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GAINES, RUTH LOUISE. Ladies of Grécourt. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.476
20–9727
“In this volume Miss Gaines continues the story of the relief work at the front of the Smith college unit, the first part of which she told in her previous volume, ‘Helping France.’ So fully was the work of this unit appreciated by the French people, that the workers were given the title of ‘Dames de Grécourt,’ from the name of one of the sixteen French villages covered by their work. Of these sixteen villages, few inhabitants were left, save the old and feeble and the children. From a population of nearly 5600, but 1740 were left in August, 1917. Six hundred of these were under fifteen years of age. It was among these helpless people that the Smith college women worked.”—Boston Transcript
“Pleasing illustrations.”
+ Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“The story which Miss Gaines relates is not only of the deepest interest, but is one of the important documents which the war has brought forth.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 14 ’20 270w
“Both the manner and the matter of ‘Ladies of Grécourt’ do credit to the spirit and the culture of American college girls.”
+ Nation 111:277 S 4 ’20 130w Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
“Miss Anna M. Upjohn’s pencil sketches of French peasants and rural life add greatly to the attractiveness of the book.”
+ R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 90w + Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 17 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E: E. Hunt
+ Survey 44:732 S 15 ’20 750w
GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY. Family and the new democracy; a study in social hygiene. *$2.25 (3c) Saunders 392
20–1764
[Publisher has withdrawn book from circulation.]
The book completes the author’s trilogy on the phases of woman’s life; the other two books being: “The four epochs of woman’s life” and “Personal hygiene and physical training for women.” In the present volume she briefly sketches the vital epochs of the history of our social institutions and points out that today the institution of the family is threatened by three fatal excrescences: prostitution, free love, and divorce. She lays bare the causes of these evils and suggests remedies which will insure the greatest amount of social happiness and the best possible progeny. Among the contents are: Rally to save the American family; Primitive man’s problems of marriage and the family; Marriage and divorce laws in primitive society and ancient civilizations; Various aspects of the modern divorce problem; Prostitution, social disease, and marriage; Alcohol and race degeneracy; Sex education as a solvent for the double standard of morals and celibacy; Problems of betrothal; The problems of marriage; The rights of the child, eugenic marriages, the limitation of offspring; Woman’s economic independence and the disintegration of the family; References; Index.
“The chapters on the need for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and for sex education to combat the spread of venereal disease, are much to the point.”
+ Dial 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“Novices in the literature of sex (to which in spite of its self-conscious title, the book belongs), will find in it a larger amount of historical information than is customary in popular treatises, an occasional sensible sociological opinion, and useful hygienic advice. It is only the critical who will realize what a hodge-podge Dr Galbraith’s volume is.”
− + Nation 110:660 My 15 ’20 400w
“There are no essential facts omitted in this book that pertain to man, to woman, to the family. Many of the subjects are of absorbing interest and the manner in which the author treats them makes them the more so. For instance, her views on prohibition as a modifying factor on the family of the future are not only unique but they are sound as well.” B. P. Thom
+ Pub W 97:611 F 21 ’20 160w
GALE, ZONA. Miss Lulu Bett. *$1.75 (3½c) Appleton
20–4218
This is the story of a family drudge awakened to a sense of independence thru a marriage which turns out to be no marriage at all. Miss Lulu Bett “makes her home” with her sister, and when her brother-in-law’s brother comes to visit after nineteen years wandering, she startles her self, no less than the family, by marrying him. She goes away with him but at the end of one month comes back. She had found out that Ninian already had a wife living, and as Miss Lulu Bett she again takes up her position in her sister’s house. But there is a difference, as Dwight Deacon finds out when he tries to bully her into keeping his brother’s falsity a secret. Then comes another lover and the story ends happily.
Booklist 16:280 My ’20 + Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 80w
“One is conscious that the materials of the story have undergone a considerable warping in order to fit them into the tragic mould; there is less of the hopeless, inevitable sweep of things than we have found in other of the author’s recent studies.”
+ Dial 68:804 Je ’20 60w
“It will be interesting to see whether the people who like the somewhat over-sentimental ‘Friendship Village’ stories continue to like Zona Gale as the far from sentimental and exceedingly skilful author of ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’”
+ Ind 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“Miss Zona Gale has written a thoroughly admirable and thoroughly unpopular book and vindicated at last the promise of her literary beginnings. The work is clear, direct, dry, and full of haunting little implications.”
+ Nation 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 450w
“The book stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters.” C. M. Rourke
+ New Repub 23:315 Ag 11 ’20 420w
“Nothing could well be more astonishing or claim a more ungrudging tribute than Miss Gale’s recent achievement in ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’ This short novel is the result of the most courageous imaginable revision of her entire fictional method. [This] revision of her method has lost her nothing that she ever had, and it has gained her a great deal that one has constantly deplored her lack of.”
+ N Y Evening Post p2 My 1 ’20 1500w
“Lulu Bett herself is an exquisite piece of portrayal. Her development during the course of the events that befall her is logical and natural. To us it seems the best thing Miss Gale has yet done, and more than this, it is a promise of a new type of work from her.”
+ N Y Times 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“A fine example of close, careful character study on a small scale.”
+ Outlook 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
“To say that here also [in the conclusion] the author rises to the occasion is simply to credit her once again with that fine and finished art that make all her writing an abiding joy to the discriminating.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 400w
“In ‘Birth,’ its immediate predecessor, Miss Gale showed a surprising growth not only as ‘localist’ but as ironic interpreter of character. This story is firmer in tone as well as more compact in form.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The artist in her has guided her pen in careful work, and the characters are as clearly and completely delineated as if seen on the stage.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 250w The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 O 21 ’20 70w
GALLAGHER, PATRICK. America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. il *$3.50 Century 940.314
20–15149
The book consists chiefly of reminiscences of the peace conference, by one who was there, with the author’s individual opinions on the events as they transpired and on the personages that took part in them, the whole permeated by a spirit of benevolent imperialism and unshakeable faith in America. Of the six books that make up the volume, Pagans and prophets deals especially with the peace conference personalities; Isles and islanders with Australia, Ireland and the Philippines; High lights and history with the Asiatic side of the war. The remaining three books are; Amateurs and experts; The cause célebrè, in re Kiaochau, China v. Japan, ex parte, W. Wilson; Unfinished business. There are illustrations, appendices and an index.
Booklist 17:65 N ’20
“The Asiatic chapters, the bulk of the book, are complete enough; they are a little too full. There is too much that is documentary, and the vivacity of the author’s high-gaited style suffers a little, though there is always a story or a joke to take the curse off. There is, too, a little confusion in a treatment that takes us unawares from one period back to an earlier without sufficient warning.”
+ − N Y Times p9 S 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ Yale R n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN). Women’s wild oats. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 396
20–6280
“Essays on the re-fixing of moral standards.” (Sub-title) Of the “hideous abuses” created by three generations of industrialism and brought to a climax by the war, the author is considering those affecting the position and moral standards of women. The book is an attempt to distinguish between a “too ready acceptance of the fashions of the day,” and a “too loyal obedience to the prejudices of yesterday.” Accordingly she would curb the too frantic present day rebelliousness of women by a return to the Jewish ideal of marriage as a religious duty, and praising the perfect feminist ideal inherited by the Jewish women. On the other hand she would facilitate divorce, would lift the burden of illegitimacy from the shoulders of innocent children, and would procure some sort of honorable recognition for sexual partnerships outside of marriage. The essays are: Introductory; The prosperity of fools; The covenant of God; That which is wanting; “Give, give!” If a child could choose? Foreseeing evil; Conclusion, and appendices.
“The book is well worth reading.”
+ Ath p320 Mr 5 ’20 200w
“In justice to Mrs Hartley I must admit that in the earlier part of ‘Women’s wild oats’ she argues for the home as against the factory. But the second half of her book is a defense of all the things which tend to break up the home. Even in Mrs Hartley’s early chapters the hysterical note in her ‘womanly womanliness’ led me to expect that it would not last.” T: Maynard
− Bookm 52:74 S ’20 840w
“There are those, however, who will be inclined to think that her comparisons of English with American conditions are rather too flattering to American life of the present day. Either that or we must read into the English situation even darker colors than those with which she paints it. Nevertheless hers has been a healthful effort and should do good in clearing away some of the illusions of the situation.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 850w
“In spite of her fervid indignation at the unnecessary burdens of woman-kind, she usually fails to understand the real difficulties and she altogether ignores more radical cures. Her own favoured remedies are too vaguely indicated to be a matter for demonstration or refutation; they are rather the passionate assertions of a personal faith.” V. G.
− Freeman 2:333 D 15 ’20 300w
“The most satisfactory chapter is that describing the position of the illegitimate child. The book is marked by the tension of the long war and the superficial disillusions of peace, and her summary of present tendencies seems too incoherent and egotistic to have much value.” N. C.
− + Int J Ethics 31:119 O ’20 230w + Nation 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 260w
“It is with some hesitation that one sets to work to criticise a book such as ‘Women’s wild oats,’ for one wants to recognize its courage and its sincerity, and at the same time one disagrees with certain points of view, as one necessarily must when one is dealing with the work which touches so many sides of a great question. One thing we can say is that Mrs Hartley is always honest and always wise.” W. L. George
+ − N Y Times p1 S 12 ’20 2150w
Reviewed by K. F. Gerould
Review 3:377 O 27 ’20 900w
“‘Women’s wild oats’ is less sensational than its title, though it contains much that will provoke dissent. It is a sober and earnest book, at once incisive and felicitous in style, but it must be believed that in her diagnosis of social tendencies in England there is some exaggeration. A certain captiousness—one might almost say, querulousness—in Mrs Hartley leads her very close to inconsistency.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 6 ’20 580w The Times [London] Lit Sup p143 F 26 ’20 100w
“The book is an irritating mixture of good sense, violent prejudice, and a most trying method of using the English language.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p196 Mr 25 ’20 850w
GALLICHAN, WALTER M. Letters to a young man on love and health. *$1 (4c) Stokes 612.6
20–15339
These letters are from an uncle to his nephew, beginning when the boy is sixteen and extending over a period of five years. They are on puberty, with its accompanying unrest and longings, and on sex and marital hygiene and treat these subjects with large insight, sanity and sympathy.
“There is much common sense in these letters.”
+ Ath p1166 N 7 ’19 170w Springf’d Republican p8 O 16 ’20 110w
“While this book is undoubtedly more desirable than those products of an earlier day that endeavored to enforce a moral code through fear, still there are many reasonable objections to be raised against it that render its great usefulness doubtful. The modern serious youth desiring sex knowledge does not want a sugar-coated pill but simple facts. This author is not always accurate or up-to-date in his statements or teaching.” H. W. Brown
+ − Survey 45:137 O 23 ’20 420w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19 30w
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Awakening. il *$2 Scribner
20–20951
This child idyll concerns the first eight years of the latest of the Jolyon Forsytes, whose birth was announced toward the close of the author’s novel “In chancery.” Little Jon is a healthy and, in the words of his mother, “loving, lovable, imaginative, sanguinary” little savage, and, so successful in the choice of his parents that he is enabled to live the life prompted by his dramatic instinct. The illustrations by R. H. Sauter are a feature of the book. The story appeared in Scribner’s magazine, November, 1920.
“Illustrations and text fit together with unusual charm.”
+ Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“The story is slight and the note of tenderness is perhaps too long drawn out. But it throws an agreeable sidelight on the ‘Forsyte saga’ and on Mr Galsworthy’s affection for some of his creatures.” L. L.
+ Nation 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“Since little Jon was born in 1901 it seems a safe presumption that Mr Galsworthy’s forthcoming volume will take him up to the threshhold of manhood. But Jon’s childhood, as here set forth, is so charming and perfect a thing in itself that, however interesting Mr Galsworthy may make his future career, one is almost tempted to wish that he might remain in memory as we know him in this little volume.”
+ N Y Evening Post p5 N 20 ’20 490w
“A few episodes in the life of a little boy of eight years old, vividly realized and described with great charm.”
+ Spec 125:784 D 11 ’20 120w
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. In chancery. *$2 (2c) Scribner
20–18929
The story is a sequel to the author’s earlier novel, “The man of property,” and relates the further fortunes of the Forsyte family. With one exception the possessive instinct is still strong in the male generation, who include their wives and progeny in their property. Soames Forsyte, after his wife, Irene, had run away with another man lives on into middle life nursing his injuries until he poignantly realizes that he is still without a son to inherit his fortune and his name. Meeting Irene again, after a separation of fifteen years, awakens the old desire to possess her, and failing of her consent, nothing in law is too sordid for him for the attainment of a divorce. Even the family tradition for respectability must go by the board as he forces his cousin Jolyon—the one Forsyte that has not run true to type—into the rôle of correspondent. At the end he marries the pretty French girl, whom he does not love, and smothers his disappointment at having a girl child, and no hope of another, in his sense of proprietorship. At least—“that thing was his.”
