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KAHN, OTTO HERMANN. Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304
20–11152
A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.
Am Econ R 10:810 D ’20 30w Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
+ Dial 69:323 S ’20 140w
“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”
+ N Y Times p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w
“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”
+ No Am 212:426 S ’20 1350w
“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are particularly good.”
+ Review 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 300w + − Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w
KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW. Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday 947
20–14311
The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the deliverer.
Booklist 17:142 Ja ’21
Reviewed by W: Hard
* New Repub 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w
“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w
“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any such illusion.”
+ No Am 212:431 S ’20 750w
“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter
+ Outlook 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w
KANE, ROBERT. Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170
“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath
Ath p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w
“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index has been omitted.”
+ − Cath World 111:825 S ’20 370w The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w
KARSNER, DAVID. Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright
20–978
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”
+ − Booklist 17:152 Ja ’21
“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the literature of the day.”
+ − Cath World 111:836 S ’20 160w
“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”
+ Dial 68:402 Mr ’20 80w
“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter
+ Nation 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait, which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − Review 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w R of Rs 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the historical sources to the extent that he might under different circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is excellent.” W. L. C.
+ Survey 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w
“Not needed by all small libraries.”
+ − Wis Lib Bul 16:123 Je ’20 50w
KARTINI, raden adjeng. Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf
20–20025
The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her achievements in that direction.
+ Booklist 17:112 D ’20
“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:346 D ’20 1100w
“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid manner.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 30 ’20 600w
“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however, her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”
+ − Dial 70:231 F ’21 100w
“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w + Nation 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
+ New Repub 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w
KAY, BARBARA. Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18511
Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”
+ Dial 69:548 N ’20 40w
“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 50w
KAY, BARBARA. Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18510
After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,” Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister, and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part. And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.
+ Dial 69:548 N ’20 40w + N Y Evening Post p11 O 30 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 50w
KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA. Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton
20–7297
“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath
“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’ creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself—an invention rather than a copy.”
+ Ath p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w
“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted, and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it, so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.
− + Ath p881 S 12 ’19 1200w
“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”
+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20 + Boston Transcript p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19)
“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 19 ’20 1500w
“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”
+ − Dial 69:320 S ’20 70w
“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book ‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H. S. G.
+ Freeman 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w
“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly move the reader.”
+ N Y Times 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w
“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w
“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which observation and local knowledge are happily united to very considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”
+ Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w
KEABLE, ROBERT. Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
20–15963
“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
+ − Cath World 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
+ − N Y Times 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE. Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
20–10564
Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent, omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers; Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth; Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English names.
+ Booklist 17:17 O ’20 + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w
KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE. Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75 Oxford 967
(Eng ed 19–12919)
“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial
Brooklyn 12:106 Mr ’20 50w Dial 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w
“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious, exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst
+ Eng Hist R 35:290 Ap ’20 950w
Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois
+ Nation 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w
“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state is exact and scholarly.”
+ Spec 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w
“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for affairs, and financial skill.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w
KEITH, ERIC A. My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47
20–2039
Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of which the third was successful. This American edition of the book contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.
“Vigorously written.”
+ Booklist 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
+ N Y Times 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w + Review 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 N 28 ’18 70w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore
+ Pub W 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is written in an entertaining vein.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper
20–7299
They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”
Booklist 17:34 O ’20
“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”
− + Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 120w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
20–18251
“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
+ − Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 100w + − Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 230w
KELLEY, ETHEL MAY. Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times
Booklist 16:313 Je ’20 + N Y Times 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 420w
KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG). Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.
“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”
+ Booklist 16:269 My ’20
“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”
+ Boston Transcript My 19 ’20 230w + Cath World 112:398 D ’20 170w
Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman
+ J Home Econ 12:425 S ’20 340w
“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”
+ Nation 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w + Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.
+ St Louis 18:223 S ’20 40w + Springf’d Republican p6 O 26 ’20 840w
KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG). Mercier; the fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
20–5667
The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book, parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal Mercier’s works concludes the book.
Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
+ Cath World 111:687 Ag ’20 380w
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
+ Nation 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
+ N Y Times p11 O 17 ’20 70w + − Outlook 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout reverence.” M. K. Reely
+ − Pub W 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w + R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 100w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w The Times [London] Lit Sup p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–8244
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,” describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food administration, and the American relief administration. Four appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and speeches.
+ Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20 Cleveland p77 Ag ’20 80w
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”
+ Ind 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w + Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 120w The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 O 21 ’20 70w
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
20–17603
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
+ Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”
+ Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
− Nation 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
+ Pub W 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 18 ’20 120w
KELLY, FRED CHARTERS. Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
A20–714
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
“Interesting but rather obvious.”
+ − Booklist 16:265 My ’20
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements of conduct.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 260w
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w The Times [London] Lit Sup p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w
KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN. American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
20–14756
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne
+ N Y Times p14 O 31 ’20 2500w
KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD. What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
20–3794
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of the grave in France.
+ Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a success.” I. W. L.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w
KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD. Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–12187
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis) “Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 1300w Dial 70:109 Ja ’21 40w
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found ‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are gathered here.” L. B.
− Freeman 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before, though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
− + Nation 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 160w St Louis 18:247 O ’20 30w
KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.[[2]] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
20–17967
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past. A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to justice.”—N Y Times
“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping, straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 160w
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery, admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p801 D 2 ’20 80w
KENEALY, ARABELLA. Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
(Eng ed SG20–92)
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
Ath p621 My 7 ’20 120w
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
− N Y Evening Post p7 O 30 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length, and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
+ − Sat R 129:436 My 8 ’20 800w
“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
+ − Spec 125:20 Jl 3 ’20 500w
KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER. Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6 Macmillan 852
20–8020
Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who, across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life, a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work, the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an index and three illustrations.
Ath p266 Ag 27 ’20 2150w + Booklist 17:62 N ’20
“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French and Italian citations.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 900w
“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”
+ Nation 111:511 N 3 ’20 250w
“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 720w R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 60w + Spec 125:476 O 9 ’20 180w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 350w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p547 Ag 26 ’20 1250w
KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER. Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–19583
The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson, Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims, and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s innocence, true love comes to its own.
“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern Italy.”
+ N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 90w
“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know his Venice.”
+ N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 470w
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN. Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822
20–6980
An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.
Booklist 16:271 My ’20 Nation 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 260w
“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton
− + N Y Call p10 Ap 18 ’20 520w
“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught, and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues of its journey.”
− + Review 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment, falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is, is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”
+ − Theatre Arts Magazine 4:255 Jl ’20 380w
KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.[[2]] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230
20–15157
“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the theology of the developing church.”—Ath
Ath p1016 O 10 ’19 60w
“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”
+ Bib World 54:644 N ’20 240w
KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE. Jesus’ principles of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232
20–12830
“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the other in political science, have worked together to expound the teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript
“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this volume.”
+ Bib World 54:649 N ’20 180w
“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal and of the abstract.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 470w
“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”
− Cath World 112:257 N ’20 100w
“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the reader.” B. L.
+ − Survey 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w
KENT, ROCKWELL. Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il *$5 Putnam
20–6728
Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is that which we believe it to be.”
“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art, we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.
+ − Ath p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w + Booklist 16:309 Je ’20
Reviewed by H: McBride
Dial 69:91 Jl ’20 800w
“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening
+ Freeman 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w
“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like ‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the wilderness.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’ is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys is not a mere surmise.”
+ Outlook 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is ‘Wilderness.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
KEON, GRACE. Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
20–5124
“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and felt that she really could not take him into her household of six small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father, Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times
“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 My 8 ’20 120w
“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”
+ Cath World 111:696 Ag ’20 120w
“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”
+ N Y Times 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL. Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia univ. press 940.373
20–3590
Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia, and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American scholarship; What have we learned?
Nation 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w
KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS. Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1
20–13602
“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review
Booklist 17:53 N ’20
“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”
+ Freeman 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w
“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist, not only without effective protest but largely with their acquiescence.” E. A. S.
+ Grinnell R 16:309 D ’20 260w
“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”
+ Nation 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w
“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w
“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”
+ No Am 212:575 O ’20 300w
“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America. Typographically the book is not attractive.”
+ Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w
“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”
+ Review 3:538 D 1 ’20 300w
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
+ Survey 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134
20–17391
Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy, while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.” Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its details.”
