Chapter LXXVI: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (4)

“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every
character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding
presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even
Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly
immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should
return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless
rehabilitation.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w

=TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS=, eds. Colonial prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8

The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an
earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of
culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The
growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology
is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the
effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a
transplanted race.” (Introd.)

=TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.= Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans

20–7584

“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second
Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced
the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord
Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to
later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the
hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective
scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act.
Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached
himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of
the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour
of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in
November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty
years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired
statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her
from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country
pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs,
radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary
reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever
displayed.”—Spec

* * * * *

“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is
too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing
into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really
is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey
lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a
political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:90 O ’20 760w

“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who
knows little of English political history will find it interesting on
account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A.
G. Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:733 N ’20 560w

“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.

+ =Ath= p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w

“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in
sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous
advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their
opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his
work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w

+ =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w

“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains
the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most
eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own
superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably
that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England.
This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w

“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so
thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch,
so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is
well worth waiting for.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w

=Outlook= 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w

“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably
presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the
past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical
perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the
stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”

+ =Review= 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w

“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but
praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his
writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of
effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which
mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”

+ =Sat R= 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a
sober historian and states the facts fairly.”

+ =Spec= 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)

“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays
reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 830w

“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be
better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as
a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right
reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not
willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the
last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which
only incidentally come within its scope.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w

=TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).= Short history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945

20–6767

The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy
while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London
school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly
calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the
subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an
inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She
disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or
made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work
already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German
scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary
writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible
for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century
preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions
(395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of
the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183);
Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy
in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy
(1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of
Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are
twenty-four illustrations and six maps.

* * * * *

“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with
marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense
of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced,
well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it
widely read.” L. C.-M.

+ =Ath= p237 Ag 20 ’20 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the
presentation of the material, satisfactory.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:687 F ’21 130w

“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least
satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the
fifty years since 1870.” W. M.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:628 O ’20 370w

=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w

“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper
hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by
individuals and extract from that story not what was merely
entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter
Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w

“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author
does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art,
literature, science, and religion.”

+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w

“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is
likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 70w

“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed
hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject.
Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”

+ =Spec= 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w

“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her
reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions
that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and
reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh,
lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 Jl 8 ’20 1600w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 130

A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to
sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and
foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books,
pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an
unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have
contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles
are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the
urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the
dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday
actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic
temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a
glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an
index.

* * * * *

“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of
psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20

“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly
popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly
arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most
alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely
illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays,
as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly
uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases
analyzed.” C. M. S.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 440w

“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature,
this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the
subject.” W: J. Fielding

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 650w

“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of
literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who
wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of
psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and
satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K.
Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins

− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 1250w

“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass
a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and
abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is
not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the
intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the
animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr
Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of
Freud and his followers.”

+ − =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 850w

“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions,
which are not impressive.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w

“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and
uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation
both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of
some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 280w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130

This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at
interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.”
Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and
regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic
treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical
notes follow the chapters.

* * * * *

“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the
four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung,
Adler, and Kempf.”

+ − =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w

“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more
meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined
psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through
his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 520w

=TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE)=, comp. Dreams and voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08

It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present
some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in
recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with
the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with
a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.

* * * * *

“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives
the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same
character.”

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w

“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much
capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief
from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 220w

=TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.= As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes 811

20–17896

Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources
but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with
a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is
under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful
child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.

* * * * *

“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of
poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the
dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 200w

=TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN.= History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of social science 321.03

“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the
chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day
when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first
empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her
imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of
imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have
displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the
book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history
both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked
them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the
author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our
political structure to head us either towards an empire or an
industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern
imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of
Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of
France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of
England—of India—of America.

* * * * *

“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient
documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of
light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the
customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one
defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.”
James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 1050w

=TUELL, HARRIET EMILY.= Study of nations; an experiment in social education. (Riverside educational monographs) *80c Houghton 909

20–5596

This is a plea that we substitute for our old “dry as dust” method of
teaching history “an elementary study of nationality.” In a high
school course such as this book proposes, “each nation is carefully
considered by itself, that pupils may gain a definite impression of
its individual characteristics. First it is viewed as it appears
today; then its development is briefly traced. After this historic
background has been sketched in, an attempt is made to evaluate the
peculiar gifts of the country and its people to the sum of modern
civilization.” (Preface) This is a pioneer book, for the use of
teachers, and, as such, the main part of it is devoted to helpfully
suggestive material, outlines, and comments upon the following
nations: France, England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hungary,
Turkey and the Balkan states, China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands
(“a nation in the making”). The book includes a complete
bibliographical list, and a connected outline of all the chapters. The
chapters on China and Japan were contributed by Dr K. S. Latourette.
Dr Tuell is the head of the department of history, Somerville high
school, Massachusetts.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20

“Books of this sort are undoubtedly useful to teachers who have access
to well-equipped libraries and are themselves trained to get the
materials out of these libraries, but the movement which Miss Tuell
represents will hardly be successful until someone has prepared in
detail and in a form that can be presented to children the materials
that she has gone over in outline. The book is in this sense a first
step in the direction of actual school use of this sort of material.”