“When we have said that ‘In chancery’ is not a great novel, we would assure our readers that it is a fascinating, brilliant book.” K. M.
+ − Ath p810 D 10 ’20 870w Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“As a story of human persons, ‘In chancery’ should rank among his best.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 52:251 N ’20 630w
“As we have already said, these Forsytes are extremely boresome, and we fear Mr Galsworthy exaggerates not only their importance and the extent of the world’s interest in them, but also the value of his own contribution to modern imaginative literature.” E. F. Edgett
− Boston Transcript p4 N 6 ’20 1100w
“With grace and clearness and with a skill that holds the reader’s attention unfailingly, the tale is told. Its accomplishment is fine and delicate, though its convincingness is not complete.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 N 10 ’20 480w (Reprinted from London Observer)
“Here we have again in careful acrimony mingled with a warm consciousness of physical beauty which is so characteristic of Mr Galsworthy.” E. W. N.
+ Freeman 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 200w
“Mr Galsworthy never lets his utmost penetration make him ruthless. He knows that ruthlessness is simply a failure to perceive the dark and pathetic humanity that lies just beyond the immediate horizon of one’s vision.” L. L.
+ Nation 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 750w
“The book is in many ways one of the biggest Mr Galsworthy has ever written; perhaps the very biggest. A better balanced, more logical and saner novel than ‘The saint’s progress,’ one accepts its reasonings and analyses, which satisfy at once one’s brain and one’s instinct. It is notable among the notable, a novel to read—and to read again.”
+ N Y Times p24 O 24 ’20 1500w
“It is a serious drawback that the first dozen pages or so of this book are a regular barbedwire obstruction because of their intricate tangle of genealogy and relationships. The reader who perseveres, however, will be rewarded by as fine and penetrating a study of temperament and heredity as is often written—not ‘highbrow’ or philosophical, but dramatic, tense and vivid.” R. D. Townsend
+ − Outlook 126:653 D 8 ’20 430w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 3:382 O 27 ’20 210w
“Most of the characters of ‘In chancery’ are the brooding victims of Mr Galsworthy’s remote wrath—Soames’s father, James, is the most free from literary victimisation. Here is an old man drawn with skill, without prejudice, and with that untiring care which is this author’s chief asset as a craftsman. It seems to us that for him our little world is a sick man tossing feverishly upon his bed; Mr Galsworthy, finger on pulse and clinical thermometer in hand, sits patiently by his side, recording the slow sinking towards dissolution.”
− + Sat R 130:458 D 4 ’20 630w
“One may add that here, as always, Mr Galsworthy is remarkably just to the characters with whom he is not in perfect sympathy. He writes of the old régime with respect and even regret.”
+ Spec 125:820 D 18 ’20 600w
“It is a most absorbing story viewed merely as a personal narrative. But apart from that it is a section from the history of English society. The book must be classed with Mr Galsworthy’s most characteristic and finest work.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 620w
“Once more Mr Galsworthy shows his quiet mastery, now and then a little pontifical perhaps, but always suggesting the good rider on the spirited horse. And once more he lights up his sober fabric with the golden thread of beauty.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p698 O 28 ’20 1050w Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 60w
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Plays; 4th ser. *$2.50 Scribner 822
20–9081
The book contains three plays: A bit o’ love; The foundations; The skin game. In the first play a young clergyman, Michael Strangway, is deserted by his wife, who returns during the first act to plead with her husband not to divorce her out of consideration for the career of her lover. He consents and thereby makes himself impossible with his narrow-minded parishioners. His struggle is between his love as a cosmic manifestation and the essence of Christianity, and his love for the woman, his wrongs and his worldly prospects. When, at the moment of the most hopeless desolation, he has prepared a suicide’s noose for himself, the cry of a little child for “a bit o’ love,” and the brave fight with his sorrow of a brother in affliction, recall him to the world and his stronger self.
“This fourth volume of Mr Galsworthy’s plays is hardly up to the best of his earlier dramatic work. Of the three plays which it contains, ‘The skin game’ is the most skilfully and convincingly written; but even ‘The skin game’ leaves us comparatively cold.”
+ − Ath p733 Je 4 ’20 560w
“Written with the usual sincerity and dramatic intensity.”
+ Booklist 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is sufficient of the first two, ‘A bit o’ love’ and ‘The foundations,’ to say that they are ‘good Galsworthy,’ which means that they are more than readable and that they are beautifully constructed and phrased. More must be said of ‘The skin game,’ the third play. It is Galsworthy at his best.”
+ Drama 10:355 Jl ’20 280w
“Mr Galsworthy has written better plays than these, but if you care for his plays at all you will find them worth reading.”
+ Ind 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“Of the new plays the first, A bit of love, is undeniably the weakest.... The skin-game has a more timeless touch. It takes the tragicomedy of all human conflict, localizes it narrowly, embodies it with the utmost concreteness, and yet exhausts its whole significance. Galsworthy has never derived a dramatic action from deeper sources in the nature of man; he has never put forth a more far-reaching idea nor shown it more adequately in terms of flesh and blood.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 110:732 My 29 ’20 1100w
“To the reader who revolts against the rather sickly sentiment of the first of them and who has smiled half-heartedly at the forced comedy, in which the same sentiment still appears, in the second, the virility and grasp of the third comes as a tonic.” S. C. C.
− + New Repub 24:172 O 13 ’20 760w
“These three plays will hardly add much to the fame of John Galsworthy, although, on the other hand, enough skill and command of character is evidenced to render them interesting additions to his work.”
+ − N Y Times p15 S 19 ’20 700w
“‘A bit o’ love,’ ‘The foundations,’ and ‘The skin game’ display ability of a high order. That fact is presumed in their authorship and is verified in their perusal. But all three have an effect of interlude or byplay; they are corollaries to earlier and weightier dicta.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 3:396 O 27 ’20 1100w
“He has many gifts, many qualities—technical ability, imaginativeness, sympathy, experience of life, ideas, ideals; but the one supreme, essential gift—the ability to create living men and women working out their destinies in the grip of fate—is not his. Mr Galsworthy, in fact, remains the second-rate artist he always was.”
− + Sat R 129:590 Je 26 ’20 1050w + − Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 800w
“‘A bit o’ love’ is in Mr Galsworthy’s weaker vein. ‘The skin game’ possesses a greater number of powerful scenes of dramatic conflict than Mr Galsworthy has ever put into a single play. ‘The foundations’ is an utter departure for Mr Galsworthy or any other English playwright. Our stage is almost unfitted at present to handle such a play, but the existence of the manuscript ought to do something towards stimulating the development of a new producing method.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:348 O ’20 300w
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Tatterdemalion. *$1.90 (3c) Scribner
20–5770
A collection of stories and sketches, some of them reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine, the New Republic and the Atlantic Monthly. Among the sketches that compose Part 1, Of war-time, are a number presenting unfamiliar aspects of the war period. Two of these, The bright side and “The dog it was that died,” are stories of Germans interned in England. The other titles are: The grey angel; Defeat; Flotsam and jetsam; “Cafard”; Recorded; The recruit; The peace meeting; In heaven and earth; The mother stone; Poirot and Bidan; The muffled ship; Heritage; ‘A green hill far away.’ Part 2, Of peace-time, contains eight stories: Spindleberries; Expectations; Manna; A strange thing; Two looks; Fairyland; The nightmare child; Buttercup-night.
+ Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20 + Ind 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“On the side of art ‘Tatterdemalion’ illustrates the Galsworthian qualities which are quite familiar by this time: a mellowness that never degenerates into softness; a virile tenderness of tone; an unobtrusive ease in the progression of the narrative; a diction which is always adequate, often beautiful, but which will not or cannot exploit all its own full resources of either beauty or strength through some inflexibility of inner modulation. Some of the short stories here are, with these definite qualities and their defects, among the best of our time.”
+ Nation 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 750w
“In his earlier novels and tales there was a marked predominance of the emotional quality over the intellectual. The two are here more nearly in accord. With possibly one exception none of the impressions is overwrought, or marred by sentimentality, or blurred by loud-voiced passion. Mr Galsworthy’s restrained, softly modulated style, as of an instrument with few overtones, wins its effect without recourse to obvious eloquence or special pleading.” S. C. C.
+ New Repub 22:427 My 23 ’20 850w
“Unalike as these tales and sketches are in many ways, they resemble one another in this—that always there is the intense feeling for beauty. Among the artists in literature of the present day—and they are not so few as some would like to imagine—those are rare who can safely challenge comparison with the John Galsworthy of ‘Tatterdemalion.’” L. M. Field
+ N Y Times 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1200w
“The contents of the volume are diverse in the extreme; yet the keynote of the whole can be expressed in one word—beauty.”
+ N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 100w
“The volume is an interesting and notable example of Mr Galsworthy’s workmanship, typical of his clearness of vision and of his fearlessness in telling the truth, notwithstanding the fact that the winds of popular passion and taste blow in the opposite direction.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 500w
“There are pieces in this book which will probably drop out of his collected works some decades hence. Yet we would willingly miss none of them from the book before us. If circumstance has deprived some of these tales and studies of the finest touch of craftsmanship which Mr Galsworthy can give, the book as a whole is clear revelation of one of the best and bravest minds of our time.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p186 Mr 18 ’20 480w
GALWAY, CONOR. Towards the dawn. *$2.50 Stokes
“The novel is, quite simply and frankly, propaganda for the cause of Sinn Fein. Its heroine is a vigorous, eager, impulsive, large-hearted young woman whom the reader first sees as a gawky, somewhat impish slip of a girl in her first teens. She gets caught in a street fight between Orangemen and Hibernians, brought on because some drummers of the former refuse to give way to the band heading a procession of the others; she is knocked down, trampled and has a narrow escape from being killed. The first thing she says when she comes back to consciousness is to declare solemnly that she hates both factions and thereafter will be a Fenian. To this determination she holds with enthusiasm, becoming a Sinn Feiner when that organization comes into activity. At one time, moved by the desire to make a sacrifice, she enters a convent with the intention of becoming a nun, but her desire to take part in the active measures Sinn Fein is planning brings her out again and into the ranks of that organization’s most ardent protagonists.”—N Y Times
“Pleasantly written and containing some excellent character drawings, ‘Towards the dawn’ is likely to prove a distinct success.”
+ Cath World 112:264 N ’20 320w
“Would be interesting if the author’s viewpoint could be trusted to be accurate and impartial. But it is quite evident that it is never impartial and therefore only actual knowledge of conditions can say whether or not it is accurate.”
+ − N Y Times p25 S 5 ’20 350w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 160w
GAMBIER, KENYON. Girl on the hilltop. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–10304
When Roger Lingard comes to England in 1914, it is to look up his ancestry, for he is the descendant of the Lingard of St Dyfrigs’ Park, who years before had eloped with Charity Turle, his cowman’s daughter, and emigrated to America. The modern Roger finds Dorothy Lingard and another Charity Turle interesting representatives of the family in the present generation. Before he has revealed himself to them, the war breaks out and he enlists. At the end of four years, he returns to his ancestral acres, to find himself, by the death of the male line, their owner. Then follows the interesting question, what shall become of the female line. Roger offers himself to Dorothy, that thus she may not be deprived of her birthright. But he finds himself superseded in her affections by another and when he turns to the humbler Charity, he finds a similar situation to exist. But the telegram which he sends to the mysterious “girl on the hilltop” reads “The third time’s lucky!” and so it proves to be.
+ Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“Mr Gambier has built up a very alluring story.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ’20 260w
“An interesting picture of rural England in wartime and unusually entertaining.”
+ Cleveland p83 S ’20 50w
“‘The girl on the hilltop’ has the virtue of being uncommon, but it is not very satisfactory. The author’s method of story-telling may be described as spasmodic; there is no ease in the course of his recital. He jumps along in a fashion quite disconcerting to the reader and insists on creating about certain of his characters an air of mystery that is annoying rather than interesting.”
− + N Y Times 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Incidentally the novel gives a realistic picture of the war privations and provocations in remote English villages. The story is built on unusual lines and its originality makes it decidedly readable.”
+ Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 160w
GAMBLE, WILLIAM. Photography and its applications. il $1 Pitman 770
20–16270
The book is one of the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series. It is not intended as a guide or text-book for those desiring to practice the art of photography, but as a popular outline of the subject for general information on “How it’s done.” Contents: The discovery of photography; The camera and lens; Dark room and its equipment; The sensitive plates: wet collodion process, and collodion emulsion and dry plates; Making the exposure; Development and after-treatment of the plate; Printing processes: carbon and other methods; Enlarging, copying, and lantern-slide making; Colour processes; Scientific applications of photography; Cinema-photography; Photomechanical processes; Industrial applications of photography; Photography in warfare; Illustrations and index.
