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FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR. Secret of everyday things; informal talks with the children: tr. from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell. il *$2.50 Century 504
20–17586
This book for young readers contains another selection of Uncle Paul’s talks, following “The story-book of science,” “Our humble helpers” and “Field, forest and farm.” Among the everyday things discussed are Thread; Pins; Needles; Silk; Wool; Flax and hemp; Weaving; Woolen cloth; Moths; Calico; Dyeing and printing; Human habitations; Soap; Fire; Matches; Glass; Iron; Rust; Pottery; Coffee; Sugar; Tea; Bread; Air; Evaporation; Rain; Snow; The force of steam; Sound and light. There are occasional illustrations in the text.
“Would be useful in junior high schools.”
+ Booklist 17:121 D ’20
“Didacticism flies before Fabre’s freshness of style like dust before a broom.”
+ Lit D p86 D 4 ’20 80w
“The insect world has been recreated for lay readers by the patience and the genius of Fabre. Here his themes are homelier but his gift for accurate information, made fascinating in the telling, is the same.”
+ N Y Evening Post p25 O 23 ’20 90w
“The heart and mind of a scientist, the style of an artist, and the sympathy of a man whose child spirit never died live in the book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 150w
FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN. Conservation reader. il *$1.20 World bk. 338
20–8813
This book is one of the Conservation series and is especially designed for the education of children in right ways of looking at nature. It is the author’s opinion that much of the enthusiasm for conservation will expend itself uselessly unless it can be made to reach the children and the purpose of the book is to present its principles to pupils in a simple and interesting manner. Among the contents are: How our first ancestors lived; The earth as it was before the coming of civilized men; How far will nature restore her wasted gifts? Things of which soil is made; The use and care of water; How the forests are wasted; Our forest playgrounds; What is happening to the wild flowers; What shall we do when the coal, oil, and gas are gone? What is happening to the animals and birds; How to bring the wild creatures back again. Among the many illustrations are two color prints and there is an index.
+ Booklist 16:352 Jl ’20
“Well adapted for use in the intermediate grades.”
+ El School J 21:156 O ’20 120w
FALKENHAYN, ERICH GEORG ANTON SEBASTIAN VON. German general staff and its decisions, 1914–1916. *$5 Dodd 940.343
20–2294
“The book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the two years of the war when I was at the head of the general staff. My statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense of the word. They touch upon the events of the war, and other occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary to justify the decisions of the general staff.” (Preface) Contents: The change of chief of the general staff; The general military situation in the middle of September, 1914: The battles of the Yser and around Lodz; The period from the beginning of trench warfare in November-December, 1914, until the recommencement of the war of movement in 1915; The break-through at Gorlice-Tarnow and its consequences; Operations against Russia in the summer and autumn of 1915; Beginning of the unrestricted submarine campaign; Attempts to break through in the west in the autumn of 1915, and the campaign against Serbia; The situation at the end of 1915; The campaign of 1916; Comparative review of the relative strength of forces (Appendix); Maps.
“The work itself is a memoir, rather than a history. It makes no references to authorities, and furnishes little in the form of documents, but it bears evidence of more careful preparation than is usual with memoirs and of being based on authentic records or accurate first-hand knowledge.” J: Bigelow
+ − Am Hist R 25:500 Ap ’20 750w Booklist 16:307 Je ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
Bookm 51:286 My ’20 2800w Lit D p123 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
“Both as a personal apologia and as a revealing of inside German military history this volume is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s book—indeed, it is better; it is less clumsy and tart, its language is clearer and terser.”
+ Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 240w
“With one exception, his book is a candid and apparently straightforward statement of the problems he was called upon to solve, and as such it will always be valuable to the special student, but not to the general public: it proves nothing.”
+ − Review 3:533 D 1 ’20 2100w
“General von Falkenhayn’s book on the war is, from the military standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff’s memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural man’s desire for revelations of the enemy’s domestic controversies. The attentive reader of his book will be impressed with General von Falkenhayn’s personality. He writes like a soldier, not like a politician.”
+ Spec 123:895 D 27 ’19 1750w
“Von Falkenhayn’s book is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s. It has the merit of being shorter; it contains a much smaller admixture of politics; and its handling of personal controversies, though sufficiently tart, is less clumsy and disagreeable than Ludendorff’s.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p723 D 11 ’19 2200w
FARIS, JOHN THOMSON. On the trail of the pioneers; romance, tragedy, and triumph of the path of empire. il *$3.50 Doran 978
20–7011
The present volume does not give in full detail the historical background of the successive great movements of population from the East to the West but rather actual typical cases of emigrants on the move. “It ... gives glimpses of many of these great movements, the routes the emigrants took, and the sections to which they went. The endeavor is made to answer the questions, Who were the emigrants? How and where did they travel? What adventures did they have by the way? What were their impressions of the country through which they passed? What did they do when they reached their destinations?” (Preface) For this purpose full use has been made of the records of early travellers and pioneers. Contents: Through the Cumberland gap to Kentucky and Tennessee; Through the Pittsburgh and Wheeling gateways; Floating down the Ohio and the Mississippi; From northern New York and New England to the West; The Santa Fe trail; The Oregon trail; Across the plains to California; Toiling up the Missouri; Bibliography; Index; Maps and illustrations.
+ Booklist 16:307 Je ’20
“An excellent, condensed history.”
+ Cath World 111:697 Ag ’20 120w + Nation 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 50w N Y Times p30 S 12 ’20 150w
“While sketchy and disjointed, Mr Faris’s book presents enough that is piquant or solidly interesting to lure the reader to search further for himself.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 700w
“The author has accomplished a scholarly piece of work without pedantry or tedious generalization. The writing of the book is so fresh and entertaining that the general reader will find it a real pleasure to peruse it.”
+ Survey 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
“There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries, resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils of ‘literary’ friends.” C. L. Skinner
+ − Yale R n s 10:185 O ’20 330w
FARIS, JOHN THOMSON. Seeing the Far West. il *$6 Lippincott 917.8
20–17297
“John T. Faris’s ‘Seeing the Far West’ has chapters upon the scenery of Colorado, Arizona, the Yellowstone, the Sierras, Oregon, and Washington.” (Review) “He regales his readers with bits of gossip and local history that enliven and endow with a human interest the scenes to which he leads them.” (N Y Times)
“The writing of the book is simple and direct, gaining thereby in clearness and force. Its sincerity cannot be questioned and its personal touches and humanness stir alive one’s jaded interest in travel volumes.” J. W. D. S.
+ Boston Transcript p5 D 11 ’20 560w
“‘Seeing the far West’ is a desirable addition to any home library.”
+ Bookm 52:344 D ’20 140w
“Occasionally the reader finds flashes of description that are characterized by originality, but, on the whole, the writer is content with conventional utterance.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p9 O 31 ’20 160w
“The book will take its place as one of the best of the ‘boosters’ for seeing the great West.”
+ Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“Mr Faris has the enviable trick of making one see. He sets one dreaming golden, fantastic, rainbow dreams, and leaves one,—as only the most vivid dreams can leave one,—half convinced that one has actually been there in the flesh.” Calvin Winter
+ Pub W 98:664 S 18 ’20 370w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:345 O 20 ’20 40w
“It is well illustrated with photographs which show that Mr Faris is not too enthusiastic in his descriptions.”
+ Spec 125:748 D 4 ’20 120w + Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 200w
“Mr Faris’s main difficulty is that he has so many things to write about. In fact, he would have given a clearer idea of the country if of its natural features he had been content to describe fully one of each kind instead of—in perhaps a spirit of democratic equality—giving a shorter account of several.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p755 N 18 ’20 1250w
FARNELL, IDA.[[2]] Spanish prose and poetry old and new. *$5.25 Oxford 860.8
20–22172
“‘Spanish prose and poetry, old and new.’ by Ida Farnell is a collection made in the belief that one of the consequences of the war will be an increased interest in the literature of the Latin races. Miss Farnell has endeavored to show something of the spirit of Spanish literature by translated extracts from authors ranging from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (omitting the eighteenth as an age of decadence), to which she has prefixed short biographies of the writers.”—Springf’d Republican
“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p9 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her translations satisfy.”
+ − Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w Springf’d Republican p10 My 29 ’20 80w
FARNOL, JEFFERY. Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little
20–20647
This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby, Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.
“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a good account of himself as regards both these models.”
+ Ath p442 O 1 ’20 110w
“The story would be much more effective were it narrated in forthright English.” E. F. Edgett
+ − Boston Transcript p2 N 27 ’20 1600w
“The author has written a thrilling and convincing sea story with so many quaint characters and so much cut-and-thrust action that it is hard to find anything which may be offered as a parallel in very recent fiction.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“The action is as rapid as ever. The ingenuity with which Mr Farnol creates fresh situations of romance is tireless.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p583 S 9 ’20 700w
FARNOL, JEFFERY. Geste of Duke Jocelyn. il *$2.50 Little
20–16930
In this merry jest is romance and knight errantry of old. The tale tells of one Duke Jocelyn of Brocelaunde, a puissant knight, but marred of face so that he despairs of winning the love of the beautiful lady Yolande. He dons his fool’s motley garb with cap and bells and sets out with one lonely, poorly garbed knight to act the part of the Duke’s envoy and press his suit. They meet with many adventures in the forest, fall in with Robin Hood, make friends and fight many a brave fight with and for him. Even the Lady Yolande is intrigued by the fool’s merry songs and after he has rescued her from a hated suitor, she yields to his love and openly declares it before the assembled knights of the Duke of Brocelaunde. Songs and rhymes, blank verse and prose mingle in the telling of the tale.
“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”
+ Ath p1411 D 26 ’19 70w
“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or old.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:347 D ’20 120w
“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 540w
“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional products that have come from the presses this year.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 28 ’20 740w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 360w
“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions that would escape her.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p742 D 11 ’19 650w
FARNSWORTH, CHARLES HUBERT. How to study music. *$2.10 (3½c) Macmillan 780.7
20–19843
Professor Frank M. McMurry in his introduction to the volume points out that the teacher’s method of teaching may unduly overshadow in importance the child’s method of study. This little book places the emphasis on the child’s method of study and takes the form of home conversations between the children and the adults of the family. It shows how a child’s appreciation of music requires a fertile home soil for its growth and how Jack’s initial “I hate music” can be changed into his final “I love music.” Contents: Difficulties in the study of music; How listen to music; How learn notation without awakening a dislike for music; How a child should learn to sing; How learn to play the piano; How learn to enjoy classical as well as modern music; How to select music; How make use of music in the family; Library of piano compositions.
“The unusual characteristic about the book is the fact that the problems are presented from the viewpoint of both pupil and teacher. In this respect it is better than a formal text would probably be. Indeed, the author evidently sought to exemplify his philosophy of teaching by the book itself.”
+ El School J 21:317 D ’20 510w
FARRAR, JOHN CHIPMAN. Forgotten shrines. (Yale ser. of younger poets) *75c Yale univ. press 811
20–3703
“Mr Farrar has earned a reputation which foreruns this book of his with a war poem called ‘Brest left behind.’ He divides his poems in groups called Portraits, Songs for children and others, Miscellaneous and Sonnets. The first group of Portraits won the eighteenth award of the prize offered by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook at Yale for the best unpublished verse by an undergraduate.”—Boston Transcript
“Beautiful in thought and expression.”
+ Booklist 16:305 Je ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − Bookm 51:454 Je ’20 200w
“He gives us a fine sense of diversity of interests and a balance of form that is admirable.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 340w
“Mr Farrar has achieved clear and tender outlines in the section called Portraits, and should be encouraged to proceed further.”
+ Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
FARRISS, CHARLES SHERWOOD.[[2]] American soul. $1 Stratford co. 920
20–22043
“An appreciation of the four greatest Americans and their lesson for present Americans.” (Sub-title) The four Americans are: George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Theodore Roosevelt.
“On the whole, the author is quite happy in his attempt to draw the moral without overpainting the tale.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 220w + R of Rs 53:222 F ’21 30w
FAY, CHARLES RYLE. Life and labour in the nineteenth century. *$8 Macmillan 331.8
(Eng ed 20–16219)
“Though the title sounds as if ‘Life and labor in the nineteenth century’ were solely on economics, and though economics gets plenty of treatment, Captain Fay’s lectures cover the political history of England and its international adventures. It is only the fact that wars are not described that prevents it from being a history of England in the nineteenth century.” (N Y Times) “The volume contains the substance of the author’s lectures, delivered at Cambridge in 1919, to students of economics among whom were officers of the Royal navy and students from the United States army.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Ath p47 Jl 9 ’20 800w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w
“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its politics, written in a vivacious style.”
+ − N Y Times p13 S 26 ’20 1950w
“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of ‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to manufacture.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w
FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.[[2]] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 940.45
v 1 The cruiser period.
“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript
“Altogether, ‘The cruiser period’ is a notable addition to the history of the war.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 8 ’21 350w + Spec 125:707 N 27 ’20 1350w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p787 D 2 ’20 1650w
FELD, ROSE CAROLINE. Humanizing industry. *$2.50 Dutton 331.1
20–8521
“Miss Feld has written a story concerning one Struthers who, inheriting an industrial plant run on old-fashioned lines of benevolent despotism, tries to introduce modern ideas and overcomes one by one the obstacles created by a bad tradition. It is not fiction, but the method of telling enhances the impression of the author’s belief in good personal relationships and common sense as the most promising approaches to a humanization of industry. Incidentally, the book discusses in detail and with reference to successful experiments the merits of welfare, educational, insurance, pension, profit sharing and industrial representation schemes.”—Survey
Booklist 17:11 O ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 50w
“There seems to be one thing overlooked. In speaking of human relations, the author seems to have in mind kindliness, friendliness, charitableness—of which we have none too much. She does not mean anything as fundamental as the economic relationship of classes to one another, to the soil and natural resources, to the powers of government. She reminds me pathetically of the reformers who hoped to save the institution of slavery by inducing slave holders to treat their slaves and mules in a more kindly way.” B. C. G.
− + N Y Call p11 S 12 ’20 580w
“It is a book that all employers of labor ought to read, because whether or not they have sensed that new era, or even entered upon it, they will find in it eye-opening ideas, helpful suggestions. It is a book that all laboring men who have begun to think ought to read, because it will set them on the right track in their thinking.”
+ N Y Times p30 Ag 22 ’20 780w R of Rs 62:110 Jl ’20 30w Survey 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
FELLOWES, EDMUND HORACE, ed. English madrigal verse, 1588–1632. (Oxford English texts) *$6.25 Oxford 821:04
20–17023
“This is a reprint of the known words of Elizabethan songs, arranged under their composers and, among these, under the particular type of song, with the names of the poets in the few cases where they are known. In all of these songs both words and voice part were paramount. For if, as in the first half of the book, they were madrigals (for from three to six voices), each voice was sovran in turn, and each vied with the other in the amount of meaning it could impress on the words. If, as in the second half, they were solos or duets, then they had the sketchy accompaniment of the lute, or the support of veiled and velvety-toned viols. The first are necessarily short, for the madrigal form required much repetition of words; pithy, for if a voice is only to be heard at intervals it should have something terse to say; and conventional, for you cannot put intimate sentiments into the mouths of half a dozen different people in succession. The second are more elaborate. They are all true lyrics in that they take one point and press it home.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“To all who love the lyric, English madrigal verse will be a genuine delight. Its careful editing makes the musical construction quite clear, and the material is indeed a treasury of quaint verse.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p3 D 1 ’20 680w
“A learned and careful work which only a scholar both in literature and in music could have brought to a conclusion.”
