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DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones, Marshall 755
20–26575
The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the complete story of the life of Jesus.
“An important book for any art collection.”
+ Booklist 16:352 Jl ’20
“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is ‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 52:257 N ’20 490w
“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
+ Ind 104:379 D 11 ’20 90w
“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.” Glen Mullin
+ Nation 111:sup654 D 8 ’20 2150w
“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes. Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell
+ N Y Evening Post p4 N 13 ’20 720w + N Y Times p8 D 26 ’20 120w + Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 200w
DANE, CLEMENCE. Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan
20–817
A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.
“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.
− + Ath p1289 D 5 ’19 1350w
“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”
+ Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel, writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex. In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey
+ − Bookm 51:202 Ap ’20 1300w
“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 500w
“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ − Dial 68:523 Ap ’20 1500w Lit D p113 S 18 ’20 2550w
“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other literatures its structural method is not unknown.”
+ Nation 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w
“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem artless in its basic simplicity.”
+ N Y Times 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w + N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s ‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater clarity.”
+ Outlook 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w
“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w
“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional current.”
+ − Sat R 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w
“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary achievement, particularly on the technical side.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w
“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident limits in the understanding of men.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p649 N 13 ’19 750w
DANE, EDMUND. British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–4448)
“This volume deals with the operations in five theatres of war—Southwest Africa, East Africa, Togoland, Cameroon, and Kiao-chau. Mr Dane has endeavored, with the help of nine sketch maps, to compress the account of them into 205 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p688 My 21 ’20 110w The Times [London] Lit Sup p678 N 20 ’19 40w
“On the whole, he has given us, as he claims, a truthful and lucid narrative, sufficient for the general reader, and a useful primer for the student. Mr Dane quotes no authorities and gives no bibliography. He goes out of his way to avoid and paraphrase ordinary military expressions.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p728 D 11 ’19 550w
DANIELS, GEORGE WILLIAM. Early English cotton industry; introductory chapter by George Unwin. (Manchester university publications) il *$3.25 (*8s 6d) Longmans 338.4
20–14211
“Mr Daniels, who is senior lecturer in economics in the University of Manchester, was greatly helped in writing this historical sketch of the cotton industry from the sixteenth century to the death of Samuel Crompton by the discovery in the upper storey of one of the mills owned by Messrs O’Connel and Co., Limited, at Ancoats, of a number of ledgers, correspondence files, etc., dealing with their business for the period 1795–1835. Mr Daniels further discovered among the business correspondence of the firm a series of original letters by Crompton, written in 1812 and describing his invention of the ‘mule’ thirty years earlier, which are here reproduced.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Daniels’ researches make a valuable addition to social and industrial history.”
+ Ath p408 S 24 ’20 210w
“Apart from these technical details, however, the book is of special value because it shows that the present relations between capital and labour were not the outcome of the factory system, but must be traced much further back.”
+ Spec 125:211 Ag 14 ’20 1350w The Times [London] Lit Sup p522 Ag 12 ’20 110w
DANIELS, JOHN. America via the neighborhood. il *$2 (2c) Harper 325.7
21–170
The volume is one of a series of eleven books on Americanization studies of which Allen T. Burns is general director. Its point of departure is that the essential objective in any program of Americanization is constructive participation in the life of America and that this cannot be attained either by enforced conformity or the equally enforced injection of the English language and a smattering of civics. The general conclusion of the study is that Americanization does not restrict itself to the immigrant alone but to all activities that have to do with neighborhood and community problems and that it is the labor unions, cooperatives and political organizations that bring the immigrant into democratic partnership with the native American. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Americanization and the neighborhood; Inherent forces; Union through racial coherence; Colony pioneering (two chapters); The social settlement approach; The settlement’s larger opportunities; Church, school, and library; Other agencies and the neighborhood principle; Labor unions; Co-operatives; Political organization and government; The outcome.
DARGON, JEAN. Future of aviation, with a preface by M. Etienne Lamy. il *$3 Appleton 629.1
20–3275
“A volume entitled ‘The future of aviation’ contains a translation by Philip Nutt of a work written in French by Jean Dargon. There are nine full-page illustrations in the book, two maps, and numerous diagrams.” (N Y Times) “It is a discussion of the civil as opposed to the military use of the airplane, showing how it depends first of all on structure which aims at endurance and carrying power rather than agility and lightness. The author then considers practical problems; postal service, tourism, international air lines and traffic regulations.”—Booklist
Booklist 16:264 My ’20 + N Y P L New Tech Bks p3 Ja ’20 30w + N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 40w
DARK, RICHARD. Quest of the Indies. il *$2.25 Stokes 910 9
The title of the book is used as the symbol for the medieval spirit of adventure and desire for expansion and knowledge of the earth’s surface. Beginning with the Mohammedan invasion of eastern and southern Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries, the book contains brief sketches of the various voyages of exploration and conquest with their leading personalities—which ended in the complete European invasion of the Americas. With illustrations and several early maps of the world the contents are: The mediæval world; The farther East; The heel of Africa; Round the Cape to India; The Portuguese eastern empire; The first voyage of Columbus; Later voyages of Columbus; Central America: discovery of the Pacific; Magellan’s voyage; The conquest of Mexico; The conquest of Peru; Chronological summary, Index.
N Y Times p13 O 31 ’20 100w
DARLING, ELTON R. Inorganic chemical synonyms and other useful chemical data. *$1 Van Nostrand 546
19–17188
A work based on a series of articles written for the Chemical Engineer in 1918. It is designed for the student, but the author expresses the belief that it will prove useful to the experienced chemist. Contents: Introduction; The elements; Specific gravity and temperature comparison; Standards of weights and measures; Chemical synonyms (comprising the main body of the book); Cross index of chemical terms. The author is in charge of the industrial chemistry department in the Newark technical school, Newark, N.J.
“An excellent alphabetically-arranged cross-index enables one to identify quickly names which do not indicate the true chemical nature of the compound. As a time-saver, the book deserves the attention of every chemist in contact with the field of industrial chemistry.” A. G. Wikoff
+ Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering 22:667 An 7 ’20 340w
“A good library reference.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p5 Ja ’20 40w
DARLINGTON, W. A. Alf’s button. *$1.75 Stokes
20–12958
By the fortunes of war, it happened that Aladdin’s famous lamp was among a group of curios which were melted up during the late war, and appeared subsequently as buttons for soldiers’ tunics. So it was that Private Alf ‘Iggins, hard at work with his toothbrush on his second button, in preparation for inspection, was amazed and terrified at the sight of a djinn appearing before him, bowing low and asking for orders. He eventually recovered from his terror enough to take advantage of the genie’s powers, aided and abetted by Bill Grant, whose imagination was more riotous than Alf’s. Their adventures with “Eustace,” as they christened the djinn, make up the book. The fact that Eustace often brought an oriental flavor into the carrying out of their wishes proves rather disconcerting to Alf and Bill, and brings them some undesired notoriety.
+ Cleveland p106 D ’20 70w N Y Times 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“The most amusing book I have read this summer is ‘Alf’s button.’” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:209 S 8 ’20 260w
DASENT, ARTHUR IRWIN.[[2]] Piccadilly in three centuries, with some account of Berkeley Square, and the Haymarket. il *$7 Macmillan 942.1
21–340
“Mr Dasent has examined minutely the ratebooks of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Westminster, and St George’s, Hanover-square, in which he has followed every house in Piccadilly-place through all its vicissitudes of ownership. Mr Dasent begins his history, so full of noble and historic names, from a humble tailor, one Robert Baker, who in 1612 erected the first buildings upon land covered by the present site of Piccadilly.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Clarendon was the real maker of Piccadilly. The great Clarendon House, which he had barely finished before he went into exile in 1667, was the first of the Piccadilly mansions. Moreover, Clarendon sold to Lord Berkeley the site of the present Devonshire House, to Sir William Pulteney the site of Bath House, and to Sir John Denham, poet and architect, the site of Burlington House and the Albany. But Clarendon had made Piccadilly a fashionable place of residence. Mr Dasent has illustrated his book with some highly interesting old prints.” (Spec)
“His style is slipshod, he has no sense of literary values, and the result is merely a collection of odds and ends about the people and places associated with Piccadilly and its surroundings. His book is, therefore, without form, but it is by no means void, since its intrinsic interest and its scenes of ancient days reproduced in its illustrations have a permanent value as records, the entire volume bringing together a large amount of information not easily accessible elsewhere.” E. F. Edgett
+ − Boston Transcript p2 D 4 ’20 1700w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:648 D 29 ’20 100w
“A pleasant and discursive book.”
+ Spec 125:541 O 23 ’20 320w
“If this book, considered from a literary point of view, is not so attractive as Mr Street’s well-known ‘Ghosts of Piccadilly,’ it is an excellent piece of that anecdotic antiquarianism which keeps one sitting in an armchair turning over just one more page long after one ought to be in bed.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20 1350w
DAVID, CHARLES WENDELL.[[2]] Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy. *$3 Harvard univ. press
20–23204
“The eldest son of William the Conqueror, cheated of a kingdom by his more aggressive brothers, defeated in battle, deprived of his duchy, and condemned to perpetual imprisonment, would hardly be selected as one of the heroic figures of French history. The reason for this monograph is not so much the personality of its subject as the fact that he was associated in his lifetime with great names and great events. Dr David has attempted in this study of Duke Robert’s career to set him in his true relation to the history of Normandy and England and of the First crusade.”—R of Rs
“An admirable index completes a remarkable study of a period of early English history seldom discussed.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 5 ’21 780w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 100w
DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS. Boy in Serbia. il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell 914.97
20–15466
The author of “Tales of Serbian life” has written this story to set forth some of the everyday manners and customs of Serbia. It is told in the first person by Milosav, who describes Simple village life, Playtime, First days at school, How St Sava’s day is kept, etc. There is a colored frontispiece with other illustrations from photographs.
“Charmingly simple, dignified and instructive and filled with a joyous appreciation of home and country.”
+ Booklist 17:121 D ’20
“Rarely well told.” M. H. B. Mussey
+ Nation 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p834 D 9 ’20 140w
DAVIES, ELLEN CHIVERS. Ward tales. (On active service ser.) *$1.25 (3c) Lane
20–10369
These tales from a military hospital by a V. A. D. show chiefly the humorous side and the comic happenings in surroundings so gruesome. There is just enough sadness in these pictures to give a background to the brighter moments in a nurse’s life. The tales are: In the ward kitchen; “Eye-wash”; A conference of the powers; Visiting day; After hours; The tale of a shirt; The night round; Going to the pictures.
“There is nothing of the grim or the harrowing, though there is an occasional touch of finely restrained pathos.”
+ Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20 + Spec 124:765 Je 5 ’20 40w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p202 Mr 25 ’20 50w
DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD. National evolution. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 301
20–1609
“This book traces the development of human societies through the stages of primitive culture, Christian civilization and modern capitalism; ends with a consideration of the best basis for national progress. The book is a condensation of social theories, the only original point being ‘an attempt to harmonize the cultural theory of history with the concrete workings of economic law.’ Chapter bibliographies.”—Booklist
“This brief, concise work is on the whole sound and constructive and will be of special value to the reader whose time is limited.” G. S. Dow
+ Am J Soc 26:248 S ’20 240w Booklist 16:261 My ’20
“‘National evolution’ is a distinct contribution to the National social science series.”
+ Dial 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The forecasts of the author are reasonable and, on the whole, convincing.”
+ − Survey 44:351 Je 5 ’20 220w
DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON. Matrix. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–3881
The story is the romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, father and mother of Abraham Lincoln, put together by the author from legends and documentary evidence and woven into a work of fiction portraying pioneer life in the bluegrass valley of Kentucky, illumined by faith, love and courage. It throws a halo around the head of Lincoln’s mother and shows us his father as the first martyr to the cause of abolition.