GANACHILLY, ALFRED. Whispering dead. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90 (3c) Knopf
20–8519
Some years before the war, according to this story, there was a fire at the German embassy at Santiago, Chile, which completely destroyed the building. In the ruins were found the charred remains of a human body, and the mystery of the story is the identity of the man who so perished. Beckert, the German chancellor, was thought to be the unfortunate victim, but Rojas, the Chilean detective, has another theory which takes him on a wild chase in the Andes, resulting in the capture of the man who was responsible for the fire, and the murderer of the unknown person who perished in it. Stress is laid on the ruthlessness characteristic of the German nature even before the war.
“A well-told and well-constructed story.”
+ Sat R 128:422 N 1 ’19 80w Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 180w
GANZ, MARIE, and FERBER, NAT. JOSEPH. Rebels; into anarchy—and out again. il *$2 (3c) Dodd
20–219
Marie Ganz, daughter of a Hester street pushcart peddler, came from Galicia to America in 1896, when she was five years old. After her father’s death in 1899, she never knew what it was to have time to play, tho she did not work the regular twelve-hour day in a sweatshop until she was thirteen. She made friends among Russian socialists and anarchists, joining the latter group, and preached war upon the capitalists. She organized strikes, led mobs, got into prison and out again, and finally broke her connection with the anarchist group. She tells us: “I had learned much and changed much since that day when I led the mob into the capitalist stronghold, and the old rancours were gone forever.... My work is not over ... but, in the effort to help the poor and downtrodden, it is to run in other lines hereafter.”
Boston Transcript p11 Mr 27 ’20 130w
“Although the apostasy of Marie Ganz furnished the occasion for her book, it is the period of her rebellion that engages one’s interest and gives the book its attraction.”
+ Nation 111:456 O 20 ’20 200w
“A vigorous and straightforward narrative.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 460w
“Quite as authentic and interesting as other autobiographies of women who have risen from the Ghetto of the New York East side, the book by Miss Ganz, nevertheless, does not range with them; It is too much concerned with only one aspect of life to paint either accurately or convincingly the throbbing vitality and beauty of that most colorful of American neighborhoods.” B. L.
+ − Survey 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 450w
GARBORG, ARNE. Lost father. $1.25 Stratford co.
20–13202
This is a prose poem interspersed with verse in the form of prayers by a lost soul seeking an unknown god. Gunnar Haave had left his native land in search of life. He has squandered it and at the end returns home in search of the Father. His brother Paul has also thrown away his life to become the servant of his Master, Christ. It is Paul who finally succeeds in bringing the peace of the Father to Gunnar. An autobiographical sketch precedes the story and the translation from the Norse is by Mabel Johnson Leland.
GARDNER, AUGUSTUS PEABODY. Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner. *$2 (8½c) Houghton
20–5738
The letters are preceded by a short sketch of Major Gardner’s career by Mrs Gardner who has edited the collection. They are grouped under the headings: The Spanish war; Congress and politics; War-time activities; The army again. The volume contains four fine portraits of Major Gardner at various stages of life.
“These letters are glowing with American idealism.”
+ Cleveland p77 Ag ’20 50w Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 210w
GARDNER, GILSON. New Robinson Crusoe. *$1.25 (6c) Harcourt 330
20–13989
“A new version of his life and adventures with an explanatory note.” (Sub-title) In this new version all of Robinson Crusoe’s reflections are along economic lines. His first musings on “Why does man work?” are answered by his own efforts to supply himself with shelter, food and clothing. He soon discovers of how little avail his labors are without the cooperation of his fellow-men. This is later supplied by a colony of refugees on a neighboring island and with cooperation come the needs of specialization and organization. As the story proceeds all the features of a capitalistic society develop. Robinson becomes a power, the chief exploiter and ruler of the realm in which there now are rich and poor, exploiters and exploited. Then some of the younger blood become wise to the fact that “a man may own what he produces,” and no more. They lay in wait for him one dark night on the beach and instead of drowning him outright mercifully ship him off to England.
Boston Transcript Jl 28 ’20 180w Freeman 2:94 O 6 ’20 430w Nation 111:456 O 20 ’20 480w
“The ‘New Robinson Crusoe’ is interesting as an economic tract.”
+ Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 160w
“Mr Gardner has made a distinctly novel contribution to the literature of economics, but it will be an unhappy day for children when they are given this primer of economics disguised as a story to read in place of the good old fashioned tale of Robinson Crusoe.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 350w
GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and others. American guide book to France and its battlefields. il *$3.50 Macmillan 914.4
20–11006
Part I of this guide book is devoted to general considerations with chapters on: Things to consider and to do before you sail; A special chapter on passports; A few important points that should be understood before arrival in France; Conditions that will confront you upon landing; Paris and its life; Amusements, shopping, side trips, etc. Part II is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims; British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera, and Italy; The château country of France; England and London. Part III is devoted to Divisional histories of American divisions in France, and an Appendix presents statistics. There are numerous maps, illustrations and an index.
+ Booklist 17:27 O ’20
“This guidebook has several valuable features.”
+ N Y Times p21 S 26 ’20 250w + R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 170w
“The ‘American guidebook’ is not compact. It is badly organized and repetitious. Of the 20–odd maps in the book, not one is of practical value to the tourist. The only worth-while section of the book is the part devoted to brief tabular histories of A. E. F. divisions. The information given in this department is compact, well-presented and satisfying.” J: T. Winterich
− + Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 770w The Times [London] Lit Sup p623 S 23 ’20 80w
GARIS, HOWARD ROGER. Rick and Ruddy. il $1.50 (2½c) Bradley, M.
20–23176
The story of a boy and his dog. Rick wants a dog but his mother is obdurate. She does not like dogs and is afraid that even the best of them might be tempted to bite Mazie, Rick’s little sister. Then Ruddy, the red setter, is washed up out of the sea and since he seems to have come in direct answer to Rick’s prayer, she cannot turn him away. Boy and dog have happy adventures together. Ruddy guides Rick home when the two are lost and he rescues the little sister from drowning. The tramp sailor who had been his former owner returns and tries to gain possession of him but Ruddy is recovered and returned to his true master Rick.
+ Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 30w
GASS, SHERLOCK BRONSON. Lover of the chair. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 814
20–85
“Mr Gass turns over from many angles the leading problems of education in a democracy, and the wider problem of democracy itself. The matter is generally cast in dialogues, with the disillusioned scholar described in the title as arbitrator. On the side of education the author has no difficulty in showing that the present lurch towards vocational training in the public schools is really not democratic at all. It assumes that a child is to be fitted for a place in which he shall stay—an aristocratic assumption. The book closes with an autobiographical fragment which is its best literary feature and has the advantage of bringing the various problems involved to a moral focus.”—Review
Reviewed by Mary Terrill
Bookm 51:192 Ap ’20 950w
“Despite the friendly humor and gentleness of the essayist there is the iron of sharp experience and the steel of strong convictions to give point and edge to his critical depictions of men and manners.” H. A.
+ New Repub 24:51 S 8 ’20 820w + N Y Times 25:213 Ap 25 ’20 50w
“Despite a certain crabbedness and inflexibility of literary form, the book is a notable one. It is thought through, and has flights of grave eloquence. As a survey and estimate of modern society, as offering a tenacious criticism which is ever tinged with human sympathy, the book is a true landmark.”
+ Review 2:157 F 14 ’20 580w
GASTON, HERBERT E. Nonpartisan league. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 329
20–6358
The author of the present volume is thoroughly acquainted with the history of the Nonpartisan league from the inside, and tells the story of its foundation and growth sympathetically but dispassionately, leaving the reader to make his own estimate of its importance as a political and social movement. In his final survey the author says: “Any cult or propaganda becomes dangerous if it comes close to the truth. ‘Menaces’ to the existing order of society are born of the evils of existing society in conflict with human needs and natural human desires. To brand a group, a cult, a society, a religion, as disloyal or disreputable is one way of fighting it, but it need not forever damn it.” Contents: The Nonpartisan league—what it is; North Dakota; Seeds of rebellion; Breaking ground; Terminal elevators; The leader for the occasion; Applied psychology; “Six-dollar suckers”; Publicity; The enemy opens fire; Choosing the candidates; The first campaign; Leaguers in power; The League becomes “national”; War issues; Producers and consumers; “Patrioteering”; Growth and power; The second big battle; League democracy at work; “The new day in North Dakota”; Another crisis passed; Organization changes; Survey and forecast.
“Three years’ employment on the publication controlled by the league has given Mr Gaston an intimate knowledge of the organization, and, although the reader is assured of a ‘conscientious effort to make a faithful report of facts of essential interest,’ favorable conclusions are the rule. This point should be kept in view in judging the matter presented.” G: M. Janes
+ − Am Econ R 10:628 S ’20 1700w
“A very readable history of North Dakota’s recent interesting contribution to politics.”
+ Booklist 16:261 My ’20
“This book is an authoritative and to a certain extent an unbiased statement of the genesis and growth of the movement.” G. M. J.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 1000w + Cleveland p90 O ’20 20w
“An extremely lucid, vigorous, well-written account of one of the most extraordinary movements in our political history. The league is fortunate in having an apologist as clear-minded and as fair-minded as Mr Gaston: his book has the character not of propaganda but of history.”
+ Freeman 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 150w
“An indispensable book for the study of middle western politics.”
+ Ind 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“A severe critic will find in it much to praise, little to blame. Of course certain transactions are glossed over. All important events are given ‘with bright protective coloration.’ While the book has historical sequence, it lacks philosophical unity.” J. E. Boyle
+ − J Pol Econ 28:619 Jl ’20 1450w
“The Nonpartisan league has been the victim of an unconscionable amount of lying. The more notable, therefore, is the service performed by Mr Gaston in writing a book that gives not only the facts, but the truth, concerning this remarkable political organization. Mr Gaston writes with sympathy for the league, yet with scrupulous fairness to its opponents. The story is told simply, directly, and with an absence of partisanship and bitterness remarkable in view of the fierce struggle of the past five years.” H: R. Mussey
+ Nation 110:656 My 15 ’20 1450w
“Admirable account.” James Oneal
+ N Y Call p11 My 9 ’20 1200w N Y Times p28 Ag 22 ’20 80w
“Although the author warns the readers of his possible bias, he has nevertheless written dispassionately and in good spirit and, on the whole, accurately.”
+ Outlook 125:430 Je 30 ’20 2400w
“His book is as readable as it is earnest. In his own language, he ‘puts it across.’ It is a great pity that one must lay the book aside with the thought that though it is interesting it is little more than an excellent piece of campaign apologetics.”
+ − Review 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 1500w
“His narrative throws much light on agrarian conditions in the Middle West and Northwest.”
+ R of Rs 62:109 Jl ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w
“No doubt the impartial and critical historian of the future will discover that the narrative is colored in favor of the movement the author traces. Nevertheless, the work is a worthy one and gives a fairly reliable account of a most interesting experiment.” J: M. Gillette
+ − Survey 44:384 Je 12 ’20 690w
“It is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to be frank and honest, with so little rhetoric and apology, that we must accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from an insider adequately informed for his task.” W: E. Walling
+ Yale R n s 10:222 O ’20 800w
GATLIN, DANA. Missy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–20320
Missy, short for Melissa Merriam, is ten when we first make her acquaintance in this book. Some of her adventures and experiences in the years between ten and seventeen are told in chapters entitled: The flame divine; “Your true friend, Melissa M.”; Like a singing bird; Missy tackles romance; In the manner of the Duchess; Influencing Arthur; Business of blushing; A happy downfall; Dobson saves the day, and Missy cans the cosmos. Missy is the kind of girl who had “been endowed with eyes that could shine and a voice that could quaver; yes, and with an instinct for just the right argument to play upon the heart-strings.” From the day when, in childish religious fervor, she prays publicly “O Lord, please forgive me for being a spy-eye when Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless life,” her mental processes are original. Some of the chapters have appeared in short story form in various popular magazines.
+ Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“What Booth Tarkington did for the growing boy with ‘Penrod,’ Dana Gatlin has written for the girl, with the difference that ‘Penrod’ is done with broad effects for humor, while ‘Missy’ is a more delicate piece of workmanship.” I. W. L.
