21 760w

+ =Nation= 109:446 S 27 ’19 250w

“His memoirs are not great in themselves: it is rather the friendships
they chronicle that add lustre to them.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w

“By those who wish to enjoy the society of the superior Hampsteadians
of the last quarter of the last century, Dr Sully’s autobiography
should be read, and will certainly be relished.”

+ =Sat R= 126:sup10 N 23 ’18 1050w

“Dr Sully’s new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare,
which are much more pleasant to read than to criticise. Its merits,
like those of a well-baked cake, are diffused imperceptibly throughout
the whole mass; it does not lend itself to quotation; there are many
plums, but to savour their true excellence they have to be taken in
their original environment.”

+ =Spec= 121:460 O 26 ’18 940w

“Dr Sully contributes to literature a book of value as well as
interest in ‘My life and my friends.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 25 ’21 1100w

=SUMMERS, A. LEONARD.= Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 553.6

20–9018

“Until the completion of this work, there existed no comprehensive
book on the absorbing study of asbestos.... The uses and scope of
asbestos having now become universal, it has long been felt that a
book thereon was much needed, so few people really understanding the
subject; and the author (for many years closely associated with the
industry), while avoiding as far as possible too dry and tiresome
technicalities, has dealt with everything of real interest and utility
in a concise and popular style to appeal to every class of reader.”
(Foreword) There are illustrations by the author and from photographs
and the book is indexed.

* * * * *

“The volume on ‘Asbestos’ decidedly suffers by comparison with its
companion volume [on ‘Zinc’ by T. E. Lones] as the author does not
take care to avoid a number of errors, which, though common enough in
the trade, ought not to find their way into a book of this
description.”

+ − =Nature= 105:194 Ap 15 ’20 300w

“As a catalogue of finished products the volume will find use; as a
text-book covering the technical preparation of asbestos it hardly
merits consideration.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w

=SUMMERS, WALTER COVENTRY.= Silver age of Latin literature. *$3 Stokes 870

The period covered is from Tiberius to Trajan. The preface says: “The
term ‘Silver Latin’ is often applied loosely to all the post-Augustan
literature of Rome: in this book it has been reserved for that earlier
part of it which, in spite of a definite decline in taste and
freshness, deserves nevertheless to be sharply distinguished from the
baser metals of the imitative or poverty-stricken periods which
followed.” (Preface) A chronological table is followed by discussions
on: The declamations and the pointed style; The epic; Drama; Verse
satire; Light and miscellaneous verse; Oratory; History, biography and
memoirs; Philosophy; Prose-satire and romance; Correspondence;
Grammar, criticism and rhetoric; Scientific and technical prose. There
are notes on translations and an index.

* * * * *

“The book contains some smooth translations, of which, as might be
expected, the renderings from the satirists are probably the most
successful. Without stating any particularly fresh theory, Mr Summers
covers the old ground very thoroughly.”

+ =Ath= p435 O 1 ’20 640w

“In ‘The silver age of Latin literature,’ we are given a text-book,
admirably written and closely digested, that is an open door to a
literature that often amazes us by its evident modernity.”

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 1500w

“Rather dull. But Prof. Summers is full of learning on the period
which is not commonly mastered by classical students; and his record
is so thorough that it should not be neglected.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 400w

=SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM.= What social classes owe to each other. 2d ed *$1.50 (4c) Harper 171

20–8048

This is a republication of Prof. Sumner’s book on ‘Social classes’
with an introduction by his successor to the chair of social science
at Yale university, Albert Galloway Keller. Prof. Keller thinks that
our age, more than any other, needs an unflinching statement of the
individualistic position, of laissez-faire. “At a time when the world
is menaced with the curtailment of civil liberty and the paralysis of
individual initiative through weird and grotesque developments of
socialism ... the man who takes to heart the truths of this little
book cannot be led by the nose even into that pseudo-open-mindedness
that toys with bolshevism and anarchism.” (Foreword)

* * * * *

“The book is a brilliant piece of writing, an impassioned vindication
of individualism, a resolute arraignment of the social meddling and
social doctors that were popular in 1883, are now, and perhaps always
will be.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 100w

“Plausible as all this may have sounded in 1883, it seems unfair to
the memory of an eminent scholar to resurrect a study in which such
manifestly outgrown sentiments are predominant.” Ordway Tead

− =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 220w

“Whatever we may think of such old-fashioned individualism, it is
wholesome to have a dash of it now and then, and the reading of such a
book as this, like a cold bath after a warm day, is both refreshing
and stimulating.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 270w