+ − Ath p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w + N Y Times 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p6 Je 1 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19 60w
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane
20–8544
This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”; Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
Ath p1275 N 28 ’19 40w + Booklist 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 51:569 Jl ’20 920w + Boston Transcript p11 My 15 ’20 1450w
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s ‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
+ Cath World 111:831 S ’20 90w
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression of their real greatness.”
+ − Nation 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means destitute of revealing touches.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p730 D 11 ’19 750w
KERR, R. WATSON. War daubs. *$1 Lane 821
20–5692
This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.” Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.
Booklist 17:22 O ’20 Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w
“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”
− + Dial 68:667 My ’20 80w
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p11 My 8 ’20 220w N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p634 N 6 ’19 60w
KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD). Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
20–7762
Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s unfaithfulness.
Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20 Bookm 52:253 N ’20 120w
“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief characters are very real.”
+ Ind 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that ‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent craftsmanship.”
+ − N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w
“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality. Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 300w
“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy) husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so attractive a feature in some American novels.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w
KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON. Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543
The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.” (Preface to the second edition)
“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to every industrial chemist.”
+ Nature 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w
KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD. Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94
20–2057
As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to “re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.
“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C. J. Bushnell
+ Am J Soc 26:238 S ’20 640w
“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg
− + Am Pol Sci R 14:341 My ’20 750w
“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of individuals.” C. L. King
+ − Ann Am Acad 90:173 Jl ’20 300w
“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination. In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and domination.”
+ + − Ath p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w
“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to widely differing political factions.”
+ Booklist 16:199 Mr ’20
“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip
+ Bookm 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w
“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle
+ − Dial 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w
“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may understand.” W: C. Bullitt
+ + Freeman 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w Lit D p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w
“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral indignation.” H. J. Laski
+ + Nation 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w + Nation [London] 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w
“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are yet hanging.” A. A. Young
+ − New Repub 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w
“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve. Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league of nations.” P. D. Cravath
+ + − N Y Sun and Herald p11 F 2 ’20 3600w
“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet, and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the ‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen
− N Y Times 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w N Y Times 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”
+ − Review 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w R of Rs 61:336 Mr ’20 210w
“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages of this book.”
+ Sat R 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Arthur Gleason
+ Socialist R 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w
“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last, ‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves attention.”
− + Spec 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w
“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation [London] 26:426 D 20 ’19) Springf’d Republican p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w
“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he appears to have little interest or understanding.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w
“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires. Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual treatment than he himself proposes.”
+ − World Tomorrow 3:94 Mr ’20 260w
“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour
− + Yale R n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w
KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN. Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer; with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s
20–10008
“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July 30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston Transcript
Boston Transcript p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w + Cath World 112:255 N 20 220w
“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay, and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of these memories.”
+ − Review 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w
KIMBALL, EVERETT. National government of the United States. *$3.60 (1½c) Ginn 342.7
20–5064
The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical origins and the development of our national political institutions and the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered, authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution; Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance; Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United States and there is an index.
“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the essential principles of our national political system which will give him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.” Ralston Hayden
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:722 N ’20 880w + Ath p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w Booklist 17:54 N ’20
“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is no new interpretation of our national system, but there is compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson
+ − Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:154 S ’20 620w
“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly, discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a reasonable degree of readability.”
+ Review 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w + R of Rs 61:560 My ’20 150w Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science. Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that even a layman without any training in political science can understand.” J: E: Oster
+ Survey 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w
KING, BASIL. Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper
20–14599
A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it, returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will open up to him.
“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”
+ − Booklist 17:117 D ’20
“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit; only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to be an error.”
+ − Bookm 52:273 N ’20 170w
“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King, and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 800w + Cath World 112:406 D ’20 320w
“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally fastidious reader.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w
“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers, the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 550w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p781 N 25 ’20 120w Wis Lib Bul 16:194 N ’20 180w
KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS. Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van Nostrand 540.3
(Eng ed 20–10609)
A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.
“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.
+ − Nature 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w
“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”
+ − N Y P L New Tech Bks p25 Ap ’20 20w
KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10006
Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity, Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and birds in sonnet and short lyric form.
“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W. S. B.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910
20–9990
In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between 1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889 published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in 1913.
“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the greater the obstruction.” V. W.