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 4 ’20 500w
“This book is an almost perfect example of the department store romance. There is not a glimmer of anything that might disturb the picture. The book is fairly well written and many will like it.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 60w
GAY, ROBERT MALCOLM. Writing through reading. 90c Atlantic monthly press 808
20–10291
This “suggestive method of writing English with directions and exercises” (Sub-title) has for its object the acquisition of a command of language and discipline and drill in clearness, vigor and conciseness. The author believes that the problem of teaching writing as an art and a tool of expression can be greatly simplified by retelling the thoughts of others and the methods considered in the book are: translating; paraphrasing; condensing; imitating prose, and imitating verse. Contents: Introduction: reading and writing; Transcribing and writing from dictation; Translating; Paraphrasing; The abstract; Imitation and emulation.
“Suggestive to anyone interested in effective writing.”
+ Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Beyond all question ‘Writing through reading’ is the type of textbook which eleventh and twelfth-grade classes in composition ought to be able to follow with great profit.”
+ School R 28:632 O ’20 320w
GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and FLAHERTY, MARTIN CHARLES, comps. Poetry of the people. 88c Ginn 821.08
20–11327
This volume has now been enlarged by the addition of a section devoted to Poems of the world war: historical and patriotic. There are also added four pages of notes on Popular songs of the world war.
Booklist 17:84 N ’20
GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and KURTZ, BENJAMIN PUTNAM. Methods and materials of literary criticism. $3 Ginn 808.1
20–11325
“This book is the second of a series entitled ‘Methods and materials of literary criticism’, the volumes of which, though contributory to a common aim, are severally independent.’ The first volume (Gayley and Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, the epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms.” (Preface) The book is made up of two parts: The lyric and some of its special forms; The epic and minor forms of narrative poetry. Each of these subjects is considered under two aspects: Theory and technique, and Historical development, and a list of general references is provided for each, in addition to frequent references in the text. An appendix contains a brief bibliography of the history of poetry (60 pages) and there is an index.
“The work here accomplished is an honor to American literary scholarship and is of great and enduring value.”
+ Cath World 112:541 Ja ’21 230w
“The helpfulness of such a compilation can hardly be overestimated. Testing the book from the standpoint of a student of the classical types of literature one is impressed by the completeness of the bibliographical material and by the discrimination of the editors when selection is necessary.” H: W. Prescott
+ Class J 16:254 Ja ’21 520w Nation 111:277 S 4 ’20 190w
“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power; and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p12 Ag 15 ’20 2100w The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 S 9 ’20 200w
GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN. Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50 Ginn 220
19–15715
“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible, the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual nature of their message.”—Ath
“The point of view of the treatment is rather confusing. The method is in a broad way historical, but in detailed application it contents itself with acceptance of traditional views to such an extent as almost to vitiate the usefulness of the book for historically minded students.” J. M. P. S.
+ − Am J Theol 24:473 Jl ’20 190w
“Those who are not discouraged by the preface and the abstract style of the whole work will find the matter instructive.”
+ − Ath p1352 D 12 ’19 140w + Booklist 16:151 F ’20
GEORGE, WALTER LIONEL. Caliban. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–15960
Richard Bulmer’s career in many respects parallels that of Alfred Harmsworth but frequent reference to Lord Northcliffe as a contemporary shows that it is not intended as a portrait. The story begins with Richard’s boyhood and covers his early amateur attempts at journalism, his first daring venture into the publishing world with “Zip,” a sensational monthly that gives the public what it wants, and his subsequent rise to the peerage and ownership of a chain of newspapers. He marries early and after seven years separates from his wife. Women mean little to him for he is too deeply absorbed in his career, but late in life he meets Janet Willoughby and at her hands suffers his first defeat. The story begins in the eighties of the nineteenth century and runs thru the world war.
Ath p376 S 17 ’20 840w Booklist 17:71 N ’20
“We know no more or less about Bulmer on page four hundred than on page forty. He is a type brilliantly projected as a George or a Wells or a Walpole or a Mackenzie knows how to project him,—and there is no more to say.” H. W. Boynton
− + Bookm 52:250 N ’20 660w
“In ‘Caliban’ Mr George cannot convince us for a moment that his Richard Bulmer is doing anything more than to obey the commands of his creator. A puppet in a marionette show has as much initiative of his own as is possessed by this Richard Bulmer.” E. F. E.
− Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is superior in many ways to Courlander’s ‘Mightier than the sword’ and has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs’ ‘Street of adventure.’ But it is a falling off from Mr George’s superb ‘Blind alley.’”
+ − Dial 69:663 D ’20 60w
“As a portrayal of Bulmer, ‘Caliban’ is convincingly done; as a novel, it is disappointing. For the book, despite Bulmer’s portrait, is perfunctory.” R. S.
+ − Freeman 2:166 O 27 ’20 400w
“Mr George has grasped in its concrete terms one of the fundamental things in our civilization—the press. His report may not be faultlessly accurate; there may be depths he has not reached, complications he has not disentangled. But his account has great fulness of matter, dogged closeness of observation, fine solidity, and burning candor.”
+ Nation 111:380 O 6 ’20 1000w
“Mr George has neglected the difficult and more interesting half of his subject. He has not tried to answer the most puzzling of the questions that yellow journalism raises. Not everybody, however, cares to investigate the differences which separate the successful wooers of ‘Caliban’ from the unsuccessful, and in Mr George’s novel there is cleverness enough to reward all readers who do not care.” P. L.
+ New Repub 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w
“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will ‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander Black
+ − N Y Times p13 S 5 ’20 2050w
“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less clever variations.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”
+ − Sat R 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w + Spec 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w + Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 820w
“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 210w
GEORGIAN poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08
20–26460
The writers represented in this fourth volume of Georgian poetry are: Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Francis Brett Young, William H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, John Freeman, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Harold Monro, Thomas Moult, Robert Nichols, J. D. C. Pellow, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Shanks, Fredegond Shove, J. C. Squire, and W. J. Turner.
“The corporate flavour of the volume is a false simplicity. Of the nineteen poets who compose it there are certain individuals whom we except absolutely from this condemnation, Mr de la Mare, Mr Davies and Mr Lawrence; there are others who are more or less exempt from it, Mr Abercrombie, Mr Sassoon, Mrs Shove, Mr Nichols and Mr Moult; and among the rest there are varying degrees of saturation.” J. M. M.
− + Ath p1283 D 5 ’19 670w Booklist 15:270 My ’20
“It is a profound labour to read this book. Not because, let me hastily say, there is nothing good in it, but because it is all so dreadfully tired. Here are nineteen poets, in the heyday of their creating years, and scarcely one of them seems to have energy enough to see personally or forge a manner out of his own natural speech.” Amy Lowell
+ − Dial 69:424 O ’20 3000w Nation 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w
“It would, we think, be just to assume that there are three themes which belong to poetry above all others—God, man, and nature. But after reading the fourth book of ‘Georgian poetry’ from first page to last, one would never have guessed it. We feel especially drawn towards Mr Robert Graves. He is obviously at odds with the Georgian complacency and conventionalism, particularly in the matter of language. Mr Brett Young, again, a long way the best of the five newcomers, reacts against the tenuity of the others and their careful avoidance of reality.”
− + Nation [London] 26:338 D 6 ’19 1850w
“Among the others, it is good to see the name of D. H. Lawrence, although he contributes but one poem, ‘Seven seals,’ a magnificent thing, worthy of his wild unhappy genius.” Siegfried Sassoon
+ N Y Times 25:2 F 29 ’20 1150w
“These poets have unquestionable merits. Their temper is calm, measured, resolute—almost an eighteenth century temper. Their ideal is the vivid, the striking, the extreme—almost an Elizabethan ideal. Naturally enough, their eighteenth century temper is not quite at home in the handling of this Elizabethan ideal. Hence the vividness, which is by no means altogether wanting, comes to reside less in the ideas than in the language, less possibly in the language than in the vocabulary.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 2:520 My 15 ’20 260w
“In ‘The sprig of lime’ and ‘Seventeen,’ which are his two long poems this year, Mr Robert Nichols reaches a far higher platform in his ascent of Parnassus. ‘The sprig of lime’ is an exceedingly beautiful reflective poem.... Mr Shank’s ‘Fête galante, or The triumph of love,’ is a longish poem of quite extraordinary and peculiar attractiveness.... Alas that Mr Squire’s ‘You are my sky’ has not been included! His beautiful poem ‘Rivers’ is, as ever, most delightful reading. Mr Harold Monro’s ‘Dog’ is a cunning piece of realism.”
+ Spec 124:143 Ja 31 ’20 1000w
“The character of the collection has altered slowly till this last volume is least like the first: in fact, quite different. Long poems are fewer and shorter, and the bulk of the contents has acquired a strong family likeness. The original group of authors was more varied in aim and achievement.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p738 D 11 ’19 2100w
Reviewed by E: B. Reed
+ Yale R n s 10:201 O ’20 140w
GERMAN days. *$3 Dutton 914.3
(Eng ed 19–11975)
“The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes her experiences at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in Berlin.” (Spec) “The latter half of the book gives the reader a clear picture of commonplace life in Germany today—the homes, the food, the amusements. The author is continually contrasting them, greatly to the disadvantage of Germany, with what she has found in England.” (Springf’d Republican)
+ N Y Times 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 200w
“She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian school system is all the more effective on that account.”
+ Spec 122:368 Mr 22 ’19 130w
“Among the books which aim to give enlightenment regarding prewar Germany one volume stands out for the seemingly naive impression of unpleasantness that it gives. This is ‘German days.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 16 ’20 700w
GEROULD, GORDON HALL. Youth in Harley. *$2 (1½c) Scribner
20–14294
After Stephen Quaid graduated from college he became principal of Harley academy and for a year was a part of the New England village life that soon will be but a tradition. In the picture unfolded by the story many types of New England character are seen and old customs, time-honored sports and celebrations and a town meeting are described, and in the romance of Stephen and Cynthia Darrell, with the ups and downs of their courtship, glimpses are given of the New England conscience in both its feminine and masculine aspects.
“Interesting and wholesome but not a plot novel.”
+ Booklist 17:71 N ’20 Nation 111:454 O 20 ’20 420w
“Though too abstract for great art, Mr Gerould’s novel represents an intellectual honesty which fiction lacks in America, and which for great art is requisite.”
+ N Y Evening Post p9 S 25 ’20 300w
“The action is slow at times, and readers who desire plot above all and breathlessness while reading will hardly feel themselves wholly in sympathy with the book. It is, first of all, an effort in characterization, and in this field Mr Gerould is always successful. For readers who desire to taste the quality of excellent writing at their leisure ‘Youth in Harley’ is to be recommended.”
+ N Y Times p23 S 26 ’20 600w
“Certainly the narrative is not exciting, nor is it rapid in movement, but it is sincere in its mild realism and finished carefully in its detail workmanship.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w + Wis Lib Bul 16:194 N ’20 70w
GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD). Modes and morals. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 814
20–3866
Instead of the above title the author has been tempted to call her collection of essays “Democracy, plumbing, and the war” because democracy, always having a materialistic connotation, and plumbing, symbolizing physical comforts, as well as war, “make the problem of our immediate future a rather special one.” In the first essay, The new simplicity, the cultural élite are exhorted to practice a severe simplicity of living in order to hold their own against overpaid labor whose tastes run to luxuries. In The extirpation of culture four causes are named for this gradual extirpation among us: The increased hold of the democratic fallacy on the public mind; The influx of a racially and socially inferior population; Materialism in all classes; and The idolatry of science. The other essays are: Dress and the woman; Caviare on principle; Fashions in men; The newest woman; Tabu and temperament; The boundaries of truth; Miss Alcott’s New England; The sensual ear; British novelists, ltd.; The remarkable rightness of Rudyard Kipling.
“Stimulating and provocative essays.”
+ Booklist 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sparkling little essays full of originality and common sense.”
+ Cleveland p52 My ’20 60w
“Mrs Gerould is infinitely more agreeable as an essayist than as a short story writer and her discussions of current problems, social, spiritual and literary, are not only clever but stimulating.”