Booklist 16:280 My ’20
“It is quite fitting that the story of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks should be written by an author who comes from the ‘blue grass country’ herself. She is able to bring to it that inherited tradition which is so difficult for an outsider to achieve.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 360w
“The author occasionally lapses into primer-technique. A maturer style could have given form to a more enduring romance.”
+ − Dial 68:664 My ’20 50w Nation 110:375 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It has a certain stiffness, as if the task of weaving history and legend and surmise into a consistent and interesting story were a somewhat hampering business to the author. She has, however, succeeded in presenting a clear and evidently carefully drawn sketch of this particular period of American history.”
+ − N Y Times 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 280w
“It seems to us that the author has made the life of their community focus on these two young people almost too persistently, for whatever their foreordained place in history, they must have been to their neighbors ‘just folks.’ City dwellers who love the simple life will find a breathing space in this pioneer tale.” E. C. Webb
+ − Pub W 97:605 F 21 ’20 260w
“It is not the author’s fault if she has produced a pious memorial rather than a living portrait.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 2:462 My 1 ’20 130w Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 190w
DAVIS, FRANKLYN PIERRE, ed.[[2]] Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year book of newspaper poetry. $2.50 The author. Enid, Okla. 811.08
20–15478
“Franklyn Pierre Davis of Enid, Okla. carries the anthologizing tendency a step further by editing an ‘Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919 and year book of newspaper poetry.’ Selections are made from a list of papers nationwide in range, and include topical poems, light verse and serious poetry. The editor says: ‘I hope to be able to present annually the best of the verse published in the newspapers in a volume which may preserve for the future the real sentiment of the American people and the true ideals of American life.’”—Springf’d Republican
“If the fact be excepted that Mr Davis has done his job rather badly, one can have nothing but admiration for his endeavor. The idea is mentally invigorating and susceptible of many admirable procedures. It is the editor’s own fault that he has not carried it out in a sufficiently comprehensive manner.” H. S. Gorman
+ − Bookm 52:168 O ’20 500w Springf’d Republican p8 N 16 ’20 140w
DAVIS, JAMES FRANCIS. Chinese label. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–6429
San Antonio is the scene of this smuggling story and Julian Napier is the special secret service agent sent down from Washington to catch the smugglers. Besides opium, he is on the lookout for two diamonds of great value. A Mexican, a Turk, several Chinese, a beautiful Armenian woman, a lovely American girl and her father, all are implicated in the plot. Clever team work between Napier and the Texas rangers results in the taking of one diamond, and the other is captured in a spectacular raid on the headquarters of the Chinese society which was also doing a big opium business. In this raid the poor dope fiend which the American girl’s father had become met his death like a man, leaving Ruth to be comforted by Julian.
Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
“The whole affair is treated lightly, without pretense that it is anything more than an amusing yarn; and this is refreshing.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:582 Jl ’20 190w Boston Transcript p9 My 8 ’20 320w
“It all runs logically and with a degree of reserve for which the reader is grateful. There would be opportunities for the writer to run amuck, as it were, if he would, but he is artist enough to understand that the best dramatic effect often can be attained by piquing the imagination rather than by laying on the crimson paint with a whitewash brush.”
+ N Y Times 25:277 My 23 ’20 480w Springf’d Republican p12 My 21 ’20 120w
DAVIS, MALCOLM W. Open gates to Russia. il *$2 (2½c) Harper 914.7
20–1610
The author pleads for fair dealing and friendliness and co-operation with Russia in the accomplishment of her great task of reconstruction, and the object of the book is to point out the practical ways and means by which mutually satisfactory relationship can be achieved between Russia and America. The book falls into four parts: The new importance of Russia; Russia’s immediate necessities; Russia’s enduring needs; The interest of Russia. “The first part is a consideration of the question of recent relationships and the attitudes which they have created. The second ... of the important opportunities in trade and industry. The third points out social opportunities, in which considerable opportunities for commercial enterprise are also involved. Finally, the last part is an answer to some American misconceptions of Russia and a description of the real Russia for Americans who wish to know her.” (Chapter 1: America’s attitude toward awakened Russia)
“It is intensely practical, and for that very reason has value at the moment beyond the larger number of books upon Russia.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 330w
“Business men who plan to expand their export trade will find these pages a mine of information. The conditions and needs are presented in detail, and valuable suggestions for the conduct of trade with Russia are given.”
+ Cath World 111:536 Jl ’20 700w + Cleveland p42 Ap ’20 60w
Reviewed by Jacob Zeitlin
Nation 110:400 Mr 27 ’20 160w
“It is gratifying to come across a book that is so clear in its recital of facts as the one Davis has given us. It is in all a volume worth reading.” Alvin Winston
+ N Y Call p10 Mr 21 ’20 750w
“The five chapters under the general title, Russia’s enduring needs, are of great value, and of special interest is the one relating to The liberated influence of woman.”
+ N Y Times 25:268 My 23 ’20 440w
“It will be perhaps especially suggestive to the American who contemplates opening business relations with Russia, but it is a valuable addition to the library of any layman interested in social, economic, and intellectual conditions in Russia today.”
+ Outlook 124:336 F 25 ’20 80w + R of Rs 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is one that challenges our present individual indifference to the Russia of today and of the future.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 1100w
“It should not be neglected by anyone interested in commercial or other relationships with Russia.” Reed Lewis
+ Survey 44:50 Ap 3 ’20 220w
DAVIS, NORAH. Other woman. *$1.75 (1c) Century
20–9140
In this story of dual personality a man, Langdom Kirven, after excessive fatigue and brain-fag, loses himself and consciousness, and wakes up in a hospital another man. In the morning he had said good-bye to his wife and little son and taken a train to New York. The new man is a crook and a criminal, albeit a genius. After seven years his one-time bosom friend and business partner, Spencer Ellis, finds him on a bench in the park, a down and out tramp. Ellis recognizes Kirven and implores him to return to his old life. But there is no memory in Kirven, now John Gorham, and Ellis is at last forced to believe that the external resemblance hides a strange personality. But he gives Gorham a chance to retrieve his fall in fortunes, which the latter does with bold and doubtful business methods. He also falls passionately in love with Naomi, Ellis’ cousin. One morning after another crisis, John Gorham has fled with all memory of himself and a bewildered Kirven awakens in the latter’s office. After this a succession of alternations follows, each one leaving the subject and his friends more bewildered and perplexed than ever. At last an eminent physician finds the way out. The split personality can be unified by a complete realization of the situation and henceforth Langdom Kirven can go through the remainder of his life whole, although cursed with a continuous memory.
“Somewhat melodramatic and rather long drawn out, but cleverly managed. Will appeal to those who read for plot interest.”
+ Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“It is a difficult piece of work which is admirably well done.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ’20 580w
“Miss Davis has handled her material very well indeed, with much ingenuity of invention and with commendable care in the working out of her great amount of detail and complication. The novel is a good piece of literary workmanship in construction and development.”
+ N Y Times 25:321 Je 20 ’20 420w
DAVIS, PHILIP, and SCHWARTZ, BERTHA, comps. Immigration and Americanization. $4 (1½c) Ginn 325.7
20–4542
The book is a compilation of selected readings, on the title subject. It “aims to cover the field of immigration and Americanization from every possible point of view, subject to the limits of a single volume. It is particularly designed to meet the needs of high schools, colleges universities, and chautauquas, which have been frequently at a loss in recommending to the student, investigator, official, or general public a handbook on these twin topics.” (Preface) The selections have been arranged chronologically and include some of the most recent contributions on the subject from writers including Jane Addams, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Emily Greene Balch, Edward A. Steiner, E. A. Goldenweiser, Paul U. Kellogg, John Mitchell, Edward Alsworth Ross, Edward T. Devine, Lillian D. Wald, J. E. Milholland, Samuel Gompers, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin K. Lane, Louis D. Brandeis, Theodore Roosevelt. The contents are in two parts. In book 1 the selections are classified under: History; Causes; Characteristics; The new immigration; Effects; Immigration legislation. Book 2 contains: Americanization: policies and programs; Distribution; Education; Naturalization and citizenship; Americanism. There is an appendix, a bibliography and an index.
Booklist 17:51 N ’20
“The book should be of value to both the general reader and the special student.”
+ Boston Transcript p11 My 22 ’20 200w
“The compilers have exercised diligence and judgment, but with a few exceptions the selections lack the ‘human touch.’ It would appear that an undue proportion of space is allotted to the new immigration, even admitting that from the standpoint of the present time and the Americanization worker greater emphasis is justifiable.” G: M. Stephenson
+ − Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:168 S ’20 720w Survey 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
DAVIS, WILLIAM. Hosiery manufacture. (Pitman’s textile industries ser.) il *$3.50 Pitman 677
A British work designed to meet the rapid development of the knitted fabrics industry and to supply the demand of new firms for information. Contents: Development of the knitted fabric; Knitting and weaving compared; Latch needle knitting; Types of knitting yarns; Systems of numbering hosiery yarns; Calculations for folded knitting yarns; Bearded needle knitting; Setting of knitted fabrics; Various knitting yarns; Winding of hosiery yarns; Circular knitting; Colour in knitted goods; Colour harmony and contrast; Defects in fabrics. There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.
DAVIS, WILLIAM STEARNS. History of France; from the earliest times to the treaty of Versailles. il *$3.50 (2c) Houghton 944
19–19268
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Professor Davis has the knack of vivid and fluent narrative. The tale reads well and is interesting. The author makes the great figures of French history appear living.” C. H. C. Wright
+ − Am Hist R 26:313 Ja ’21 580w + Booklist 61:163 F ’20
“An interesting feature of the story is that which tells of the relation of France to the crusades. There is an extremely interesting account of life in France in the feudal ages. The story of the revolution is told rapidly, but with great brilliancy. As a single volume history of France this must take its place in the foremost rank.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 3 ’20 550w
“Though one can clearly discern the author’s purpose of presenting his facts fairly and with due justice to all, he has not perfectly understood the spirit and ideals that have made France. Early and mediæval France cannot be judged by the ideals of modern American Protestantism.”
+ − Cath World 111:256 My ’20 220w
“His limited space excludes detailed interpretation of separate events, and the author is also compelled to give only the most perfunctory notice to the economic phenomena which are associated with various stages of French history. On the political side, however, the work is reasonably complete, and Professor Davis shows an excellent sense of proportion in laying special stress upon what may be called the revolutionary era of French history.” W: H: Chamberlin
+ Dial 68:255 F ’20 1500w + − Nation 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 300w New Repub 23:207 Jl 14 ’20 1650w
“The book is much more than a mere history; it is a colorful romance, with a splendid nation as a background, and most of the characters cast in a heroic mold.”
+ N Y Times 25:303 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The present volume is, so far as we know, the only truly comprehensive history of France. Aside from its comprehensiveness, the text has been clearly and compactly written by one who has an enviable knowledge of sources.”
+ Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“Though very sympathetic to his subject, and though he often animadverts to the ravages of the Hun in the present when telling of the past, his tone is scholarly and his attitude sufficiently impartial. Mr Davis has added an excellent select bibliography. Unfortunately, there is almost nothing of French literature and art.”
+ − Review 2:285 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“This book becomes at once the standard single-volume history of France in the English language.”
+ R of Rs 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is the excellent diction. Many of the illustrations are reproductions of rare prints and paintings, and they greatly enhance the value of the work, which is, indeed, a modern and trustworthy textbook.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a F 29 ’20 140w
DAW, ALBERT W., and DAW, ZACHARIAS W: Compressed air power. il *$7.50 Pitman 621.5
“A treatise on the development and transmission of power by compressed air for engineers and draughtsmen, and for students of applied science.” (Sub-title) “The compression, expansion, exhaust, and flow of air and gases are very fully dealt with, formulae deduced for making the necessary computations, and practical examples solved to assist those concerned in the design and use of compressed air plant and machines.” (Preface) The book has seventy-five illustrations, forty tables and numerous worked out examples, and is indexed. The authors are members of the Institution of mining and metallurgy [of Great Britain].