− + Ath p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w + Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”
+ − Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w
“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly over-stimulated nervous system.”
− Freeman 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight of Monadnock.’”
+ Ind 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w New Repub 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w
“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic, not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews
+ − N Y Times 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow, these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”
+ − Review 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w
“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.
+ St Louis 18:231 S ’20 60w
“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us see things and understand things.”
+ Spec 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w
“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as inevitably out of date.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w
“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 120w
KIRBY, ELIZABETH. Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran
20–15953
Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness. First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius, held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy prince at last.
“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”
+ N Y Times p26 S 12 ’20 240w
“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she compels the reader to share.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w
KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.[[2]] Wealth: its production and distribution. *$2.25 Dutton 330
“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land, labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican
Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 S 23 ’20 70w
KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA. View vertical, and other essays. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814
20–17902
Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman; Gift-books and book-gifts.
“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”
+ Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip suits a cat.”
+ Bookm 52:266 N ’20 130w
“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen perception of just what her own position ought to be.”
+ Freeman 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w
“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p18 O 23 ’20 200w Wis Lib Bul 16:235 D ’20 70w
KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY. Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15
20–8868
“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, ‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes. Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining, stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training. Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic, geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School R
“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to all students of educational psychology.”
+ El School J 21:153 O ’20 290w
“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K. Gordon
+ − J Philos 18:54 Ja ’21 150w + School R 28:638 O ’20 420w
KLAPPER, PAUL, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3
20–5826
A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S. P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E. Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2 covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany a number of the papers and there is an index.
+ Booklist 16:330 Jl ’20
“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual and prospective college teachers.”
+ School R 28:551 S ’20 290w
KLEIN, DARYL. With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.48
20–6740
The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple, jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The book is illustrated.
“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the crop of war books.”
+ Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 60w + Booklist 16:340 Jl ’20
“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these ‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating, free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 14 ’20 150w
“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial humanity.”
+ Sat R 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 280w
“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p770 D 18 ’19 160w
KLEIN, HERMAN. Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century
20–17976
Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for which she had designated the author of the present volume as her collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an index.
+ Booklist 17:113 D ’20
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
Bookm 52:166 O ’20 1250w
“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times p4 O 17 ’20 2450w R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 190w The Times [London] Lit Sup p773 N 25 ’20 1300w
KLEISER, GRENVILLE. Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk 808.5
Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371); Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it (20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for speakers and writers (20–7283).
“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H. H. F.
+ Boston Transcript p9 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in volume 1 Mr Kleiser gives a chapter of Quintilian that is worth appreciably more than all of Mr Kleiser. His additions to it subtract from it by hiding it from the casual gaze.”
− + Nation 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 220w
“The suggestions are sensible, sound, comprehensive, and written in terse and understandable language. Many practiced speakers could improve their style by following them.”
+ Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p11a May 30 ’20 150w
KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH). Lure of the pen. *$2.50 (4c) Putnam 808
20–6889
In her preface to the American edition of this “Book for would-be authors” the author says, “No one can teach authors how or what to write; but sometimes it is possible to help the beginners to an understanding of what it is better not to write.” She tells these beginners why they fail, emphasizes the need of training, tells them three essentials in training and how to acquire them. She also tells them how to give themselves a course in observation and how to assess spiritual values. The contents are in five parts: The mss. that fail; On keeping your eyes open; The help that books can give; Points a writer ought to note; Author, publisher, and public.
“The author gives much good advice (a great deal of it very elementary) to literary aspirants.”
+ − Ath p445 Je 6 ’19 120w
“Practical in many respects, the book is of little use in teaching the ‘would-be author’ how to become an artist. Miss Klickmann’s instruction is from an editorial standpoint, not from the artist’s, and as such her volume has its value for the novice who knows no better than to believe that literary greatness and fame come with a successful appearance in the magazines.”
+ − Boston Transcript p10 Ap 17 ’20 550w + Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 20w
“Her book is remarkably well done, and may very well help some real talent on its way; and, apart from that, it is written in so lively a style, so full of piquant anecdote and illustration, that it is a pity that the more sophisticated reader, who would really much more enjoy it than the ‘would-be’ author for whom it is written, is not likely to encounter it.” R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times 25:8 Je 27 ’20 900w
“Miss Klickmann’s work is adapted not only to people without knowledge but to people without brains. There is an iteration of the familiar, an elaboration of the simple, an elucidation of the clear.”