+ Nation 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 260w
“Interesting and scholarly book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p493 Ag 5 ’20 6300w
FELSTEAD, SIDNEY THEODORE. German spies at bay; comp, from official sources. il *$2 Brentano’s 940.485
(Eng ed 20–8200)
“This is a record of interest, exactly recording the actual work of our Secret service and the particulars of the chief German spies whom it traced and dealt with, and exposing the error of much of the panic about spies in England which at one time prevailed.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Ath p386 Mr 19 ’20 70w
“Mr Felstead is not dull, nor truthfully can one think, brilliant. Those who are interested in spies will be reading for information (possibly thrills), and herein the author is enthusiastically cyclopedic.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 O 23 ’20 230w The Times [London] Lit Sup p174 Mr 11 ’20 50w
“Mr Felstead has written an amusing as well as an instructive book, and he seems to have steered cleverly between the rocks of reticence and indiscretion.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p178 Mr 18 ’20 1050w
FENWICK, CHARLES GHEQUIER. Political systems in transition; war-time and after. *$3 Century 342
20–20220
The book is one of the Century New world series of which W. F. Willoughby is general editor. Since the war, the author holds, the question of the organization of the state and the scope of the functions it is to perform has become once more an open one, for the war has made it clear that there are some serious defects in the machinery of government that call for radical amendments to our constitutional system. The relative strength and weakness of the several political systems and the probable line of future reconstruction, form the subject of the present study. Contents: Part 1, Political ideals and demands of war; War a test of democratic government; The constitutions of the great nations on the eve of the great war; Part 2, Changes brought about by the war in the political institutions of European countries; Countries with autocratic governments; Countries with democratic governments; Part 3, Changes in the political institutions of the United States; The war and the constitution; War powers of the president; Emergency legislation adopted by Congress; Changes in the organization of the government; The separate state governments: new legislation and new administrative activities; Part 4, Problems of reconstruction in the United States raised by the war; New ideals of democracy; The program of political reconstruction; The program of international reconstruction; Index.
“An excellent account of the shake-up in governments produced by the war, full of material which must be included in any adequate history of it.” E. N.
+ Boston Transcript p14 D 8 ’20 950w Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“The volume is a valuable compendium of war measures in the belligerent nations and of the political problems which the war has left.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more careful about his dates.”
+ − N Y Times p22 D 19 ’20 2250w R of Rs 62:668 D ’20 100w
FERBER, EDNA. Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–8793
The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine; April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell; The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and other magazines.
+ Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in their making.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w
“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life, rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”
+ Dial 69:546 N ’20 50w
“The highest praise you can give an author in these days is to say that his or her book is ‘thoroly American,’ from which, alas, it does not necessarily follow that it is an excellent piece of workmanship. Edna Ferber’s ‘Half portions,’ however, wins on both counts.”
+ Ind 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 160w
“Miss Edna Ferber is not thoughtful about the affairs of the world. She simply does not let herself think. If some one would endow Miss Ferber, and make it no longer too expensive for her to think or bring a story to an honest conclusion, she might become a sort of American Arnold Bennett.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 110:828 Je 19 ’20 200w
“It is a book that is thoroughly enjoyable and laughable from beginning to end.”
+ N Y Times 25:236 My 9 ’20 620w
FERBER, EDNA, and LEVY, NEWMAN. $1200 a year. il *$1.50 Doubleday 812
20–18069
A three-act play in which a university professor gives up his $1200 a year position in the university to earn $30 a day in a mill. He immediately becomes popular as a labor leader and lecturer and is in demand all over the United States, but it is only when he is offered a salary of $5000 a week in the movies that the magnate who owns the university as well as the mill is moved to consider the question of an adequate salary for a professor.
“Interesting to read. One would like to see it acted.”
+ Booklist 17:61 N ’20
“The complications hold the kernel of genuine comedy, but instead of cracking their nut, Miss Ferber and Mr Levy have contented themselves with merely painting funny faces on the shell.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:94 O 6 ’20 180w
“The authors have challenged serious criticism by calling the play a ‘comedy’ and by permitting the publishers to proclaim it a ‘timely satire.’ It is an amusing and clever farce, containing many touches of skilful character depiction.” Jack Crawford
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 S 25 ’20 800w
“As a vehicle for amusement ‘$1200 a year’ is both ingenious and satisfying. Its characters are human, its situations vivid. It portrays with little exaggeration the wretched circumstances of our little world of scholars with sympathetic and understanding treatment. But what of that other world? Have not the authors exaggerated the affluence of mill labor to crown their dramatic purpose?”
+ − Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 560w
Reviewed by A. E. Morey
+ Survey 45:137 O 23 ’20 240w
“Rather a good story, though highly illogical and incredible.”
+ − Theatre Arts Magazine 5:86 Ja ’21 230w
FIELDING, WILLIAM JOHN. Sanity in sex. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd 176
20–10067
The past few years have seen a remarkable change in the public attitude toward sex. The ban of secrecy has been largely removed and the need for rational sex education is generally recognized. The author’s purpose in this book has been “to subject the social processes responsible for these changes to a thorough analysis, classifying all the important factors and tendencies involved, and to give as concise and accurate an account as possible of this historic period of the sex-educational movement.” (Introd.) Subjects covered include: the government’s campaign of sex-education, sex-education in the army, venereal disease, sex hygiene in industry, sex education in the public schools, the relation of sex knowledge to marriage, sex ignorance and divorce, birth control, and psycho-analysis, and the final chapter discusses economic sufficiency as a basis of sex hygiene. There is a classified bibliography of seventeen pages, followed by an index.
+ Booklist 17:57 N ’20 Int J Ethics 31:117 O ’20 80w
“Mr Fielding is not an alarmist; he strikes more than a note of hope in his account of the work which the United States government did with the army during the war.”
+ Nation 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 650w
“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w The Times [London] Lit Sup p688 O 21 ’20 90w Wis Lib Bul 16:113 Je ’20 70w
FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN. Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20541
“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain, the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The unbreakable link with “home.”
“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a business-like but boresome monotone.”
+ − Boston Transcript p11 D 8 ’20 260w
“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of just such tales.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p13 D 8 ’20 540w + N Y Times p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w + R of Rs 53:223 F ’21 120w
FILENE, CATHERINE, ed. Careers for women. *$4 Houghton 396.5
20–21359
The object of the book is to give vocational information to high school and college women, to supplement the work of vocational advisors in schools, and to help decrease the number of “square pegs for round holes.” It is composed of articles written expressly for the book by a number of specially qualified contributors and its compiler, Miss Filene, is the director of the Intercollegiate vocational guidance association. The vocations considered are grouped under the headings: Accounting; Advertising; Agriculture, etc.; Architecture; Arts and crafts; Business; Dramatics; Education; Finance; Government service; Health services; Home economics services; Industrial work; Institutional work; Insurance; Law; Library work; Literary work; Motion-picture work; Museum work; Music; Newspaper work; Personnel work; Physical education; Politics; Religious work; Scientific work; Secretarial work; Social work; Specialists; Statistical work; Vocational training. Suggested readings accompany most of the chapters and there is an index.
“By far the most practical and complete book in its field. Will be useful in any library.”
+ Booklist 17:140 Ja ’21
“It should be of great value to high-school and college students and the new graduate. The suggestions are, on the whole, sound.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 D 31 ’20 220w
“Differently as the various authors write, there is uniformity in one respect—in the brisk, snappy, pungent way in which they push their points at you and make you see the picture.”
+ N Y Times p15 D 26 ’20 1750w
“Both for its merit as a model of the way in which occupational information should be presented, and for what it signifies in the modern outlook of thoughtful college women and, it may be added, of college men as well, this book is noteworthy. The publishers deserve mention for the most attractively printed book in the field of vocational guidance.” Meyer Bloomfield
+ Survey 45:674 F 5 ’21 490w
FILLMORE, PARKER HOYSTED. Shoemaker’s apron. il *$2.50 (5½c) Harcourt
20–17679
This is the author’s second book of Czechoslovak fairy tales and folk tales with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. It is a companion volume to the earlier collection and contains besides the fairy tales five nursery tales and a group of devil tales. They are not so much translations as a retelling of other versions to suit the English-speaking child. The fairy tales are: The twelve months; Zlatovlaska the golden-haired; The shepherd’s nosegay; Vitazko the victorious. The shoemaker’s apron is one of the devil tales.
“An interesting collection of twenty stories drawn from original sources and retold with simple charm.”
+ Booklist 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 52:261 N ’20 90w + Freeman 2:190 N 3 ’20 150w
FINCH, WILLIAM COLES-, and HAWKS, ELLISON. Water in nature, il *$2.50 Stokes 551
(Eng ed 20–1223)
“W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, two English scientists, have contributed to the Romance of reality series a volume entitled ‘Water in nature.’ In it they deal scientifically, and at the same time entertainingly, with practically all of water’s manifestations in the natural world, including its relations to cloud, atmosphere, ocean, rain, hail, snow, ice, glaciers, springs, rivers, lake, waterfalls, mountains, caves, rocks, reefs, and corals.”—N Y Times
N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 Ja ’19 40w + N Y Times 25:55 F 1 ’20 70w
“Any one who is interested in natural phenomena will find fascinating reading in this résumé of popular science.”
+ Outlook 123:243 O 29 ’19 50w
FINDLAY, HUGH, ed. Handbook for practical farmers. il *$5 Appleton 630
20–16999
A comprehensive handbook “dealing with the more important aspects of farming in the United States.” (Sub-title) Special chapters have been contributed by practical experts in different parts of the United States. Subjects covered include the various farm and garden crops, farm animals, the care of milk and the curing of meat on the farm, farm buildings, running water, the use of explosives, the care of tools, fence posts, roads, the farm loan system, farm records, pets, weeds, etc. There are 258 illustrations and an index. The editor is lecturer on horticulture in Columbia university.
FINDLAY, JOSEPH JOHN. Introduction to sociology, for social workers and general readers. (Publications of the University of Manchester) il *$2 Longmans 301
20–14079
“The central theme of sociology, as conceived by Professor Findlay and lucidly expounded in this excellent introduction to a comparatively new, extremely comprehensive, but somewhat elusive science, is ‘the definition of social groups, their classification and their relations to each other.’ The treatment is systematic, though some problems of considerable importance, such as the institution of land tenure, have had to be omitted. The first five chapters are devoted to principles. The second part relates to types of social grouping, such as family, state, religion, and occupation. In the third part, which is concerned with organization, the positions of the leader, the official, and the representative, are discussed: and there is an analysis of the instinct of loyalty.”—Ath
“A valuable part of his book is the admirable list of references to contemporary and other authorities.”
+ Ath p782 Je 11 ’20 190w
“The author, while primarily an educational administrator and not a professional sociologist, nevertheless has attained a definite grasp of certain fundamental principles in the science of society. His book is a very thoughtful piece of work, but the reviewer confesses to losing his way frequently in the course of the argument.” A. J. Todd
+ − Survey 45:22 O 2 ’20 600w
FINNEY, ROSS LEE, and SCHAFER, ALFRED L. Administration of village and consolidated schools. *$1.60 Macmillan 371
20–4558
“This book has been written especially to meet the needs of principals of small schools and to serve as a textbook in those institutions where young men and women are in training for the administration of village schools. Its five parts discuss, respectively, Governmental administration, The principal’s personal-official relations, Adapting the school to the needs of the child, The business side, and Miscellaneous.”—Boston Transcript
+ Booklist 17:11 O ’20
“It gives valuable and practical charts and tables and is fraught with helpful suggestions. It will be very useful to those who know how to discriminate and are not too slavishly bound to the letter.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
“The book is written in a style that ought to appeal to teachers and school officers who have not enjoyed the opportunities of an elaborate training.”
+ El School J 20:711 My ’20 550w + School R 28:554 S ’20 140w
FIRKINS, OSCAR W. Jane Austen. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 823
20–4130
A critical and biographical study of Jane Austen, falling into three parts: The novelist; The realist; The woman. Part 1 is a searching and unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reference to plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters. Part 3, the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’s personality as revealed in her letters and reflected in the novels. Notes and an index come at the end and the whole is prefaced by verses, “To Jane Austen,” from the author’s pen, reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly.
“He is often clever and always readable.”
+ Booklist 16:278 My ’20 Cleveland p84 O ’20 30w
“The advantage of this microscopic, literal measurement is that it prepares the way for an exact delineation of Jane Austen’s production and character. If the final picture lacks an inconsequent sureness, it is full of fine perspectives and fresh values.” C. M. Rourke
+ Freeman 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 760w
“He paints a sort of cubist portrait of Jane Austen, which would pass unrecognized were it not labeled with her name. He has succeeded in imagining a Miss Austen who is ‘one vile antithesis’. In ‘creative criticism’ does the critic create the author in his own image?” H. E. Woodbridge
− Nation 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 700w
“A book both new and worth reading. He has looked at Miss Austen more through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many illustrious eulogists, than any other writer I know of. Even when he is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists for the sake of saying something new.”
+ − New Repub 22:318 My 5 ’20 1100w
“Although his book is written in so flowing and altogether charming a style that it is a pleasure to read it, I could not help wondering why he thought it worth doing at all. Certainly, no one that reads it will be tempted to fly to Jane Austen. Quite the contrary!” Gertrude Atherton
+ − N Y Times 25:219 My 2 ’20 2950w
“Minute analysis of individual characters, their consistency and temperaments, is carried a little too far for any but the devoted admirers who have every one of Miss Austen’s novels firmly in remembrance.”
+ − Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w
FISCHER, HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS. Studies in history and politics. *$5.65 Oxford 904
20–11671
“When the Right Honorable Herbert Fisher took up the onerous duties of a Minister of the crown on the British Educational board ... the heavy labors in the service of the English youth left him little time for writing and research. The studies collected in his latest volume are, therefore, not new, but are reprints of various magazine articles written, for the most part, between five and ten years ago, though here and there retouched and supplemented. Three of the eleven essays deal with French politics; three with the history of history; two with Napoleon; one with British imperial administration; one with the value of small states; and one with the resurgence of Prussia.”—Nation
+ Ath p510 Ap 16 ’20 1350w
“The studies are all amply worth reading.” Preserved Smith
+ Nation 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 980w
“Interesting and thoughtful essays.”
+ Spec 124:87 Jl 17 ’20 200w + − Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 620w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p231 Ap 15 ’20) The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
“Mr Fisher’s essays will interest everybody who cares either for history or for politics, and, most of all, those who care for both.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p231 Ap 15 ’20 2650w
FISHER, IRVING. Stabilizing the dollar. *$3.50 Macmillan 338.5
20–674
“[In this book] first there is a twenty-five page summary. Then there is the main body of the text, 125 pages, in which the same arguments that appear in the summary are amplified. Finally there is an appendix of 171 pages in which practically the same points are gone over again, only this time with a strong emphasis upon ‘technical details.’ Thus we have a boiled down encyclopedia addressed to three separate levels of attention, or perhaps of intellect, all within the modest confines of one small volume. Professor Fisher believes that the high cost of living is caused by a shrunken dollar, just as the low cost of living from 1873 to 1896 followed an enlarged dollar. The purchasing power of the dollar is at all times, so he easily proves, uncertain and variable. His remedy is to make the dollar more or less valuable, according as prices are rising or falling by adding or substracting from its weight in gold.”—Unpartizan Review
“The close association between economic and political problems at the present day warrants for this book the attention of political scientists.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:322 My ’20 80w
“This book is well arranged for summary or detailed reading.”
+ Booklist 16:189 Mr ’20
“Many prominent economists indorse the plan. The question of its practical application is a distinct and different affair. Be that as it may, the book is provocative of thought and deserves a wide reading.” G. M. J.
+ Boston Transcript p9 Je 5 ’20 550w
“The plan is presented with elaborate simplicity and persuasiveness, and an exhaustive discussion of technical details, alternative plans, and precedents.”
+ Dial 68:404 Mr ’20 80w Lit D 64:119 Mr 13 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
Nation 110:769 Je 5 ’20 2150w
“It is a duty to direct attention to Professor Fisher’s plan, and it is agreeable to add that he makes its study easy.”