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p59 Jl ’20 190w
DAWSON, CONINGSBY WILLIAM. Little house. il *$1.50 (9c) Lane
20–16158
The little house tells its own story. It is a very old and empty little house, as it stands in “Dolls’ House Square” in London, and on the nights of air-raids and bombing, it is a very frightened little house. But it is not too frightened to give shelter to others who are afraid, too, and so one night when “the little lady who needed to be loved, but did not know it,” crept in, with her two little children, they are amply protected. And presently, “the wounded officer who wanted rest,” looking for a haven from the raid sought it too in the little house. Then the officer goes off to war, and the little lady comes to live in the house. After the armistice, the officer returns, and, again in the shelter of the little house, finds the rest he craves more than ever, and “the little lady” receives the love she needs. And the little house feels that its part in the romance has not been inconsiderable.
“By making the house in question narrate the scenes its walls have witnessed. Mr Coningsby Dawson has aimed, not too successfully, at imparting a Hans Andersen atmosphere to occurrences which have not much in common with the traditional material of fairy-tale.”
+ − Ath p892 D 31 ’20 140w Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“A story which has a real Christmas flavor and which would warm the heart of anybody whatever is ‘The little house.’” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:342 D ’20 120w
“The story has a charm as elusive as the appealing quality that won so many followers for Maude Adams. It is as endearing as ‘Roaming in the gloaming’ or ‘Comin’ through the rye.’ In it sentiment keeps clear of sentimentality.”
+ N Y Times p2 S 19 ’20 1000w
“‘The little house’ is really a Christmas story—and a very delightful and charming one. The fanciful manner in which the story is told by the old house in which the scenes take place is beautifully conceived and finely carried out.”
+ Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 60w
“Mr Dawson has chosen a rather childish allegory as his method, although, after having read the book, one may look at a house with a slightly more human feeling of childish fancy. The redeeming feature of the book is the atmosphere of old London. Aside from these glimpses of old London, ‘The little house’ is hardly more than a sweet book for sweet people.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 330w
“For all its pretty sentiment (or, rather, because of it), the whole thing is a pure ‘machine,’ the working of which Mr Dawson has mastered under western influences.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p781 N 25 ’20 90w
DAWSON, EDGAR. Organized self-government. il *$1.40 Holt 353
20–10285
The object of this volume is to serve as a school text-book in teaching government, organized and political cooperation, the functions of government and the problems to be met by those who perform those functions. It is to arouse the child’s interest in government as a practical subject and to open his eyes to noticing its effects in the street, in the home, in the school. This latter purpose, more especially, is to be accomplished by the suggestions and questions at the end of each chapter. The contents are in five parts. Part I, Elements of self-government, shows how voluntary cooperation depends on parliamentary law, rules and legislation, rulers and officers, and a constitution. Part II, Self-government in cities, applies these elements to all the details of city government; Parts III and IV do the same for the states and the United States. Part V, Some general ideas about self-government, has chapters on: Socialism and capitalism; Parties and leaders; Organized government; and Real international law. In the appendix some of the accepted principles of political cooperation are discussed, i.e. the short ballot principle; civil service reform; the executive budget; the principle of responsible leadership; etc.
“The book is sure to take its place among the few best ones in its field.”
+ School R 28:548 S ’20 530w
DAWSON, RICHARD. Red terror and green: the Sinn-Fein-bolshevist movement. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5
20–5381
“Mr Dawson builds his thesis that Sinn Fein is Bolshevism by quoting Sinn Fein leaders, and refers the reader to name, page, date of his authority. He goes back to the earliest attempts of Ireland to free herself from England, and traces the whole movement, the influences behind it and the work of the leaders who led, up to today, when the new (Irish) nationalism ‘starting with lofty ideals of national regeneration on the old lines of the ancient culture, begins to seek its inspirations from modern sources of unspeakable corruption.’”—Boston Transcript
Ath p496 Ap 9 ’20 100w
“Will not please those who take the opposite stand, but worth while as a well done presentation of the objections to Ireland’s attitude.”
+ Booklist 17:24 O ’20
“As a polemical writer Mr Dawson is a comfort because his proofs are not of the unidentified sort so common in the mouths of platform orators. He does not employ vituperation as argument nor blackguarding as punctuation. ‘Red terror and green’ is a timely, excellent guide book to the present meaning and purpose of Sinn Fein.” W. R. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 1650w
“So evidently prepared from the standpoint of reactionery British interests as to become propaganda in its most palpable and, therefore, most useless form.”
− Cath World 112:550 Ja ’21 80w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:768 Je 5 ’20 250w N Y Times p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w
“The intrigues of Casement with the Germans make excellent material for building up a theory that Sinn Fein was part of a German plot, and in a world torn by Bolshevism it is plausible to suggest that Sinn Fein emissaries have been seeking to combine the forces of disorder at home with the agencies of disorder in other countries. But Mr Dawson will not easily convince those who know rural Ireland that its peasantry—now bitterly Sinn Fein—are now or were ever bolshevistic.” H. L. Stewart
− + Review 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1150w R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 80w + Spec 124:388 Mr 20 ’20 1200w
“The reader will be impressed rather by the care with which the author has followed Irish events than by his insight into the psychic and temperamental change which has affected the Irish people during the period which he reviews.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p110 F 12 ’20 340w
DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.[[2]] Borrowdale tragedy. *$2 (2½c) Lane
20–19918
The tragedy of the title, altho the central incident of the book, is by no means its central theme. The tragedy is the death of old James Borrowdale, and the subsequent trial of his young wife Flora and her friend Cecil Twyfold for his murder, of which they are acquitted. The major part of the book, however, is taken up with the love of Cecil and Flora, its development while Flora was still bound and the reaction of the tragedy upon them. The expansion of their characters is along lines contrary to convention, as Cecil expresses it, they have taken the “downward path to salvation,” downward, that is, from the standards of material success that the world sets up. A plea for individual freedom, as opposed to the usages of conventional society, is really the keynote of the book.
“There is an undeniable simplicity in the writer’s style, a genial mellowness that in a tale like this is really extraordinary. There is hardly a writer today that could take the structure of this novel and its strong plea for individualism as opposed to social conventions, with its technically unhappy ending, and not make it despite brilliancy, a hard and cynical book. On the contrary Dr Dawson has written with deep humanness and charm. We have had the fortune to read few novels of the present season with such genuine delight.” S. L. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ’20 420w
DAY, CLARENCE SHEPARD, jr. This simian world. il *$1.50 Knopf 817.
20–10010
Ours is a simian civilization. If we had not descended from the monkey what would our world be like from the point of view of extraterrestrial beings? If the ant and the bee, or the big cats, or the elephant or any of the other beasts had achieved the hegemony? Such whimsical questions with their conjectures were suggested by a Sunday afternoon Broadway crowd to the author and his friend Potter. The author’s illustrations are as amusing as his fancies.
“It was a good idea, and Mr Day has a real though immature gift of lightness in treating a solid subject. But his theme is really too big for his ninety pages, and although his thinking is honest and courageous it tends to become unsubstantial.”
+ − Ath p145 Jl 30 ’19 150w
“Aside from the amusing quality there is a basis of shrewd comment.”
+ Booklist 17:21 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 270w
“No less complete and varied than his estimate of man is Mr Day’s expression of it: a natural blend of wisdom with lightness, humour with profundity, hope with art, economy with abundance, kindliness with malice. The quality that makes possible such alliances is the one most infrequently granted to mortals: Mr Day sees things as they are beneath accumulated centuries of appearances; he cannot, he will not be fooled.” Robert Littell
+ Dial 69:197 Ag ’20 1300w
“Mr Clarence Day’s whimsicality is quite virile; it is the expression of a naturally ingenuous mind; ‘innocent’ in the Nietzschean sense and not incapable of a certain gentle philosophic malice.”
+ Freeman 1:358 Je 23 ’20 280w
“The most amusing little essay of the year.”
+ Ind 103:318 S 11 ’20 360w Nation 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“It ought to interest any lively spirit because of its grace and reasonableness. And it ought to entrap and enlighten any slack soul who may pick it up in search for amusement. Amusing it unquestionably is, but a great deal more than amusing, to follow this grim parallel between the ways of apes and men.” R. T.
+ New Repub 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 650w
“While his treatment of the subject is amusingly interesting, it is none the less a serious one. The whole essay is, in fact, a bitter arraignment of our present order of civilization.” Alvin Winston
+ N Y Call p10 Ag 1 ’20 640w + Review 3:306 O 13 ’20 1400w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 500w Survey 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS. All-wool Morrison. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
20–13700
Stewart Morrison has inherited St Ronan’s mill from his Scotch ancestors and is himself a canny Scotchman. In his absence and against his will he is elected mayor of the city of Marion and then things become lively. Within twenty-four hours and by sheer intimidation he beats the governor, the politicians and vested interests at their game of falsifying election returns and barring duly elected members from the legislature. He prevents the forming of a syndicate for stealing the state’s water-power. He teaches some bloody anarchists, athirst for martyrdom, what’s what by taking one of them across his knee and spanking him lustily before an admiring mob. He diverts a howling mob from the state house thus protecting the conspirators within while teaching them a wholesome lesson. And he wins his bride in the bargain. All within twenty-four hours.
Booklist 17:31 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 220w
“The fun of the book lies for the most part in this unity of time. A quality of the book is that its characters and happenings possess that delightfully feverish and slightly unreal aspect that things often acquire after dark.”
+ N Y Times p10 O 17 ’20 420w
“Mr Day’s homely, racy humor goes some distance toward minimizing the glaring artificialities to which he resorts in stimulating the action of the narrative.”
+ − |Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 380w |Wis Lib Bul 16:193 N ’20 60w
DAY, JAMES ROSCOE.[[2]] My neighbor the workingman. *$2.50 Abingdon press 331.8
20–8266
“This book is an outspoken word for the capitalistic system and against the methods of organized labor. Chancellor Day has been speaking with strong conviction on the somewhat unpopular side of this controversy. He displays the abuses in the trades union. He calls the labor union ‘an artificial and unnaturally and illogically attached institution in our country, working not for the common good but to create conditions altogether possible and profitable to its own members without regard to how its act may bear upon business of construction and manufacture.’ Chancellor Day calls collective bargaining ‘meddling’ and says: ‘It is high time that the country pronounced with unmistakable law against strikes of all kinds. There should be no doubt left that strikes are crimes.’”—Bib World
“Full of ‘ginger’ and worthy of attention by everyone who is ready to consider both sides of the burning question of the day. He does not represent the honorable attitude in the contest that will finally make for peace. He is violent and bitter. He is absolutely unjust to the majority of the immigrants who land on our shores.”
+ − Bib World 54:647 N ’20 260w Ind 103:320 S 11 ’20 60w
“The readers of this book will find in it much repetition and too much vehemence. It provides in places quite as much heat as light, and is not without a touch here and there of a rather narrow type of politics. There is not great use made in it of the mantle of sweet charity, and small allowance appears for those with whom the author disagrees. Yet with his attacks upon radicalism in its Red form we must sympathize.” W: C. Redfield
− + N Y Times p9 D 5 ’20 2150w
“It would be difficult to find a volume more filled with hatred and misunderstanding than this product of the chancellor of Syracuse university.” W. L. C.
