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MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD. Christian faith and the new day. *90c (4c) Macmillan 230
20–6365
The author’s subject is theology—theology as adapted to the needs of the day. He says in his preface, “Visitors to theological seminaries often tell young men they are not to preach their theology, whereas in any sound way of speaking it is the only thing they are to preach.” The book is addressed “not to technical theologians but to working ministers and thoughtful laymen.” Contents: The call to reconstruction; The Christian theology of God; The Christian theology of salvation; The church; A concluding word. The author is a professor in McCormick theological seminary, Chicago.
Booklist 16:327 Jl ’20
MCARTHUR, PETER.[[2]] Affable stranger. *$1.50 (4c) Houghton
20–20446
The author is a Canadian farmer and journalist who visited the United States in the capacity of friendly observer. He was interested particularly in the state of public opinion as it concerns Canada and Great Britain and his method was to keep as quiet as possible and let the other person do the talking. Some of his chapters, which were contributed first to the Toronto Globe, are: Back to the primitive; Registering reform; A burden of farmers; Organized for profit; Old home week; The ward leader; The soul of Canada; A land of upper berths.
+ N Y Evening Post p12 N 27 ’20 80w
MACAULAY, ROSE. Potterism. *$2 Boni & Liveright 20–19045
“‘Potterism’ is a newspaper novel. The idea is Potterism. It is a more inclusive idea than the one which was once covered by the word ‘bromide.’ Potterism also takes in the bromide, but generally speaking it means ‘muddle and cant—second-rate sentimentalism and cheap short-cuts and mediocrity.’ It is personified in Mr Potter (afterward Lord Pinkerton) owner of the Pinkerton Press, and in his wife, ‘Leila Yorke,’ the novelist. But the Potters are such perfect symbols that even their own children, Jane and Johnny, help to form the Anti-Potter league. There are three or four other members of the league, and the book follows their fortunes, which take a slightly melodramatic turn. In the end the president of the league is killed in Russia and the Potter-Pinkerton Press goes on forever.”—New Repub
“In this new novel by Miss Macaulay it is not only her cleverness and wit which are disarming. It is her coolness, her confidence, her determination to say just exactly what she intends to say whether the reader will or no.” K. M.
+ Ath p736 Je 4 ’20 380w
“Shrewd, vigorous and interesting to many readers. Most amusing to those who can appreciate subtle humor.”
+ Booklist 17:117 D ’20
“Even to a confirmed Potterite the keen thrust of Miss Macaulay’s wit must afford a fearful delight. Here is a good antidote for the oversexed novel.”
+ Bookm 52:272 N ’20 220w
“There is no doubt but what Miss Macaulay looks at her day and its state of mind much as Cervantes looked at his, and her result in fiction is in kind if not in degree the same. In degree it is far ahead of its kind beyond anything done by her contemporaries. For all its clever caricature and exhilarating interest the story is downright English.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p1 N 27 ’20 1150w
“As a sophisticated picture of modern life the book is exceedingly well done; as a solution of the problem it sets before us it fails, chiefly because in the author’s philosophy there is no solution—at least no workable solution.”
+ − Cath World 112:694 F ’21 300w
“It is cleverly conceived and cleverly written, but it is a little too hasty to be complete.” E. P.
+ − Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 50w
“In ‘Potterism’ Miss Macaulay has sketched for us a clever, amusing, and, on the whole, convincing picture of the state of the British mind during and immediately after the war. Her book pushes as close to the current hour as it can without lapsing into mere journalism.” Edwin Björkman
+ Freeman 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 490w
“Miss Macaulay’s narrative technique shares the keenness and distinction of her intellectual outlook. Each section of the book is told by one of its characters and thus the characterization is of a rare completeness and inwardness. The section written by Lelia Yorke is masterly.” L. L.
+ Nation 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 620w
“Miss Macaulay is so competent in reaching her aim that one is forced to wonder why she didn’t make her book a little smoother and more varied in style, and a little less awkward in form.” S. T.
+ − New Repub 24:280 N 10 ’20 460w
“The story is taken up at different stages by the principal figures, and Miss Macaulay shows real skill in her power of representing the facts as they appear to each, colored by the style and the preoccupations of the individual.” E. A. Boyd
+ N Y Evening Post p5 N 13 ’20 1050w
“Add to this penetrating observation and trenchancy of expression a finished style and good powers of characterization and it is not difficult to understand why Miss Macaulay’s fictional commentary on present day foibles was praisefully acclaimed in London, where it has already run into several editions.”