− Review 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 650w
“It might be said that if a young writer fails to profit by this inspirational book he had better leave off his attempts to write.”
+ R of Rs 62:224 Ag ’20 100w
“The substance of the teaching is helpful, and the manner encouraging without being effusive.”
+ Spec 122:737 Je 7 ’19 300w
“On the professional side, her suggestions are of great practical value. If any adverse criticism can be made, it is that she does not classify thoroughly her comment on the various types of material discussed. Miss Klickmann’s advice is not effusively or obscurely pedantic. It is all breezy and to the point.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 12 ’20 800w
“She wields herself a very bright and ready pen, and out of the abundance of her experience she gives in a flow of headed paragraphs helpful advice on every side of the subject.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p314 Je 5 ’19 100w
KLUCK, ALEXANDER VON. March on Paris and the battle of the Marne, 1914. il *$3.50 Longmans 940.4
(Eng ed 20–10378)
“Alexander von Kluck, generaloberst, has written a book about his Belgian and French adventure. It was completed in February, 1918, on the eve of the great German offensive in Picardy. It is the personal observations, impressions and opinions of a commanding general who reviews his own actions in the quietude of his study and illustrates them with the orders issued to him and by him, but with very little information beyond the manoeuvres of his own army in the field and almost none of the enemy. Evidently the sub-title to the book, ‘The battle of the Marne,’ is a characterization of the British editors, for the author calls it ‘The battle on the Ourcq’ and devotes the last third of the book to it. Still, if the British editors have given the book a title which shall more pointedly appeal to readers of English, they have also furnished the book with something far more important: Footnotes by the experts of the Committee of imperial defense. These notes check up von Kluck’s data, correct his errors, and often qualify his conclusions.”—N Y Times
“His book lacks the attractive personality and humor of Ludendorff’s, the intimate observations of von Hindenburg’s. There is nothing picturesque about it. All the same, as has been said, the military historian will find therein a mine of academic information which he cannot afford to leave unexplored.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times 25:19 Jl 25 ’20 2650w Sat R 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1150w
“A valuable contribution to military history.”
+ Spec 124:729 My 29 ’20 430w
KNAPPEN, THEODORE MACFARLANE. Wings of war; with an introd. by D. W. Taylor. il *$2.50 Putnam 940.44
20–15470
“This book describes in detail the contribution made by the United States to aircraft invention, engineering and production during the world war. Five of the most important chapters are devoted to the origin, development and production of the famous Liberty engine. Mr Knappen is among those who believe that in spite of all the revelation of Congressional investigations made during the past two years the aircraft achievements of our government, considering our unpreparedness at the outset, were highly creditable.”—R of Rs
Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w R of Rs 62:445 O ’20 110w
KNIBBS, HENRY HERBERT. Songs of the trail. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–19670
Poems of the far West and the cattle trails. Among the titles are: I have builded me a home; The pack train; The hour beyond the hour; The sun-worshipers; Gods of the red men; Arizona; Trail song; Waring of Sonora-Town; The long road West; Old San Antone.
+ Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“This is the West, seen first hand but seen through the perspective of Mr Knibbs’ Harvard training. One may suspect that these westerners are a bit more intellectual than the average cowpuncher, but the poems perhaps are the more readable for it.” C. F. G.
+ Grinnell R 16:332 Ja ’21 290w
“Good, honest work of its kind, with occasional beauty and much narrative interest. ‘The wind’ is a strong and individual poem, especially fine in atmosphere and imagery. Mr Knibbs is far more of a poet than the much advertised Robert W. Service.”
+ N Y Evening Post p17 N 13 ’20 150w
KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR. Mayflower maid. il *$1.90 (3c) Century
20–16501
A story of the coming of the Pilgrims. Barbara Gorges is a timid motherless girl who starts out with her father from Leyden in the Speedwell. When the Speedwell and the Mayflower are obliged to run in to Plymouth, Barbara’s father becomes the victim of a fatal accident and she is left an orphan. Fortunately for her, she is taken under the protection of Myles Standish and his wife Rose. The story then follows closely the historical narrative, and describes the trip across the Atlantic, the landing at Plymouth, the first hard winter, the death of Rose Standish, the relations with the Indians, the love story of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and finally that of Myles Standish and Barbara herself.