− Survey 44:417 Je 19 ’20 260w
DEALEY, JAMES QUAYLE.[[2]] Sociology: its development and applications. *$3 Appleton 301
20–20107
The book is an enlarged and revised edition of the author’s “Sociology” issued in 1909. It gives a survey of sociological development so that the student may have in fairly brief compass a general view of its rise and its relations to other sciences, a sketch of the development of social institutions, and a short discussion of social problems and of the factors to be considered in social progress. Its contents fall into three parts: Sociology and its kindred sciences; Society and its institutions; and Social progress. Some of the chapters are: The beginnings of social science; Sociology and biology; Sociology and psychology: Social behaviorism; Achievement and civilization; Civilization static and dynamic; Social gradations and genius; Society and the individual; The elimination of social evils; Racial factors in social progress; Economic factors in social progress; Educational factors in social progress. There is a bibliography and an index.
DEAN, BASHFORD. Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. il *$6 Yale univ. press 399
20–17513
“This book is one of the publications of the Committee on education of the Metropolitan museum of art, in which Dr Dean is curator of armour. It is an account of the various types of body protection used or experimented with by the nations engaged in the great war, with a brief historical survey of the development of armour in earlier times. As chairman of the Committee on helmets and body armour of the United States National research council the author had special opportunity for the study of his subject, not only in America but in the allied countries in Europe.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Within his field of special knowledge he has touched and illuminated almost every phase of the art and craft of the armorer ancient or modern. Rarely indeed has such historical erudition as Mr Dean’s been applied to a theme so recent and in most respects so businesslike.”
+ Nation 111:108 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“This volume is definitive in its field.” C. O. Kilnbusch
+ N Y Times p6 Je 27 ’20 2550w Springf’d Republican p8 Je 12 ’20 50w
“The practical treatment of the question makes the book a valuable contribution to military literature, apart from its historical and antiquarian interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p554 Ag 26 ’20 150w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p647 O 7 ’20 1150w
DEARMER, NANCY (KNOWLES) (MRS PERCY DEARMER). Fellowship of the picture. *$1.25 Dutton 134
20–17392
“Professor Dearmer states in an introduction that on July 31, 1919, at their country cottage, his wife felt impelled to sit down, and allow her hand to write automatically; after that she wrote regularly, being quite unaware of what she was writing. On September 10 Professor Dearmer, reading the script aloud to her, found that the book had reached its end. It came as from a man of high academic distinction who was killed in France in 1918, and who had already written contributions to religion and philosophy. ‘The fellowship of the picture’ claims to be a book which he had been anxious to write after the war. It is composed of thirty-six short chapters setting forth a religious philosophy of life and fellowship.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p108 Jl 23 ’20 340w N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 120w
“There is no particular exhilaration in reading automatically penned platitudes than there is in the reading of the platitudes penned by ordinary beings.”
− Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 220w The Times [London] Lit Sup p443 Jl 8 ’20 120w
DECKER, WILBUR F. Story of the engine; from lever to Liberty motor. il *$2 Scribner 621
20–6990
“This book tells about the first prime movers and traces the early history of the steam-engine. A chapter is devoted to each of the following subjects: Steam-boilers, furnaces and connections; reciprocating engines; the locomotive; the steam-turbine; measurements of power; gas-engines; gasoline engines; and oil-engines. ‘It is the aim of this book to show how man first learned to apply mechanical principles; to trace the gradual development of heat engines; to furnish accurate and reliable information regarding present-day types, and to prepare the way for possible later scientific studies.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Unusually readable, more accurate than the ordinary book of this type, and well supplied with diagrams.”
+ Booklist 16:302 Je ’20 N Y P L New Tech Bks 5:32 Ap ’20 100w St Louis 18:220 S ’20 40w
DE HAAS, J. ANTON. Business organization and administration. il $1.60 Gregg 658
20–9408
The book is intended for a high school textbook and is limited to a statement of the most essential facts of business practice, including the problems of labor management and payment of wages. At the end of each chapter are references to standard works, a list of study questions, and of test questions. Contents: The elements of business success; Business organization; The proprietorship of a business; Financing an enterprise; Financial institutions; Management; The wage question; The service department; Selecting the site; Planning the building; Purchasing; Marketing; Selling and advertising; Foreign trade; The technic of foreign trade.
+ Booklist 17:98 D ’20
“While the volume has some drawbacks in its function, it has nevertheless a broader appeal. Many a professional man or woman ought to have a deeper knowledge of this subject. Professor De Haas’s work is admirably suited for his or her use.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p19 O 23 ’20 230w
“The book is written in a pleasing style and is well arranged. Its aim is to aid the teacher in awakening proper attitudes in the minds of the students. Teachers will find it helpful in this respect.”
+ School R 29:75 Ja ’21 300w
DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN). Cloud of witnesses. *$2.50 Dutton 134
20–4626
“‘A cloud of witnesses’ is the title of a new book by Mrs Anna De Koven (the widow of the musical composer, Reginald De Koven). The messages, which largely constitute the book, are believed by Mrs De Koven to be from her sister, Mrs Chatfield Taylor, whose death occurred some two years since. Between the two sisters there was an unusually intense affection, and this ‘rapport’ is one of the most potent factors in any communication between the seen and the unseen. There is in New York a woman with abounding mediumistic gifts; a woman of society and culture, whose intelligent interest in the work is such that she gives much time to accredited sitters who seek her. She is known as ‘Mrs Vernon,’ which is not her real name. Mrs De Koven went to Mrs Vernon, an entire stranger, and with no possible clew to her identity. Messages from her sister came of such genuineness as to be unmistakable. Dr Hyslop contributes the introduction to this book.”—Springf’d Republican
“Deeply sincere, intimate, and instinct with refinement.”
+ Booklist 17:137 Ja ’21
“Certainly, except to the most determined skeptic, there is much in the book to convince one of the action of supernormal intelligence.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
Dial 69:207 Ag ’20 140w
“Unfortunately for the sympathy every one must feel with this beautiful record of a sister’s affection, it is impossible to accept Mrs De Koven’s views of what is ‘evidential.’ As propaganda the book is only one more tale of credulity; but it has unusual value in being entirely free from the sordid crime of ghosts for revenue. Mrs Vernon receives no remuneration when she summons Mrs De Koven to hear a message from the dead.”
+ − N Y Times 25:230 My 2 ’20 600w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− Review 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 700w Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 280w
DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN. Collected poems, 1901–1918. 2v *$4 Holt 821
20–21987
Volume 1 contains Poems: 1906; The listeners: 1914; and Motley: 1919. Volume 2 is in two parts: Songs of childhood: 1901, and Peacock pie.
Reviewed by J. M. Murray
+ Ath p466 O 8 ’20 750w
“Enough has been said to show Mr de la Mare’s attitude towards poetry and towards life. The question now arises whether this attitude is not somewhat too severely limited to make of him anything more than a delicate craftsman, a painter of miniatures, a carver of cherry-stones.” J: G. Fletcher
+ − Freeman 2:477 Ja 26 ’21 900w
“His artistic presence in our modern world is so surprising that we are tempted to doubt the certainty of it when his books are not in our hands. He is a delightful anachronism. Out of our tangle of violent and discordant colors he makes his white magic. Of Mr de la Mare’s poems for children it is difficult to speak moderately.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ N Y Times p16 D 19 ’20 1550w
“The poems are like silk threads which are individually fragile, but which, woven together, make a fabric of unmatched fineness and strength, and are capable of taking on the softest, clearest colours. Some of the poems for children are exceedingly successful.”
+ Spec 125:571 O 30 ’20 500w
“Few of our poets have availed themselves of their privilege of prosodic freedom more delicately than Mr de la Mare. He has a musician’s ear; his rhythms have the clear articulation and unpredictable life-lines of the phrases in a musical theme. The course of his verse reminds us frequently of the fall of a feather launched upon still air and fluttering earthwards, tremulously in dips and eddies.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p657 O 14 ’20 3300w
DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN. Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination. pa 75c Harcourt
20–1238
“It is the brilliant quality of Rupert Brooke’s passionate interest in life, his restless, exploring, examining intellect, that chiefly concerns Walter de la Mare in a lecture on Brooke first given before Rugby school a year ago, and now issued in booklet form. He suggests that poets are of two kinds: those who are similar to children in dreamy self-communion and absorption; and those who are similar to boys in their curious, restless, analytical interest in the world. Poets of the boyish or matter-of-fact imagination are intellectual, he says: they enjoy experience for itself. Poets of the childish or matter-of-fancy heart are visionary, mystical; they feed on dreams and enjoy experience as a symbol. He thinks that Brooke’s imagination was distinctly of the boyish kind.”—Bookm
Booklist 17:60 N ’20
“Those many who admire the peculiar mysticism and subtlety of Mr de la Mare’s reaction to the terms of experience will not be surprised that this essay of his seems the most valuable comment that has been made on the poet of the ‘flaming brains,’ the most romantic and appealing figure of youth and song that has crossed the horizon of these riddled years.” Christopher Morley
+ Bookm 51:234 Ap ’20 650w
“An interesting and valuable contribution to poetic interpretation. It is a beautifully written piece of prose woven with subtle analysis and keen perceptions, the kind of spoken meditation which takes one back to the days of Pater and Symonds.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 650w + Cleveland p73 Ag ’20 80w
“Mr de la Mare does him a service by silencing the hysterical plaudits, and presenting with cool and exquisite certainty the more enduring aspects of Brooke’s spirit. Of this little book both Mr de la Mare and Brooke may well be proud.”
+ Sat R 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 260w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p739 D 11 ’19 1350w
DELAND, MARGARET WADE (CAMPBELL) (MRS LORIN FULLER DELAND). Old Chester secret. il *$1.50 (6c) Harper
20–18606
When Miss Lydia Sampson promises to take Mary Smith’s child and keep the truth about his birth secret, she means to keep her word and does so in the face of Old Chester gossip. Later the proud grandfather, whose heart has been won by the boy, wants to adopt him but meek little Miss Lydia agrees only on the ground that he acknowledge the relationship. Still later when the weak parents also wish to go thru the formality of adoption she makes the same condition. When the mother is finally moved to make her confession the son casts her off as once she had cast him, but Dr Lavendar intervenes in her behalf, telling the boy that her soul has just been born.
“An exquisite bit of character work.”
+ Booklist 17:115 D ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 52:253 N ’20 70w
“With what truth and delicate artistry Mrs Deland handles the narrative of what happened to Johnny, his foster mother, and his parents, no one who is at all familiar with the other Old Chester tales will need to be told. Simple as is its plot, the story has the quality of suspense, never permitting the reader’s interest to flag.”
+ N Y Times p19 N 14 ’20 550w
“The story is not entirely convincing, but the reader remains under the spell of the writer’s dramatic skill.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 800w
“It lacks the vitality of the earlier Old Chester stories and suggests that this vein is wearing thin.”
+ − Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 80w
DE LA PASTURE, EDMÉE ELIZABETH MONICA (E. M. DELAFIELD, pseud.). Tension. *$2.25 (3c) Macmillan
20–17523
The story revolves about the faculty and directors of a provincial commercial college. Lady Rossiter, wife of one of the directors, is an officious person who dispenses sweetness and light in theory and in practice spreads malicious gossip. An incident in the early life of Pauline Marchrose, who come to the college as superintendent, is so magnified that the girl is forced to resign her position. She has been greatly attracted to Mark Easter, a man of charming personality without force of character, and her leaving the college has all the elements of defeat with a shattered ideal added, but an unexpected turn is given to the story by Fairfax Fuller, principal of the college, and in Lady Rossiter’s opinion, a misogynist.
“A convincing personality but not a satisfying plot.”
+ − Booklist 17:115 D ’20
“The interplay between two temperaments is one of the most searching things in recent fiction. But, indeed, Miss Delafield is very rich in creative vigor.”