+ − =El School J= 20:547 Mr ’20 380w

=School R= 28:312 Ap ’20 380w

=TUOHY, FERDINAND.=[2] Secret corps. *$2 Seltzer 940.485

(Eng ed 20–11008)

“Captain Tuohy deals with all the methods of espionage and
counter-espionage practised during the war, enlivening his exposition
here and there with anecdotes. He explains incidentally the value of
seemingly harmless military details to an alert enemy and thus
justifies the censorship. He declares that our own system proved
highly efficient and that our French allies had, after February, 1916,
to implore the assistance of our secret service in Germany as all
their own agents had been captured. The British system was based on
the principle that each agent should know and be known to his chief
alone.”—Spec

* * * * *

“‘The secret corps’ is thrilling in its every paragraph, and, speaking
personally, it is the first book of the war we have enjoyed for two
years.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 170w

“This volume has value unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any other
that has dealt with the same material.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 30 ’21 420w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 340w

=Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 160w

=TURNER, EDWARD RAYMOND.= Europe, 1789–1920. *$3.50 Doubleday 940.2

20–17882

The raison d’être of the book is the alteration in historical
perspective wrought by the last few years which makes the epoch since
1789 “the most important and interesting in the history of mankind. It
began with a revolution whose effects are not yet all measured; it
ended with another whose consequences can scarcely yet even be guessed
at.” (Preface) During this period immense changes took place in the
relations of people with each other, with their governments, with
capitalists and employers, in the attitude of people toward the
problems of the world in which they lived, and in their habits of
thought. The book falls into two parts: 1789–1871; and 1871–1920. The
outstanding points of part one are the old Europe before, during and
after the French revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the rise of
Prussia after 1870 and the condition of Russia during the period. Part
two begins with the military triumphs of Germany between 1864–1871,
its subsequent development and that of the other great powers, and
treats of events before and during the great war. There are numerous
maps, a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an appendix and an
index.

* * * * *

“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the
years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent
historical work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 300w

“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial,
one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a
book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not
very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s
task is very well done.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p5 D 19 ’20 2700w

“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like
those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the
best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but
useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s
value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the
present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and
upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”

+ =No Am= 213:138 Ja ’21 750w

=TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON.= Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt 973

20–18058

Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in
American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical
association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on
American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the
Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and
in the Report of the American historical association for the same year
and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same
theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and
American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream;
it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the
Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it
gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other
papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The
old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The
significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The
problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of
the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state
university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer
democracy.

* * * * *

“Interesting to students or general readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 880w

+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 720w

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w

“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by
writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to
be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be
accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker

+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w

“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier
history and written at different times, they might well have been
written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information,
clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is
readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 800w

=N Y Times= p10 N 7 ’20 1500w

“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment
demand a better format?”

+ − =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w

“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the
view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of
Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American
historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in
our national development.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 200w

“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a
compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent
general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood
by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be
thankful to have it brought to his attention.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1050w

“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the
American attitude toward social problems and the course which social
work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt

+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 200w

=TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE.= Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf

20–17178

The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all
its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man,
Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser
and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous
sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which
keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only
sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last
death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down
upon him, burying the dead man under it.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“The plot of ‘Hagar’s hoard’ is unconvincing as regards its chief
motive. Then, too, the characters are sadly stock-in-trade. Even the
negroes are grossly machine-made and lack warmth and conviction, and
the author certainly has overlooked a fine opportunity to add color
and the throb of life to a fairly interesting tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 320w

“Mr Turner has unfortunately made a full-length novel out of what
should have been a long short story, or at most, a novelette. The plot
is of the very slightest. The merit of the book lies in its excellent
description of the fever-stricken town, but excellent as this is it
becomes wearisome when repeated again and again.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 700w