+ Ind 103:440 D 25 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
Nation 110:sup486 Ap 10 ’20 800w New Repub 22:97 Mr 17 ’20 1350w
“The book is as charming as it is clever, as wise as it is witty. ‘British novelists, ltd.,’ is the most individual of the essays in this volume, as it is also the most amusing. It is full of humor and of good humor. It has the light touch so much desired nowadays; none the less is it a searching criticism.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times 25:89 F 15 ’20 2300w
“One salutes the Mrs Gerould of the short stories as a fictional artist of subtle power and distinguished skill. One views her secondary personality, the social philosopher, the student of manners and morals, as an example of the perturbing truth that a mind which creates with brilliancy and force may be feeble and unrewarding in ratiocination. Mrs Gerould is trite and trivial not only whenever her subject gives her an opportunity to be, but at moments when she might easily be something else.” Lawrence Gilman
− No Am 211:564 Ap ’20 1550w
“A little superior, supercilious Mrs Gerould doubtless is, and not a little paradoxical. But in her speculation, she uncovers a good many meaty ideas. One may not always agree with her or think her correct in her statement of facts; but one has at least got some return for the energy expended in reading.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 14 ’20 1350w
“When we say that Mrs Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in this attractive and satisfying volume.” M. F. Egan
+ − Yale R n s 10:186 O ’20 500w
GIBBON, JOHN MURRAY. Conquering hero. *$2 (3½c) Lane
20–16160
A fishing party of city men is interrupted by the startling appearance of a beautiful woman. She introduces herself as the Princess Stephanie Sobieska, and is then recognized as a moving picture star. One of the guides of the fishing party, Donald Macdonald, Scotch Canadian and veteran of the world war, becomes a prime favorite with her, and after the fishing season is over, they still remain friends. He goes out to a farm in British Columbia and there meets a little girl whom he shortly becomes engaged to. But here the Princess Sobieska unwittingly makes trouble for him, for she appears on the scene again, and Kate thinks there is or has been something more than friendship, between Donald and her, and breaks the engagement. The Princess, in her wisdom, takes just the right course to straighten matters out, and all ends happily.
“The book suggests an attractive open-air atmosphere, and the freedom of great spaces.”
+ Ath p838 D 17 ’20 100w
“Frankly, Mr Gibbon has contrived to secure a host of ill-assorted ingredients that, so far from assimilating each other, make known their utter unsimilarity in no uncertain fashion.”
− + Boston Transcript p7 O 30 ’20 210w
“If it is possible, Mr Gibbon has too much real life in his book. Now and again the realization comes quite consciously that he is using his carpetbag of a romance as a receptacle for chunks of his own life. On the whole his story is a crude, vigorous, simple and attractive sketch of the Canada of today.”
+ − N Y Times p23 S 26 ’20 270w
“It is an amusing tale, but carries no serious conviction.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p801 D 2 ’20 120w
GIBBON, M. MORGAN. Jan. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
John and Jan are both Owens, John, son of the quiet, staid Henry, and Jan, daughter of the wild, wilful John. The younger John and Jan alike crave freedom and liberty from the time they play together as children. Even then John’s love for Jan is strong and protecting and it never wavers all thru their school life until she promises to marry him. But she finds the engagement irksome and after a quarrel, John sets her free. She experiments with her freedom, trying one excursion into liberty after another. But nothing satisfies, she and John are both miserable and both too proud to give in. Eventually she realizes that she would rather have love than freedom.
“The young lady who gives a name to ‘Jan’ labours obviously under the disadvantage—very usual with novel heroines—of meaning something to her creator, which has not been conveyed to the reader. The descriptions of Welsh middle-class life are vivid and sympathetic, and impress us as drawn from actual fact.”
+ − Ath p163 D 3 ’20 100w
“It is a thoroughly wholesome story, set forth by a writer who has the gift of frank, effective, convincing narrative. The value of this novel, which most readers will appreciate, lies in the fact that it is entertaining in itself, page after page.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 470w Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 190w
“This is a first novel which may fairly be described as promising. Praise must be given to the careful delineation of the characters of Jan and John.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p721 N 4 ’20 120w
GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. France and ourselves. *$1.50 (2½c) Century 940.344
20–5134
This collection of “Interpretative studies, 1917–1919,” is from the author’s war contributions to various American magazines, mainly to the Century. The burden of the book throughout is “We must see problems as France sees them, and we must help to solve them in the French way and not in the American.” Even when the author contrasts America’s “fourteen points” with what he is pleased to call France’s “fourteen points,” he does not consider the task hopeless. Contents: How we can help France; The tiger of France; World justice for France; The industrial effort of France during the war; Human currents of the war; The attitude of France toward peace; The reconstruction of northern France; The case against Caillaux; What confronts France.
“Much of the book must be classed less as history than as propaganda, though propaganda of a very high-minded type. But the inevitable shortcomings of the book add in another way to its value. It vibrates with the spirit of the war and with the generous enthusiasm that inspired those Americans to whom the true character of France had been revealed.” A. D. Hill
+ − Am Pol Sci R 14:730 N ’20 840w Booklist 16:308 Je ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 800w + Cath World 112:119 O ’20 210w + Ind 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w
“Much of this book is now badly out of date. Aside from this, there is much that is valuable and even timely in the book. Dr Gibbons writes with vigor and clarity of vision.”
+ − N Y Times 25:300 Je 6 ’20 950w + Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 100w
“The chapter on the attitude of France toward peace, written about a year ago, is full of matter for thought today.” T. M. Parrott
+ Review 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 120w
“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of essays.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w
GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4
20–21327
“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar; Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice; Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.
+ Booklist 17:150 Ja ’21
“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever illustrations.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p13 D 8 ’20 310w
“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p9 Ja 9 ’21 1000w R of Rs 63:112 Ja ’21 40w
GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50 Houghton
20–20218
Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has, moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915 and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession; Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece; The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest; Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral; Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire. The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.
“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.
+ Boston Transcript p 5 N 20 ’20 850w
“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it will be none the less useful.”
+ Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 150w
“What he is writing is not dignified biography, but propaganda.” Elenore Kellogg
− N Y Call p10 Ja 16 ’21 440w
“The book is one of great value, notwithstanding its lack of some of the qualities artistic and interesting biography ought to have.”
+ − N Y Times p11 Ja 9 ’21 2250w + Outlook 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 580w
“Mr Gibbons’ book is the most successful attempt to give a complete and proportioned account of Venizelos’ life.” A. E. Phoutrides
+ − Review 3:621 D 22 ’20 900w
“Aside from its strictly biographical features, this volume is a contribution to the recent history of the Balkans, as well as to that of the peace conference at Paris.”
+ R of Rs 63:109 Ja ’21 160w
“Mr Gibbons has contributed a notable addition to modern biography.” E. B. Moses
+ Survey 45:330 N 27 ’20 250w
GIBBS, GEORGE FORT. Splendid outcast. il *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–2258
In the midst of a battle Jim Horton finds his twin brother Harry, an officer with responsibility, crouching behind the lines in a “blue funk,” desperately afraid to obey his major’s orders, Jim compels Harry to change uniforms with him, takes Harry’s place, and so splendidly performs his brother’s duty that he gains for him the croix de guerre. Incidentally, Jim is seriously wounded. Recovering in the hospital he finds himself in a strange dilemma. No one believes his story. At last he grimly resolves to see the game through. This is difficult, as Harry is a dissolute crook engaged in some shady undertakings, and Jim is all that a true gentleman ought to be. Furthermore there is Harry’s beautiful bride to add more perplexing complications. Around this situation evolves a tense story, running through the underworld of Paris. In the end Jim, upon the death of his worthless brother, marries the beautiful Moira, whose marriage to Harry had been forced upon her, and who loves Jim beyond question.
“It is undeniably a dramatic story that Mr Gibbs tells. In spite of the transparent confusion of identities, he manages to keep us genuinely guessing at least part of the time.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 Ap 28 ’20 320w
“If the characters were any of them real people the probabilities of the plot would not matter so much, but they are merely the stereotyped figures who have appeared in dozens of tales of this order, and they rather detract than add to the book’s credibility.”
− + N Y Times 25:91 F 15 ’20 420w
“The book would make a tremendous movie. The moves of the detective-like story are too intricate, the action too violent, the scenes too realistic to be overlooked in this field. It is a book for tired brains and jaded moments.” Katharine Oliver
+ Pub W 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 300w
“The story moves with the rapid characteristic of Gibbs’s tales, but many of the incidents are more obviously manufactured for effect than in some of the author’s preceding books.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 14 ’20 280w
GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON. Now it can be told (Eng title, Realities of war). *$3 (1c) Harper 940.3
20–5994
“In this book I have written in a blunt way some episodes of the war as I observed them, and gained firsthand knowledge of them in their daily traffic. I have not painted the picture blacker than it was, nor selected gruesome morsels and joined them together to make a jig-saw puzzle for ghoulish delight.... I have tried to set down as many aspects of the war’s psychology as I could find in my remembrance of these years, without exaggeration or false emphasis, so that out of their confusion, even out of their contradiction, the real truth of the adventure might be seen as it touched the souls of men. Yet when one strives to sum up the evidence ... are we really poor beasts in the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas, for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict? If that is so, then God mocks at us. Or, rather, if that is so, there is no God such as we men may love with love for men.” (Part 8) Contents: Observers and commanders; The school of courage; The nature of a battle; A winter of discontent; The heart of a city; Psychology on the Somme; The fields of Armageddon; For what men died.
“The war writing of Mr Gibbs presents an interesting problem. He appears to be a reasonably sensitive observer, he has had exceptional opportunities for observing, and he writes with considerable fluency. Why, then, does his writing affect us so little?... Mr Gibbs’ style has no definite and unique outline; it is, as it were, a composite style, his voice has the indistinctness of the voice of a crowd. The style is adequate to his purpose because his sentiments have something of the same quality. They furnish, as it were, the greatest common measure of the more intelligent opinion and the more decent feeling about the war.” J. W. N. S.
+ − Ath p272 F 27 ’20 900w Booklist 16:274 My ’20
“His book is a bit querulous about the obvious indignities; but it is calm and terrible about the great wrongs.”
+ Dial 69:103 Jl ’20 90w
“The indictment of war is written in the same spirit as Barbusse’s famous novel ‘Le feu’ or Sassoon’s war poetry, and with as much literary skill as either. Mr Gibbs’ emotional reaction to the horrors of war fuses the miscellaneous details of the book into a powerful picture of the whole. His intellectual reaction is not so clear.”
+ − Ind 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“It is a great triumph for him to have written this book, to say the things he does say and reveal the facts he reveals.” F. H.
+ New Repub 22:356 My 12 ’20 2150w
“This volume marks the close of that great work done by Mr Philip Gibbs as a chronicler of war. It is a wonderful close, and a public tired of war books must not make the mistake of neglecting this, which has a frankness, a truth and a stern reality never before shown in all the literature of the war.” Cecil Robert
+ N Y Times 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 1100w
“Different from his other books in that it shows no particular design, is painfully fragmentary and reveals Mr Gibbs as an unsatisfactory psychologist.”
− N Y Times 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“A book which, however unpleasant it may be, is to all appearances both truthful and sincere. Its truthfulness is its greatest virtue. In several ways, however, the book is somewhat unsatisfactory. Its tone, one may say, is not that of well-balanced thinking or of altogether unbiassed criticism; it does not wholly convince. Furthermore, one cannot rid oneself of the feeling that Sir Philip leans somewhat toward the pacifist fallacy.”
+ − No Am 212:142 Jl ’20 1200w
“Mr Gibbs says things well: his fault is that he says them too often. Some of the repetition is clever emphasis that drives home the point while the speed saves the effect of boredom. If the book lasts it will be as a record of matters which properly belong to history, but with which history does not always deal.”
+ − Review 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 1500w Review 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 100w R of Rs 61:557 My ’20 100w
“We cannot honestly recommend anyone to read this book just now, valuable and interesting though it may be to the next and succeeding generations. Power of graphic description Sir Philip Gibbs undoubtedly has; but his bitterness of spirit and his emotional worship of youth are not moods to be prolonged at the present hour.”
− + Sat R 129:349 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“He has a keen eye for the telling detail that impresses a picture indelibly on the mind, and his quick sympathy with all who suffer helps him to keep the human side of the great tragedy foremost in our thoughts. His style is sufficient without being distinguished. He has, however, the defects of his qualities. He sees what is to be seen so intensely that he is inclined to forget the existence of what he does not see.”
+ − Spec 124:493 Ap 10 ’20 850w The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 F 29 ’20 80w
“From the beginning to the end he resolutely refused (and it is a great thing to say of him) to become familiar with war. He took no intellectual pleasure, as it was so easy to do, in all the human ingenuity that was concentrated on it. So too Mr Gibbs kept himself remote from everything that concerned war as a profession, with its inevitable indifference to suffering. He is single-minded in his desire to be the spokesman of youth that went to the war.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p151 Mr 4 ’20 900w
“If ‘The judgment of peace’ is a flame, ‘Now it can be told’ is a slow and smoldering fire. These books, accepted by mankind, would be sufficient in themselves to end war forever.” G. H.