+ N Y Times p22 O 31 ’20 850w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
+ Pub W 98:1887 D 18 ’20 340w
“What gives it distinction is the range and flexibility of its idea.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:384 O 27 ’20 550w
“In these days of Potterism, trade-union tyranny, and fiscal oppression, we are not often, as they used to say in the eighteenth century, ‘merry.’ Yet Miss Macaulay’s novel amused and refreshed us. The satire is playful, delicate, and mordant.”
+ Sat R 129:543 Je 12 ’20 800w
“The book is rightly named ‘tragi-farcical,’ and therein lies its weakness, for the abruptness of the alternations are extreme. The greatest tragedies have not excluded comedy, but the introduction of farce produces a confusion of tones.”
+ − Spec 124:833 Je 19 ’20 640w
“The effect of abstraction is unfortunately heightened by the author’s device of telling part of the story in her own person, part in the persons of the different characters, a proceeding for which we can see no good reason. It would have been better if she had written all in the person of the unworldly Laurence Juke. In his instalment we have the Miss Macaulay whom we knew before, afraid neither of pity nor enthusiasm.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p348 Je 3 ’20 950w
MCAULEY, MARY ETHEL, ed. Wanderer; or, Many minds on many subjects; with an introd. by Charles Alexander Rook. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 040
20–11654
“In the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Miss Mary Ethel McAuley, calling herself the ‘Wanderer,’ showed an extraordinary ingenuity in putting nice questions in casuistry and in eliciting a wide variety of answers to them, many of which now appear in this volume.” (Review) “‘Can a radical be a Christian?’ ‘Is our present marriage system perfect?’ ‘Is it possible for the dead to materialize?’ ‘Should we have birth control?’ ‘Is the mystic a human need?’ ‘Are the ministers more muzzled than the editors?’ ‘Would George Sand be received in genteel society today?’ ‘Was Tolstoi a prophet?’—these are a very few of the many vital or bizarre questions asked by Miss McAuley and tackled by Sir Tom, Doctor Dick, and Plain Harry and Lizzie.” (N Y Call)
Freeman 2:46 S 22 ’20 250w
“Nobody could possibly accept half the opinions in this book, but some of them are enlightening, many are interesting, and the “‘Wanderer’ idea is excellent.” A. W. Welch
+ N Y Call p10 Jl 25 ’20 360w Review 3:424 N 3 ’20 240w
MCBRIDE, ISAAC. Barbarous soviet Russia. il *$2.50 Seltzer 914.7
20–12209
“Favorable pictures of present-day life in Russia under the Bolshevist régime, as sketched by an American traveler. Mr McBride gave special attention to labor conditions, education, the status of women, and the character of the soviet leadership. Interesting documents, including a report on the financial situation of Russia, are included in an appendix.”—R of Rs
Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 500w
“What we have not yet seen is a book which combines a frank confrontation of the point of view of the Soviets with a clear-eyed estimate of its principles and a fair description of the successes or failures resulting in the operation. Mr Isaac McBride has failed to write such a book, but he has at least shown that the materials for it are not lacking.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ Nation 111:566 N 17 ’20 1400w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is a number of excellent illustrations. A great deal of valuable and interesting information about the labor laws and the industrial condition of soviet Russia is contained in a long appendix.” A. C. Freeman
+ N Y Call p10 Ag 15 ’20 680w R of Rs 62:221 Ag ’20 50w
MCCABE, JOSEPH. Taint in politics. *$2 Dodd 172.2
“This anonymous attack on the political world of the day deserves attention as a searching and forcible exposure of many undoubted abuses. Lack of principle, lightly disguised corruption, privileged incompetence, a pampered and leisurely civil service, slavish adherence to party, the substitution of oligarchy for any true democracy—these and such like features of public life are trenchantly and often convincingly attacked; and some historical chapters at the beginning trace the evolution of political corruption back to the middle ages. Though the writer has some suggestions at the end as to shorter parliaments, saving of parliamentary time, and, more broadly, the fundamental need of popular education, he is almost solely destructive; he is ‘not so much concerned with the method of purification as the establishment of the disease,’ and it is a real merit that he is absolutely impartial in his onslaught on the two—or three—parties and on the coalition.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The value of this anonymous criticism of present-day political affairs would be greatly enhanced were the writer able to confirm the hope held out at the commencement, that in spite of his summary dismissal of politics as everywhere and always more or less tainted, his attitude might eventually be something more than negative.”