+ Nation 111:568 N 17 ’20 410w
“The end is abrupt, and may be unsatisfactory to those who read ‘Tension’ for any other reason than to watch Miss Delafield pillory objectionable characters. This she does most competently to Lady Rossiter, to a simpering young authoress, and to two dreadful children, but the nice people, it must be admitted, leave very little impression.” S. T.
+ − New Repub 24:246 N 3 ’20 540w
“‘Tension’ has got scarcely anything to recommend it. The story may be life, but it is altogether too drab and uninteresting for fiction.”
− N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 140w + Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 60w
“Miss Delafield presents her characters through their own words, and their speech is sustained self-revelation. Almost all of them are eccentric, and their eccentricities are expressed with something of Dickens’s inventiveness and humorous exaggeration. We have to smile or laugh whenever they open their mouths.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p401 Je 24 ’20 660w
DELL, ETHEL MAY. Tidal wave, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
19–5814
The first of this collection of short stories tells of the love of a big red-headed young giant of a fisherman for a lovely vision of a girl whose awakening to womanhood came to her in an overpowering passion for an artist. The latter’s love was for his art to which he would have unscrupulously sacrificed the girl. A catastrophe which would have cost them both their lives but for the timely intervention of the red giant, taught the girl through much sorrow the difference between the love that stands like a rock and the passion that sweeps by like a tidal wave. The stories of the collection are: The tidal wave; The magic circle; The looker-on; The second fiddle; The woman of his dream; The return game.
“Six tales with well drawn characters which rather compensate for the melodramatic features of the book.”
+ − Booklist 16:312 Je ’20
“Of the six short stories contained in this volume, ‘The looker-on’ is perhaps the least stereotyped.”
+ − N Y Times 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Christine McAllister
Pub W 97:604 F 21 ’20 300w
DELL, ETHEL MAY. Top of the world. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–13065
Sylvia Ingleton is a very miserable girl when her father brings home a stepmother, who proves so domineering and hard that Sylvia realizes her happiness is ruined unless she gets away. So she goes out to her fiancé in South Africa, a fiancé whom she has known only by correspondence for the last five years. Upon her arrival there, Guy fails her, but his cousin Burke steps into his place, and when Sylvia realizes she cannot count on Guy, she consents to marry Burke. The remainder of the story is taken up with the struggle between her old dying love for Guy, and the new love which springs up in her heart for Burke, which at first she fights against and denies. In the end it conquers her, however, but not before she and Guy and Burke have gone through many bitter waters.
“The amazing thing about the Dell fiction is that it is so good of its kind. There is almost no sensual appeal in it, and very little of anything that is revolting. As full of sob stuff as Florence Barclay’s immortal works, it has still a virile fibre. The South African descriptions are excellent. Much of the subsidiary character work is distinctly good.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“That’s the kind of a story it is—lingering madness long drawn out—562 pages of mawkishness.”
− N Y Times p28 Ja 2 ’21 470w
“Almost alone in a tired world, Miss Dell continues to sound the clarion note of melodrama. Taken by themselves Miss Dell’s heroes are rather tedious.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p385 Je 17 ’20 140w
DELL, FLOYD. Moon-calf. *$2.25 Knopf
20–19503
A biographical novel relating the childhood, adolescence and young manhood of Felix Fay. He was the youngest of a somewhat misfit family—his father’s early turbulence ending in failure and his brothers’ artistic proclivities in resigned adaptations to the necessities of life. Only in the dreamer Felix, because life was so unreal to him and his dreams so real, was there enough persistence to make some of the dreams materialize—after a fashion. The reader accompanies him through school life with its unquenchable thirst for reading, his religious development, his loneliness and poetic aspirations, his economic struggles and his acquaintance with socialism, his adolescent longings with their culmination in a love episode and his early career as a journalist.
“A subtle character study accomplished by narrated episodes rather than detailed analyses. Some readers will object to this on moral grounds. Probably not for the small library.”
+ Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
Reviewed by R. C. Benchley
+ Bookm 52:559 F ’21 380w
“We realize how very close Floyd Dell has got to the heart and ideals of America in this portrayal of the family glorifying of Felix’s education.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p11 D 1 ’20 1000w
“‘Moon-calf,’ as it stands, has the importance of showing how serious and how well-composed an American novel can be without losing caste. It is an effective compromise, in manner between the school of observation and the school of technique.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:106 Ja ’21 90w
“Mr Dell’s first novel, in short, shows us that a well-equipped intelligence and a new perception have been brought to bear on the particular instance of the sensitive soul, the particular instance that lies at the heart of all our questioning, and that the endless circle of sensitive souls and terrifying American towns is broken at last.” Lucian Cary
+ Freeman 2:403 Ja 5 ’21 500w
“Any lover of fine fiction must rejoice in the surfaces of Floyd Dell’s first novel much as a cabinet-maker does when he rubs his fingers along a planed board or an old gardener when he turns a cool, firm, ruddy apple over and over in his hand. The style of ‘Moon-calf’ will arouse despair in the discerning. Colloquial and flexible, it is also dignified as only a natural simplicity can make it.” C. V. D.
+ Nation 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 580w
“One must have a good deal of fluid romanticism to be able to revel in Felix Fay. In his struggle toward reality there is a good deal of vivid and sympathetic narrative, and one feels that his plight as an imaginative youth is honestly understood. But is it generous or engaging imagination? And is it associated with intelligence? The subsequent development of Felix Fay may say yes, but so far he is mainly an exactingly hungry and under-fed literary ego.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 25:49 D 8 ’20 1250w
“His words develop a dull and unpenetrative edge while his form is not at all illuminative. One is lost in a meandering of incident which has been given no significance by any concerted impulse, any synthetic grasp of the subject, any consistent overtone or generality.” Kenneth Burke
− + N Y Evening Post p3 D 31 ’20 1150w
“So skillfully has the author drawn his poignant portrait of a sensitive idealist in conflict with a hostile, workaday world that the reader will soon cease to think of Felix as a character in a novel. Rather, he will think that he is the novelist himself dressed in the incognito of a few imaginary experiences.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 12 ’20 1100w
“It is written by a man who thinks for readers who think. It is addressed to those persons who want to know what makes us what we are.” M. A. Hopkins
+ Pub W 98:1885 D 18 ’20 300w
“A story told with ease and restraint. There is no animated showman in the foreground to divert us with his witticisms. The action, quiet and leisurely though it is, steadily unfolds itself by means of certain persons who are and mean something to us, without our effort.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w
DELL, ROBERT EDWARD. My second country (France). *$2 Lane 914.4
20–8528
The author’s qualifications for talking about France and the French people rest on the facts that France has been the home of his choice for over twelve years, that he has lived intimately with the people in their own homes, and that his friends are of various classes and opinions, including the proletariat and the rural folk, and that the more he saw of them the more he loved them. The object of the book is to draw attention to certain defects in French institutions and methods, to show that the political situation gives signs of nearing the end of a régime and is full of glaring fundamental inconsistencies; and that in other than political respects, also, France is behind the times and in need of drastic changes. Contents: The French character; Problems of reconstruction; The administrative and political systems; The discredit of parliament and its causes; Results of the revolution; Small property and its results; Socialism, syndicalism and state capitalism; Back to Voltaire; Index.
“When we leave actual people, and come to institutions, the political system, banking, railways, religion, etc., Mr Dell displays all the peculiar excellences of his type. His analysis is acute, modern and thoroughly interesting.” J, W. N. S.
+ − Ath p178 F 6 ’20 1050w Booklist 17:26 O ’20
“His book is a bitter attack upon France, her people and her institutions. Where are the ‘fondness’ and the ‘sympathy’ that the author claims in his introduction?”
− Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 500w Cleveland p90 O ’20 40w
“A book of real illumination, one wonders whether any one will really like it.”
+ Dial 69:666 D ’20 90w
“I know of no recent book which gives a better picture of the French people as they really are, both of their lovable and unpleasant qualities, nor of the economic and political and intellectual life of present day France than that by Mr Robert Dell, ‘My second country.’” Harold Stearns
+ Freeman 1:595 S 1 ’20 2050w
“Mr Dell writes of the French people with sympathy and affection, but does not allow those feelings to color his judgment or subdue his criticism.” B. U. Burke
+ Nation 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 1150w R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 40w − Spec 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w
“The book contains a great amount of concrete information, such as we require when trying to understand a foreign country. In fact, the whole book is valuable if the reader allows for the author’s bias. The account of radical political movements is particularly good.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Je 15 ’20 450w The Times [London] Lit Sup p94 F 12 ’20 850w
DENNETT, TYLER.[[2]] Better world. *$1.50 Doran
20–8457
“In brief the contention of this book is that we must have a better world; that the proposed League of nations is far from the effective agency to produce it, although it is a long step in the direction indicated; that the Christian religion has in it the power to create the convictions and popular demands which alone will guarantee any organization of a better world or bring into being more just and democratic programs than the one now under such discussion.”—Bib World
Bib World 54:652 N ’20 260w
“Mr Dennett is always worth reading because of the wealth of his personal experience and the freshness with which he presents his facts. In the present case, unfortunately, his endeavor to make out a good case for American mission work has led him to exaggerate certain tendencies and to argue at times illogically.” B. L.
+ − Survey 44:540 Jl 17 ’20 300w
DENSMORE, HIRAM DELOS. General botany for universities and colleges. il *$2.96 Ginn 580
20–5036
The book is intended for use in universities and colleges and is an outgrowth of the author’s long experience in giving introductory courses in botany to students. “The author’s aim in writing the book has been to furnish the student with clear statements, properly related, of the essential biological facts and principles which should be included in a first course in college botany or plant biology.” (Preface) Emphasis is placed throughout the book on the plant as a “living, active organism, comparable to animals and with similar general physiological life functions.” The contents fall into three parts of which the first is subdivided into the sections: Plants and the environment; Cell structure and anatomy; Physiology; Reproduction. Part 2, dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes (Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3, Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons; Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.
DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS. Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd
(Eng ed 20–11835)
It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic, “who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.” (Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870); The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.
“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen
+ Am Hist R 25:491 Ap ’20 740w Ath p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w + Boston Transcript p7 S 25 ’20 740w
“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”
+ Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed, well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played his part.” Carl Becker
+ Nation 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w
“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified, temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his documents.” H. L. Pangborn
+ N Y Evening Post p6 O 23 ’20 880w
“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which, however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 O 17 ’20 2100w
“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is as rich as on the political.”
+ Sat R 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w
“The work of the anonymous translator is extremely well done.”
+ Spec 125:244 Ag 21 ’20 450w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p262 Ap 29 ’20 2050w
DESMOND, SHAW. Passion. *$2 Scribner
20–7288
“The title may be a little misleading. Mr Desmond’s story deals with ‘the nervous, combative passion of the end of the nineteenth century,’ and particularly with the conflict between big business, the passion to get, and art, the passion to create. A good deal of effort is spent on the depiction of big business in London at the turn of the century, and particularly of one Mandrill, the embodiment of its spirit.”—N Y Times
“‘Passion’ fails for the reason that so many of these novels of confession fail. Our curiosity about human beings, our longing to know the story of their lives springs from the desire to ‘place’ them, to see them in their relation to life as we know it. But Mr Shaw Desmond and his fellows are under the illusion that they must isolate the subject and play perpetual showman.” K. M.
− Ath p671 My 21 ’20 700w
“It is a novel without even novelty to redeem it. Its bravery is bombastic, its stupidity heroic, its mediocrity passionate, its passion impotent.”
− Dial 69:211 Ag ’20 40w
“Mr Desmond tries to crowd all the modern forces into his conflict, and frequently neutralizes his effects by the nicety with which one violence is banged against another. His picture of London life, in its meannesses and poverty, has touches of Dickens, and touches, also, of the Dickens sentimentality. His purposes grow weak through sheer over-analysis.” L. B.