+ World Tomorrow 3:189 Je ’20 700w
GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON. People of destiny; Americans as I saw them at home and abroad. il *$2 (5c) Harper 917.3
20–17298
In describing the life in New York and the people he met in America the author records impressions that are much the same as those of other Europeans, vid., that there is too much vastness, bustle and hubbub, too little “art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought.” In summing up the characteristics of the people he finds them “filled with vital energy, kind in heart, sincere and simple in their ways of thought and speech, idealistic in emotion, practical in conduct and democratic by faith and upbringing”; and he expresses the hope that these characteristics will help them to steer free of the dangers that threaten our liberties since the war. In telling America what England thinks of it he is holding up a warning mirror to us. Contents: The adventure of life in New York; Some people I met in America; Things I like in the United States; America’s new place in the world; What England thinks of America; Americans in Europe.
“He expresses a number of opinions about America, but they are not all consistent with one another, they belong to different emotional registers, and we feel it would be a purely arbitrary proceeding to select any consistent set of them as representative.”
+ − Ath p648 N 12 ’20 700w Booklist 17:110 D ’20
“His first few chapters are so insistently laudatory that one feels his praise issues more from his will than from his judgment, that he is simply determined to see good, and one longs—perversely, no doubt—for more shading in the picture. In the closing chapters, however, he comes to grips with his subject and gives a more balanced verdict.”
+ − Cath World 112:537 Ja ’21 770w
“Sir Philip Gibbs met so many of the right people during his stay among us that it is curious he should have learned anything whatever about America. Sir Philip’s book is occupied largely with the conventional admirations of the casual European for the physical conveniences of our civilization, with the regulation amazements about wonder cities and their subways and skylines and palaces and bejewelled parasites.” Harold Kellock
− Freeman 2:309 D 8 ’20 1150w
“In the main his studies of the American man, woman, and child at home are not only correct, but animated by a cordial pleasure in having seen people he likes, doing the things he likes.”
+ − N Y Times p2 O 3 ’20 1900w + Review 3:478 N 17 ’20 250w + Springf’d Republican p8 O 5 ’20 560w
GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON. Wounded souls. *$2 (2c) Doran
The story is not so much a novel as it is an account of the war’s effect on human souls. We see it first in Lille with its inhuman savage hatred and lust for revenge on the part of the French and a revulsion of feeling in the English soldiers from patriotism to an abomination of the war. Then the author shows us the effect of the armistice on the German people and their reviving hope kindled by the fourteen points. Again in England the same irreconcilable spirit of hatred as in France and the ruthless, morbid, neurotic sullenness of the returned soldier. Between all these forces the crushing out of love and life in the young couple—the English officer and his German wife—whose humanity had carried them beyond nationality. The whole is a drastic picture of post-war Europe.
+ Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“In this book Philip Gibbs, with powerful, vital strokes, brings home to us that the war is not yet over, although fought and won.”
+ Cath World 112:685 F ’21 290w Cleveland p105 D ’20 60w
“Only a man who has been there could introduce so much background. Mr Gibbs was either too close to his material or too much the journalist to succeed in giving the atmosphere of an invaded country as well as Sir Harry Johnston has done in ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ But his chronicle of public sentiment in England equals that of H. G. Wells’s stories of the war.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 230w
“All of the descriptive part, where the author confines himself principally to an admirable reporting of what he himself saw and heard, is extremely interesting and worth while. The fictional portion of the book is less successful.” L. M. Field
+ − N Y Times p24 O 10 ’20 1150w Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 90w
“The junkers of all nations, the militarists, the advocates of universal military training, will not thank Philip Gibbs for ‘Wounded souls,’ which must at least be credited with eloquence and disquieting vision.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 29 ’20 220w
“It is excellently done, and often moving, but it is just the feeling that everything is being made so skilfully to tell which prevents one accepting it in the spirit of real æsthetic enjoyment. Sir Philip Gibbs, like many another of us, is disillusioned, which is not surprising, but he overdraws the picture of disillusionment and spiritual decay. His shadows are all pitch dark and his lights too high.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p718 N 4 ’20 540w
GIBRAN, KAHLIL. Forerunner; his parables and poems. il *$1.50 Knopf 892.7
20–20557
This book is similar in form and thought to “The madman,” published in 1918. “You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation,” are the opening words. The five illustrations are from drawings by the author.
Bookm 52:347 D ’20 60w
“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush that is captivating.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 410w
GIBRAN, KAHLIL. Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741
20–212
“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us ‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation
Booklist 16:231 Ap ’20
“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen Mullin
+ − Nation 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w + Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w
GIBSON, CHARLES R. Chemistry and its mysteries; the story of what things are made of told in simple language. il *$1.50 Lippincott 540
20–8917
“The preface of ‘Chemistry and its mysteries,’ is addressed to the adult and sets forth the advantages of disabusing the mind of any child below high school age of the idea that chemistry is a dry and merely technical study. The author bases the book on the belief that children will become genuinely interested in science, if the subject is put before them in a manner in which they can easily grasp it. The volume is the fifth in the Science for children series, the text showing in a simple manner the inner meaning of everyday happenings and the composition of materials met in everyday life.”—Springf’d Republican
“Of interest to the adult as well as child.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 4 ’20 200w
“He certainly has achieved considerable success in a difficult task. It is unfortunate that Mr Gibson makes a few statements to which exception can be taken in themselves.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p748 D 11 ’19 550w
GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.[[2]] Neighbours. *$2 Macmillan 821
20–18067
“There is restraint and beauty in these poems which always keep close touch with men and women. Neighbours speak in the quiet of their homes a few intimate lines which open whole life stories; pretty love poems, poems of travel and picture verses are gathered with ‘In khaki’ and ‘Casualties.’”—Booklist
“Mr Gibson for us has something of the power and the achievement of his fellow-Northumbrian, Bewick. Granted that he possesses not a tithe of Bewick’s nature-knowledge, he approaches him more nearly in his reading of human nature; and when he leaves this province for the dash and splendour of Turner or even the woodland reverie of Birket Foster, he drops for a shadow the substance which he had before.” E. B.
+ − Ath p549 O 22 ’20 540w + Booklist 17:105 D ’20
“The only definitely interesting section of Mr Gibson’s new book is the first, called ‘Neighbours,’ containing a series of grim rural monologues and dialogues. The other sections are filled with turgid sonnets and monotonous quatrains about the war.” Mark Van Doren
+ − Nation 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 160w
“Admiring Mr Gibson’s careful workmanship and truth to nature, we cannot escape the feeling that at least half the time he is to the real poet as the photographer, however fine, is to the artist.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p17 N 13 ’20 250w
Reviewed by K. L. Bates
+ N Y Times p22 Ja 2 ’21 1200w
“Mr Gibson’s skill is most admirable when we consider that it is allied to poetic feeling of the utmost simplicity and depth.”
+ Spec 125:505 O 16 ’20 380w
“Mr Gibson’s latest book will not lessen his reputation as a poet, but it can scarcely add to it. For while the virtues of style and sincerity which his earlier poetry has taught us to expect, are in equal evidence here, the vices which we trusted were only incidents of his growth remain in an exaggerated condition.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p714 N 4 ’20 1350w
GILBRETH, FRANK BUNKER, and GILBRETH, LILLIAN EVELYN (MOLLER) (MRS FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH). Motion study for the handicapped. (Efficiency books) il *$4 Dutton 658.7
(Eng ed 20–6759)
“The authors maintain that there is ‘one best way’ in every industrial process, and that way can best be determined by a study of the methods of experts as revealed by motion pictures so taken as to show the path of the motion and the time required. The best way of performing an operation having been determined, the authors maintain that the cripple should be taught that method. Their enthusiastic claim is, ‘We have worked out in the laboratory the methods by which suitable occupations for cripples of any type may be determined and also methods by which training in these occupations may be transferred to the crippled learner.’ Much is said about the problem of the crippled soldier, for most of the chapters of the book were papers read before meetings of engineers in 1917 and 1918 when that subject was receiving much attention.”—Survey
Ath p452 Ap 2 ’20 500w Nature 105:737 Ag 12 ’20 950w
Reviewed by J. C. Faris
+ Survey 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w
GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD. Six thousand country churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261
19–17903
“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life, denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former volume.”—Booklist
“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan Hoben
+ Am J Soc 26:377 N ’20 180w
“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the program for the living church in America during the next generation.”
+ Bib World 54:436 Jl ’20 170w Booklist 16:188 Mr ’20 Boston Transcript p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w
“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six thousand country churches.’”
+ Ind 103:318 S 11 ’20 80w
“Certainly everybody who is at all concerned for the cause of morals and religion, every student of sociology, and every believer in the laboratory method, must feel under deep obligation to the painstaking authors of ’6,000 country churches’ for the statesmanlike survey which they have given to us.” C: E. Beals
+ Nation 110:521 Ap 17 ’20 1050w
GILLESPIE, JAMES EDWARD.[[2]] Influence of oversea expansion on England to 1700. (Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$3 Longmans 942
20–18737
“In this treatise British colonial development is approached from a new angle. The author has made a serious attempt to analyze and present the effects of early British expansion on England herself. He discusses these effects in the concrete, under the heads of social customs, commerce, industry, finance, morals and religion, thought, literature, art and politics.”—R of Rs
“He handles large quantities of fascinating material with dexterity and good sense.”
+ Nation 111:539 N 10 ’20 80w
“Mr Gillespie’s book, though sometimes inconclusive and sometimes unconvincing, particularly in what it says of political development, is illuminating and suggestive, and opens up a new field of observation and research to the historical student.”
+ − Review 3:654 D 29 ’20 340w
“Such a discussion is useful in that it brings together for the first time a variety of materials that have heretofore been widely scattered. It serves to crystallize and clarify our views of a most important period in English history.”
+ R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 100w
GITTINS, HARRY NEVILLE. Short and sweet. *$1.75 Lane
20–7428
A collection of short light stories and sketches. The author died on active service in France in 1917, aged twenty-four years. The stories originally appeared in Punch, the Liverpool Daily Post and London Opinion, and have been collected in book form by Mr Gittins’ family as a tribute to his memory. The point of most of the stories, which average about seven pages, is in the light repartee of love making rather than in action. Among the titles are: The golfing husband; Marjorie on the turf; A golfing musical comedy; By the left; A difficult handicap; A lucky escape; The married man’s advantage; The difficulty of the dance; Short and sweet, etc. At the close there is a group of verses in the same strain.
“Of gossamer texture, and seemingly dashed off without much thought, they yet give an instantly recognizable reflection of the typical British young man of good family and sufficient means. Some of the chapters suggest the daintiness of the ‘Dolly dialogues,’ while all are up to a respectable standard of literary merit.”
+ N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 400w
“They are very good examples of the light humorous vein in which the youth of this generation delight and excel. Many of them remind us of the early work of Barrie.”
+ Sat R 130:400 N 13 ’20 60w
“The little stories have a touch of original humor and are agreeable.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 100w
GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER. Literary snapshots, impressions of contemporary authors. *$1.25 Brentano’s 811
20–13197
“In these snapshots, Mr Glaenzer has brought out the literary features of his subjects. The first three groups are devoted to English, American and foreign authors, among the twenty-two of the first being Hardy, Galsworthy, Wells, Kipling, Barrie, Shaw, to Dunsany, Doyle, Hudson and Blackwood; among the fourteen American authors are Howells, Dreiser, Wharton, Tarkington, Hergesheimer, Churchill and Wister; among the ten foreign authors are France, Loti, Rolland, to Schnitzler, d’Annunzio and Boyer. Another group of prose-writers are labelled ‘Lollypops,’ among which are Harold Bell Wright, Florence L. Barclay, Robert W. Chambers, Elinor Glyn, Owen Johnson, Marie Corelli, Upton Sinclair and Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the four groups under the ‘Flicks at Pegasus,’ the poets, English and American are limned.”—Boston Transcript
“The likeness is in the impression rather than in the contours, and for that reason is much more strikingly interesting.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 25 ’19 400w
“The literary photographer has been clever in catching his victims in what the public would call ‘a characteristic and distinctive pose.’ In the case of his vers libre subjects Mr Glaenzer is successful in reflecting their styles in his own.” L. M. R.
+ − Freeman 2:69 S 29 ’20 200w
“You may not like some of the snapshots, you may violently disagree with the implied judgments—but they are all stimulating, some of them are humorous, a few bitter, and more are acutely critical.” W. P. Eaton
+ N Y Call p6 Ja 9 ’21 220w
GLASIER, JOHN BRUCE. Meaning of socialism. *$2 (4c) Seltzer 335
21–880
The book is one of the “New library of social science” series, edited by J. Ramsay Macdonald. It has an introduction by J. A Hobson, who says of socialism that its most profitable labor is in the field of “humanism”—meaning that economics, politics, art and morals are but necessary factors in the realization of higher human relationships—and that the author of the book has more successfully than any other writer of our time the humanist interpretation and outlook. The four parts of the book are: After long ages; The epoch of freedom; Socialism in existing society; Beyond all frontiers.