+ N Y Times 25:245 My 9 ’20 900w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 120w
“For the advanced student of currency and price movements the six appendices will prove of special interest.” E. R. Burton
+ |Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 420w |The Times [London] Lit Sup p369 Je 10 ’20 120w
“In ‘Stabilizing the dollar’ we have not necessarily the final word, but the most complete exposition as yet of a great, fundamental reform whose inevitableness the reviewer cannot doubt.” A. W. Atwood
+ − Unpartizan R 13:413 Mr ’20 1850w
FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1st baron. Memories and records. 2v il *$8 (6½c) Doran
20–5756
Lord Fisher devotes the first of these volumes to Memories, reserving such biographical details as he chooses to give for the volume of Records. Of the work as a whole, he says, it is “not an autobiography but a collection of memories of a life-long war against limpets, parasites, sycophants and jellyfish.” Aside from its pungent style, the book is of interest for its memories of King Edward, whom the author loved, for his estimates of Lord Nelson, whom he worshipped, and for his outspoken criticisms of Great Britain’s war policy. There are a number of illustrations and each of the volumes has its index. The appendixes to volume 2 give a summary of Lord Fisher’s great naval reforms, by W. T. Stead, and a synopsis of his career.
“This remarkable book is full of good things. The rush of the author’s forcible prose recalls the headlong progress of a motorcycle emitting explosive noises.”
+ Ath p1170 N 7 ’19 280w
“We get an impression of more than force; we feel that we are dealing with a perfectly honest man who has an unfailing eye for humbug.”
+ Ath p1225 N 21 ’19 900w Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 40w Booklist 16:261 My ’20
“It is a rambling autobiography without form or plan, frank to the verge of indiscretion or beyond, crammed with the enthusiasm and energy of youth (he was born in 1851 but was of the tribe of Peter Pan), exuberant beyond the bounds of the English language, and altogether delightful and incredible.”
+ Ind 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 250w
“Many delightful anecdotes testify to the more irresistible side of Lord Fisher’s personality, and his staunch praise of his friends, his inimitable descriptions of many sea captains, and his warm appreciation of the British merchant navy also show fine traits of discernment and character.” B. U. Burke
+ Nation 110:204 F 14 ’20 1350w
“His directness and brevity never fail him, every paragraph is charged with interest, and the reader’s mind easily gathers up and puts in place the material. The originalities in printing are devices of this fertile inventor to make truths go home and lodge.” D. S. M.
+ New Repub 23:285 Ag 4 ’20 1600w
“There is no connected narrative or any orderly sequence of events; and yet it is continuously interesting, often amusing, and sometimes exciting in a supreme degree. The language is occasionally deplorable, from the standpoint of most drawing rooms and all grammar schools; and yet there are passages of rare and original beauty from even a rhetorical point of view. One feels in the presence of a psychic force.” B. A. Fiske
+ − N Y Times 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2750w
“A peculiar book, this—gossipy, and good, nervous comment, with technical explanation shoved in like coal into a furnace. Navy men will enjoy it, but so will the man on the street.”
+ N Y Times 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ Pub W 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 200w
“Admiral Fisher’s gift for comradeship makes him an admirable portraitist. There is no dull moment in the two volumes.”
+ Review 2:654 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Sturdy fighter as he is, he hits no foul blow. He is not sparing of his epithets on his opponents en masse ... but of no individual living man or woman does he speak otherwise than in terms of kindliness and honour. If his blame is hearty, so is his praise; and while his blame is anonymous, his praise is defined. He who has applauded others so lavishly and willingly may perhaps be excused when he exhibits considerable affection for his own good deeds also.”
+ Spec 123:617 N 8 ’19 1300w Spec 123:899 D 27 ’19 100w + − Springf’d Republican p8 N 22 ’19 500w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p579 O 23 ’19)
“The books are a vivid photograph of picturesque and historic personality.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 1650w
“Inaccuracy is the inevitable result of hasty talk. Those of us who are not over and above solemn, and who are quite prepared to give Lord Fisher all the licence of, say, Admiral Coffin, whose free talk once amused the House of commons, often at his own expense, may still regret that he does not endeavour to deserve a share of ‘the heavenly gift of proportion and perspective’ which he admired in King Edward.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p579 O 23 ’19 1050w
“There are some things in these memories and records which few critics, now or hereafter, will commend except in so far as they exhibit some of the less attractive features of Lord Fisher’s personality with a candour which goes far to redeem them from censure. But these are really superficial traits.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p759 D 18 ’19 2050w + Yale R n s 10:437 Ja ’21 890w
FISKE, BRADLEY ALLEN. Art of fighting; its evolution and progress. il *$3 (2c) Century 355
20–7785
Paying a passing tribute to the universal desire for peace, the author says: “Until it is certain that war has actually been banished from the earth, armies and navies must be maintained. In order to give their country the protection needed, each army and navy must be correctly designed, prepared, and operated. To know whether this is being done, the people need a general knowledge of the principles of the art of fighting, especially of strategy. To impart this knowledge in simple language is the object of this book.” (Preface) The book is in three parts: Fighting and war in general; Historical illustrations; Strategy. This third section is composed of three chapters: Strategy in peace; Strategy in war; and Strategy as related to statesmanship. There is no index.
+ Booklist 17:51 N ’20
“It may be objected to this book, particularly by the pacifist mind, that it lacks a true perspective, a proper sense of proportion, an adequate conception of relative values. But the ready answer is that it is the book of an inventor, a specialist, an enthusiast. Admiral Fiske has made a notable contribution, worthy of the most careful study.”
+ − N Y Times 25:251 My 16 ’20 1650w R of Rs 62:333 S ’20 130w + Yale R n s 10:437 Ja ’21 330w
FISKE, CHARLES. Perils of respectability, and other studies in Christian life and service for reconstruction days. *$1.50 Revell 252
20–2430
“The subjects [of the fourteen sermons] are striking without being sensational. Among them are ‘Alone in the wilderness,’ ‘The peril of an empty soul,’ ‘The manliness of Christ,’ and ‘The gospel for an age of luxury.’ The author has found his way into the heart of things and speaks out of a deep experience. He understands the meaning of Christianity in all its phases, individual, social and corporate.”—Boston Transcript
“Bishop Fiske is a plain and convincing preacher: these are sermons worth reading as well as hearing. We miss the personality of the preacher but that is inevitable in the case of printed discourses.”
+ Bib World 54:433 Jl ’20 180w
“No man, minister or layman, can read them without becoming strengthened.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ’20 150w
FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.[[2]] Can the church survive in the changing order? *80c Macmillan 230
20–3581
“Prof. Fitch likens the present day to other great periods of transition; the time of Jesus’s advent, of the Mohammedan invasion, of Luther’s protest. The church today stands for the old order. It has attempted to keep abreast of the times merely by tacking new social programs on to an outworn philosophy. This method is doomed to failure from the beginning. If the church is to survive it must mold progressively its fundamental conceptions. And its most fundamental conception, its attitude to the Jesus of history, must be based on an appreciation of his moral grandeur. A quickened conscience, resulting from a clearer apprehension of the moral value of Jesus’s teaching, is far more important for the church than any new Christological formulation. This moral awakening will itself have religious content in its devotion to eternal and transcendent values.”—Springf’d Republican
“We looked to the last sections of the book for something to guide and inspire the church so unsparingly criticized. There is no program offered. This is a fatal weakness. What is needed now is not a negative criticism but a constructive program.”
− Bib World 54:645 N ’20 210w
“Anything from the pen of Dr Albert Parker Fitch is certain to be clear, colorful and aggressive. His latest little book is no exception.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 5 ’20 330w
FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.[[2]] Preaching and paganism. *$2 Yale univ. press 204
20–19512
“The Amherst professor describes the permanent element in religion—the sense of God—in contrast with two forces that are in control of our present day thinking and acting, humanism and naturalism. He shows how these alien factors have entered and subtly taken possession of worship and even preaching, and he pleads for the religious view which, while acknowledging God in nature and in man, refuses to set up either man or nature as its norm and guide.” (N Y Evening Post) “The book is the forty-sixth of the series of the Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching in Yale university and is the fourth work published on the James Wesley Cooper memorial publication fund.” (Boston Transcript)
Boston Transcript p8 D 4 ’20 330w + N Y Evening Post p12 D 31 ’20 180w
“Prof. Fitch may not altogether give the philosophical background to the desired restatement of transcendence, but he at least gives evidence of earnest and well-pondered affirmation. The book is meant both to instruct young clergymen and to inspire them, and it should succeed in its double object.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 14 ’21 330w
FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. Flappers and philosophers. *$1.75 Scribner
20–26757
A book of short stories by the author of “This side of paradise.” Contents: The offshore pirate; The ice palace; Head and shoulders; The cut-glass bowl; Bernice bobs her hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple goes wrong; The four fists.
+ Booklist 17:31 O ’20
“The author proves himself a master of the mechanism of short-story technique, a neat hand with dialogue, and exactly as bungling with character work as one would expect from an author as young as the cynicism of his endings proclaims this author to be. For he cannot let well enough alone.... In fact that is the chief trouble with all Mr Fitzgerald’s tales. They are too consciously clever.” I. W. L.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 N 6 ’20 250w
“Here are to be found originality and variety, with imaginativeness of the exceptional order that needs not to seek remote, untrodden paths, but plays upon scenes and people within the radius of ordinary life.”
+ Cath World 112:268 N ’20 130w
“The substance of the eight stories in his volume is in harmony with his new manner. They have a rather ghastly rattle of movement that apes energy and a hectic straining after emotion that apes intensity. The surface is unnaturally taut; the substance beneath is slack and withered as by a premature old age. In ‘This side of paradise’ there was both gold and dross. Instead of wringing his art, in Mr Hergesheimer’s fine expression, free of all dross, Mr Fitzgerald proceeded to cultivate it and to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post. Why write good books? You have to sell something like five thousand copies to earn the price of one story.”
− Nation 111:330 S 18 ’20 380w
“Not the most superficial reader can fail to recognize Mr Fitzgerald’s talent and genius.”
+ N Y Times p24 S 26 ’20 530w
“‘Head and shoulders’ has a twist at the end that is truly O. Henryish. So does ‘Bernice bobs her hair.’ We pick these two as the best.”
+ Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w
Reviewed by Sibyl Vane
+ Pub W 98:661 S 18 ’20 280w
FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. This side of paradise. *$1.75 Scribner
20–6430
“It isn’t a story in the regular sense: There’s no beginning, except the beginning of Amory Blaine, born healthy, wealthy and extraordinarily good-looking, and by way of being spoiled by a restless mother whom he quaintly calls by her first name, Beatrice. There’s no middle to the story, except the eager fumbling at life of this same handsome boy, proud, cleanminded, born to conquer yet fumbling, at college and in love with Isabelle, then Clara, then Rosalind, then Eleanor. No end to the story except the closing picture of this same boy in his early twenties, a bit less confident about life, with ‘no God in his heart ... his ideas still in riot ... with the pain of memory ... he could not tell why the struggle was worth while,’ and yet ‘determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personality he had passed.’”—Pub W
Booklist 16:312 Je ’20
“In all its affectations, its cleverness, its occasional beauty, even its sometimes intentioned vulgarity and ensuing timidity, it so unites with the matter as to make the book a convincing chronicle of youth by youth.” M. E. Bailey
+ − Bookm 51:471 Je ’20 950w
“It is merely his way of doing things that makes his story different from multitudes of its kind. To say that in ‘This side of paradise’ Mr Fitzgerald has written a novel that will cause us to use a modern and expressive phrase, to sit up and take notice, is a mild expression of the feeling he arouses in us. He is a story teller with a courage of his own. Many will not like his novel, some will abhor it, but none can question the fact that he is a novelist with a message if not with a mission.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 2000w
“Part of the story is thoroly amusing; part of it goes deep into the serious thoughts and desires and ambitions of its hero-author; in the last third he dives so deep that he gets well over his head.”
+ − Ind 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Fitzgerald is on the path of those who strive. His gifts have an unmistakable amplitude and much in his book is brave and beautiful.”
+ − Nation 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“An astonishing and refreshing book. The book is fundamentally honest and if the intellectual and spiritual analyses are, sometimes tortuous and the nomenclature bewildering to those not intimate with collegiate invention, it is nevertheless delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life.” R. V. A. S.
+ − New Repub 22:362 My 12 ’20 400w
“The whole story is disconnected, more or less, but loses none of its charm on that account. It could have been written only by an artist who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary style.”
+ N Y Times 25:240 My 9 ’20 500w
“There are, as I see it, two secrets to the all-round satisfactoriness of Mr Fitzgerald’s book; he can write—that simply sticks out all over the book; and he has the rather rare good sense of ‘crowding his work instead of spreading it thin.’” R. S. L.
+ Pub W 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 460w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The story’s construction occasionally gives an impression of jerkiness; but the author’s obvious familiarity with his ground and his uncanny ability to see life through the eyes of his characters reduces this defect almost to the vanishing point.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 500w
FLEMING, WILLIAM HENRY. Treaty-making power; Slavery and the race problem in the South. $1.50 Stratford co. 341.2
20–12527
The book contains two speeches by the author as a member of Congress from the tenth Georgia district. The practical issue underlying the speech of the Treaty-making power was given by the crisis threatening legislation in California to discriminate against Japanese children in the public schools. The second speech, Slavery and the race problem in the South, is a courageous plea for justice on behalf of the negro.
FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON. Stevenson’s Germany. *$3.50 Scribner 996
(Eng ed 20–9232)
“This book, which groups about Stevenson’s ‘Footnote to history’ evidence of German misbehaviour in the Pacific, and particularly in Samoa, is, we are informed by the preface, the conclusion of an ‘argument against Germany, begun in “The new Pacific,” and continued through “The problem of the Pacific”’; it is essentially an attempt to show that Germany is unfit to govern in the islands of the South sea, and a plea that in no circumstances whatever should she be allowed to regain an inch of those profitable lands.”—Ath
“The present volume has little to commend it. The organization is very faulty, the materials used are slight and even they have not been presented as well as they deserved, and there are certain obvious errors.” P. J. T.
− Am Hist R 26:373 Ja ’21 320w
“There may be good and just reasons for excluding Germany from the Pacific, but they do not appear conclusively in this book. What appears too clearly is the desire to profit to the utmost by her downfall.” F. W. S.
− Ath p735 Je 4 ’20 550w Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 90w
“Well written and well-documented book.”
+ Sat R 129:476 My 22 ’20 700w
“The difficulty in being satisfied with Mr Fletcher’s case is not, however, that it is unfairly put or in any way exaggerated. On the contrary, it has been carefully prepared, and the evidence put forward is trustworthy. The trouble is that, from circumstances over which the Germans had no control, it is all pre-war evidence and must be judged by pre-war standards.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p362 Je 10 ’20 670w
FLETCHER, CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE. Historical portraits, 1700–1850; with an introd. by C. F. Bell. il 2v ea *$5.65 Oxford 757
(9–24668)
“The Clarendon press has published, after a long interval, the third volume of Messrs Fletcher and Walker’s collection of historical portraits. It contains a hundred and fourteen portraits, selected by Mr Walker, of men and women of eighteenth-century Britain, with short and racy memoirs by Mr Fletcher. The portrait gallery includes the famous admirals; generals like Wolfe, Cumberland, Wade, and Ligonier; Wesley, Berkeley, and other great divines; men of letters, lawyers, men of science like Newton and Halley, Dodsley the publisher, Arkwright, Wedgwood, and Brindley, the maker of canals, whose talents would have rusted in obscurity had he not been employed by the Duke of Bridgewater.” (Spec) The previous volumes appeared in 1909 and 1912.