“More interesting than Taggart’s ‘Pilgrim maid,’ gives a good picture of life in the colony.”
+ Booklist 17:78 N ’20
KNOWLES, MORRIS. Industrial housing. *$5 McGraw 331.83
20–16847
“Morris Knowles, an engineer of vast experience and the chief engineer of the housing division of the United States Shipping board, understanding the need of the interdependence of engineer, architect, town planner, landscape gardener, sanitarian, utility designer, contractor, real estate agent and the public spirited business man and city official in the development of a successful city plan and in the solution of the housing problem, has written the book, ‘Industrial housing.’ Housing is taken in its broadest meaning, with all its relations to other problems. The town plan, streets and pavements, water supply, sewerage, waste disposal and public utilities are some of the specifically municipal problems treated in this work. Illustrations and charts, a good bibliography and an analytical index complete its usefulness.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial housing.”
N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w
“The book is a store of invaluable information.”
+ − Survey 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w
KOBRIN, LEON. Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I: Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s
20–6127
“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where ‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of the soul of the new world.”—New Repub
+ Booklist 17:34 O ’20
“The whole work is frankly realistic, softening no oaths and tempering no vices. Yet withal, it is a refreshing bit of reading, for despite the bitterness and ugliness floating like scum on the waters of that ghetto life, one never quite loses consciousness of the great deep cleanness beneath it all. In that Kobrin proves himself a master: his realism is suggestive and translucent, not blunt and opaque.” L: Brown
+ New Repub 24:25 S 1 ’20 920w
“Leon Kobrin has lived the life he writes about. His bitter realism is no creation of fancy; the atmospherical color is without blemish.” Alvin Winston
+ N Y Call p11 Ap 25 ’20 420w
“Once in a while, a race produces an author capable of presenting its message in language of so great simplicity and force that his writings can be appreciated anywhere in an adequate translation. The Jewish race possesses such a writer in Leon Kobrin.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 7 ’20 240w
KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY. Great south land. *$4.50 (5c) Dodd 918
A20–884
The book treats of the republics of Rio de la Plata, and southern Brazil of today. These countries the author, in his introduction compares to the ugly duckling which turned out a swan. Already before the war they had steadily risen in importance and “there is no doubt that the shifting sands of international politics and the racing centres of power have left these South American states in an economic position stronger than any which they have previously enjoyed.” Part 1 contains: Buenos Aires of yesterday and today; The Argentine capital in war time; Cosmopolitan influences; Some topical episodes; The work of the British in Argentina; Argentina’s political prospects; Internal and external affairs; Rio and its surroundings; British and Americans in South America; The press of the eastern republics. Part 2 is devoted to the industrial points of the various states and there is an index.
“A map would have been helpful to the reader.”
+ − Ath p1170 N 7 ’19 50w Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
“Mr Koebel is essentially a writer sympathetic to the lands of which he writes. What his book loses in depth it gains by virtue of this sympathy, by its author’s earnest desire to see things from the South American angle, without in the least abandoning the attitude of a man alive to the defects of those whom he is describing. It is a stimulating work by a sane and just writer.”
+ N Y Times 25:223 My 2 ’20 1300w
“Mr W. H. Koebel’s last addition to the, by now, rather lengthy series of books which he has written on Spanish-America, is disappointing.... He obviously knows as well as anybody that the problems are there and call for answer. But he does little more than indicate their presence, and then wander in generalities and descriptions, not without occasional repetitions.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p640 N 13 ’19 850w
KOONS, FRANK THOMAS. Outdoor sleeper. *$1 (6c) Norman, Remington co. 613.79
20–13861
A little book inspired by the sleeping porch. The author writes of outdoor sleeping as a source of health and pleasure. There are chapters on: The first night; Outdoor toggery; The birds; The romping children of the night; The chastened hours of the morn; The trees; Summer; Winter; The stars; Health and happiness. A star map serves as frontispiece. The book was first copyrighted by the Journal of the Outdoor Life.