=SWEETSER, ARTHUR.=[2] League of nations at work. *$1.75 Macmillan 341.1

20–17503

“A series of articles contributed to the New York Evening Post by
Arthur Sweetser, a member of the American peace commission, is
published in book form. Mr Sweetser writes to clear away
misconceptions and to make the purposes and the actual machinery of
the league as clear as possible. Mr Sweetser’s study covers in
detail the permanent court, the secretariat, the questions of
disarmament, minorities and mandates, international labor and health
organizations, freedom of transit, economic co-operation and open
diplomacy.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w

“He shows a very clear understanding of essentials and he presents his
well-digested knowledge in clear language, with simple figures to
drive home his points. As a popular elucidation of the league, Mr
Sweetser’s book is from every point of view commendable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 310w

=SWEETSER, ARTHUR, and LAMONT, GORDON.= Opportunities in aviation. il *$1 (3½c) Harper 629.1

20–2110

The authors of this volume, one a captain in the American air service,
the other a lieutenant in the Royal air force of Canada, claim that it
is the training, not the individual, that makes the pilot and that
“any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight
and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an
automobile through the streets of a large city ... he can take himself
off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more
difficult and dangerous.” (Introd.) The authors also claim that
aeronautics in the future must cease to be a highly specialized
business, that the airplane will become a conveyance of everyday
civilian use and that what they have written is based on actual
accomplishments to date. Contents: War’s conquest of the air; The
transition to peace; Training an airplane pilot; Safety in flying;
Qualifications of an airplane mechanic; The first crossing of the
Atlantic; Landing-fields—the immediate need; The airplane’s brother;
The call of the skies; Addendum.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise. *$2 Doran 821

(Eng ed 20–9019)

Mr Gosse and Mr Wise, who edited Swinburne’s letters and a collection
of “Posthumous poems,” have prepared the first selection from his
works since the one compiled by Watts-Dunton in 1887. This early
volume, the present editors say, “was not broadly characteristic of
Swinburne’s many moods and variety of subjects.” The aim has been to
make the new selection more representative.

* * * * *

“Without having at hand the older volume of selections made by
Swinburne himself it may yet be said that the present selection is a
good one. It would have been more ‘representative’ if it had included
one or two of the ‘Songs before sunrise,’ and the omission of ‘Laus
veneris’ and especially ‘The leper’ is regrettable. What one would
like to have would be a volume of selections including these poems and
omitting the two choruses from ‘Atalanta,’ and another volume
containing the whole of ‘Atalanta.’” T. S. E.

+ − =Ath= p72 Ja 16 ’20 1400w

=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“The present selection is, in almost every way, admirable, and
represents adequately the poetical genius of the author.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 140w

=Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 40w

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 160w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w

“Lovers of Swinburne will be grateful to Mr Gosse and Mr Wise.”

+ =Spec= 124:463 Ap 3 ’20 50w

“So long as a selection contains the ‘Triumph of time,’ the ‘Garden of
Proserpine,’ ‘Hertha,’ the Atalanta choruses, and a few others, it
will content us; these we need, and beyond these whatever else is
included the editor may be at peace—we shall take it and be
satisfied.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p732 D 11 ’19 1000w

=SWINDLER, ROBERT EARL.= Causes of war. *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 902

20–1549

“This publication is based on the idea that it is idle to talk of
world peace without an intelligent world understanding. ‘The causes of
war’ is designed to meet the need of a systematic organization of the
great mass of material concerning the war. It gives all the essential
points, and is equally suited to the busy student, teacher, or general
reader. The work includes not only an outline and study of the world
war together with the official peace negotiations, but also a survey
of all the wars that preceded with particular emphasis upon those
since 1870.”—School R

* * * * *

“This volume is pertinent and timely. It is one of the most convenient
reference books on a subject of universal interest that has so far
been published, and is well-nigh indispensable for writers and
speakers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 160w

“The work is so clearly and logically written that it is particularly
valuable for use in current history classes.”

+ =School R= 28:237 Mr ’20 200w

=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran

19–18833

Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love
in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,”
the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry
Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven
years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a
love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of
Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness,
which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for
irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel,
young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and
surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won
over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex,
involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and
genuine friendship for Cherry.

* * * * *

“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly
penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably
out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are
not two distinct things, but the same.”

+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 140w

=Ath= p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w

+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:81 Mr ’20 750w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction,
he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own
lines.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w

“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly
promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age
of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the
past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more
penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w

“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of
‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a
very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and
houses.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w

“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’
appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of
the season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 150w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub= W 97:174 Ja 17 ’20 500w

“Mr Swinnerton’s sensitivism, if the term may properly be applied to
him, is on the side of the angels. Unlike many of his contemporaries,
he does not throw decency overboard because hypocrites exist, or exalt
impulse over principle.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:85 Ja 24 ’20 450w

“The book is one that almost any English novelist might have been
proud to write.”

+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 80w

+ − =Spec= 123:773 D 6 ’19 440w