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IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE. Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him. il $1.50 Christian herald pub.
19–14241
“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint. He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious life.”—Boston Transcript
“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of Roosevelt’s personality.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 F 11 ’20 160w Nation 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w
“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”
+ − Outlook 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w R of Rs 62:419 O ’20 950w Springf’d Republican p10 My 4 ’20 180w
ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of. Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner
(20–4450)
“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things. What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history is primarily a biography. But during at least the first five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House, at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence, much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page. The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker
+ Am Hist R 26:87 O ’20 750w + Ath p206 F 13 ’20 1700w
“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry, have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”
− + Sat R 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w
“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his ‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”
+ Spec 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w
“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p73 F 5 ’20 3650w
In the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–19505
The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs ‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on life and books.
“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up, is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K. M.
+ Ath p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w + Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.
+ Boston Transcript p8 O 16 ’20 520w
“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression. Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”
+ Cleveland p105 D ’20 50w
“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer
+ N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 580w
“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present book is her first.”
+ N Y Times p24 O 3 ’20 500w
“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of touch.”
+ Sat R 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w Spec 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w
“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and power.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w
“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of analysis.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:194 N ’20 180w
INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD). Love and the crescent; a tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes
20–11299
The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war. It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights, deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.
“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very interesting.”
+ − N Y Times 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a real live human being.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w
INGALESE, RICHARD. History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 131
20–10777
The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past, present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers; Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of opulence. There is an index.
INGE, WILLIAM RALPH. Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204
20–18249
“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions. To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec
“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”
+ − Ath p1167 N 7 ’19 250w
“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness, epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his fearlessness.”
+ Ath p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w + Booklist 17:49 N ’20
“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal consequences.” O. L. Joseph
+ − Bookm 51:237 Ap ’20 700w
“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w
“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”
+ − Dial 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the ‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved Smith
+ − Nation 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w
“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals, institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D. S. M.
+ New Repub 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w
“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”
+ Review 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w + Spec 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w + Springf’d Republican p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)
“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19 2050w
INGERSOLL, ERNEST. Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5
“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead, whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)
“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and excellently illustrated.”
+ N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 160w N Y Times p10 O 10 ’20 500w
INGPEN, ROGER, ed.[[2]] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs 821.08
20–19453
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs; Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise; Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.
INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. Report on the steel strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89
20–16529
In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint. These findings justify the strike in its central phase and substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference; Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian findings); Appendices and index.
“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M. Janes
+ Am Econ R 10:877 D ’20 1900w Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“One of the most important documents in the history of American industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W: Z. Foster
+ Freeman 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w
“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult. This work is invaluable.” James Oneal
+ N Y Call p11 D 12 ’20 370w
Reviewed by L. K. Frank
+ Pub W 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w The Times [London] Lit Sup p655 O 7 ’20 90w + Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 90w
“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman, newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s commission.”
+ World Tomorrow 3:349 N ’20 560w
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS. Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press 613
20–15934
The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25, 1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes, contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health; The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in marriage.
“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these discussions.”
+ N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w
IRWIN, FLORENCE. Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
20–6636
Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her. She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.
“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400 pages.”
+ − N Y Times 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w Spec 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w
IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.). Suffering husbands. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–10767
A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled; Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.
Booklist 17:33 O ’20 Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.). Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6843
A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists. Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin, Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in the end to Oliver and his mules.
+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
Bookm 51:443 Je ’20 60w + Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 370w
“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”
+ Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph Cheyney
− + N Y Call p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is intended to caricature.”
+ − N Y Times 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w
“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
ISE, JOHN. United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9
20–8898
“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”
+ Booklist 17:58 N ’20
“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard
+ Nation 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w
“A well written and nontechnical book.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 S 24 ’20 260w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w
IVES, HERBERT EUGENE. Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott 778
20–7599
Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate the text and there is an index.
Booklist 16:268 My ’20
“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and useful information.”
+ Cleveland p88 O ’20 30w
“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual for class or self instruction.”
+ Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w + Spec 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w
IVEY, PAUL WESLEY. Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan 658
20–3332
“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of personality which make a successful salesman; these include enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N Y Evening Post
“An interesting and practical book for department store classes. Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”
+ Booklist 16:265 My ’20
“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a good one of its kind.”
+ N Y Evening Post p13 My 8 ’20 150w