=TURNER, JOHN HASTINGS.= Place in the world. *$1.75 Scribner

20–3578

“The heroine of ‘A place in the world,’ Iris Iranova, is an
illegitimate and temperamental young woman of about twenty-five.
Married to an over-amiable Russian, she lost her temper and stuck a
knife into him. This inconsiderate action made it necessary for her to
leave Russia and come to England, where she is living very comfortably
when the book opens. Following a whim, she decides to settle for a
time in an English suburb, and it is with her relations with the
persons she meets there that the novel is principally concerned. Among
these persons two are of especial importance—a really charming old
clergyman, broad-minded, sympathetic and possessed of a keen and
abundant sense of humor, and Henry Cumbers, an apparently fussy and
insignificant little man who, in time of stress and sorrow, proves
that he has splendid stuff in him.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Mr Turner has a clever pen, and the fluttering of the dovecotes
caused by Iris’s unconventionality gives him scope for a number of
incisive character-sketches. Mr Turner is to be congratulated on the
keenness of his observation as well as the liveliness of his style.”

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 100w

“Fairly amusing.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 300w

“Mr Turner has written a charming novel, fresh and vivid in dialogue,
with characters that live in every pulse and gesture.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1000w

“Witty comedy.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w

“The plot of the tale is extremely slight and at times the novel drags
badly, but the style is often agreeable and the characters of Henry
Cumbers and of the Rev. John Heslop are very well drawn indeed.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 300w

“Mr Turner’s ‘Simple souls’ was amusing; this novel goes deeper. It is
fine workmanship as to its writing, and in its essence it makes for
soundheartedness and human tolerance.”

+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 60w

“The especial merit of the book is the Rev. John Heslop, a character
any writer might have been proud to invent.”

+ =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:354 Mr 13 ’20 40w

“Mr Turner’s fiction challenges comparison with that of Mr Locke, not
because he imitates the latter’s method, but chiefly because his work
falls within the same general field of whimsical personalities, kindly
humor, and pleasing romance so long cultivated by Mr Locke. The
characters charm and delight and provide the zest to an unusually
entertaining story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 580w

=TURNER, JOHN KENNETH.= Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social science 327

20–3857

This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back
of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American
people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the
interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the
author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its
solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and
prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an
opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must
stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico,
enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our
fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an
equal.”

* * * * *

“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the
Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a
great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume,
‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of
information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton

+ − =Survey= 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w

=TURNER, W. J.= Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821

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“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is
especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much
of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians.
Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which
sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.”
(N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art
is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse
forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre
subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and
Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)

* * * * *

“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious
rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the
magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:456 Je ’20 800w

“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for
the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr
Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W.
S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 600w

“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing,
the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic
masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the
mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it.
He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w

“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and
beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures
before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss
Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that
is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w

=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century

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This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern
mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a
dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson
Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her
teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father
suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac
Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion
Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken
to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light
and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been
investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship.
A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling
adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a
ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower
preservation.

* * * * *

“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”

+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21

Reviewed by A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w

“It would be worth while to put up with the disagreeable little
heroine if young folks could learn from this to enjoy wild-flowers in
their native setting.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

“A real story with plenty of action and thrills.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 O 24 ’20 140w

“Here is that rarity, a good story for girls.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 120w

=TUSSAUD, JOHN THEODORE.= Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. il *$5 Doran 791

20–27479

The story of the famous wax works, established in Paris during the
revolution and later brought to London, written by one of the
great-grandsons of the founder, the present proprietor of the
exhibition. Madame Tussaud, altho a young girl at the time of the
revolution, was already famed as a modeler in wax and had been a
favorite at court. She was conscripted and compelled to model the
guillotined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marat murdered in
his bath, and other horrors, a number of which are reproduced in the
illustrations. The story is brought down to the present day,
describing many of the recent additions, with illustrations. Hilaire
Belloc has written an introduction and the book is indexed.

* * * * *

=Ath= p109 Ja 23 ’20 1650w

+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

“The amazing feature of the book is, however, the manner in which its
author has made so intrinsically interesting and romantic a theme dull
and commonplace. It is evident that he possesses absolutely no
qualifications for his task. He is simply adept at the compilation of
a scrap-book. Yet his subject is so fascinating that it is better to
have his account of Madame Tussaud’s life and work than none at all.”
E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1450w

+ =Cath World= 112:686 F ’21 250w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 130w

“‘Romance’ is possibly a strong word for this book, and is applicable
only where some story connected with a character in the collection is
told. Sometimes this takes Mr Tussaud far afield. But as a collection
of anecdotes it ranks almost with Siboutie’s ‘Souvenirs of a
Parisian.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 31 ’20 1700w

“Mr Tussaud has appreciated the value of his materials both from the
historic point of view and from the viewpoint of human interest. His
narrative, like his wax figures, simply presents facts of undeniable
interest. But it is the pictures that make the book unique.”