“Mr Glasier is badly equipped as an economist and is too impatient for rhetorical flights.” H. S.
+ − Nation 110:728 My 29 ’20 200w
“While the book contains no new departure in socialist thought, the author’s fine literary gift, his intimate knowledge of the socialist movement and his inspiring idealism make the volume an excellent first aid to the student of socialism.”
+ Socialist R 10:30 Ja ’21 110w
“Presents the fundamental idea of socialism with a large amount of ethical and humane idealism and praiseworthy grace and sweetness of temper. It is, in short, socialism suffused with the spirit of William Morris and purged of its economic one-sidedness that Mr Glasier presents.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 200w The Times [London] Lit Sup p684 N 27 ’19 1000w
GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS GEORGE CRAM COOK). Plays. *$2 Small 812
20–12185
All of Susan Glaspell’s plays have been produced by the Provincetown players and by other little theater groups and some of them have been published separately. This is the first collected edition. The collection opens with Trifles, which has been called “the best play that has been written by an American.” The other one-act plays are The people, Close the book, The outside and Woman’s honor. These are followed by the three-act play, Bernice, a play of subtle theme, one of the few attempts to write serious American drama. The collection closes with two comedies written in collaboration with George Cram Cook, Suppressed desires and Tickless time.
Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Miss Glaspell has command of crisp and forceful dialogue, but this volume, indeed, indicates clearly that her gifts are literary rather than dramatic.”
+ Cath World 112:408 D ’20 160w
“These eight plays have a literary quality and a somewhat philosophical viewpoint that make them as readable as stories. Miss Glaspell writes in a crisp, descriptive style and she shows keen insight into the underlying human motives. ‘Trifles’ is a really great play.”
+ Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“The publication of Miss Glaspell’s collected plays at last lifts them out of the tawdriness of their original production and lets them live by their own inherent life. That life is strong, though it is never rich. In truth, it is thin. Only it is thin not like a wisp of straw, but like a tongue of flame.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 111:509 N 3 ’20 1100w
“Miss Glaspell’s style, while not especially distinguished, is entertaining and easy to read.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 250w
“The well-rounded laughter of ‘Suppressed desires’ becomes a trifle more angular in the comedies from a single pen, ‘Woman’s honor,’ and ‘Close the book.’ In all the plays there is a deeper meaning, the presence of an interesting idea or ideal, yet, as in ‘Woman’s honor’ and ‘The outside,’ the idea often remains veiled. ‘Bernice’ may be read with an intensity of thought. Yet, as a play, acted upon a stage, what was intense might easily become monotonous.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 O 14 ’20 600w
“For readers who can achieve an artistic perspective in relation to these plays there is satisfaction in finding, after reading and rereading them all, that the big things are the good ones, and that the biggest is the best. It is as if Miss Glaspell hit a far target more easily than one close by.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:349 O ’20 320w Wis Lib Bul 16:235 D ’20 60w
GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON. What the workers want: a study of British labor. *$4 Harcourt, Brace & Howe 331
20–9059
As a result of five years’ study of the British, the author predicts that England will make an early and sane adjustment to the new impulses of the human spirit now striving for expression throughout the world and that she will be the first country to enter the new age equipped and unembittered. His summary of the wants of the workers today is: “The workers wish to be the public servants of community enterprise, not the hired hands of private enterprise. They refuse to work longer for a system of private profits divided in part among non-producers. They demand a share in the control and responsibilities of the work they do (not only welfare and workshop conditions, but discipline and management and commercial administration). They demand a good life, which means a standard of living (in terms of wages and hours) that provides leisure, recreation, education, health, comfort, and security.” (Chapter 1) The contents report all the important events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The judgment; The public. There is an index.
“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men in the British labor situation.”
+ Booklist 16:329 Jl ’20
“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant
+ Freeman 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w
“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for understanding the situation.”
+ Int J Ethics 31:115 O ’20 150w
“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich
+ − J Pol Econ 28:855 D ’20 1550w
“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.” G: Soule
+ Nation 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J. L.
+ New Repub 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w
“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose his head.”
+ − N Y Times p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w + Survey 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w
GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.[[2]] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst Biggs. il *$5 Lane
21–658
These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in the forest hut.
“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”
+ Int Studio 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
“An exceptionally attractive book.”
+ Spec 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w
“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p830 D 9 ’20 220w
GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT. Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150
20–7588
“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’” (Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)
Booklist 17:6 O ’20
“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting and appealing.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w
GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI. Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68
20–18316
The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being. The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.
“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”
+ N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 80w
“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably lucid.” Van Buren Thorne
+ N Y Times p5 N 14 ’20 1850w
GOLDBERG, ISAAC. Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50 Brentano’s 860
20–2423
“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets, Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru, Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and political points of view are quoted in both the original and translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican
Ath p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w
“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to hand.” J. B. T.
+ − Ath p902 D 31 ’20 520w
“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”
+ Booklist 16:270 My ’20
“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh
+ Bookm 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w
“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value. It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.” G. H. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 4 ’20 750w
“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”
+ Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 30w
“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of world literature.” T: Walsh
+ Nation 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American writers.” H. K.
+ New Repub 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w
“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately, however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things. In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens
+ − Review 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w
“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at times sparkling.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w
GOLDRING, DOUGLAS. Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre) *$1.25 Seltzer 822
20–12048
In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground that she has learned to love another. The development of the play brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a preface and there is an introduction by the author.
“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than dialogue.”
+ − Ath p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w
“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes
− + Dial 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan
− Freeman 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 580w
“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w The Times [London] Lit Sup p676 N 20 ’19 50w
GOLDRING, DOUGLAS. Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer
20–9785
The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her. At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she loves.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 52:67 S ’20 700w
“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”
+ Dial 69:432 O ’20 60w
“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C. F. L.
+ − Grinnell R 16:355 F ’21 220w
“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is convincingly inevitable.”
+ Ind 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w
“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a ‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff
− + N Y Call p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w
“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover to cover.”
+ N Y Times 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w
“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w
GOLDRING, DOUGLAS. Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer 824
20–17759
These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H. Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking back. There is an index.
“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon public idols.”
+ − Ath p827 Je 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. E. Roberts
Boston Transcript p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M. R.
+ − Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w + − Nation 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w
“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of genuine, worth-while information.”
+ N Y Times p10 O 3 ’20 640w
“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”
− + Sat R 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w
“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’ The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does not obtrude his political opinions.”
+ − Spec 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w
“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w
“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is undistinguished and sometimes slack.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p370 Je 10 ’20 300w
GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.). I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c) Sully 504
20–1376
A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions, giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.” The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air, Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity, Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.
Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 120w
GOMPERS, SAMUEL. Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331
20–224
“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)
Am Econ R 10:365 Je ’20 70w + − Booklist 16:223 Ap ’20 Brooklyn 12:97 Mr ’20 40w
“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E. D. Strong
+ − Grinnell R 15:257 O ’20 850w
“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A. F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book. The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of the American federation of labor.” James Oneal
+ − N Y Call p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
Review 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 30w
“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part, no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 F 17 ’20 140w + Survey 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w
GOMPERS, SAMUEL. Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton 331.8
20–12195
“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under the major headings.” (Survey)
“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official unionism on important labor issues.”
+ Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins
+ J Pol Econ 28:791 N ’20 530w
“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters. In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience. When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur Gleason
− + Nation 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w + R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 80w
“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty years.” J. D. Hackett
+ Survey 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w
GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.[[2]] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50 (*14s) Longmans 830.9
20–8640
“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German institutions.”—Sat R
+ Ath p605 My 7 ’20 1200w + N Y Times p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w
“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”
+ Sat R 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w
“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it, for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour
+ − Yale R n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w
GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY. Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–13567)
“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party. Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself, and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and opinions.” G. L. D.
+ Ath p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w + Boston Transcript p9 S 11 ’20 600w
“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not attach to the man.”
+ Sat R 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w
“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like ‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an instructive contribution to contemporary history.”
+ − Spec 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w
“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w
GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS. Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 335
20–6220
The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government” and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia; Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene; Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of rest; Conclusions.
Ath p226 F 13 ’20 100w Booklist 16:329 Jl ’20
“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock
+ − Freeman 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”
+ − Nation 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w
“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks had done or proposed to do.”
− Spec 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w
“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes his book of very little value.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p126 F19 ’20 260w
GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN. Poland and the minority races. *$2.50 Brentano’s 914.38
20–15472
“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p521 O 15 ’20 200w
“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise rather sordid recital.”
+ Cath World 112:405 D ’20 190w
“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.
+ Grinnell R 16:358 F ’21 250w N Y Evening Post p24 O 23 ’20 90w
“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief for either side.” Herman Bernstein
+ N Y Times p6 D 12 ’20 2150w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 100w Spec 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a government commission no reference is made to the final report of the commission.” M. A. Chickering
+ − Survey 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w
“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which, though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more elaborate works.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w
GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN. Frontier of control: a study of British workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1
20–20526
Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.
Booklist 17:141 Ja ’21
“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning complete self-government in industry.”
+ Socialist R 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
GOODWIN, JOHN.[[2]] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–14762
The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of shrewd moves on both sides.
“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood. In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden characterizations.”
− N Y Evening Post p20 O 23 ’20 140w
“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”
+ − N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 290w Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 130w The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w
GORDON, ALEXANDER REID. Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist. (Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224
(Eng ed 20–6575)
“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job, Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”
+ − Bib World 54:436 Jl ’20 280w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19 130w
GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER. Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c) Houghton 285
20–5985
This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard Theological Review for April, 1907.
Booklist 16:296 Je ’20 Boston Transcript p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w
“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”
+ − Review 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w Springf’d Republican p8 S 28 ’20 600w
GORDON, MARY DANIEL. Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little
20–17022
A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol, drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they are successful in the object of their quest.
“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 20 ’20 210w
“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 S 25 ’20 110w
GORDON-SMITH, GORDON. From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories, reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7
20–6737
To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters. The introduction contains a brief history of the political and military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which, the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is an insert general map of the Balkan war area.
Booklist 17:24 O ’20
“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 630w Ind 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w
“The book is of absorbing interest.”
+ Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w
“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”
+ − Review 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w R of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 60w
GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron. Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans 821
20–18248
“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript
Ath p472 O 8 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 52:64 S ’20 40w + − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w
“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p361 Je 10 ’20 580w
GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER. Inside story of Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3 (3½c) Doubleday 940.311
20–5203
Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the volume, points out its object as being an examination into three fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire) pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder. Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s back. There is an appendix.
“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”
+ Booklist 16:274 My ’20
“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties. Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong
+ Nation 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w
“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w R of Rs 61:445 Ap ’20 160w
GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF). Night’s lodging; scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.) *$1 Four seas co. 891.7
20–26568
This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T. Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with an equally short characterization of his dramas.
“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read. Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the stage?”
− Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 240w + Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w
GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).[[2]] Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch
The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”; always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
Reviewed by S. Koteliansky
Ath p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w
“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.
+ − Ath p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w
“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.
+ New Repub 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w
“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 250w
“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.” Herman Bernstein
+ N Y Times p3 Ja 9 21 3100w
“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug ‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”
+ Spec 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w The Times [London] Lit Sup p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w
“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive as their subject was strong and excessive.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w
GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM. Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50 Scribner 824
A20–530
“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings. Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli, and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on: Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript
“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.
+ Ath p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w Booklist 16:234 Ap ’20
“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature of criticism.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w
“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries, and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates. He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett
+ Dial 68:777 Je ’20 1550w
“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past. His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w
“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w
“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”
+ Review 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w
“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles lettres, but of the best brand.”
+ − Sat R 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w
“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays that make up the volume now before us. The best and most characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily the most striking.”
+ Spec 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w The Times [London] Lit Sup p529 O 2 ’19 1100w
GOULDING, ERNEST. Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677
This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents: Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an index.
GOWAR, EDWARD. Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little
20–16169
Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which are by Alice Bolam Preston.
+ Ind 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w
“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 S 25 ’20 100w
“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 19 ’20 50w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 70w
GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON. Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658
19–11576
“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine, good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order. Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist
“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”
+ Am Econ R 9:829 D ’19 130w Booklist 16:192 Mr ’20 + Pittsburgh 24:456 O ’19 30w
GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA. Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.
20–4216
Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.” The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.
“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance. Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg
+ − Bookm 51:232 Ap ’20 560w
“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both the Americas.”
+ − Freeman 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w
“As a piece of writing, due allowance being made for a wretched translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way. In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the Brazilian civilization of today.”
− + Nation 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w
“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective mind.”