− + Freeman 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 180w
“We know of no exacter study of childhood and adolescence nor of any less steeped in traditional idealisms. Young Tempest at home and at school is immensely genuine and instructive. After that the fine veracity of the book breaks down.”
+ Nation 110:659 My 15 ’20 300w
“The hero’s revolt against finance of the most frenzied character is plausible enough, but somehow the entire latter half of the book fails to carry very much conviction. One feels that Mr Desmond is not devoid of the divine fire, but he needs a better boiler under which to build it.”
+ − N Y Times 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 2:573 My 29 ’20 600w
“The most accurate description that can be applied to the work is that it is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism, despite its grotesqueness.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 150w
“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w
DEWEY, JOHN. Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191
20–17102
In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real; The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.
“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning and technical diction.”
+ Booklist 17:92 D ’20
“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size. Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has yet appeared.” B. H. Bode
+ Nation 111:sup658 D 8 ’20 1500w
“One may agree heartily with Professor Dewey’s polemic against fixed and final aims and yet believe that the most urgent need of ethics now is to work out a science of values. The lack of some such criticism of values makes itself felt in Professor Dewey’s book.” A. S. McDowall
+ N Y Evening Post p7 N 13 ’20 1800w
“The book is written with the accustomed fluency and piquancy of the pragmatic school, and it forms a piece of the most interesting reading.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 20 ’21 340w
DEWEY, JOHN, and DEWEY, HATTIE ALICE (CHIPMAN) (MRS JOHN DEWEY). Letters from China and Japan; ed. by Evelyn Dewey. *$2.50 Dutton 915
20–7580
“The Deweys, man and wife, are ‘professorial’ people. Mr Dewey is professor of philosophy in Columbia university and Mrs Dewey is a woman of great cultivation and deep interest in the things of the mind. The letters included in this book are written under the spur of first impressions. They have not either been revised or touched up in any way. You are never expected to remember that Mr Dewey is really a Ph.D. or that his wife reads ‘deep books.’ They make you see the cherry trees in bloom, the Mikado passing with his symbols, the chrysanthemums on the panels of his carriage; the Chinese women of the middle classes at home and the panorama of Chinese villages and streets. At the same time you feel that there is a serious purpose in the minds and the hearts of the two persons who write these letters.”—N Y Times
+ Booklist 16:341 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 51:631 Ag ’20 440w
“It is quite evident that Professor Dewey has enjoyed visiting countries ‘where the scholar is looked up to and not down upon.’ He writes with all the zest of a boy on his first trip abroad. Most striking is their revelation of Professor Dewey’s responsiveness to the æsthetic aspects of China and Japan.”
+ Freeman 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is not difficult to guess the authorship of most of the letters, and Mrs Dewey’s interest in the more pictorial aspects of the countries, in the women, and in their educational and domestic problems, admirably supplements Professor Dewey’s more historical and speculative observations.” Irita Van Doren
+ Nation 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“They are full of delightful descriptions of small events not usually described so sympathetically by travelers in the East.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:285 My 30 ’20 750w Outlook 125:281 Je 9 ’20 180w
DICKSON, HARRIS. Old Reliable in Africa. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes
20–17655
Zack Foster, otherwise known as “Old Reliable,” is the colored valet of Colonel Beverly Spottiswoode, and when the colonel makes a trip to the Sudan, to see if the climate there is suitable for cotton culture, he takes Zack along with him. Zack’s presence guarantees him against ennui, for where Zack is, there is excitement. At one spot in Africa, he is hailed as “The Expected One,” by an Arab tribe, at another he rescues the most important donkey of the Sultan of Bong from crocodiles, and is suitably rewarded. But perhaps his most worthy exploit is the establishment of a “Hot cat eating house.” He reasons the labor problem out and comes to the conclusion that the natives refuse to work on the cotton plantation because they don’t need anything. He proposes to put within their reach some thing that they will be willing to work for, in the shape of hot fried catfish. This application of the law of supply and demand proves eminently satisfactory. But on the whole neither Zack nor the colonel are reluctant to return to Vicksburg in time for Christmas.
“Like most sequels, a falling off from the original.”
+ − Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“An amusing book for an idle hour.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 80w
“A series of adventures, many of which are of a startling dramatic character but always informed with the dry humor which is the very essence of Old Reliable’s irresistible personality.”
+ N Y Times p22 N 21 ’20 210w
“His adventures are as queer as they are funny.”
+ Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 30w
DILLISTONE, GEORGE. Planning and planting of little gardens: with notes and criticisms by Lawrence Weaver. il *$2.25 Scribner 712
20–26877
“Competitive schemes for planting for different kinds of lots are criticized from the architectural point of view. Incidentally, there are discussions on sundials, rock gardens, water-lily ponds, rose gardens, garden steps and pathways, climbers for the little garden, etc. Altho written for England, will be useful in this country where climate permits like vegetation.”—Booklist
Booklist 17:59 N ’20
“The author [is] as sound on the architectural aspect of garden-making as upon matters of pure horticulture.”
+ Spec 124:559 Ap 24 ’20 170w
DILLON, EMILE JOSEPH. Inside story of the peace conference. *$2.25 (1½c) Harper 940.314
20–5137
“This is only a sketch—a sketch of the problems which the war created or rendered pressing—of the conditions under which they cropped up; of the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished politicians who volunteered to solve them; of the delegates’ natural limitations and electioneering commitments and of the secret influences by which they were swayed, of the peoples’ needs and expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted by the conference and of the fateful consequences of its decisions to the world.” (Foreword) These fateful consequences, in the author’s final summing up, are that future war is now universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of the Versailles peace. “Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has been openly adopted by its ostensible enemies, and the huge sacrifices offered up by the heroic armies of the foremost nations are being misused to give one-half of the world just cause to rise up against the other half.” Contents: The city of the conference; Signs of the times; The delegates; Censorship and secrecy; Aims and methods; The lesser states; Poland’s outlook in the future; Italy; Japan; Attitude toward Russia; Bolshevism: How Bolshevism was fostered; Sidelights treaty with Bulgaria; The covenant and on the treaty; The treaty with Germany; The minorities.
“The title of this book is singularly non-descriptive. It has none of the qualities of narrative and every page betrays the fact that the author remained entirely outside the real workings of the conference. With all respect to Mr Dillon’s experience, he has written a misleading book.” C: Seymour
− Am Hist R 26:101 O ’20 600w
“Dr Dillon’s main intimacies in Paris seem to have been with those delegates [of small states]. That fact, which is not unconnected with his own nationality, has enabled him, thanks to his really wide knowledge of international problems, to get inside the skin of the Paris tragedy in a way which would be impossible to the ordinary advanced radical writer. There are faults of proportion. Not enough is made of the economic aspects of the failure, and many judgments are questionable.”
+ − Ath p1334 D 12 ’19 1000w
“Interesting but not easy to read, perhaps too detailed. No index.”
+ − Booklist 16:273 My ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
Dial 68:799 Je ’20 130w
“From ‘The inside story of the peace conference’ the reader takes away the impression of a stubborn and somewhat sour honesty, and also of a vacillating bias that the author intended as little as he suspected. A ripe scholarship, a keen observation, an adequate sweep, but—it is impossible to avoid its conclusion—a decidedly jaundiced personality.”
+ − Lit D 64:122 Mr 27 ’20 2200w
“Dr Dillon does not write without bias. On the other hand, his scathing indictment of the ignorance and inefficiency, the cynicism, the bad faith, and the remorseless pride of power of the big five and four and three is only equaled, but not excelled, by the now well-known criticism of Professor Keynes. The two books, indeed, supplement one another admirably.” W: MacDonald
+ − Nation 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 580w
“By virtue of his inside knowledge, his ruthless uncovering of weaknesses, his keenness in criticism, he well deserves to be called the Junius of the peace conference.”
+ No Am 211:717 My ’20 1100w + R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 180w
“It is not a history of the conference: it is an account of the way things were done at Paris, written by a man of wide outlook, who knows his way about the diplomatic world. Doubtless there will be many volumes written on the peace conference, but few are likely to be so valuable to the historian as this.”
+ Sat R 128:562 D 13 ’19 1250w
“This book does not add to Dr Dillon’s reputation. The allied statesmen, being only human and fallible, made mistakes, notably in regard to Italy and Rumania. But the wonder is that they did so well as they have done. Dr Dillon emphasizes and exaggerates all their blunders. He has taken the scandalous gossip of embassies, clubs, and newspapers a little too seriously.”
− Spec 123:735 N 29 ’19 100w
“The whole volume is a bold and dashing and highly fascinating presentation.” A. J. Lien
+ Survey 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 550w
“Our criticisms of this book are severe, but we believe they are just. Dr Dillon has had a great opportunity and he has failed to use it. He has failed because there is no evidence in the book of any consecutive thought, of any firm ideas, of any help for reconstruction in the future. Dr Dillon’s analysis of what happened at the conference is always biassed and often incorrect; he has chosen to make himself merely the mouthpiece of the complaints of the smaller states without helping his readers in the least to discriminate as to their justice.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p659 N 20 ’19 1900w
DILLON, MRS MARY C. (JOHNSON). Farmer of Roaring Run. il *$1.75 (1c) Century
20–1892
John McClure, a wealthy Philadelphian of Scottish birth, has created a large farm in West Virginia, more or less as a rich man’s toy, which is not even self-supporting. After five years his managing farmer dies, and McClure is astounded when the farmer’s pretty, girlish-looking widow asks to be allowed to run the farm. Reluctantly he consents. He soon finds that Mrs Sinclair is not only quite a capable farmer but also a very lovable woman; quite incidentally too he discovers that it is necessary to spend more time on his farm and—its manager. All sorts of improvements are put into immediate action: forest conservation, careful selection of the best cattle only, clubs for the isolated young people, a church, and other things that spring from Mrs Sinclair’s energetic, fertile brain. Being very young and beautiful, and of gentle birth, she attracts several potential lovers, but McClure, after many heated misunderstandings, and several romantic adventures, eventually wins her. Other minor love stories run through the book, also a mystery.
“Good descriptions of the country. Women will like it.”
+ Booklist 16:203 Mr ’20
“A pleasant, thoroughly conventional and rather sugary little story, the conclusion of which is perfectly obvious by the time one has finished the first chapter, is Mary Dillon’s new novel.”
+ N Y Times 25:126 Mr 14 ’20 350w
DILNOT, FRANK. England after the war. *$3 Doubleday 914.2
20–20324
England, says the author, is in a stage of transition and is entering upon a new epoch. What this new epoch is likely to be does not enter into the speculations of the writer who confines himself to sketching the main features of England in their present state of transformation. Among the contents are: The mood of the people; The governance of England; The women; Business the keystone; Labour battling for enthronement; Ireland; Britain overseas; From Lord Northcliffe to Bernard Shaw; Where England leads; New programmes of life.
Booklist 17:108 D ’20
“The American reader will find much to instruct him in the chapters dealing with the new leaders in politics and economics who have arisen in England since the war.” J. C. Grey
+ Bookm 52:366 Ja ’21 400w
“If he is not profound nor subtle nor concise, he is never dull and seldom altogether commonplace.” C. R. H.
+ Freeman 2:310 D 8 ’20 170w + Ind 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w N Y Times p14 O 24 ’20 1750w
“Mr Dilnot has produced a book entertaining and, in the main, thoughtful.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 29 ’20 270w
DIMMOCK, F. HAYDN, ed.[[2]] Scouts’ book of heroes; with foreword by Sir Robert Baden Powell. il *$2.50 Stokes 940.3
“A record of scouts’ work in the great war.” (Sub-title) Contents: 1914; Famous scouts in the war; Scout heroes of the army; Scout heroes of the navy; Heroes of the air service; The heroes at home; Just—a scout; Called to higher service. In addition sixty pages are devoted to records of those who received medals, etc.