+ =No Am= 213:287 F ’21 520w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 80w

“The book is often pleasantly gruesome.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 8 ’20 780w

=TUTTLE, W. C.= Reddy Brant: his adventures. il *$1.75 (5c) Century

20–18257

A series of short stories reprinted from Boy’s Life. The hero is
fourteen-year-old Reddy Brant, a young vagrant who wanders into the
cattle country of the far West. His adventures are many and exciting
and aided by his native wit and courage, with the occasional help of
coincidence, he acts as both agent of justice and angel of mercy. The
titles are: A rooting tooter; The go-getters; The clean-up kid; A
sage-brush Santa Claus; The jump of a forty-five; Reddy’s
muzzle-loader; A bunkie of the buckaroos; Reddy Brant—thinker; When
Reddy wondered why; Good-night, knight; Three wise men and a star.

* * * * *

“There is a genuine flavor of old-time American humor in the telling,
and an unusual spirit of good fellowship.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 80w

“There are more adventures to the square inch in this book than any
other that has come to hand since ‘The three musketeers.’ The manner
of telling is swift, humorous, breezy. Reddy is a find.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 90w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 40w

=TWEEDALE, CHARLES L.= Man’s survival after death: or, The other side of life in the light of Scripture, human experience, and modern research. *$6 Dutton 218

“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of
existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly
based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This
method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences
that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human
experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of
communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave.
Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his
evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation
in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds
the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by
reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that
faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory
whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not
hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of
faith.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 310w

“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated
occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not
only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with
admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and
spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and
lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 600w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes

20–15067

There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the
beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty
Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the
solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is
revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs
Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids
remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own
confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs
Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the
love story of Letty there is a happy ending.

* * * * *

“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly
handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it
is treated in a modern way.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 300w

“A very good mystery story.”

+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 60w

“If this ‘novel of love and mystery’ is somewhat crudely melodramatic
and makes considerable demands on the improbable, Mrs Tweedale at
least gives her readers plenty of incident.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 70w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Ghosts I have seen, and other psychic experiences. *$2 (2c) Stokes 133

19–19376

Supernatural experiences of a lifetime are recorded here. The author
has the convictions of the theosophist, and in these pages there are
occasionally brief essays on reincarnation, spiritualism, the “other
side.” Unlike most current spiritualistic books, there is here no
argument on alleged “irrefutable evidence.” The author is a psychic,
has seen these things, we may believe or not. At any rate, reading at
midnight, in a dimly lit house alone, we cannot remain indifferent.
Some of the titles are: “Silk dress” and “rumpus”; The ghost of Prince
Charlie; The invisible hands; Peacock’s feathers—the skeleton hand at
Monte Carlo; I commit murder; The angel of Lourdes; “The new Jeanne
d’Arc”; Auras. An interesting picture of Madame Blavatsky (in the
flesh) is presented in this book.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 120w

“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors
from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being
as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.”
Cornelia Van Pelt

+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 360w

=Review= 2:183 F 21 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 700w

=TYRRELL, GEORGE.= Letters *$7 Dutton

(Eng ed 21–197)

“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre,
author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of
a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been
interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism
claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not
all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the
intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and
undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter
moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a
veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will
be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel
ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his
tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”

+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 7 ’21 840w

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 6 ’20 500w

“These highly interesting letters have been published, as we are told,
with the view of showing Tyrrell in ‘his lighter and brighter, as in
his sadder and graver moods.’ We must confess to finding him sometimes
equally depressing in both. His humour has a tinge of that
professional flippancy (as lay-people esteem it) which seems common to
clergymen of every denomination. The ‘letters of advice’ included in
this collection show us Father Tyrrell at the best, wise, comforting,
sympathetic, with no thought but the welfare of his correspondents.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:519 Je 5 ’20 1000w

“Miss Petre has done well to publish this selection from his
correspondence. He was a many-sided man, and his letters reflect his
many-sidedness.”

+ =Spec= 124:695 My 22 ’20 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 450w

“Miss Maud Petre has shown good judgment in issuing this collection of
George Tyrrell’s letters as a supplement to his ‘Autobiography and
life.’ It is plain that Tyrrell was a born correspondent. He expresses
himself with more ease in a letter than in a volume. And he would, we
think, have spared both himself and his church much trouble had he
written more letters and published fewer books.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p253 Ap 22 ’20 900w

=TYRRELL, ROSS.= Pathway of adventure. *$1.90 (2c) Knopf

20–8517

Stuart Wayne, writer of detective stories, finds himself involved in a
genuine plot. He picks up a note dropped by a girl in a passing taxi
and it starts him on the road of adventure and mystery. It is an
appeal for help from a girl held imprisoned in an abandoned house in
the Chicago suburbs. Through a lucky chance he gains entrance to the
house and talks to the girl, Zaida Grayson, but his presence is
discovered, with all but fatal consequences to himself, and the gang
of crooks, with their fair prisoner, eludes him. But he has learned
enough of her story to gain a clue and to connect it with the sudden
death of Patrick Cullom, the iron king, whose young granddaughter is
to inherit his wealth. With the aid of the secret service the band of
kidnappers and murderers are brought to justice and by his own
devotion and daring he wins the girl.