“It is fair to say that the collaborators of this volume are to be congratulated in general on their selection. Yet the principle on which they worked remains a mystery. One needs only to consider the biographies which have accompanied the portraits of other such collections to perceive that Mr Fletcher is as much a genius in his way as Mr Walker is in his; and that between them they have produced an extraordinarily entertaining and instructive book.” W. C. Abbott
+ − Am Hist R 25:489 Ap ’20 600w + Ath p640 Jl 18 ’19 90w
“Mr Fletcher’s potted ‘lives’ are excellent: they are a pattern of what such brief biographies should be. Scholarly, of course, informative and readable, they are completely at ease in their handling of men in every walk of life. The book has its limitations.” M. H. Spielmann
+ − Ath p746 Ag 15 ’19 1800w Brooklyn 12:40 N ’19 30w
“The value of this publication is so great for educational purposes that one hesitates before offering any criticism. Mr Fletcher’s biographical notices are in their turn models of conciseness and economy of space, and give just the information which should excite the student to a better acquaintance with each subject in turn. These notices, however, convey some idea that they have been written entirely apart from the portraits themselves.” Lionel Cust
+ − Eng Hist R 34:607 O ’19 670w
“We have seen better photographic reproductions. But the volume is none the less of the greatest interest and value.”
+ Spec 122:86 Jl 19 ’19 1650w
“His biographies bring under fire virtually the whole of English history between 1700 and 1850, and few of them are not lit with new interest. We can imagine that in questions of aesthetic criticism his personal view will not be unchallenged.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p399 Jl 24 ’19 1950w
FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH. Dead men’s money (Eng title, Droonin’ watter). (Borzoi mystery stories) *$2 (2½c) Knopf
20–19048
This story is told by Hugh Moneylaws, a young law student in Berwick-upon-Tweed. While going on an errand which kept him out very late one night, Hugh comes upon a dead man lying in the woods. In the investigation that follows, Hugh conceals one piece of information, a bit of caution he has reason to regret later. He does not mention publicly having seen Sir Gilbert Carstairs, 7th baronet of Hathercleugh House, at the scene of the murder. When the one person with whom he shares this knowledge meets a violent death, he begins to realize the seriousness of it, and when Sir Gilbert makes a dastardly but unsuccessful attempt to put Hugh himself out of the way, he is convinced of Sir Gilbert’s guilt, and his disappearance makes assurance doubly sure. The remainder of the story tells of the efforts to locate him, and the facts that come to the light about him in the search. On several occasions Hugh’s life hangs by a hair, but he eventually comes out of it with only a crippled knee, and nothing more to fear from “Sir Gilbert,” who has met his punishment at the hands of another enemy.
“Take one typewriterful of Stevenson, add several murders for luck and one mystery that isn’t mysterious, mix well with a sensational jacket and an afterthought of a plot and the answer is ‘Dead men’s money.’”
− N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 160w
“The author’s grasp on the various threads of his story is always firm, and he brings them all together at the end, leaving them tied up in a neat bow, with no loose ends, with a skill that compels deep admiration of his craftsmanship.”
+ N Y Times p21 N 7 ’20 320w + − Sat R 127:427 My 3 ’19 190w
“Mr Fletcher is one of the most skilful writers of this type of fiction. The narrative abounds in thrills and tense situations and will be highly diverting to devotees of this school of fiction.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 190w
FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH. Paradise mystery. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90 (2c) Knopf
20–8629
A stranger in the town of Wrychester is killed by a fall from the upper gallery of the cathedral. But this fact naturally is not so simple as stated, and leads to the question, was the fall suicide, accident or murder, and if murder, who was the murderer, and what was the motive. In the answering of these questions many people are involved: Dr Ransford, whom the dead man had been asking for; Dr Bryce, his assistant, who had been forcing unwelcome attentions upon Ransford’s ward, Mary Bewery; Collishaw, the laborer, who later met his death because he knew too much; Simpson Harker, an ex-detective; Stephen Folliot, whose step-son is also a suitor for Mary Bewery’s hand. These, and others, are all bound up in a network of mystery which is not unraveled until the surprising denouement of the story.
“A good English mystery story.”
+ Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
“Besides the mystery there is a tender little love story and several interesting characters.”
+ Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 50w Lit D p100 O 23 ’20 1350w + N Y Times 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The excellent reputation earned by J. S. Fletcher as a teller of engaging mystery tales is preserved in his latest story, ‘The Paradise mystery.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 240w
FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH. Talleyrand maxim. il *$1.75 (2c) Knopf
20–627
Linford Pratt, a young lawyer, is inspired by Talleyrand’s maxim: “With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He knew that wit and skill were his, and that time and patience, coupled with opportunity, would bring him the fortune he craved. He was not over nice about the opportunity. It came to him in the shape of a will whose existence no one suspected. It was to have been the first rung of the ladder by which he was to rise. Complications set in in the shape of an unknown witness of his theft, and wits as sharp as his. He must rid himself of the first by murder; he must extricate himself from the latter by blackmail, by fraud and intrigue and still another murder. But the net closes in about him till a bullet from his own weapon is his only means of escape. Side by side with this tale of horror goes a perfectly good romance between a good young man and a virtuous young woman.
“A very ingenious and well told mystery story.”
+ Booklist 16:204 Mr ’20
“In the invention and use of the complications, little and big, with which the author weaves and embroiders his plot, advances and delays its movement, and intrigues the reader’s attention, Mr Fletcher works with ingenuity, resource and skill. And he writes with a freshness of touch and an individual quality of style not always possessed by writers of detective fiction.”
+ N Y Times 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 600w
“The story is written with the easy facility of a practised hand, and, if we once accept without demur certain conventional improbabilities, it shows plenty of movement.”
+ − Sat R 127:606 Je 21 ’19 200w Spec 123:89 Jl 19 ’19 30w
“Mr Fletcher shows much inventive skill, and is resourceful in advancing and delaying the movement of the plot, and in handling the maze of complications which arise. He employs a fresh touch that gives a new zest to the much over-worked detective-story type of light fiction.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 14 ’20 340w
FLEURY, MAURICE, comte. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. 2v il *$7.50 Appleton 996
20–14392
“The publishers have had the manuscript for the last ten years, but because of the personal revelations contained in the book, Eugénie requested that it be withheld from the public until her death. It is written by Comte Fleury, who was for more than twenty years an intimate member of the empress’s entourage.” (Springf’d Republican) The memoirs end with the peace negotiations of 1870 and do not touch on the empress’s later years. There is no index.
“The memoirs contain no surprises. There is nothing in them that will compel any very considerable re-writing of the history of the second empire. Probably the most distinctive feature is the portrait they draw of the empress. It is, I think, much too favorable, inaccurate because incomplete. But it is done with sincerity, modesty, and good taste. It is a revelation of the empress as she would like to be seen.” F. M. Anderson
+ − Am Hist R 26:360 Ja ’21 320w
“A misleading title, for there is proportionately little from the pen of the empress herself and her personality is often lost in the flood of details of diplomacy and court life, but the author has been able to add some fresh information to the history of the second empire.”
+ − Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21
“He who hopes to find romance in the two volumes of the ‘Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie’ will be disappointed. What are we to say of a writer who omits both the drama of her rise and the pathos of her closing years, who robs the history of all its picturesque character and concentrates his attention upon her official routine? What are we to say of him? We are to say, of course, that he is an ‘official’ biographer and that, as such, is so anxious to present nothing which will detract from an impression of perfect propriety and dull royal respectability, that he has deprived her of all character.” J. W. Krutch
− Bookm 52:78 S ’20 600w + Boston Transcript p8 O 2 ’20 1050w Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 190w
“The most valuable and important things are the reports of intimate conversations and sayings of the Emperor and Empress and others, which picture forth their characters and, without description or character analysis, place them in a different light than they have been placed by other memoir writers and historians.”
+ N Y Times 25:1 Jl 25 ’20 4650w
“Being a great admirer of Napoleon and Eugénie, Comte Fleury naturally gives a picture which is highly favorable to them. But he has also attempted to take into consideration the work which has been done by historical scholars on this period. The point at which the reader must be on his guard is in accepting without question Napoleon’s views as given in the conversations which the author quotes.” S. B. Fay
+ − Review 3:421 N 3 ’20 400w R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 200w Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 24 ’20 180w
“Memoirs are often disappointments, either containing nothing worth saying, or running to the Margot Asquith type. These memoirs have something to say, and it was not, in the saying, found necessary to surround them with bits of scandal or incidents better left untold.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 27 ’21 620w
“Comte Fleury had access to large quantities of letters and papers. They are thrown into the book pell-mell, with only the loosest arrangement; the source, and therefore the value, of many of them is left uncertain; it is not always easy to see in a particular place whose narrative is being read. None the less they make an interesting assortment, though nothing is brought to light in them to modify the judgment which reasonable people have for some time been accustomed to pass on the empire.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p643 O 7 ’20 1950w
FLEXNER, HORTENSE. Clouds and cobblestones. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19673
As the title indicates this collection of poems includes in its subjects everything contained in life between the clouds and the cobblestones: wide sympathies and interests and knowledge of men and their ways. The author employs both rhyme and meter and free verse. Among the titles are: If God had known; Children’s ward; Hunger; Masks; Longing; A sky-scraper; To a grasshopper; All souls’ night, 1917; Mammon redeemed; The sons of Icarus; Folk-dance class; Munitions; To Peter Pan; Blown leaves; A child; The masseuse.
“There is not a single poem in this collection that is not purely creative by reason of its presentation of a fresh, vivid idea, emotionalized and expressed poetically.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 13 ’20 1200w
“Quite possibly there is nothing in these pages that will long endure, but the verses touch human values with sincerity and poetic feeling.” L. B.
+ Freeman 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 180w
“She writes with a great deal of technical proficiency; her verse is simple, direct, and readable. This is at the same time its greatest virtue and its greatest defect, for having been apprehended easily, the lines fade from the memory, leaving no trace.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 80w
FLINT, LEON NELSON. Editorial: a study in effectiveness of writing. *$2.50 Appleton 070
20–20034
The author holds that, for all the truth that there may be in the saying: “the good editor is born not made,” the editor who has not thought out and applied a technique of his craft is “going it blind.” The book deals with methods of finding, gathering and handling editorial materials and with notions as to editorial responsibilities and opportunities. Contents: Development of the editorial column; Weakness and strength of the editorial; The editor and his readers; Materials for editorials; Editorial purposes; Building the editorial; The manner of saying it; Paragraphs and paragraphers; Typographical appearance; The editorial page; Editorial responsibility; The editor’s routine and reading; Analyzing editorials. The numerous illustrations consist of copies of specimen editorial pages and there is an index.
FLYNN, JOHN STEPHEN.[[2]] Influence of Puritanism on the political and religious thought of the English. *$4 Dutton 285.9
20–22021
“A broad survey of the results of the English Puritan movement in both hemispheres. The author has sought to distinguish the permanent from the merely transitory elements of Puritanism, and to relate it to the present age.”—R of Rs
“His reading, wide as it is, is in excess of his powers to use it profitably. He sets out with vague ideas on the varied content of Puritanism, with the natural result that he leaves us in a state of vagueness.”
− Ath p107 Jl 26 ’20 440w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 40w
“We are given an amiable piece of dilettantism, praiseworthy in object, careless in execution, and distinguished neither by clearness of intention nor by profundity of thought. We fail to see anything fresh in Mr Flynn’s book, and the ignorance which it would dispel is ignorance of the fundamental kind which a knowledge of English history would make impossible.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p361 Je 10 ’20 880w
FOCH, FERDINAND. Precepts and judgments. *$4 Holt 355
(Eng ed 20–6758)
This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last century.
“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”
+ Ath p61 Ja 9 ’20 50w
Reviewed by J: P. Wisser
+ N Y Evening Post p8 O 23 ’20 800w
“The little book will, we think, make its readers anxious to read the originals from which it is compiled.”
+ Spec 123:777 D 6 ’19 140w
FOCH, FERDINAND. Principles of war. *$7.50 Holt 355
These pages were written for young officers, says the author in his preface. “The reader must not look to find in them a complete, a methodical, still less an academic account of the art of war, but rather a mere discussion of certain fundamental points in the conduct of troops, and above all the direction which the mind must be given so that it may in every circumstance conceive a manœuvre at least rational.” (Preface) The translation is by Hilaire Belloc and the contents are: On the teaching of war; Primal characteristics of modern war; Economy of forces; Intellectual discipline—freedom of action as a function of obedience; The service of security; The advance guard; The advance guard at Nachod; Strategical surprise; Strategical security; The battle: decisive attack; Battle: an historical instance; Modern battle. There are twenty-three maps and diagrams.
“The entire work is convincing in its reasoning and its deductions, the language is clear (the translation is remarkably true to the original and expressed in excellent English), and the maps are adequate.” J: P. Wisser
+ N Y Evening Post p8 O 23 ’20 800w
FOERSTER, ROBERT FRANZ. Italian emigration of our times. (Harvard economic studies) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 325
20–103
“A most thorough survey of the greatest migratory movement of our time. The causes of emigration are analyzed by a consideration of conditions in Italy, and the emigrants are followed into the countries of their settlement in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States, the last of which is treated in detail. Their fortunes, economic and cultural contributions in their new homes are weighed carefully.—Booklist
“It may be said that Dr Foerster’s work is the most authoritative as it is the most comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of Italian immigration yet published in the United States, and is indispensable to all who care to know intimately its characteristic features and main purport.” W. E. Davenport
+ Am Hist R 25:547 Ap ’20 500w
“The study is in all ways a very acceptable one, and may well serve as a model for similar studies of other nationalistic groups.” A. E. Jenks
+ Am J Soc 25:783 My ’20 950w
“Especially valuable are the four chapters (97 pages) dealing with the Italian immigrants in the Argentine and Brazil. But the especial importance of Professor Foerster’s work is the careful analysis of the causes of emigration, of the effect of this movement on the Italian nation, and of its probable future.” Edith Abbott
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:523 Ag ’20 700w
“Very readable.”
+ Booklist 16:153 F ’20
“The main text holds its interest for the general reader from beginning to end, while the footnotes and bibliographical citations will rejoice the heart of scholars who may wish to follow the argument to the very source.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ Review 3:150 Ag 18 ’20 1550w + R of Rs 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
“It is a scholarly and timely book. It is a prophetic book, for it tells us our faults, fully, faithfully and fearlessly, and points to a better way. It is a scientific book, for it promotes a better understanding and, consequently, a better feeling. It is a lonely book, for no one has ever before done for the Italian or any other foreign language group what this book does.” F. O. Beck
+ Survey 44:312 My 29 ’20 450w
FOLKS, HOMER. Human costs of the war. il *$2.25 (2c) Harper 940.318
20–9641
While in charge of the American Red cross relief work in France, the author was impressed with the infinitesimal fraction of reality which found its way into print in the American papers. Towards the end of the war he was requested to make a survey of the needs of southern and southeastern Europe and to ascertain the net results of the war on human welfare. The book records his findings. It is not a constructive program he says, “simply a contribution toward a diagnosis which might make it possible to outline a well-considered course of treatment.” “Chapter I tells the origin of the survey ... and gives an account of the itinerary of the trips. Chapters II to VII, inclusive, deal respectively with Serbia, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece. Chapters VIII to X endeavor to sum up the war’s results in all these countries, in the three vital aspects of childhood, home, and health. Chapter XI tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface) There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.
“Although mostly estimates, the data are perhaps as accurate as any we shall ever get. The survey is somewhat defective, however, because confined chiefly to the five lands named, and would have been more valuable had all the belligerent countries been included.” N. L. Sims
+ Am J Soc 26:370 N ’20 150w + Booklist 17:11 O ’20
“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 420w
“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs, Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts themselves.” D: S. Jordan
+ Nation 111:sup410 O 13 ’20 1200w
“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained temper.”
+ N Y Times 25:12 Jl 25 ’20 2000w
“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up their hidden story of misery or hope.”
+ Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”
+ Review 3:153 Ag 18 ’20 500w R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Like Gibbs’ ‘Now it can be told’ and Keynes’s ‘Economic consequences of the peace,’ this is a book to be owned and read—and like them it is readable. Mr Folks’ subject is as important as theirs, and his competence is unquestionable. This is not to say that it is the last word on the subject. Quite the contrary. One might wish, for instance, that there were more frequent indications that the Allies have not had all of the human costs to bear. Another obvious defect is the omission of maps.” E. T. D.
+ − Survey 44:449 Je 26 ’20 800w
FOOTNER, HULBERT. Fur bringers. $1.90 McCann
20–8241
“A tale of the Northwest. The trading posts, Indians, half-breeds, adventurers and beautiful heroines of the ordinary story are here anew in a plot in which the young trader afflicted with ‘June fever’ is obliged to take an open stand against the heroine’s father, known to all but the daughter as a slave-driver and profiteer.”—Booklist
“Very well written.”
+ Booklist 17:31 O ’20
“The story has plenty of incident, it moves quickly, and is told with a good deal of spirit.”
+ N Y Times p25 Ag 1 ’20 450w Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
FORBES, GEORGE. Adventures in southern seas: a tale of the sixteenth century. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–16854
A romance of the days of discovery based on the voyages of Dirk Hartog, Dutch navigator. The story is told by Peter Ecoores Van Bu who sailed on his first voyage with Hartog in 1616. They were bound for the South seas in search of treasure for the Amsterdam merchants who were sending them out. But the islands they reach are poor in treasure, if rich in adventure, and it is only after the lucky discovery of pearls that Hartog is willing to return. Several other voyages follow, on which the hero experiences ship wreck, capture by savages and numerous other adventures. At the end of his second voyage he marries his Dutch sweetheart and gives up the sea, but following her death he again listens to its call.
“The very spirit of high adventure—the manifold dangers and hardships of ancient seekers after treasure—blows through the pages of the book.”
+ N Y Times p21 D 26 ’20 600w
FORBES, JAMES. Famous Mrs Fair, and other plays. *$2 Doran 812
20–21209
The other two plays in this collection are: The chorus lady; and The show shop. Of these plays, Walter Prichard Eaton, in his introduction to the book, comparing their literary qualities, says, that “The chorus lady” can least endure the scrutiny print affords although enormously successful on the stage, while “The show shop” “stands up four square under the test of print” and is a most pungent and amusing satire of American stage life. “The famous Mrs Fair” is a more serious production with reasoned reflections on life and human motives. Its heroine, the wife of a wealthy business man, has become famous as a war worker in France. Coming home she is lionized, can no longer adjust herself to her domesticity and dreams of a career. Not until the family is nearly disrupted with tragic results does she, in the nick of time, wake up to her former responsibilities.
“What first strikes the attentive reader of Mr Forbes’s handsome volume is the poverty of observation. Two of the three plays deal with the little theatrical world in which he has been busy for twenty years. Yet he has not seen that world directly at all. The superficial bits of verisimilitude are pure veneer. Nature is hard to reach even for those who see her. To Mr Forbes her face, like that of the idol of Sais, is veiled.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− Nation 111:787 D 29 ’20 620w
FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON. Character-training of children. 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 173
19–13817
These books by Dr Forbush, author of “Child study and child training” and “The boy problem in the home,” are issued in the Literary Digest parents’ league series. Volume one is devoted to: Problems of government, with the subject matter divided as follows: Problems to be solved by means of the child’s own responsiveness; Problems to be solved largely through suggestion; Problems to be solved largely by substitution; Problems to be solved largely through cooperation. Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes up Problems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care of children which are reprints of earlier works.
“These volumes, written in the clearest language of technical terms, well illustrated and interestingly arranged, should be a helpful and invaluable guide for those who have children to bring up or children’s problems to consider.”
+ N Y Times 25:17 Jl 18 ’20 280w (Review of series)
FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON. Home-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 372
19–14028
The first of these two volumes is devoted to the first six years of a child’s life and consists of two parts: Teaching a baby, and Teaching a little child. Volume 2 is devoted to: Teaching a school child (from six to twelve or fourteen); and The teaching of youth (from fourteen upward). Volume 1 has a list of story-and-picture books to use with the littlest children, also a list of books to help the mother in telling stories, and in volume 2 there is a chapter on Books in the home, with suggestions for reading.
FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON. Sex-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 612.6
19–13816
“This book differs from others in the abundant literature that is being produced upon this topic, chiefly in the fact that it endeavors to present, with the least possible waste of space, all the material that parents of a growing family of children of both sexes need for their use at every stage of other children’s development. The unique feature, perhaps, is a section devoted to concrete answers to the embarrassing questions that children are likely to ask.” (Introd.) Contents: Why we have to do this; How to educate the little child; How to educate the schoolboy; How to educate the schoolgirl; How to educate the coming man; How to educate our coming women; List of books for further reading; Index.
FORD, HENRY JONES. Alexander Hamilton. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner
20–7498
“This book is a biography which aims to present the life of Hamilton as completely as possible from the evidence obtainable. It gives most attention to his political ideals and career and it also describes his character and personal life.”—Booklist
“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:718 N ’20 360w Booklist 16:310 Je ’20 + Cleveland p77 Ag ’20 30w
“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow of imagination, however.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:142 O 20 ’20 230w
“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently inspires in the writer of biography.”
+ N Y Times 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 400w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ Review 2:678 Je 30 ’20 1100w
FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS. Foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd. by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382
20–11960
“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the ‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston Transcript
Booklist 17:52 N ’20 + Ind 104:248 N 13 ’20 60w
FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS. Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and work. il *$4.50 Harcourt
20–23005
Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer, based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.
“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J. Dent
+ − Ath p384 S 17 ’20 1500w + Boston Transcript p5 N 27 ’20 420w
“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”
+ Spec 125:819 D 18 ’20 320w The Times [London] Lit Sup p585 S 9 ’20 100w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p610 S 23 ’20 1100w
FORMAN, HENRY JAMES. Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–3795
This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother, enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting for him on the Beacon.
“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character are what they were.”
− Nation 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 200w
“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the sharply drawn characterization.”
+ − N Y Times 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while. The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr
+ − Pub W 97:178 Ja 17 ’20 260w
“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.[[2]] American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353
20–13840
“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 4 ’20 820w N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 160w School R 28:715 N ’20 520w
FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD). Dangerous Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–18931
Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher, after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice. Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera, and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies. Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly turns over their value to the starving children of the old world, feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.
“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 150w
“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is crude and obvious in many spots.”
+ N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 320w
FORSEY, MAUDE S. Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott
A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real childhood.
FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN. Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf
20–3675
An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent Gino.
“An odd and delightful piece of work.”
+ Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:342 My ’20 260w
“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people, it is ‘human.’”
+ Bookm 52:175 O ’20 120w + Dial 68:665 My ’20 60w
“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming book.”
+ N Y Times 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 750w
“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to the end.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 650w
FORT, CHARLES. Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504
20–1375
The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is one of the hypotheses suggested.
“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”
+ − Cath World 111:410 Je ’20 140w
“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith
− Nation 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Eugene Wood
N Y Call p10 My 2 ’20 1250w
“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”
− N Y Times 25:81 F 8 ’20 440w Review 2:184 F 21 ’20
FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN. Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans
20–9644
“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting, but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”
+ − Sat R 129:563 Je 19 ’20 1550w
“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good humour and frankness.”
+ Spec 125:150 Jl 31 ’19 640w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p298 My 13 ’20 1000w
47 WORKSHOP. Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
29–11241
“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the university during the year. Of the four plays of this series, ‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican
“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton
+ − N Y Call p10 Ag 1 ’20 520w
“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing types of dramatic work.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 20 ’20 170w
“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in English.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:349 O ’20 140w
FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE. American police systems. (Publications of the Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2
20–20105
This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000, and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The development of American police control; The present state of police control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime; Conclusion.
+ Booklist 17:141 Ja ’21
“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”
+ Boston Transcript p1 D 4 ’20 320w
“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 27 ’20 330w
“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal government.”
+ N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w N Y Times p18 N 28 ’20 1750w
Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge
+ Outlook 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w
“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only by police administrators but by the general public upon whose intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their solution.” E. D. Graper
+ Survey 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w
FOSTER, JOHN. Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26880
Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.
+ Booklist 17:70 N ’20 + Boston Transcript p1 D 4 ’20 150w N Y Times 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 530w
“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”
+ Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p633 N 6 ’19 50w
FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN. Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–14214
Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.
“A very good story it is.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 6 ’20 230w
“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are not made to seem plausible by clever development.”
− + N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 350w
FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON. Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75 Huebsch 331.89
20–26587
John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.
“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in the steel industry.” G: M. Janes
+ − Am Econ R 10:840 D ’20 140w
“Too frankly partisan to be history, and with too few facts to give it the weight of a scientific survey, this authentic picture of the labor machine in operation has the force of valuable evidence from the inside.”
+ − Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“It is seldom that the public is afforded such a frank statement from official sources so soon after the event and in this case it is especially useful since most of the news furnished during the course of the strike came from the representatives of the employers.” G. P. W.
+ Grinnell R 16:309 D ’20 350w
“His book is worth a dozen abstract discussions of the labor movement, for it is an example, one of the best examples that has ever arisen, of labor doing its own thinking, making its own detailed and disinterested analysis. For its clarity, cogency, and significance, it is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the volumes written about public affairs.” G: Soule
+ Nation 111:273 S 4 ’20 2000w
“Mr Foster’s book is an exceedingly valuable contribution to our scant body of authentic documents on the labor movement.” R. W. B.
+ New Repub 23:284 Ag 4 ’20 1550w R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 80w Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 800w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p571 S 2 ’20 70w
“Mr Foster draws a vivid picture of events, all of which he saw and a large part of which he was. His judgment is cool and dispassionate; he sees the faults in the labor movement, but he imparts to his readers a tremendous admiration for the men who could conduct so long a campaign against such terrific obstacles.”
+ World Tomorrow 3:349 N ’20 560w
FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE. Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford 937
(Eng ed 20–11698)
“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history; parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J
“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren
+ Class J 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w
“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.
+ Eng Hist R 35:614 O ’20 290w
“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have nothing to do but to listen and learn.”
+ − Spec 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w + Springf’d Republican p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)
“A volume without a dull page in it, and ranging over a very wide and varied field. It contains the gleanings of long studies, pursued into the ripeness of age with the ardency of youth.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20 1300w
FOX, DAVID. Man who convicted himself. *$1.90 (2c) McBride
20–18253
“The Shadowers, Inc.” is a unique detective society composed of six ex-criminals who have decided to use their exceptional talents in an honest way rather than decidedly otherwise as heretofore. There is a handwriting expert, a jewel and art connoisseur, a toxicologist, “the greatest safe-cracker of the age,” and a smooth villain who has dealt in various forms of fraud, from oil stock to psychical phenomena. At the head of this band is Rex Powell, whose brain conceived the scheme. Their aim is restitution, not prosecution, and they work privately and discreetly. Their first case is one of robbery in an exclusive Riverside Drive home, but as it progresses it provides scope for the activities of each one of The Shadowers. That they are successful in apprehending the robber almost goes without saying but their greatest success lies in the fact that they actually force the man to convict himself.
+ Boston Transcript p9 S 25 ’20 160w
“‘The man who convicted himself,’ despite its novelty, strikes the reader as plausible.”
+ N Y Times p24 Ag 29 ’20 350w
“The story has the appeal of the popular melodrama and ‘dime novel’ without descending to crude and amateurish methods of telling.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 100w
FOX, DIXON RYAN. Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law) il *$4 Longmans 329
19–16519
“Under this title, Dr Fox, assistant professor of history in Columbia university, has given us an account of the decline of federalism in the state of New York and its eventual transformation into the whiggism of the forties. His narrative is a continuous panorama of party activities and beliefs and of the careers and influence of party leaders during forty years of New York’s history. It runs from the days of John Jay, Elisha Williams, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and others of those who represented the property rights and aristocratic privileges of the eighteenth century, to Thurlow Weed, the anti-renters of 1837, and the Tippecanoe clubs, log cabins, and hard cider of the Harrison and Tyler campaign. Thus, as far as it goes, it illustrates the influence of industrial development and geographical expansion upon party standards and standard bearers during a very important period of American history.”—Nation
“The book is a noteworthy contribution to all the social sciences.” A. C. Ford
+ Am Econ R 10:342 Je ’20 320w
“Dr Fox employs usually a lucid and vivacious style which engages the attention. There are, however, a few lapses into discomforting awkwardness and ambiguity of expression. There are discernible in places, likewise, certain failures in nicety of historical discrimination. These minor deficiencies, however, detract little from the general high excellence of the work.” W: Trimble
+ − Am Hist R 25:725 Jl ’20 860w
“The work has great merits, principally those resulting from diligence in collecting materials and skill in arranging them.” H: J. Ford
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:525 Ag ’20 170w
“As an analysis of the conditions under which the centre of political gravity was shifted from the old party of lawyers, bank presidents, merchants, and land-holding aristocrats to the ‘people,’ vested by the revised constitution of 1821 with the right to vote, this essay is both suggestive and informing.”
+ Nation 109:827 D 27 ’19 1050w
“An interesting and illuminating history.”
+ N Y Evening Post p23 O 23 ’20 180w + N Y Times p16 O 17 ’20 1500w
FOX, EARLY LEE. American colonization society, 1817–1840. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science) $2.25 Johns Hopkins 326
20–506
“In this volume the author represents the colonization movement as essentially a moderate, conservative, border-state movement which had an appeal to men in every walk of life, from every political and religious creed, and from every section of the union. He divides the history of the American colonization society into two distinct divisions: the first, to which this volume is devoted, begins with the organization of the society in 1817 and extends to 1840; the second covers the period since 1840. This volume ends with the reorganization of the society in 1839, after which date the society, under the influence of the North and the East, was more aggressively anti-slavery in its programme and activities. In the first chapter, the author discusses at considerable length the status of the free negro and his relation to the slave and to the white population; in the second, the organization, purpose, and early history of the society; in the third, fourth, and last chapters, the relation of colonization to Garrisonian abolition, to emancipation and to the African slave-trade respectively.”—Am Hist R
“While the book contains much that is new and interesting the material is very poorly arranged and there is much repetition in the numerous quotations.” A. E. Martin
+ − Am Hist R 25:726 Jl ’20 650w
“While he does justice to the South, he does rather less than justice to the abolitionists. But he has made a very useful contribution to the history of the question of slavery, for one of the best ways of understanding its difficulties and complexities is to study it from the middle point of view of the ‘colonizationist.’” E. A. B.
+ − Eng Hist R 35:627 O ’20 390w + Survey 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 320w
FOX, JOHN, Jr. Erskine Dale, pioneer. il *$2 Scribner
20–16857
“For the scene and period of his last romance, Mr Fox goes far back through nearly a hundred and fifty years. His hero, at the opening of the story a boy and at the close a young man, has been captured by the Indians, is brought up among them, and is as skilled in their ways of life and knowledge of woodcraft as if he had their blood in his veins. He is, however, the heir to a great Virginian estate, and the reader follows his exploits as he goes back and forth between the primitive scenes of the forests and the sophisticated life of the Virginian towns. At one moment he is with the pioneers resisting an attack from the Indians, at another in the very camps of the Indians themselves, and at a third gazing into the eyes of his beautiful cousin in the midst of the social entertainment of his prosperous relatives. More than once he faces death, but he emerges unscathed both from the attempts of the Indians to take his life and from the enmity of a jealous rival in love.”—Boston Transcript
+ Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“In ‘Erskine Dale—pioneer,’ Mr Fox has portrayed with exceptional skill the spirit of those days when the national spirit of the British colonists was beginning to make itself felt. It is not merely the story of one boy’s adventures. It is a tale of the birth of the American power and influence as expressed in more than one picturesque region.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 1100w
“It is a good book to give to the American boy, for it abounds in stirring adventures, and at the same time gives a good insight into the everyday life of the pioneers.”