KOOS, LEONARD VINCENT. Junior high school. *$1.36 Harcourt 373
20–10298
The author calls attention to the great dissimilarity that still prevails in the junior high school movement in every aspect of organization and function. He holds that the experimental stages of the movement should now be reviewed and stock be taken of the current opinions and practices, with a view towards clarifying thought as to its peculiar educational purposes. With an introduction by Henry Suzzallo the contents are: The movement for reorganization; The peculiar functions of the junior high school; The test of the organization; The program of studies; Other features of reorganization; The standard junior high school; Tables and graphs.
“In six chapters Professor Koos has presented an analysis which goes to the heart of the junior high school movement. The book is a striking example of what can be done by way of giving information without becoming drearily encyclopedic.”
+ El School J 21:71 S ’20 1000w
KOSSOVO; heroic songs of the Serbs. *$1.25 Houghton 891.8
20–10292
These ballads, translated by Miss Helen Rootham and printed with the original on alternate pages, come with an introduction by Maurice Baring and an historical preface by Janko Lavrin. Mr Baring says of them that their colors are primitive like those of the primitive painters, their similes are taken from a first-hand communion with the sights and facts of nature and their emotions are the primitive emotions of man. But their soul is saturated with the Christian faith of the Crusaders and they sing the sorrow of Serbia, the unspeakable anguish of a people who are victorious in defeat. In the historical preface Janko Lavrin divides the Serbian folk-songs into four groups of which this, the Kossovo-cycle, deals with the heroic battles fought on the Kossovo plain against the Turks. The songs are: The fall of the Serbian empire; Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Militsa; The banquet on the eve of the battle: a fragment; Kossanchitch and Milosh: a fragment; Musitch Stefan; Tsaritsa Militsa and the Voyvoda Vladeta; The maiden of Kossovo; The death of the mother of the Jugovitch; The miracle of Tsar Lazar.
“Miss Rootham’s simple and dignified translation makes it possible for English readers to appreciate the heroic quality of the originals.”
+ Ath p257 F 20 ’20 60w
“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs make them very readable.”
+ Booklist 17:63 N ’20
“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w
“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w
KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.). London venture. *$1.50 Dodd 824
20–4439
The author is an Armenian who has dropped his real name for a more pronounceable signature. The book consists of a series of “self-conscious” essays wherein the author under the guise of reminiscences discourses on men and writers, women and love, on death, friendship and modes of living. It is a book of moods also and the writer fits in the subject or person to fit the mood. The chapter vignettes are from drawings by Michel Sevier.
“The chief merit of the book is that the author has taken great pains with his style, which is considerably more attractive than the substance of the book.”
+ − Ath p94 Ja 16 ’20 70w
“Set forth with a cynical humor which narrowly escapes brilliance, much of the narration is downright fascinating.”
+ N Y Times 25:27 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“A curious introspective fragment of a story told in a succession of spasms of introspection. It suffers from its form, but as it was evidently written for occasional serial publication, that could not be avoided. The book and its illustrations have a certain charm.”
+ − Sat R 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“It is difficult exactly to understand the ‘challenge’ of this book or what the writer meant to do with it. There is undoubtedly a fascination hard to analyse about the book and the personality revealed in it.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p38 Ja 15 ’20 250w
KRAFFT, HERMAN FREDERIC, and NORRIS, WALTER BLAKE.[[2]] Sea power in American history; with an introd. by William S. Benson. il *$4 Century 973
20–22044
The object of the book is to make clear the importance of sea power in both its military and commercial aspects. For this purpose it traces out and connects up into one continuous story the rise, development, and present condition of both branches, showing their mutual dependence upon each other. Biographical sketches are given of such outstanding figures in our naval development as Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, David Porter, John Ericsson, David G. Farragut and Alfred T. Mahan. Among the contents are: The defeat of British sea power gives America independence; The rise of commercial sea power in America during the Napoleonic wars; Sea power dominates the War of 1812; Sea power aids national expansion; The blockade a decisive instrument of sea power in the Civil war; Sea power splits the confederacy in two; Sea power in the Pacific; American sea power in the world war. The book is indexed and illustrated, with maps and diagrams of naval actions.