DINGLE, A. E. Gold out of Celebes. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–8238
Jack Barry, an American seaman out of a job, is loafing about Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies, when Tom Little, a traveling salesman tired of the typewriter business, puts him on the track of adventure. Little has undertaken to go into the interior in the interests of Cornelius Houten, a Dutch trader, who has reason to suspect one of his agents. Houten is looking for a skipper and Barry meets his needs. The two Americans scent mystery from the outset. In the first place there is the strange lady, Mrs Goring, who claims acquaintance with them and asks passage on their ship. In the second place there is something puzzling about the big soft-voiced Dutch mate. There is also the relation between Leyden, the man they are after, and Natalie Sheldon, the charming young missionary. And the last is the point that matters most to Barry. On some of these points the two are in doubt to the end, working often in the dark, but fully deserving the rewards that finally come to them.
Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20 Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 50w
“The plot of ‘Gold out of Celebes’ reveals nothing particularly new. The love interest is slight, but pleasing. It is the breezy way in which this novel is written that carries it. The plot is a secondary matter entirely, while the ‘red blood’ element, vivid enough at times, is always kept discreetly within bounds.”
+ − N Y Times p23 Ag 8 ’20 650w Springf’d Republican p11a Je 6 ’20 220w
DINNING, HECTOR W. Nile to Aleppo. il *$7.50 Macmillan 940.42
“The author of this book is a captain in the Australian forces which fought in the great war. Mr McBey was the official artist which followed the army of the Egyptian expeditionary force and the two together, the soldier and the painter, collaborated to produce a volume which is not a book of the war, nor yet a book of travel, but a combination of the two. The story begins at Taranto, away down in far southern Italy. Here the force was simply in camp near the town, and presumably a transport appeared in the harbor, her nose pointing eastward and business opened up. Thence through Palestine and Syria. The trail leads around the hills of Judea, through its ravines and past its straggling orchards, and, at length, to the Holy City. He takes us through the valley of the Jordan to Ludd; and from Ludd to Damascus and thence to Homs; and from Homs to Aleppo, where the train traversed the burning sands to Beyrouth.”—Boston Transcript
“Captain Dinning is a born observer. He always contrives to see what is worth seeing and to record it vividly, sometimes in the slangy style of his diary, sometimes in the finished manner of his later chapters. Occasionally his judgments are open to criticism.”
+ Ath p759 D 3 ’20 950w
“The whole is an intensely breezy narrative, written by a man who understands well the use of his eyes and of the English language to interpret what he sees.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 20 ’20 600w
“Mr McBey’s pen sketches deserve more than passing mention, for he is no mere illustrator. His economy of line and his ability to convey an indelible impression of these arid stretches of Palestinian landscape, their undeniable color and beauty, are more than fortuitous.”
+ N Y Evening Post p24 D 4 ’20 360w + Spec 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 300w
DIXON, THOMAS. Man of the people. *$1.75 Appleton 812
20–13190
This drama of Abraham Lincoln has one purpose: to show Lincoln’s fight to save the Union. We see Lincoln on the one hand as the friend of the oppressed and dispensing pardons according to a deeper sense of justice than is apparent on the surface. On the other hand we see him deal with implacable firmness to carry through his great conviction that the Union must be saved. The whole is divided into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue.
“Melodramatic and inferior to Drinkwater’s play.”
+ − Booklist 17:61 N ’20
DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL. Blood red dawn. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–10053
A story of San Francisco following the fortunes of a girl who has her own living and her own way to make in the world. She is in turn a stenographer in a business office, accompanist for a singer at fashionable at-homes and Red cross concerts, and entertainer in a Greek restaurant. The latter occupation takes her “south of Market” and into a new social world where she meets the foreign born and has a glimpse of the alien point of view on American life. Two men have a part in her story, Ned Stillman, descendant of native stock, and Dr Danilo, a Serbian doctor. The war is in progress at the time.
“Although it has merit, it is a rather tepid performance. Mr Dobie’s faults, the faults of the novice, grow less noticeable as he warms to his theme. But he fails to warm sufficiently. He handles all his situations and incidents with the indifferent care of a man following a recipe. In spite of its riotous title, ‘The blood red dawn’ is distressingly smug.” M. A.
+ − Freeman 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 360w
“Well constructed romance. The author knows his San Francisco. This story—his first full length book—gives a graphic and colorful picture of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.”
+ N Y Times 25:301 Je 6 ’20 420w
“The characters fail to transcend or to sublimate the type; are all, by a shade, a little second-rate or common; and the result is a disappointing effect, in a book containing so much veracious detail of confused mediocrity. The opening chapters give us hope of creative realism, and we seem to have received, when all is done, a disconcerting blend of naturalism and romance.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 3:272 S 29 ’20 250w
DODD, MRS ANNA BOWMAN (BLAKE). Up the Seine to the battlefields. il *$3 (3c) Harper 914.4
20–7447
“Why is it that not one traveler in a thousand, no, nor in tens of thousands has known the Seine shores as the shores of the Hudson are known—as the Rhine, for so many years, has been known and sung? Few Frenchmen even are fully aware of the wonders and beauties which a trip up the Seine will yield.” (Introd.) As one of the effects of the war has been the discovery of the Seine’s commercial possibilities the author fears that in a few short years the Seine will no longer be “the lovely river of beauty.” She therefore proposes to immortalize its many surprises in scenic and architectural splendors in a book which is profusely illustrated from engravings and paintings.
+ Booklist 17:27 O ’20
“The book is intensely interesting both for its geography and its history.”
+ Cath World 111:694 Ag ’20 220w
“The book is an amiable introduction to modern French history; and if Mrs Dodd’s manner is a trifle too intense for her subjects, there is at least not a tiresome page in the whole volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times 25:285 My 30 ’20 150w
“Such a volume as the present will be grateful reading to all those who love France and who feel the force of the old days, no matter how modern some parts of new France have become.”
+ Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“Unfortunately Mrs Dodd’s style is too hasty—at points it is positively slipshod—to carry the finer effects that would make for complete success in such work as this.”
+ − Review 2:681 Je 30 ’20 300w
DODD, LEE WILSON. Book of Susan. *$2 Dutton
20–11147
“Susan is frankly a phenomenal child. After her stupid, bestial father murders the woman with whom he is living, Susan is adopted by a wealthy and cultured bachelor, and grows up to be a brilliant woman who holds her own in his circle of scholarly and fashionable friends.” (Outlook) “She is now old enough to be in love with [her] guardian, who is, of course, in love with her. But Ambo’s two special friends, a Yale professor and a New York radical, also love Susan. Finally it takes a bomb from a Gotha in the streets of Paris to bring Susan to the point of letting Ambo know that she loves him alone.” (Bookman)
“The reason why one reader is unimpressed by this plot, and even finds it absurd, is because he is unimpressed by Susan. She is over-clever, over-sprightly. So, for that matter, is the whole book.” H. W. Boynton
− Bookm 52:68 S ’20 500w
“For all its Stevensonesque touches, for all the moments when one glimpses a mind like Pater’s, or a glimmer of Ibsen, through the palings of the back fence, as it were, one has nothing, except a couple of characters—say five—to take away with one. The first part of the story is delightful.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 430w
“The book is much above the average novel, and the author’s insight into feminine psychology quite remarkable. Moreover, it has the great quality of interest.”
+ Lit D p114 N 6 ’20 1650w
“Mr Dodd’s style is in another world from the gritty slovenliness of the average story; the earlier part of his book is filled with ripe and intense characterizations; the interpolated passages of criticism and verse are mellow and delightful. But the fable of the book is the fable of ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ not only in fact but, beneath all appearances of intellectual subtlety and integrity, in tendency and spirit. We can only hope that Mr Dodd will soon give us another novel in which his grace of style and temper shall serve to express an austerer strain of thought and imagination—austerer because it is truer and truer because it does not compromise.”
+ − Nation 111:329 S 18 ’20 620w
“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about ‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and has shaped his materials with no little skill.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w
“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the American novels of the season.”
+ Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w
DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD. Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday
20–26482
“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.) “It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the League; Index.
Booklist 16:343 Jl ’20
“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill, and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson
+ Nation 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1250w
“Although I am seldom in complete agreement with Professor Dodd, and often a horizon’s distance away from him, I find myself forced to the conviction that this book offers the fullest and fairest amount of Wilson and his work that I have seen, or am likely to see in many a day.” Alvin Johnson
+ − New Repub 24:36 S 8 ’20 2250w
“Quite the most discriminating, comprehensive and just appraisement of Woodrow Wilson that has yet been made.”
+ N Y Times p21 S 12 ’20 550w R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 230w
“As fairly as seems humanly possible, Prof. Dodd has maintained the historical point of view, endeavoring to weigh all evidence impartially, and taking counsel from friends and foes alike, and from the president himself on various occasions.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W: L. Chenery
+ Survey 45:168 O 30 ’20 520w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p653 O 7 ’20 110w
DODGE, HENRY IRVING. Skinner makes it fashionable. il *$1 (5c) Harper
20–6285
“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich, new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way. He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did. So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it all!
“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”
+ − Booklist 16:312 Je ’20 Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 50w
“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a lesson well worth heeding in these days.”
+ N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w
“A genuinely funny story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w
DODGE, LOUIS. Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6862
“Louis Dodge’s new hero is named Robert Estabrook, and it is Beakman, the very unpleasant city editor of The News, who gives him the nickname of ‘Whispers’ because of his defective speech. Estabrook—or Whispers—arrives in Missouri City shortly after the murder of old Pheneas Drumm, a dealer in masks and costumes, reputed to be very rich, and goes first to the office of the highly successful News. But not liking the looks either of Beakman or of The News office—whereby he shows his good sense—he decides to try to get a position on the rival paper, The Vidette. This he does. Also, Whispers promises to solve the mystery of the Drumm murder within two days. Of course he makes good.”—N Y Times
Booklist 16:280 My ’20 + Cath World 112:121 O ’20 90w
“Mr Dodge has written a uniquely interesting book. The plot itself is simple enough, the dénouement not surprising; but from the very beginning a subtler interest is aroused by the genuine appeal of the characters revealed and the picturesque quality of the city newspaper life.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 My 1 ’20 480w + − N Y Times 25:240 My 9 ’20 350w
“Once the main thread begins to unwind, ‘Whispers’ plunges into an exciting series of dangers. Either through his own, or the author’s clumsiness, Estabrook does not display much craft in his sleuthing.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 250w
“The long arm of coincidence is applied to its limit, but the story is entertaining.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:237 D ’20 20w
DODWELL, C. E. W. Righteousness versus religion. $2 Stratford co. 201
20–14752
In opposing righteousness to religion the author does not direct his criticism against Christianity in the sense of the “righteousness, simplicity and beauty” of the teachings of Christ, but against dogmatic religion which he makes responsible for everything that has gone wrong with the world. He charges it with promulgating “mischievous errors, falsities and debasing superstitions, ignorance, hypocrisy and narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance.” The contents are: Religion; Many religions; The Christian religion; The works of religion; The Bible; Righteousness. The postscript has paragraphs on the future of the “Church” and “Religion”; on the effects of Catholicism on Spain and Ireland; on the war; and a recommended list of books for further reading.
“Of his tremendous sincerity there can be no doubt. It might fairly be urged that the book fails to accord to its object of attack the usual privilege of being judged by its best rather than by its worst. Yet his assaults are put forward in such a whole-hearted and self-convinced manner that what he says is not calculated to wound or affront.” L. S.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 1100w
DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.[[2]] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch 204
We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve, not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization; The religion within.