+ − N Y Times 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w
“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Je 3 ’20 850w
GRAHAM, ALAN. Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–13547
Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious treasures.
Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“A good mystery story.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w + N Y Times p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w + Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”
+ Spec 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w
“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w
“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure, a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w
GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER. It happened at Andover; well, most of it did, anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton
20–15954
A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover, written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy; The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.
“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p8 D 12 ’20 70w
“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’; but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w
GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM. Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6
(Eng ed 20–23038)
“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’ set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the ‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published, is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post
“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking. The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current practices.”
+ Ath p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w
“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of partisanship.”
+ Int J Ethics 31:116 O ’20 120w
“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force. But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong, thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas
− + N Y Evening Post p12 O 23 ’20 720w
“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w
GRAHAM, STEPHEN. Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1
20–21927
This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors, visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively a negro problem.
“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its simple, unescapable effect.”
+ Ath p615 N 5 ’20 570w
“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 2 ’21 1100w
“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and ‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”
+ Nation 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w
“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with subsequent chapters.”
+ − N Y Times p22 D 12 ’20 1600w
“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments. Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C. Willcox
+ − Outlook 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w
“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple desire to learn the truth.”
+ R of Rs 63:112 Ja ’21 100w
“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads, Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than his own side of the question.”
− + Sat R 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w + Spec 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w
“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master. But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret differently.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 D 20 ’20 650w The Times [London] Lit Sup p727 N 11 ’20 2500w
GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL. Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814
20–14542
“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’ (Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages, New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and amusing.”
− + Ath p811 D 10 ’20 240w
“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which should interest every student of language. If there were more philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross
+ Mod Philol 18:55 Ag ’20 500w
“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument, are at times rich in illustration.”
+ − Nation 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w
“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine
+ − N Y Evening Post p5 N 6 ’20 1350w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w + Review 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w
“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof. Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure and will do so.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 O 28 ’20 70w
GRANTHAM, MRS A. E. Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822
20–17687
A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his policy of peace.” (Preface)
“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”
+ Ath p783 Je 11 ’20 160w
“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period, the play might have a success in representation.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p290 My 13 ’20 450w
GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E. True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt
20–14285
An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl, Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.
“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and, unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”
+ N Y Times p21 S 12 ’20 160w
GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.). Eve of Pascua, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–12450
With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic. A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost. Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped into the former’s place with the blind mother.
“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”
+ − Cath World 112:553 Ja ’21 70w Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w
“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w
“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of ‘Richard Dehan.’”
+ − Spec 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w
GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT. What did Jesus teach? an examination of the educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232
19–18243
“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders, and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican
“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.
+ Am J Theol 24:475 Jl ’20 150w
“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon the ethical content of the teaching.”
+ Bib World 54:647 N ’20 240w + Booklist 16:220 Ap ’20 + Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
GRAVES, ROBERT. Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821
20–6375
To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.
“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think, suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue. It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve simplicity.”
+ − Ath p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 52:65 S ’20 50w
“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the stern reality of life.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”
+ Dial 69:434 O ’20 80w
“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its meaning.”
+ − Freeman 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w
“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w
“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”
+ Spec 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w
“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with a future before him.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w
GRAY, A. HERBERT. Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230
20–8352
“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book. It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs, never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths. Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom; Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human nature? The resources of the disciple.
“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a long time.”
+ Bib World 54:552 S ’20 320w + Booklist 16:326 Jl ’20 + The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
GRAY, JOSLYN. Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner
19–15554
“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did. Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times
“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their teens.”
+ N Y Times 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w
“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their teens.” R. D. Moore
+ Pub W 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w
GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON. Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.) *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright
20–775
A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited. From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.
“Much information about customs and country.”
+ Booklist 17:122 D ’20
“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 480w + Cath World 111:412 Je ’20 90w
GREENBIE, SIDNEY. Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2
20–9726
It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2. The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There are many illustrations and an index.
+ Booklist 17:67 N ’20
“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver
+ − Bookm 51:633 Ag ’20 400w
“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time; best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”
+ Dial 69:323 S ’20 90w
“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator, the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien
+ N Y Times 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w
“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense, it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”
+ No Am 212:719 N ’20 480w
“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.
+ St Louis 18:250 O ’20 40w
“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 360w
“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people; and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes without malice.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p681 O 21 ’20 900w + Yale R n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL. Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8
(Eng ed Agr20–1194)
This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died shortly before the publication of his book.
“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w + Pratt p18 O ’20 30w The Times [London] Lit Sup p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w
GREGG, FRANK MOODY. Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran
This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden, accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.
“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can, and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer
+ Bookm 52:125 O ’20 110w Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 560w
“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to history in this form.”
+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w
“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for adolescent study.”
+ N Y Times p22 N 14 ’20 600w + Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w
“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”
+ Review 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w
GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady. Dragon; a wonder play in three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822
20–13121
An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo, accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from start to finish.
“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”
+ Ind 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w
“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”
− + N Y Evening Post p19 O 23 ’20 240w
“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”
+ − Review 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w
“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing, imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”
+ − Spec 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w
“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to carry the interest from beginning to end.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 O 19 ’20 330w
“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these super-serious times.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 5:84 Ja ’21 270w
GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady, comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam 398.2
20–26541
These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray, and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth; Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts; Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.
“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.
+ Ath p550 O 22 ’20 1250w Booklist 16:299 Je ’20
“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class; folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w
“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening, but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum
+ Dial 69:300 S ’20 1400w + Ind 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w
“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race must have this book.” B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w
“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”
+ Outlook 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w
“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general psychologist.” H. L. Stewart
+ Review 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w
“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”
− Sat R 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W + The Times [London] Lit Sup p613 S 23 ’20 1700w
GREGORY, JACKSON. Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–8277
Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ... burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all ends happily.
Booklist 16:312 Je ’20
“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble that he is a little hard to bear.”
+ − Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w
“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”
+ − NY Times 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w
“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”
+ Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks much of the probability in his previous stories.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 120w
GREGORY, JACKSON. Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner
20–19919
When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much. Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.
“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort of blind, blundering vigor.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 120w
“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”
+ − N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 380w
GREGORY, ODIN. Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812
20–13984
“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who, forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace.... In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted, when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry, sandy beach.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w
“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter of the old forms.” C. M. S.
+ − Grinnell R 16:330 Ja ’21 480w
“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 D 6 ’20 720w
“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are not there.”
− + Theatre Arts Magazine 5:84 Ja ’21 480w
GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL), and SPALDING, KATIE. Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour. il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19
20–5733
In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell, and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique illustrations tell a story of their own.
“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right illustrations.”
+ Booklist 16:309 Je ’20
“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her husband’s accounts.”
+ Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous temperament.” Archibald MacMechan
+ Review 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w
“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine viewpoint.”
+ R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 60w
“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w
GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM). Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand
20–3856
“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography [is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs
Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20
“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w
“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord
+ − Nation 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w
“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”
+ R of Rs 61:444 Ap ’20 160w
GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount. Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824
20–5788
The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the purpose of observing birds.
“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound. We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.
+ − Ath p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w
“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic warmth and color.”
+ Nation 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w
“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very frequently abused—‘cultured.’”
+ Outlook 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w
“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan
+ Review 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w
“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”
+ Spec 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w
“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 27 ’20 180w + Survey 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w
GREY, ZANE. Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper
20–2265
Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl, newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp witnesses an unusual honeymoon.
“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane Grey.”
+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20
“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done, while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of the splendid Ranger.”
+ − N Y Times 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w
“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide spaces.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs, which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book is among the author’s best stories.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w
“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w
GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT. Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell
20–13979
The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains, where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country. Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss; The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren of the Rhine.
+ El School J 21:157 O ’20 80w + Ind 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w + Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 180w
GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT. Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il *$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4
20–10074
“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls. Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance; Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state; Index; Illustrations.
“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate, thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer
+ − Bookm 52:125 O ’20 90w’
“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the reader.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 380w
“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”
+ − Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w + N Y Times p15 O 3 ’20 80w
“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”
+ R of Rs 62:335 S ’20 60w
GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL. Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2 Manual arts press 371.42
20–10299
This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary connections between the more general courses in educational psychology and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.
“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”
+ Booklist 17:52 N ’20
“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction, nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose in an admirable degree.”
+ El School J 21:236 N ’20 640w N Y P L New Tech Bks p67 Jl ’20 80w
“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”
+ School Arts Magazine 20:41 S ’20 120w
GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS). Lure of the manor. *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
A20–1264
The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent, is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent, also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s real character.
“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”
+ − Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming forced and artificial.”
+ − N Y Times 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w
“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of being artificial and exaggerated.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 190w
GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL. Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan
20–19507
This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island, reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island. Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a satisfactory conclusion.
Ath p194 F 6 ’20 90w + Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 D 4 ’20 230w
“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 170w
“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is most prodigal of her good things.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p85 F 5 ’20 630w
GROGAN, GERALD. William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane
20–7728
This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico, where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales, The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.
+ Ath p1386 D 19 ’19 80w
“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.
+ Boston Transcript p11 My 15 ’20 500w
“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”
+ N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w
“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is the all-important one will enjoy the book.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p698 N 27 ’19 280w
GROSSMANN, LOUIS. Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377
19–27517
“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this ‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music, etc.”—Am J Soc
“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow
+ Am J Soc 25:502 Ja ’20 340w
“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”
+ Booklist 16:42 N ’19
“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”
+ Cleveland p55 My ’20 50w
GROVE, SIR GEORGE.[[2]] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6 Macmillan 780.3
This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an historical introduction with chronological register of names; the second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index. The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired that this volume should include continuations of those articles that relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”
GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il *$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3
20–6493
A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction. They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H. Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,” “Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.
“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind it in quality.” A. A. W.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a starving man.”
− N Y Times 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w
GUILD, ROY BERGEN, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261
20–17803
The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service; Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will; Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D.D.; Appendix.
+ Booklist 17:92 D ’20
“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch work.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 D 1 ’20 630w N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 100w
GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND. Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il $1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812
20–84
The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university; Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman, University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury, University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.
“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”
+ Cath World 111:698 Ag ’20 90w
“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical expertness.”
+ N Y Evening Post p2 F 14 ’20 500w
GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.[[2]] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden. *$2 Stokes
“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times
+ Ath p1050 O 17 ’19 50w
“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w
“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its charm as a human document.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p600 O 30 ’19 1050w
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR. Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811
20–3010
In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been “martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood, piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period; Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.
“A delightfully whimsical book.”
+ Booklist 16:234 Ap ’20
“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked it.” W. A. Barrett
+ Bookm 51:476 Je ’20 700w
“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet. These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w
“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”
+ Cleveland p51 My ’20 40w + − Dial 69:211 Ag ’20 80w
“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat disappointingly worked out.”
+ Ind. 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w
“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth its price twice over.” B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w + N Y Times 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w
“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the season.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 F 26 ’20 240w
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.[[2]] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895
20–19184
“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan, clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call
“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of philosophy.” L. B.
− Freeman 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w
“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich proverb-literature which exists in English.”
+ Nation 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w
“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w
“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w
GUITRY, SACHA.[[2]] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842
This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in “The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.
GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY. Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. *$2.50 Macmillan 336
20–10284
This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal research and the training school for the public service. Its object is to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are: The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system; Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system; Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.
“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford
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“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting book.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 320w
“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard
+ Nation 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w R of Rs 62:109 Jl ’20 60w
“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson
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GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY. Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790
20–4701
Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals; The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression; Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth; Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization; Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds; Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.
“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”
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“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his treatment.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w
“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and educators as well.” S. L. Jean
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GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.). Air pirate. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
20–26883
The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to death more than once.
Booklist 17:71 N ’20
“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into plausibility.”
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GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.). Selling your services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg., N.Y. 658
20–6660
Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell, that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are here edited and collected into book form by the author. John Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case alive; Index.
GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis Wilson, H. W. 051
The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
“Indispensable aid.”
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GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE. Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44
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“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in ‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican
Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w
“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few short pages.”
+ Springf’d Republican p16 O 19 ’19 220w
GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS. Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes 891.6
A20–768
“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907, representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered, severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland (1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS. John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans
20–5238
“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty, and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the seal of his blood.’”—Ath
“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the general reader.”
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“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading for those informed on Irish politics.”
+ Booklist 16:278 My ’20
“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski
+ Nation 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w
“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”
+ Nation [London] 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w
“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart
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“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel that he is an honourable political opponent.”
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“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule.... Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w
“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His work is one which every student of modern politics should read and read at once. There has been no more important publication on the Irish question during recent years.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p642 N 13 ’19 950w
Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor
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