+ Cath World 112:552 Ja ’21 100w
“The dialog is full of ‘go’ and the book will appeal immensely to intermediates.”
+ Cleveland p106 D ’20 50w
“The book has plenty of color and of movement, and gives an interesting picture of the period with which it deals.”
+ N Y Times p10 O 17 ’20 760w
“Perhaps the very best of his many romances. The flow of the story is clear and strong; it has atmosphere, movement, and distinction.”
+ Outlook 26:333 O 20 ’20 140w
“It is full of color and charm and thrill.” Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 98:1191 O 16 ’20 270w
“Mr Fox vividly recreates the atmosphere and social environment of the time.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 160w
FOXWELL, HERBERT SOMERTON. Papers on current finance. *$3.50 Macmillan 336.42
19–12740
“This volume brings together with little alteration seven articles and addresses spread over the period 1909–1917, but relating either to problems raised directly by the war or to questions to which the war has brought a new and urgent interest. An appendix reproduces a paper of 1888, ‘The growth of monopoly, and its bearing on the functions of the state’; also a letter dated February, 1918 advocating ‘fixed exchange within the empire.’ The first paper, ‘British war finance,’ deals critically with the crisis of 1914 and the financial emergency measures that it evoked. The next two papers are concerned with the problem of financing trade and industry, particularly after the war. ‘The financing of industry and trade’ (4) stresses the desirability of a closer touch between the financial, as distinguished from the banking institutions and British industries. ‘The banking reserve’ (5) deals with the inadequacy of the English position and proposes the establishment of a system of triple reserve. The burden of ‘Inflation: in what sense it exists: how far it can be controlled’ (7) an address delivered in 1917, is that the foreign exchanges do not prove currency depreciation, that gold depreciation was scarcely more marked in England than in the United States, that high prices resulted from the enormous expenditure of the government and could be checked only by cutting away from the gold standard.”—Am Econ R
Reviewed by C. A. Phillips
+ Am Econ R 10:140 Mr ’20 550w
“It is the papers on finance and banking which show Professor Foxwell at his best, and make his volumes a valuable handbook for students.”
+ Ath p781 Ag 22 ’19 1000w
“Professor Foxwell’s book suffers from the defect inherent in its form, which is that of lectures delivered at different times during the past ten years, of not co-ordinating the treatment of these problems. The contents are valuable and the author’s grasp of his subjects complete enough to make us regret that he did not recast the lectures into book form and develop his logical sequence.”
+ − Sat R 127:482 My 17 ’19 1350w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p242 My 8 ’19 450w
FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).[[2]] Bride of Corinth, and other poems and plays; a translation by Wilfrid Jackson and Emilie Jackson. *$2.50 Lane 842
20–19383
A volume of poems and plays. Contents: The bride of Corinth; Verses; Crainquebille; The comedy of a man who married a dumb wife; Come what may.
FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).[[2]] Little Pierre; tr. by J. Lewis May. *$2.50 (3½c) Lane
20–22476
“Little Pierre” is the story of a boy from his birth to his tenth year. It is told in the first person and the actual memories of childhood begin with his second year. He is the son of a Paris physician and is born “in the days when the reign of King Louis Philippe was drawing to a close.”
‘Mr May and his colleague have done well, uncommonly well with their work, have indeed lost very little in the transition from French to English, and kept all the charm of ‘Little Pierre.’” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 N 27 ’20 560w + N Y Times p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w + Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).[[2]] Seven wives of Bluebeard, and other marvellous tales; a tr. by D. B. Stewart. *$2.50 (5c) Lane
20–22333
Four fairy tales, not written for children. In the first Bluebeard is pictured as a shy, modest man, the victim of the extravagance and unfaithfulness of his seven successive wives. The other stories are: The miracle of the great St Nicholas, a satiric treatment of an old legend; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin, a version of The sleeping Beauty; and The shirt, the story of the king who was told to find the shirt of a happy man.
“This pleasant and apparently accurate rendering gives us one of the most delightful works of an author who loses relatively little through the process of translation, partly because of the Doric simplicity of his style and partly because of the importance which he attaches to the plot and the intellectual gist.”
+ Ath p434 O 1 ’20 260w + Sat R 130:485 D 11 ’20 60w
FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON. Roaming through the West Indies. il *$5 (2c) Century 917.29
20–17981
The author says: “The following pages do not pretend to ‘cover’ the West Indies. They are made up of the random pickings of an eight-months’ tour of the Antilles, during which every island of importance was visited, but they are put together rather for the entertainment of the armchair traveler than for the information of the traveler in the flesh.” He also states that he wishes it distinctly understood that this is not the record of a walking trip. As a protest to those friends who ever since his vagabond journey around the world have expected him to travel always on foot he planned a trip on which walking would be difficult if not impossible. The book is in three parts: The American West Indies; The British West Indies; and The French West Indies and others. There are many illustrations and a map.
+ Booklist 17:67 N ’20
“Altogether this latest volume is another witness to its author’s talent for description, his sense for the dramatic, and his eye for the picturesque, which combine to make his accumulating works a boon to the travel-thirsty reader.” L. M. R.
+ Freeman 2:262 N 24 ’20 140w
“If the average American wants to know just what he would see and how he would feel in the West Indies, let him read Mr Franck’s book. On occasion Mr Franck reminds one of Herodotus, in the marked distinction between the credibility of what he reports as of his own experiences and the dubious quality of what he has got through hearsay.” A. J.
+ − New Repub 24:248 N 3 ’20 680w
“What all other writers aim at, Mr Franck accomplishes with consummate ease. The easy flowing style of ‘Zone policeman 88’ and ‘Vagabonding down the Andes’ is here manifested in its highest perfection.” W: McFee
+ N Y Evening Post p5 N 20 ’20 1100w
“His pages are thickly sprinkled with character sketches of bizarre personalities, rarely poetic descriptive passages, and narratives as tense as their back-grounds are colorful. As in Mr Franck’s earlier books, the distinguishing characteristic of his writing is his ability to make his readers ‘see the sights’ through his eyes, which are so alert to catch any happening of human interest.”
+ N Y Times p18 O 31 ’20 2300w + Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“‘Roaming through the West Indies’ is easily the best ‘regular’ travel book on the islands south and east of Florida we have seen.” R. S. Lynd
+ Pub W 98:1198 O 16 ’20 290w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:345 O 20 ’20 70w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 870w
FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON. Vagabonding through changing Germany. il *$4 (4c) Harper 914.3
20–11658
The author went into Germany with the American army of occupation, and later, released from duty, he traveled throughout the country. He followed his usual custom of mixing with the people, talking with them and living their life as far as possible and his book sets down in detail his observations. Among the chapters are: On to the Rhine; Germany under the American heel; Thou shalt not ... fraternize; Knocking about the occupied area; Getting neutralized; The heart of the hungry empire; “Give us food!” Family life in Mechlenburg; On the road in Bavaria; Music still has charms. There are many illustrations from the author’s photographs.
+ Booklist 17:27 O ’20
“The ‘vagabond’ tells his experiences in a rapid, brilliant manner, as if he were never for a moment tired, and had no difficulty at all in telling his story. The pictures tell the story of the Germany of today fully as well as does the author in his brilliant chat: and both together form a book well worth reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 440w
“A thoroughly entertaining and at times instructive volume. The reader is grateful for the care with which Mr Franck has handled his facts. At no point does he attempt to be picturesque, sentimental or theatrically effective.” L. M. R.
+ Freeman 2:238 N 17 ’20 220w
“Franck’s book is eminently readable, his possession of comparisons from other visits to Germany, his keen knowledge of German and his great fund of information upon all the countries of the world going to make it unique in character and filled with worthwhile incident. It lacks sympathy even with the wretched populace of the fatherland.” F: O’Brien
+ N Y Times p7 Ag 1 ’20 1150w + R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 130w + St Louis 18:250 O ’20 20w + Springf’d Republican p8 S 16 ’20 560w Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 50w
“He gives no statistics, but the evident desire to avoid exaggeration and the studied fairness with which he reproduces opinions compel confidence in the accuracy of his report on economic and political conditions.” C: Seymour
+ Yale R n s 10:421 Ja ’21 1150w
FRANCK, TENNEY.[[2]] Economic history of Rome to the end of the republic. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 937
20–11380
“In contrast to the practices of certain contemporary historians who have analyzed Roman economic conditions, Professor Frank has wisely laid down the principal that ‘a priori methods of interpreting historical development by means of generally accepted economic and psychological maxims must be applied to Roman history only with great reserve.’ He therefore follows closely the evidence furnished by the inscriptions, by archaeology, and by literature. Under Etruscan domination industry and commerce developed in Latium to some extent. The treaties with Carthage and the history of Roman coinage show that trade declined after the explusion of the Etruscans, and that the Romans turned again to their farms. The deforestation of the Volscian mountains and the gradual exhaustion of the soil made it impossible for the dense population of Latium to win a livelihood from their own land, and the pressure was relieved by territorial expansion. If relief had not come in this way manufacturing, commerce and the arts might have gained a better foot in Rome. The two chapters on industry constitute one of the most valuable contributions which the author has made to our knowledge of Roman economic conditions.”—Am Hist R
“Among the best features of Professor Frank’s[sp?] book, which is characterized throughout by knowledge, precision of statement, and acuteness of observation, as well as by vigor of style and vitality of thought, is the skill with which he has utilized the archaeological sources of information.” W. S. Ferguson
+ − Am Econ R 10:801 D ’20 1500w
“As a study of the economic development of the city of Rome, the governing centre of the civilized world, it stands alone in its completeness, in the thorough use which the author has made of available evidence, in the sound judgment which he has shown, and in the clear, convincing way in which he has set forth his conclusions.” F. F. Abbott
+ Am Hist R 26:309 Ja ’21 560w
FRANK, WALDO DAVID. Dark mother. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright
20–19046
“Mr Frank’s is one of those long novels of the type which Theodore Dreiser has popularized, with a minute description of the adventures of one or two young men, coming to New York from the West, giving especial emphasis to their amatory experiences, and reflecting sarcastically upon the evils of capitalism. In this book it is the Spanish war which enters incidentally into the story.”—Review
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
Dial 70:95 Ja ’21 3950w
“He has chosen a highly impressionistic method of conveying his perceptions and observations. There are few or no connectives. Sentences and paragraphs stand alone and unfriended. Individually they are pitched in an extremely high key. The result is both nerve-racking and, in the end, without true effectiveness.”
− + |Nation 111:480 O 27 ’20 320w
“The quality of this novel seems courageous in a small way but chiefly wilful; sincere but not important. He seems to have intensity without much perception. But one thing Mr Frank does do: he brings home to us anew in this book the very valuable reminder that there are vast areas of life that our literature has not yet known how to include. In that sense this novel in places may be called a creditable experiment in material.” Stark Young
+ − New Repub 25:148 D 29 ’20 520w
“‘The dark mother’ is a lost cause, so far as the medium goes. For it is transitional, it is neither the novel, nor something distinct from the novel. Judged as a novel, it does not satisfy; and there is nothing else to judge it by. In any case, Waldo Frank is en route for something or other.” Kenneth Burke
− + N Y Evening Post p6 N 27 ’20 1350w
“Of all kinds of sophistry the most insidious is that coming from an eloquent writer who is the unconscious victim of unsound thinking. Mr Frank is perhaps unduly preoccupied with the world and the flesh, but it would take a psycho-analyst to gauge his intention in dwelling upon them. To give the author his due, it must be said that he impresses the reader rather as a man groping for ethical convictions. Mr Frank’s powers of characterization deserve high praise.”
− + N Y Times p22 N 21 ’20 800w
“Short sentences, in the manner of the late Horace Traubel, make ‘The dark mother’ rather jerky and monotonous. How is it that so many young writers do not understand that just at present books about sex have become a little tiresome?” E. L. Pearson
− Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 230w
FRANK, WALDO DAVID. Our America. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 917.3
19–16552
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“To say that it is without interest would be to say what is not true; to say that it is thoughtlessly written would be a hasty comment on an author whose work everywhere evidences the pale cast of thought. It is, indeed, an interesting, thoughtful book, written in an easy, somewhat emotional style. But it is nothing if not pessimistic in its historical backward glancing and in its view of the present. And it is often lacking in a sense of perspective and proportion.”
+ − Cath World 110:685 F ’20 280w
“Mr Frank does not write with the sustained and rolling cadence of Hebrew poetry. His sentences are swift and staccato like the flash of a whip, sudden and shrill like newspaper headlines. And yet Mr Frank is of the school of the prophets of his race. Other witnesses have arisen against us, W. T. Stead, M. Paul Bourget, Mr H. G. Wells, Mr Arnold Bennett. These, however, have spoken in their separation from us, and, excepting the first, with the tolerant cynicism of detachment. What gives force to Mr Frank’s prophecy is that he is of us, as Jeremiah was of Jerusalem.” R. M. Lovett
+ Dial 68:506 Ap ’20 2800w
“We should like to be appreciative toward a great deal in this book if its author were less rasping, less intent upon antagonizing and irritating at every turn. His tribute to the wistful beauty of the perished culture of our red men and his analysis of the industrial and spiritual genius of the Jew in America would evoke a readier response if the motivation were more disinterested.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − Nation 110:595 My 1 ’20 900w
Reviewed by W. J. Ghent
Review 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“A striking interpretation of the American spirit.”
+ R of Rs 61:336 Mr ’20 20w
“Hostile and shallow critics will be tempted to run the gamut of the alphabet in search of verbal missiles to hurl at the author from anarchist and bolshevist down to zealot. Mr Frank is none of these, the more careful reader will decide, but merely an insurgent in letters, feeling the pulsing of a new age that sooner or later will be able to declare itself and dominate public opinion as Puritanism has dictated in the past.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 F 3 ’20 650w
“While most people will take exception to some of Mr Frank’s statements, his reversal of the usual points of view cannot fail to stimulate thought.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:122 Je ’20 160w
“The book has a genuinely interesting chapter on the Jew and much that is just and sympathetic in regard to the ‘buried culture’ of the Indian. But the unburied issues that cluster about the negro it notably fails to mention. And with the exception of an elaborate eulogy of Miss Amy Lowell, there is no intimation that the American population is not exclusively masculine.”
+ − World Tomorrow 3:158 My ’20 750w
FRANKAU, GILBERT. Peter Jameson. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–3796
A story of the war—of the “great cleansing.” Peter Jameson at the outset of the story is a business man, of somewhat the American type. He is married to an admirable wife, father of two little daughters, and in every way successful and satisfied. At its beginning he is not greatly stirred by the war, but the end of three months finds him in it. The story thereafter follows his fortunes and scenes at the front alternate with homecomings to Patricia. He is twice wounded and is finally invalided home with shell shock, from which he is saved by Patricia’s care. A real love awakens between husband and wife and the story comes to a triumphant end on Armistice day, 1918.
“We find ourselves wishing that he had kept his talent in a napkin rather than put it to such uses.”
− Ath p241 F 20 ’20 1000w
“The scenes of English country life in the last part are a pleasant offset to the earlier war pictures.”
+ Booklist 16:312 Je ’20 + Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 880w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is in keeping with the newest invention in novel-writing the thesis that four years of slaughter in France purifies all Englishmen.”
− Dial 69:321 S ’20 120w
“Personally we were more interested in the tobacco business than in the shell shock, which is the real cause of the book, but that may have been because we knew less about it beforehand. Anyway Peter is very well worth knowing, as are a number of the lesser lights.”
+ Ind 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“The vivid battle descriptions that are the best part of the book cannot atone for its essential narrowness and shallowness, for its manifold defects of thought and style, for its systematic glorification of hates and follies and prejudices that were scarcely excusable even in the heat of the conflict. ‘Peter Jameson’ is the product of a mind still inflamed by the fever of war.” W. H. C.