DOMBROWSKI, ERIC. German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 920
20–26749
These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.
+ Booklist 17:29 O ’20
“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”
+ N Y Times p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w
“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women, leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many books of the hour.”
+ − Review 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w
“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all are enlightening and amusing.”
+ R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight. But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w
“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C: Seymour
+ − Yale R n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.[[2]] States of South America, the land of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918
“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911 Digest Annual.
“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from beginning to end.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 D 31 ’20 250w
“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his chief competitor.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w The Times [London] Lit Sup p707 O ’20 40w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM. Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25 Lippincott 940.45
20–26104
The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist
Booklist 16:164 F ’20
“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed description of the instruments used.”
+ − Nature 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w
“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’ note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts, not less displeasing is his English.”
− Sat R 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w
“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in the war.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 D 4 ’19 850w
DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM. Submarines and sea power. *$2.50 Macmillan 359
(Eng ed 19–18399)
“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ Ath p1048 O 17 ’19 70w
“Most instructive volume.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p539 O 9 ’19 1450w
DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE. How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1 Appleton 613
20–17245
This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking. The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.” The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.
DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK. Art of interesting; its theory and practice for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808
20–18519
The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style; Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest; Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World and America.
“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the artistry.”
+ Cath World 112:389 D ’20 350w
DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald 671
19–15024
“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general informational value to the average layman as well as to the metal-worker.”—School R
Booklist 16:117 Ja ’20
“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full understanding on the part of immature students.”
+ El School J 20:393 Ja ’20 100w Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ’20 100w
“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.
+ School R 28:155 F ’20 220w
DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald 684
19–15025
The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating to woodworking trades.
Booklist 16:117 Ja ’20 + El School J 20:393 Ja ’20 100w Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ’20 40w
DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH. Glory rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.
20–5585
“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the ‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence. Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and, refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y Times
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 4 ’20 240w N Y Times 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w
“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling situation to another.” E. M. Brown
+ Pub W 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w
DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH. Honest thief and other stories. *$2 (1c) Macmillan
20–26192
This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.
“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a ridiculous man.’” K. M.
+ Ath p1256 N 28 ’19 850w + Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most entertaining.” G. H. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 550w
“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C: K. Trueblood
+ − Dial 68:774 Je ’20 800w
“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.
+ − Nation 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w
“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him across the boundary.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 O 23 ’19 950w
DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE. Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5
20–8513
The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians, the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries, etc.
Wis Lib Bul 16:117 Je ’20 30w
DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH. Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1
20–5264
“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present decaying economic and political structure and considering the imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”
Am Econ R 10:571 S ’20 60w
“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await the event.” J. L.
+ Ath p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w
“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible. Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”
+ Booklist 16:299 Je 20
“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case, although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead
+ − Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”
+ − Nation 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon economic freedom.”
+ − Nation [London] 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w
“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton
+ − Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w
DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS). Penny plain. *$1.90 Doran
A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too, appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the penny plain, as “better value for the money.”
“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less indispensable in fiction.”
+ − Ath p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w
“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 11 ’20 480w
“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’ leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss Douglas deserves a very high mark.”
+ − Spec 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w
“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the gradual unfolding of the characters.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w
DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.[[2]] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84
20–18296
“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short time found themselves out of debt and with money in the bank.”—Cleveland
Cleveland p106 D ’20 50w N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in their careers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 190w
DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.[[2]] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–18763
Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.
“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made piece of fiction.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 320w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821
20–2926
No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are: Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime! Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.
“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master of evening-paper balladry.”
+ Ath p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w
“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book; British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her destiny.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w
“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”
+ Dial 69:323 S ’20 110w
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian humour.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19 80w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3 (3c) Doran 940.3
v 5–6 The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.
Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters. Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are illustrated with maps and plans.
“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
+ − Ath p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5) Ath p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6) Booklist 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6) + Cath World 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)
“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his maps, so-called, are execrable.”
+ − Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6) Spec 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5) + Spec 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be congratulated upon his work.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed, since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v 5–6)
D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart. Tales retailed of celebrities and others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
20–20076
“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years. The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago: Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains: Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.
Ath p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w
“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have much general interest.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p141 F 26 ’20 110w
DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS. History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. *$2 Houghton 385
20–7433
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states: Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860: North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to 1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical note; Index; and insert maps and table.
“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a good discussion of the industrial development of the country through which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott
+ Am Econ R 10:593 S ’20 720w
“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book, nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered contribution.” U. B. Phillips
+ − Am Hist R 26:148 O ’20 320w R of Rs 61:672 Je ’20 30w
DRACHSLER, JULIUS.[[2]] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7
20–18678
“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short, must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican
Boston Transcript p6 D 4 ’20 720w N Y Times p10 D 12 ’20 1800w
“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to facts.” J: M. Gaus
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w
“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of assimilation.” J. B. Berkson
+ Survey 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w
DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.[[2]] Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2
20–12791
“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine: from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern was to study the status and training of women, the care of children, the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation
“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w + Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w
DREISER, THEODORE. Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814
20–2927
“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character, The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain. It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers, madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times
“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”
+ Booklist 16:270 My ’20
“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”
− Cath World 111:260 My ’20 320w
“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity, and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”
− Dial 69:320 S ’20 160w
“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ − Nation 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w
“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate. The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless, chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.
− + New Repub 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w
“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the million.”
− + N Y Times 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w − Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 750w
DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS. Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena. *$2 (2½c) Crowell 130
20–6883
The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never received any communications through a medium, and that he has never investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power; Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions; Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light; Positive values.
Booklist 16:296 Je ’20 N Y Times p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a featureless level.”
+ − Review 2:631 Je 16 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p762 N 18 ’20 40w
DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE). Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam
20–6736
This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life, her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
+ Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative picture.” H. J. L.
− + New Repub 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
− Review 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 320w R Of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 80w
“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records, Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
+ − Sat R 128:587 D 20 ’19 850w + Spec 124:49 Ja 10 ’20 1300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p716 D 4 ’19 30w The Times [London] Lit Sup p761 D 18 ’19 1600w
DRINKWATER, JOHN. Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton
20–20308
The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of the community of spirit and of the differences of national character between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them. Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”
+ N Y Times p1 D 5 ’20 850w + R of Rs 53:222 F ’21 80w
DRINKWATER, JOHN. Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm; The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living beings.” J: G. Fletcher
− + Freeman 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w
“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p448 S 20 ’17 960w
DRUMMOND, HAMILTON. Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton
20–10731
“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful, proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure of success in his undertaking.”
+ − Ath p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w
“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w + Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w
“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to the real issue.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p769 D 18 ’19 130w
DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD. Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c) Assn. press 261
20–13993
“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
Bib World 54:646 N ’20 130w
DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT. Darkwater: voices from within the veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
20–4763
“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women; The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’ races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
+ − Ath p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w
“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”
+ Booklist 16:233 Ap ’20
“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears. It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’ thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
+ − Bookm 52:304 Ja ’21 620w
“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 670w
“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not always on the same high level as his style.”
+ − Ind 102:235 My 15 ’20 200w + Lit D p86 My 1 ’20 1350w
“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois and his cause much further.” O. G. V.
+ − Nation 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w
“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”
+ − N Y Times p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w
“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence. It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”
− + Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w
“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W. Ovington
+ Socialist R 8:381 My ’20 700w
“Very able and pathetic book.”
+ − Spec 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w
“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster
+ − Survey 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w
“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would inevitably eat up the white man.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p712 N 4 ’20 520w
“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’ who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his right to complain.” N. T.
+ World Tomorrow 3:286 S ’20 160w
DUCLAUX, EMILE. Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders
20–6556
“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896. The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it. He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)
+ Booklist 17:68 N ’20
“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie
+ Freeman 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w
“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.
+ Nature 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has been made since it was written.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w
DUCLAUX, MARY. Twentieth century French writers (reviews and reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9
(Eng ed 20–11400)
“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland, Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy, Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)
Ath p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
+ Ath p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.” C. M. Rourke
+ − Freeman 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w
“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R. Redman
+ |N Y Times p15 Ag 22 ’20 2500w
“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has yet been published in English.”
+ |Spec 124:587 My 1 ’20 530w
“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this field of literary criticism.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p137 F 26 ’20 1850w
DUGANNE, PHYLLIS. Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt
20–14598
This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling, her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to “find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close, she stands at “the beginnings of things.”
“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining. The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the author.” L. B.
− + Freeman 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w
“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she visualizes men and things with cool precision.”
+ Nation 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w
DUGUIT, LEÓN. Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski. *$2.50 Huebsch 321
20–7266
“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct bodies.”—Socialist R
“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general, be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby
− + Am Pol Sci R 14:504 Ag ’20 1000w Booklist 17:51 N ’20
“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ Socialist R 9:48 Je ’20 420w Springf’d Republican p10 F 21 ’20 80w
“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien
+ Survey 44:307 My 29 ’20 420w
DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY. Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c) Doubleday 917.8
A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler. It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end, followed by the index.
“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many valuable suggestions.”
+ N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality of tourist information into so compact space before.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 130w
DUNLAP, KNIGHT. Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all, however, the author directs his argument against economic interest as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus
Am J Soc 26:367 N ’20 160w
“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s library.” P. P.
+ Social Hygiene 6:577 O ’20 640w
“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence or citation of authority other than his own observations.”
+ − Survey 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE. How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329
20–8653
The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a greater part and that often the result depends on accident or incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk; The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan; Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs. Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley; Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft; Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition, suffrage, socialism.
Boston Transcript p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w + Cleveland p90 O ’20 30w
“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”
+ Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with intelligent discrimination.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w
DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM. Natural history of the child. *$2 (2½c) Lane 392
20–4905
Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.” (Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion; His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.
“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly interesting and amusing.”
+ Booklist 16:299 Je ’20
“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read with interest by every child-lover.”
+ Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”
+ − Spec 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w
“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has in him a trace of the antiquary.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p338 Je 19 ’19 300w
DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H. Intimate golf talks. il *$3 Putnam 796
20–21193
The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks, interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs; Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults; Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing faults; This brings us to putting.
“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Evening Post p12 D 4 ’20 980w
DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE. Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–13705
When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found. By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share. How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the close of the story.
DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE. Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–5121
A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction. The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching experiences add an original touch.
Booklist 16:280 My ’20
DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron. Tales of three hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.
20–26193
“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y Times)
“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness, and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a serious defect of style.” F. W. S.
+ − Ath p202 Ag 13 ’20 560w Booklist 16:204 Mr ’20
“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”
+ − Nation 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w
“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him ‘The sack of emeralds.’”
+ N Y Times 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w + Review 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 650w + Spec 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w
“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of the pure artist.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p437 Jl 8 ’20 1250w
DURKIN, DOUGLAS. Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
Because he had once struck his brother with murder in his heart, King Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.
Boston Transcript p6 O 9 ’20 150w N Y Times p24 O 10 ’20 250w
DURSTINE, ROY SARLES. Making advertisements and making them pay. il *$3.50 Scribner 659
20–16526
“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising, it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post
“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”
+ Booklist 17:98 D ’20
“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”
+ Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”
+ N Y Evening Post p18 O 23 ’20 270w
“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced to see.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p9 N 21 ’20 2400w
DURUY, VICTOR. History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944
20–14467
A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890 by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)
Booklist 17:83 N ’20 + R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 20w
DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD. Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c) Doubleday
20–19763
The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor, too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.
“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.
+ Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w
“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
+ − N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 720w
DYER, WALTER ALDEN. Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the people.
Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
+ Nation 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w + N Y Times p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w Springf’d Republican p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 D 17 ’20 260w