KREYMBORG, ALFRED.[[2]] Blood of things. *$2 Brown, N. L. 811
20–13986
Mr Kreymborg’s second book of “free forms” contains verses grouped under such titles as: A five and ten cent store; Zoology; Arias and ariettes; Crowns and cronies, etc.
Dial 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Nine-tenths of ‘Blood of things’ is unintelligible, or if intelligible is irrelevant to any human concern. The one-tenth which is intelligible and relevant is diffuse to the point of evaporation.”
− Nation 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 240w
“Mr Alfred Kreymborg’s new book is decidedly interesting to read, but it is more often merely interesting than lifting and compact with genuine poetry. Mr Kreymborg is inconclusive; his gestures are tentative; he does not strike fire with sufficient frequency to establish him firmly as an authentic poet.” H. S. Gorman
+ − N Y Times p22 D 26 ’20 640w
“A critic who is unprejudiced and willing to be convinced by the free versifiers will acknowledge that there are one or two poems that are pretty poor. He would probably set aside the book with the comment that Mr Kreymborg has done some things well, but that anybody could do what Mr Kreymborg has done if he would consent to go just a little bit crazy.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 N 4 ’20 340w
KREYMBORG, ALFRED.[[2]] Plays for merry Andrews. $2 Sunwise turn 812
The five plays are: Vote the new moon; Uneasy street; The silent waiter; At the sign of the thumb and the nose; and Monday.
“Their unreality and irony are invigorating and real, and Gordon Craig was quite right in considering them as a test for actors. The title should warn the professionals off and attract the amateur.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:108 Ja ’21 40w
“There is no doubt that Mr Alfred Kreymborg has both talent and intelligence. But he has not reached the stage of any clear communication. The lilt of these playlets haunts the ear but teases the mind. There is a vertigo in the oddly rhythmed prose. But the intentions are dark, and where the darkness lifts they seem perilously commonplace.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + Nation 111:787 D 29 ’20 130w
“Almost all of his plays possess that direct appeal to children, although they are often too abstruse or fantastical for older audiences. To enjoy them completely one must have an open mind, unprejudiced by stage conventions. The whole volume, with its delightful caricatures, with its humors, with its tongue-in-the-cheek bombast, is very reminiscent of Dickens.” Malcolm Cowley
+ N Y Evening Post p5 D 31 ’20 460w
KUNOU, CHARLES A. American school toys and useful novelties in wood. il *$1.25 Bruce pub. co. 680
20–26563
The author is supervisor of manual training in Los Angeles, where toy making has for some years made up part of the course of study in this department. During the war interest in the subject was greatly stimulated by the sale of the children’s products for the benefit of the Red cross. A general preliminary discussion of toy making, its educative value, the materials used, etc., is followed by a series of fifty-two plates with designs for toys.
Booklist 16:330 Jl ’20
“This book gives excellent toy working drawings.”
+ School Arts Magazine 20:41 S ’20 70w
KYNE, PETER BERNARD. Kindred of the dust. il *$1.75 (1½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–8274
For the scene of his story the author creates a feudal fief in the Pacific northwest. Hector McKaye, head of the Tyee Lumber Company, is known as “the laird,” his son Donald as “the young laird.” Donald comes home from college and a trip around the world to find his old chum Nan Brent the mother of a nameless child. Nan had believed herself married and to protect the real wife of the man who had deceived her is keeping his identity secret and bearing her shame. Donald finds that he loves Nan and is willing to marry her. Interference on the part of his mother and sisters drives her away. Donald is stricken with typhoid and to save his life his mother telephones to Nan to return. Following his recovery steps are again taken to prevent the marriage but Donald is obdurate. A break with his father results. The war comes, Donald enlists, goes to France, comes home again and there is a happy reunion, with a copy of Nan’s marriage license turning up to prove her innocent intentions.
+ − Booklist 16:349 Jl ’20
“The story is powerful and holds the attention of the reader in an unusual manner.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 350w
“For sustained interest and constructive workmanship Mr Kyne seems, in ‘Kindred of the dust,’ to have outdone his previous efforts. Wholesome, entertaining story.”
+ N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 450w
“The hero is almost too noble to be true.”
− + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 280w
“A strong, straightforward, unaffected story, seasoned, and not overseasoned, with sentiment.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p653 O 7 ’20 70w