− + New Repub 24:224 O 27 ’20 270w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is a fine story. Though Mr Frankau’s style is unpleasantly spasmodic and though so many characters confuse the reader’s mind the book reads easily, and one feels that a certain phase of English life has been definitely interpreted.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p2 My 1 ’20 820w
“There are splendid descriptions of fighting, descriptions that reveal the hand of a writer who knows well what he is writing about. Mr Frankau had a high goal in view when he conceived ‘Peter Jameson.’ It was no ordinary war book that he set out to write. The result has justified his courage. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not unworthy of the high purpose which its author set himself.”
+ N Y Times 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 800w + N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“A fine story, with its wealth of well-drawn persons,—a record of England in war-time to be classed with ‘Mr Britling’ and ‘The tree of heaven,’ and more hopeful than these.” Katharine Perry
+ Pub W 97:1292 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“The book is clever, veracious in spots; oh, so anxious to get at the truth about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and quite without creative vitality as a whole.” H. W. Boynton
− + Review 2:573 My 29 ’20 230w
“We admire the way in which the author has ripped up a pre-war story and transformed it into a lively criticism of our military authorities, and added a vivid impression of the Battle of Loos.”
+ Sat R 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
“Romance, in the conventional sense, is not Mr Frankau’s strong point, and the real strength of the book is in the chapters on the war and its ‘realities’—a very useful antidote to the work of Sir Philip Gibbs. We confess to finding the earlier chapters wearisome, and even repellent.”
+ − Spec 124:556 Ap 24 ’20 650w
“The book has the essential quality that the author enjoys his own story and believes it to be true. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not a great novel, but it is certainly a good one.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p85 F 5 ’20 850w
FRANKEL, LEE KAUFER, and FLEISHER, ALEXANDER. Human factor in industry; with the cooperation of Laura S. Seymour. *$3 Macmillan 658.7
20–11151
The object of the book is to show the relation of service measures in industry to increased production and aims to give in a single volume the material available in part in other books, pamphlets and monographs. It deals with the problems of labor administration which have to do with “obtaining and holding the employes,—technical training, education, and promotion,—methods of remuneration, and of providing savings and loan facilities with insurance against accident, sickness, old age, and death,—the length of the working hours,—the work environment,—medical supervision,—opportunities for recreation and self-development on the factory premises,—and housing and living conditions.” (Introd.) Contents: Hiring and holding; Education; Working hours; Working conditions; Medical care; Method of remuneration; Refreshment and recreation; The employer and the community; Insurance, savings, and loans; Organization of the department of labor administration; List of references; Index.
“An up-to-date summary of current practice.”
+ Am Econ R 10:841 D ’20 50w
“Although there is little in this book to interest the more sophisticated students of labor administration, it is a valuable survey for the general reader and for those industrial managers who have not had time to keep abreast of the developments to date.” R. W. Stone
+ − Am J Soc 26:372 N ’20 300w + Am Pol Sci R 14:739 N ’20 60w + Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“It is only in recent days that employers have realized how greatly production depends upon the spirit of the laborer. For this reason this book with its careful, authoritative studies of varied aspects of the service work should be most welcome.”
+ Boston Transcript p2 N 27 ’20 220w
“To the already acquainted with the material and able to supply for himself the connecting links, it gives many leads. To the uninitiated it gives a solid back-ground for further study.” M. J. Janovsky
+ J Pol Econ 28:703 O ’20 1100w
Reviewed by G: Soule
Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 20w
“A scientific and well-considered treatment of vital problems in the relations of employer and employee.”
+ R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 60w
“It is a kind of industrial Baedeker, practical and informing. The spirit is judicial, and difficulties as well as successes are impartially suggested with enough information to make further inquiry possible.” Mary Van Kleeck
+ Survey 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 480w The Times [London] Lit Sup p671 O 14 ’20 60w
FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS. Boys’ book of sea fights; famous naval engagements from Drake to Beatty. il *$1.75 Crowell 359.09
20–15362
A companion volume to “Boys’ book of battles” by the same author. Contents: Sir Francis Drake; Marshal Anne-Hilarion de Tourville; Commodore John Paul Jones; Lord Horatio Nelson; The burning of the “Philadelphia”; Perry’s victory on Lake Erie; The “Constitution” and the “Guerriere”; The ship that strangely disappeared; The “Monitor” and the “Merrimac”; Admiral David Farragut; Dewey at Manila bay; The battle of Santiago harbor; The running fight off the Falklands; The battle off Jutland bank. There are portraits, maps and other illustrations.
Booklist 17:122 D ’20 + Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 50w
“An excellent collection.”
+ Nation 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 20w
“It is a book of real value, that should be included in every boy’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 70w
FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS. Young citizen’s own book, il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell 353
20–17382
“‘The young citizen’s own book’ is offered to boys and girls as a friendly guide. It is a little text-book on national, state, city, and county affairs in which we have tried to tell as directly as possible both the how and the why of things.” (Preface) The book opens with a chapter describing a visit to the national capital. This is followed by discussions of: The government of the United States; Territories and dependencies of the United States; The rights of citizenship; Young citizens; Political parties and their platforms; Political party organization; The business of voting; The real meaning of schools. Other chapters are devoted to the various departments of government, state and national, to taxation, commerce, and international relations. A series of charts illustrating phases of government comes at the close.
“Differs from other books on this subject in that it is not a textbook, but is meant to be read for pleasure as well as information. Has some helpful charts on elective systems.”
+ Booklist 17:122 D ’20
“Gives a descriptive account of the workings of our government in a style which will be of interest to elementary school children. The material follows the traditional type of civics treatment and will be of value only as a supplementary reader.”
+ El School J 21:239 N ’20 70w
“It is a good book for young people who are sometime going to vote.”
+ Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w + Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 20w + Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE. Sir Roger de Coverley, and other literary pieces. *$3.40 Macmillan 824 (Eng ed 20–7456)
A volume of essays by the author of “The golden bough.” “There are five papers on Sir Roger; an essay on ‘The quest of the gorgon’s head’; three biographical articles (Cowper—W. Robertson Smith—Fison and Howitt); and several shorter essays on other byways of letters.” (Springf’d Republican)
Reviewed by G: Saintsbury
+ Ath p273 F 27 ’20 840w
“‘Sir Roger de Coverley and other literary pieces’ possesses that mellowness that bespeaks the true literary artist. It is such a book as only a great master of English letters could write.” H. S. Gorman
+ New Repub 23:368 Ag 25 ’20 1400w
“There is nothing in the volume which is unworthy of the author, and the de Coverley papers alone will cause it to be cherished dearly by many of its readers.”
+ N Y Times p15 Je 27 ’20 1500w Sat R 129:164 F 14 ’20 600w
“His dream fantasies of Sir Roger de Coverley are light and charming. But though the reader cannot help being pleased at the ability which a man so learned shows in the rôle of a general writer, he will realize when he finds him touching but ever so lightly on his own subject, as in some passages on William Robertson Smith, that the other was after all only journalism of moderate merit and that what he admired in it was extrinsic.”
+ Spec 124:555 Ap 24 ’20 630w Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 17 ’20 70w
FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE. Business research and statistics. *$2.50 Appleton 658
20–15931
“This book is intended for all those who shape policies, make markets, direct affairs or study investments in business, and also for those analytical executives, statisticians and researchers who assist such men to arrive at correct solutions to their problems. It is further intended to give a more practical and creative outlook to those who aim to make a profession of business research and statistics.” (Introd.) The contents in part are: Types and kind of data; The law of averages as a guide to business; Per capita consumption study; The possible market analysis and saturation point; Prognostications and tendency curves; The technique of field investigations; The dollar and the budget idea in business finance research; Inquiries into management problems; Graphic charts and maps and their part in research; International trade statistics and researches; Imagination and vision in relation to research; Index.
Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
+ − Nation 112:sup240 F 9 ’21 560w
“An interesting and lucid general presentation of the subject.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 100w The Times [London] Lit Sup p741 N 11 ’20 90w
FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE.[[2]] Great game of business; its rules, its fascinations, its services and rewards. *$1.50 Appleton 658
20–21357
The author makes no apologies for calling business “a game.” Properly played it is “perhaps the greatest game left to man to play, because it engages more faculties, renders greater constructive, practical service to the world and offers more discipline and stimulation and variety to the individual than almost any other interest which could be followed. Indeed, it is the game that most of us must follow!” (Preface) But—it must be played well—with more sportsmanship—with more harmony and esprit de corps. A partial list of the contents is: Warming up for the great game; Amateur or professional; The standard personal code; Technique—the science of the game; Organization and teamwork; The humbling of money to its true place in the great game; The new business ethical code; “Fair play” and unfair competition.
Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
Nation 112:sup239 F 9 ’21 700w
FREEMAN, LEWIS R. In the tracks of the trades. il *$5 (4½c) Dodd 919
20–18401
“The account of a fourteen thousand mile yachting cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis,” (sub-title) on the pleasure yacht Lurline. The account includes descriptions of the islands visited and of the natives and their mode of life with illustrations from photographs by the author. The contents in part are: San Pedro to Hilo and Honolulu; Honolulu to Taio-Haie; The Marquesas today; The passion play at Uahuka; Society in the Societies; The song and dance in Tahiti; By the absinthe route; Samoan cricket: Fauga-Sa v. Pago Pago; A visit to Apia; In Suva and Mbau; Honolulu to San Pedro.
+ Booklist 17:110 D ’20
“A very charmingly written story of a most delightful voyage.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 600w
“He has made a very readable book about his adventures; his photographs deserve better printing.”
+ Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“Attractively told, with here and there many striking passages of description.”
+ Review 3:538 D 1 ’20 340w + R of Rs 62:672 D ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p10 D 31 ’20 700w
FRENCH, JOSEPH LEWIS, ed. Best psychic stories; introd. by Dorothy Scarborough. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–11499
“These tales belong to a class that does not quite include the out-and-out ghost story, but does reach out to the supernatural in the indefinable fashion that we nowadays call psychic without bothering to define what psychic means. This is a perfectly fitting field for fiction of the non-realistic kind, for it does not demand belief but imagination. Algernon Blackwood and ‘Fiona McLeod’ were adepts at this form of story, and are here well represented, together with Jack London, W. T. Stead and others.”—Outlook
Booklist 17:32 O ’20 + − Freeman 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w
“Mr French has selected his material with a fine judgment and a discriminating taste, and Dorothy Scarborough has contributed an introduction which adds much to the reader’s enjoyment of the volume.”
+ N Y Times 25:319 Je 20 ’20 650w Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 70w Wis Lib Bul 16:193 N ’20 130w
FRENCH, THOMAS EWING, and SVENSEN, CARL LARS. Mechanical drawing for high schools. il *$1.25 McGraw 744
19–13746
“A two years’ high school course unusually rich in drawings (of which there are 244). Authors are teachers in the department of engineering, Ohio state university. ‘The first seven chapters comprise a complete textbook which may be used with any problems. The paragraphs are numbered for easy reference. The eighth chapter is a complete problem book, in which the number of problems in each division is such that a selection may be made for students of varying ability, and that a variation from year to year may be had. The problems have references to articles in the text, and the order may be varied to suit the particular needs of a school. Definite specifications and layouts are given for most of the problems, thus making it possible for the instructor to use his time efficiently in teaching rather than in the drudgery of detail, while the time ordinarily wasted by the pupil in getting started can be used in actual drawing.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“An excellent textbook.”
+ Booklist 16:193 Mr ’20 N Y P L New Tech Bks p9 O ’19 160w + Pratt p19 Ja ’20 20w + Quar List New Tech Bks Ja ’20 40w
FREUD, SIGMUND. General introduction to psychoanalysis; authorized translation by G. Stanley Hall. il *$4.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright 130
20–12205
This volume consists of a translation of twenty-eight lectures given to laymen. They are conversational in tone and follow the inductive method, the author building up his evidence from case after case. He deals little in general statements and in the course of one of the early lectures speaks as follows: “I have not invited you here to delude you or to conceal anything from you. I did, indeed, announce a ‘general introduction to psychoanalysis,’ but I did not intend the title to convey that I was an oracle, who would show you a finished product with all the difficulties carefully concealed.... No, precisely because you are beginners, I wanted to show you our science as it is, with all its hills and pitfalls, demands and considerations.” There are four lectures on the psychology of errors, eleven on the dream, and thirteen on general theory of the neuroses. G. Stanley Hall writes an introduction for the American edition.
“A more satisfying survey for the serious lay reader than the author’s earlier books on special topics.”
+ Booklist 17:17 O ’20
“It makes ponderous reading, and suffers from a lack of tolerance toward the author’s pupils who have departed from or enlarged upon the innovator’s technique. At the same time, it is a well-developed, exhaustive, and informative treatise upon the various vistas of the subject.”
+ − Dial 69:665 D ’20 80w
“Without stopping to inquire into the reasons for the attitude of the reactionaries, Freud has taken up their objections one by one and met them fairly. Following the rule of Darwin, he has not attempted to brush them aside with a few blustering remarks; he has keenly analyzed the obstacles they have presented. The present work offers, in an extremely attractive form, the material for a fundamental conception of psychoanalysis.” Gregory Stragnell
+ Freeman 1:572 Ag 25 ’20 950w
“Undoubtedly it is the finest exposition of the subject yet written. Those who have looked upon psychoanalysis as a plaything, as a philosophy for the parlor radical, or as a means of imparting thrills and color to studio life, will find this book greatly disappointing and little to their taste.” H. W. Frink
+ Nation 112:sup236 F 9 ’21 1750w
“You can go through a first course with the simpler books of Andre Tridon or Barbara Low; then turn to an exhaustive treatise like this one, with an initial understanding that will be of great help in understanding the immensity of this new arm of science.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p10 Ja 2 ’21 890w
“Freud believes that his subject merits the utmost care of presentation and the courteous condescension of the discoverer offering something new and all-important. One has only to follow these pages carefully, as questioningly as one will, to feel that the condescension is one of a genuine humility and yet the firm assurance of a man who has sincerely and conscientiously won his convictions by unremitting toil in the face of calumnious opposition.” S. E. Jelliffe
+ N Y Times p5 Ag 8 ’20 3050w
“Prof. Freud’s theories represent a degree of fantasy to which science cannot follow him. It might be said that, although he has been the principal explorer of psychoanalysis, he is its least promising exponent.”
− + Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 240w
FREUNDLICH, ERWIN.[[2]] Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation; authorized English tr. by H. L. Brose. *$1.50 Putnam 530.1
(Eng ed 20–16353)
“Dr Einstein, who writes the preface, states that the author ‘has succeeded in rendering the fundamental ideas of the theory accessible to all who are to some extent conversant with the methods of reasoning of the exact sciences.’ Formulae and equations are by no means lacking and the vocabulary is hardly suited to the capacity of the general reader—to whom the simply written introduction by Dr Turner should prove more acceptable.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
+ Ath p641 My 14 ’20 950w
Reviewed by E. Cunningham
+ Nature 105:350 My 20 ’20 1050w N Y P L New Tech Bks p64 Jl ’20 70w
FREY, ABRAHAM B. American business law. *$5 Macmillan 347.7
20–8660
“The object of this book is to set forth clearly and concisely those fundamental principles upon which is built the superstructure of business law. In order to make clear such principles ... concrete illustrations have been used, some of which are synopses of, and excerpts from, the leading cases decided in Great Britain and the United States.” (Preface) At the end of each chapter are a number of carefully prepared questions referring to the subject matter of the text and a number of legal forms are given in connection with various subjects which, on occasion, can be adapted to individual use. All technical terms are carefully explained. The chapter headings are: Law in general; Torts; Definition and classification of contracts; Essentials of a valid contract; Competent parties; An agreement; Reality of consent; Consideration; Legality; The form; Proof of a contract; Interpretation of contracts; Operation of contracts; The discharge of contracts; Forms; Agency; Sales; Bailments and carriers; Partnerships and corporations; Suretyship and guaranty; Insurance; Negotiable instruments; Property; Bankruptcy; Patents, copyrights and trade-marks; Master and servant; Damages; Evidence. There is an index.