* * * * *

“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the
Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of
adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w

“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to
sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 160w

U

=ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD.= “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817

Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her
story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a
share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the
helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In
particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest
her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own
love story develops happily.

* * * * *

“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that
one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 200w

“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of
Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville
wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the
‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w

=UNCENSORED= letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48

20–14006

These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper,
in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by
candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s
fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters
mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes
of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened
generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys.
Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The
engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.

* * * * *

“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal
narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits.
Will be liked better later on.”

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 220w

“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that
one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that
this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has
done,’ does not seem extravagant.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w

=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Jacopone da Todi; poet and mystic—1228–1306; a spiritual biography. *$6 Dutton

20–4482

“Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable Italian mystical poet, was born
soon after the death of St Francis of Assisi, about 1228 or 1230,
while Dante was yet in the prime of his manhood. Living in the world
until he was forty, a shrewd lawyer, a man of vivid temperament, of
wide culture and refined tastes, he received at that age his first
religious call. For the next ten years he wandered about as a
missionary hermit and in 1278, being then about fifty, he became a
Franciscan lay brother. Miss Underhill’s book is divided into two
parts of about equal length. The first is devoted to Jacopone’s life,
set in its proper historical environment. In the remaining part of the
book Miss Underhill gives us a chronological selection from his
mystical poems, so well known as the Laude, accompanied in the fellow
page by an English translation (also into poetry) by Mrs Theodore
Beck.”—Cath World

* * * * *

“Miss Underhill has a fine flow of language, a nice choice of
adjectives, and a thorough, if somewhat undiscriminating, knowledge of
the literature of her subject. Altogether her book is well done in its
way, and it is not the slightest use wishing, as we do, that it had
been done in another.” R. S.

+ − =Ath= p636 My 14 ’20 760w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 1500w

+ =Cath World= 111:819 S ’20 620w

“The biographer’s comprehension of the worldly accomplishments of her
subject and her equal insight into his spiritual attainments, is
strikingly the counterpart of that two-sidedness which she emphasizes
in the man himself. The bibliography apart from its immediate value as
indicating the sources of the present work, will be of service to
those interested in the whole subject of Christian mysticism.”
Marianne Moore

+ =Dial= 70:82 Ja ’21 1650w

“When the romantic personality falls into the hands of the scholar
there is necessarily something of glamour and delight lost. This is
what has happened in this austerely spiritual biography of Evelyn
Underhill.” L. C. Willcox

+ − =N Y Times= 25:169 Ap 11 ’20 1200w

“Friar Jacopone was a poet of extraordinary power, and the fire, ease,
and accomplishment of his rather erotic mystic poems are astonishing.”

+ =Spec= 124:426 Mr 27 ’20 1450w

“The materials are rather flimsy for the construction of a biography.
We cannot agree with Miss Underhill that Jacopone was a great poet.
Intense religious feeling, vividly and forcibly expressed, does not of
itself constitute poetry, and beyond such expression Jacopone does not
often rise.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 Ap 15 ’20 4100w

=UNDERHILL, RUTH MURRAY.= White moth. *$2 Moffat

20–20002

“Miss Underhill has converted the old fable of the ant and the
grasshopper into a very modern romance which she calls ‘The white
moth.’ Hilda Plaistead is the earnest plodder, Guy Nearing the gay and
irresponsible hero, and the setting is the town of Cato. The two have
a childhood engagement, become widely separated, and in the final
chapter again discover that they were always meant for each other, but
it is only after Guy has learned the folly of being jack of all trades
and master of none.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“We can scarcely claim for Miss Underhill’s story either originality
of substance or of treatment. What she does accomplish is an
exceedingly readable and very human story, which possesses certain
scenes of quiet and insistent realism.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 5 ’21 250w

“High school days are described as well as in Booth Tarkington’s
‘Seventeen.’ The characters are all well drawn. However, the true
merit of the book is in taking some new aspects of life, such as the
business rivalry between man and woman or the problems of factory
management and using them to construct a good old-fashioned romance
which holds the attention from start to finish.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 140w

“It is a real romance and has a charming atmosphere.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

=UNSEEN= doctor. *$1.75 (5c) Holt 134

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