Am Econ R 10:827 D ’20 120w
“Even if published anonymously we should know it was the work of a scholar and a lawyer. It is comprehensive in its scope and is practically a textbook in little. Its rules are sound. Its exposition is clear. Its examples, taken from leading cases, are of the best.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 300w
“So far as it goes, it is clear. But it is complete only in the sense that something is said about all of the apposite judicial attitudes that have become crystallized into formulated rules. Perhaps such books have their place, notwithstanding their offense against the maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing. But they must be handled with care.”
+ − Nation 111:457 O 20 ’20 230w
“This book is admirably arranged and thorough in treatment, citing clear examples for most of its statements. The indexing is excellent, the text clear, the examples concise, and the forms ready to hand for daily practical use.”
+ R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 70w The Times [London] Lit Sup p670 O 14 ’20 40w
FRIDAY, DAVID. Profits, wages, and prices. *$2 Harcourt 338.5
20–18150
The object of the book is to assemble the available facts and statistics concerning profits, wages, taxes, and prices in such a way as to set them in orderly relation one to another and to disclose their causal interdependence. Contents: The curse of peace; The growth of profits; Normal profits and profiteering; The uses to which profits are put; The rate of interest; The course of wages; The division of the product; How Europe raised American prices; Prices since the armistice; General prices and public utility rates; The theory of the new taxes: Has the excess profits tax raised prices? The part played by the banks; How can real wages be raised? Index.
“The author marshals his facts with skill. His style is interesting and all that he has to say important.”
+ Ann Am Acad 93:225 Ja ’21 110w + Booklist 17:141 Ja ’21
“Mr Friday’s book is a striking demonstration of the primitive state of economic science, and of its trifling influence upon the conduct of the nation’s business. Mr Friday, merely by collecting the information made available by a few war agencies, incomplete as it is, and basing his conclusions on observed facts, has been able to throw doubt upon some of the most respectable conclusions of economists, to say nothing of the assumptions to be found in current popular discussion.” G: Soule
+ − Nation 112:184 F 2 ’21 1350w
“The general reader will find in Professor Friday’s book a striking instance of the newer tendencies. It is economic theory which retains all the logical vigor of the works of the old school, yet faces the new facts and breathes a new spirit. The book is uncommonly readable and interesting, besides, and offers a hope that the new theory will be couched in terms that everybody can understand.” Alvin Johnson
+ New Repub 24:171 O 13 ’20 1300w
“In general it may be said that Professor Friday’s book is the most original and important volume dealing with economic and industrial America which has appeared since the war.” W: L. Chenery
+ Survey 45:674 F 5 ’21 620w
FRIEDLANDER, GERALD, tr. Jewish fairy book. il *$2.25 (4½c) Stokes
20–17680
Twenty-three stories from various sources have been translated and adapted by Mr Friedlander. The preface says: “All the stories have been collected from various Jewish writings. No attempt has been made to give a literal translation. The tales have been retold in a modern setting. Some of these quaint old tales and stories brought comfort to the children of Israel in the days of long ago. Perhaps some pleasure may be derived by their perusal in our days.” Among the tales are: The magic apples (from the Jewish Chap book); The wise merchant (from the Midrash Rabbah); Heavenly treasures (from the Talmud); King Solomon’s carpet (from Beth Hammidrash); The demon’s marriage (from the Jewish Chap book); The princess and the beggar (from Tanchuma); The citizen of the world (from Rabbi Eliezer). The colored illustrations are by George W. Hood.
“Less extravagant than the Arabian nights entertainments, these stories are more genial in tone than many of the witch tales with which our children are quieted. Some of them seem to have a moral to teach, but it is in no case enough of a moral to prove really troublesome.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 20 ’20 220w
“The stories are full of imagination and miraculous deeds, and children will revel in them.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p8 D 19 ’20 50w
“Will be found particularly entertaining to young readers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 60w
FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL, ed. America and the new era; a symposium on social reconstruction; with a foreword by Herbert Hoover. *$6 Dutton 330.973
20–12473
“Instead of proposing reconstruction, most of the contributors to the symposium content themselves with pointing out ways and means by which our present social system may be improved. Professor J. H. Hollander shows that war is the very negation of economic progress. Professor R. T. Ely outlines a land policy with widespread ownership and limitation of holdings as its chief feature. Dr Frederic C. Howe favors selective immigration. Dr Edward A. Fitzpatrick calls for improvements in public administration. Professor Victor J. West shows the need of further amendments to the Constitution, especially for the purpose of establishing a congressional cabinet, or other forms of responsible government. Professor Chas. B. Davenport indicates the possibility of racial improvement by sex control among superior stocks, by sterilization of criminals, segregation of the feebleminded, and better marriage laws. Professor Warner Fite makes a plea for individualism. There are also contributions on education, vocational guidance, delinquency and crime, control of venereal diseases, recreation, nervous strain, mental hygiene, and other important subjects.”—Review
+ Ann Am Acad 93:225 Ja ’21 70w
“It is a very ambitious volume and is worth having, not only for its good points but also to learn about a certain common attitude in much of the present discussion on religion and the family.”
+ − Cath World 112:694 F ’21 160w + Ind 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“If this book held nothing but the foreword by Herbert Hoover it would be still invaluable.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times p9 S 12 ’20 4500w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
+ Review 3:347 O 20 ’20 1200w
“Taken not as a symposium, but as a chance collection of essays on urgent present-day problems, the volume is to be commended for its wealth of suggestion. The different authors speak with authority and offer programs of the highest interest. Each of the contributions printed separately as a pamphlet would have considerable influence; in this volume it is somewhat lost.” B. L.
+ Survey 45:321 N 27 ’20 300w
FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL. International commerce and reconstruction; with a foreword by Joseph French Johnson. *$5 Dutton 382
20–5838
“In the spring of 1919, when this book was prepared. American business looked forward to a tremendous foreign trade with devastated Europe and the countries previously supplied by European belligerents. As a preparation for this anticipated trade, Mr Friedman has reviewed the literature and statistics bearing upon the commercial policies and foreign trade of the world and has attempted to outline the changes which the war has brought, or will bring, in international trade and the opportunities for American business enterprise.”—Pub W
“It will be seen that here is material of much value. Of necessity it is largely provisional material. The world is far from having settled down. Much that is contained in this volume will fast become obsolete, and indeed some is already obsolete. None the less the student will turn with interest to this helpful collection, and will find in it much that would otherwise be difficult of access.” F. W. Taussig
+ Am Econ R 10:596 S ’20 520w + Booklist 16:329 Jl ’20 + Freeman 2:502 F 2 ’21 200w
“The book easily contains as much important information as almost any other half-dozen books together, covering the whole or part of the same field. There are no conspicuous lacunae, and the matter is well presented, is supported by adequate statistical data, and is largely free from unnecessary verbiage or conspicuous national bias. Where the author attempts economic analysis of the facts he presents, he attains only a mediocre degree of success.” Jacob Viner
+ − J Pol Econ 28:853 D ’20 850w
“The book is distinctly of the solid variety and represents a deal of work, tho mostly of compilation.” L. K. Frank
+ Pub W 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 300w + R of Rs 61:669 Je ’20 100w
FROST, HELEN, and WARDLAW, CHARLES DIGBY. Basket ball and indoor baseball for women; with an introd. by T: D. Wood. il *$1.50 Scribner 797
20–3344
“Basket ball and indoor baseball for women are two games that are rapidly growing in popularity. The book under review fills a long-felt need in that it sets forth the principles of successfully playing these games. Experts have here given the gleanings of their long experiences. They have included sixteen illustrations and thirty-seven diagrams, making clear the different points in the game of basket ball. Twelve illustrations and thirteen diagrams are used in making plain the crucial principles of indoor baseball. Such topics as passing, catching, guarding, shooting, team play, and signals are taken up in connection with basket ball. Fielding, throwing, catching, batting, base running, team play, practice, and signals are discussed in that portion dealing with indoor baseball.”—School R
“Helpful illustrations and diagrams. No index.”
+ − Booklist 16:267 My ’20 Pratt p24 Jl ’20 30w
“Coaches, instructors, and players will find this a very helpful handbook in teaching or taking part in these delightful indoor games.”
+ School R 28:394 My ’20 190w
FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT, comp. Songs of dogs. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17755
This book consists of a compilation of the best poems written about dogs, arranged in three groups. The first, The friend of man, is headed by a prose eulogy on the dog—“the one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world”—by George Graham Vest. Group two, In lighter vein, is introduced by “Good dogs” by Baudelaire and group three, The happy hunting grounds, by “Memories” by John Galsworthy. The book has an index of titles and an index of authors.
“A treat to dog lovers.”
+ Booklist 17:105 D ’20 + − N Y Evening Post p29 O 23 ’20 120w + Springf’d Republican p8 S 28 ’20 130w
FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT, comp. Songs of horses. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17756
“Since the dawn of civilization,” says the compiler of this anthology, “the horse and the Muses have been boon companions in all the heroics of mythology and history,” and, “the advance of the horse has been coincidental with that of man himself.” The grouping of the poems is indicative of the type of horses described. The groups are: The wild West; Orient and Occident; Track and field; “Horseplay”; The horse in war. There is an index of titles and an index of authors.
“Not all have great literary value, but none detract from the quality of the whole.”
+ Booklist 17:105 D ’20
“‘Songs of horses’ stands out as one of the most colorful of anthologies. As a book from which to read aloud it could scarcely be matched.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p29 O 23 ’20 120w + Springf’d Republican p8 S 28 ’20 130w
FROTHINGHAM, THOMAS GODDARD. Guide to the military history of the world war, 1914–1918. *$2.75 Little 940.4
20–16505
The object of the book is to give a general perspective of the war from a military and strategic point of view. “At the present time a detailed history is out of the question, but it is now possible to write a narrative that is complete, in the sense of giving a reliable synopsis of the strategy and grand tactics of the whole war.” (Introd.) To accomplish this purpose the author has confined himself to comparing and checking up the official statements and bulletins given out by the different governments during the war and has not measured military results merely by victories and conquest of territory but by their costliness in life and material as well. Among the contents are: The great German offensive of 1914; Military events on the Russian front; New military situation after the defeat of the great German defensive of 1914; Offensives of Entente allies, 1915; Italy in the war; The war on the sea, 1915; German offensive of 1916 against Verdun; The war in the air; The United States in the war; The final campaigns. The book contains twenty-three maps, an appendix, a table of dates, a bibliography and an index.
“Interesting, clear and readable, and also well organized for quick reference.”
+ Booklist 17:65 N ’20
“Twenty-three excellent maps add to the great value of this work which will doubtless be much used by students in military schools and in advanced courses in colleges in military history and science.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p5 S 22 ’20 900w
“The book is free from bias and boasting, studiously written and decidedly well worth while.” F. L. Minnigerode
+ N Y Times p21 Ja 9 ’21 1000w
“Captain Frothingham’s narrative is well-knit, his style clear and simple.”
+ Review 3:424 N 3 ’20 340w
FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY. Book of boyhoods: Chaucer to MacDowell. *$3 Dutton 920
20–14312
“Eugénie M. Fryer in ‘A book of boyhoods’ traces from Chaucer the poet to MacDowell the composer the formation periods in the lives of great men of every variety of genius. There are twenty-eight of them all, and they include Leonardo da Vinci, the painter and all-round man of sciences and the arts; Balboa, Drake, Raleigh and La Salle, the voyagers and discoverers; Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln, builders of the American republic; Burns, Wordsworth and Keats among poets, Stevenson, the romancer; and Kitchener, Foch, Joffre and Brusiloff, as great soldiers and leading figures in the struggle with Germany and the Germans.”—Boston Transcript
+ Boston Transcript p7 S 8 ’20 540w
“To have written a book which will offend no healthy boy and make no boy feel priggish for reading it, is a good thing.”
+ Dial 69:548 N ’20 80w + Lit D p86 D 4 ’20 120w
“The average boy probably will balk at some of these biographies. ‘Bookish’ children, however, will find enjoyment in the carefully wrought characterizations and ingeniously varied presentations.”
+ − Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w + Springf’d Republican p6 D 2 ’20 340w
FULLER, HENRY BLAKE. Bertram Cope’s year. $1.75 Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago
19–16363
“Bertram is a post-graduate in a western college community. Socially he attracts friendly advances from men and women. But he is flabby of purpose, and has no fixed ambition except to get an honorary degree and a paying position in an eastern college. He gives nothing in return for the friendships he inspires, and escapes all love entanglements.”—Outlook
“Live enough people and a sense of humor hovering near the surface.”
+ Booklist 16:133 Ja ’20
“The kind of novel which must be enjoyed not for its matter so much as for its quality, its richness of texture and subtlety of atmosphere.”
+ Bookm 51:344 My ’20 380w.
“The study of this weak but agreeable man is subtle but far from exciting.”
+ − Outlook 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 80w
“Mr Fuller’s realism is the real thing; in seeming to register it interprets and portrays.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“The story is less interesting than the author’s last previous book ‘On the stairs,’ because of its speculative tendencies. But Mr Fuller is a keen observer and anything that he writes is worthy the serious consideration of the reading public.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 28 ’20 500w
FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD. Gloss of youth. *$1 Lippincott 812
20–7798
“‘The gloss of youth’ is an eminent scholar’s brief diversion in which Shakespeare discusses with John Fletcher his relations to the public and his art and is consoled by the appreciation of two children who are no other than little ‘Jack’ Milton and ‘Noll’ Cromwell.”—Nation
“It is all a little over-intentional. But the little play is, no doubt well suited for such academic occasions as the one which caused it to be written.”
+ − Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 90w
“It is not surprising that Horace Howard Furness, jr., the son and literary successor of his noted father, should cast in dramatic form one of the most intimate and pleasing interpretations of a living Shakespeare. The interweaving of Elizabethan diction and contemporary thought is never strained.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 S 14 ’20 550w
FURNISS, EDGAR STEVENSON. Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism. *$2 Houghton 331
20–18599
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics and is a study of the labor theories of the later English mercantilists, 1660–1775. The author holds that the dominant nationalism existing in England between the years 1660–1775 bears a fundamental likeness to the revival of nationalism caused by the war. The former period, known by the term “mercantilism,” has come to stand for a relationship of economic rivalry between nations and the theories and policies that governed it. The reverse side of this mercantilism is the domestic economy of the nation and it is with this side, illustrating the reaction of nationalism upon the life conditions of the people and upon labor, that the book deals. Contents: The doctrine of the national importance of the laborer; The doctrine of employment; The doctrine of the right to employment and the duty to labor; The enforcement of the duty to labor; The doctrine of the utility of poverty; Theories of wages; Conclusions. The appendix contains chapters on the economic, social and moral life conditions of the English laborer, 1660–1775, and the book has a bibliography, a subject index and an index to authors.
“Like others in this series, a scholarly piece of work.”
+ Booklist 17:94 D ’20 + Freeman 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 280w
“Scholarly study.” G: Soule
+ Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 600w
FYLEMAN, ROSE. Fairies and chimneys. il *$1.25 Doran 821
20–19073
A book of verses for children by an English poet. Among the titles are: Fairies; Yesterday in Oxford street; A fairy went a-marketing; The best game the fairies play; Differences; Mother; Grown-ups; Cat’s cradle; Visitors; I don’t like beetles; Summer morning; White magic. Following these come seven poems under the heading Bird lore: Peacocks; The cuckoo; The rooks; The robin; The cock; The grouse; The skylark.
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 52:260 N ’20 60w
“Its contents would do for lyrics in an operatic version of ‘Peter Pan.’” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:209 S 8 ’20 200w