− + Ath p50 Jl 9 ’20 200w
“The reader is likely to find, in this volume, additional reasons for congratulation that America has not become a partner in the international gaminghouse. The chapter on American conditions is disappointingly superficial.” C. N.
+ − Freeman 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 280w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:229 S 15 ’20 80w Sat R 129:565 Je 19 ’20 700w
“The thoughtful reader will not, of course, forget that there is another side to the question.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p286 My 6 ’20 280w
MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS. Present and past banking in Mexico. *$2 (3c) Harper 332.15
20–4614
On the ground that the degree of banking development of a country measures the degree of civilization, comfort, and economic development, the book attempts “to trace the history of the credit institutions of the country from their initial stages down to the present time. Effort has been made to stress the salient facts in the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of banking in our neighboring republic.” (Preface) The book is published under the auspices of the Doheny foundation and a partial list of the contents is: Early stages of banking and finance; Through the crisis of 1884; Origin of the Banco nacional; High tide of bank concessions; General law for institutions of credit; The transition period; Adoption of the gold standard; Eve of the Madero revolution; Huerta and the banks; Regime of the Constitucionalistas. There is a bibliography and an index.
“Dr McCaleb has succeeded in furnishing the only comprehensive account of banking developments in Mexico. It is not easy for American readers to understand the statements of Mexican banks because of the differences in the terminology used, which grow largely out of differences in banking practice. Dr McCaleb has done much to make understandable the statements which he cites.” A. N. Young
+ Am Econ R 10:844 D ’20 940w + Booklist 16:330 Jl ’20 Cleveland p75 Ag ’20 30w R of Rs 62:448 O ’20 50w
MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLY. Henry Elizabeth. *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–13543
Henry Elizabeth’s mother had wanted a girl and her name was to have been Elizabeth. When he was born a boy the Elizabeth stood with the addition of Henry, Young Braginton, for he was the master of the manor-house, grew up a country bumpkin much given to drinking, eating and women. He was a young giant. One day, after a drunken bout, he encounters a most beautiful woman, such as he had never seen. It changes his career. He resolves to give up his old life, go up to London, become one of Queen Elizabeth’s courtiers, and make himself worthy of his beauty. He falls in with a former court jester who takes his education in hand, and little by little makes himself master of all the gallant practices, including swordsmanship. He has many adventures, serves Elizabeth and is granted favors, and has the opportunity, most coveted, to champion the cause of his lady love and rid her of her enemies. Although he had not won her at the end of the story the reader hopes that he will yet succeed. The picture of London in Elizabeth’s time is one of the quaint features of the story.
+ Ath p307 S 8 ’20 160w
“It is characteristic of Mr McCarthy that it has all the excitement and rapidity of a good swashbuckling tale with a most polished workmanship and better style than is the case of most books of the kind.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 420w
“The story is written in that leisurely way that enables the author to reproduce in fine detail much of the social background of the time with which it deals and also to accentuate the feeling of its unhurrying pace. But this is all done without apparent effort and as an integral part of the story, which moves swiftly enough when the time for action comes.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
“A capital tale of the days of Queen Bess. It is just historical enough and not too much so. A tale which has incident, action, humor, and character depiction.”
+ Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 80w
“Mr McCarthy is one of our most acceptable historical novelists. His people are real; and neither they nor he drop into the mannerisms of style or the pat dialogue too common among his rivals.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 90w
MACCLINTOCK, LANDER. Contemporary drama of Italy. *$1.50 (2c) Little 852
20–1987
The book is one of the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. Comparatively little is known to the English-speaking public of modern Italian dramatists. The object of the book is to fill the gap. The author holds that the Italian is realistic rather than romantic and his modern literature is characterized by fidelity to life and the intellectualization of its themes rather than by emotionalism. Even romanticism contained the germs of the modern movement and an increasingly intelligent public demands more and more discussion and solution of vital questions and urgent problems. The contents are: The foundations; Giuseppe Giacosa; The early realists; Gabriele D’Annunzio; The later realists; Roberto Bracco; Actors and acting, the popular theatre, the dialect theatre; The younger generation; Futurism and other isms; Bibliographical appendix; Index.
“Without that special charm which transforms such a book into one of popular appeal, but still interesting and useful in its suggestiveness to the drama student and general reader.”
+ − Booklist 16:195 Mr ’20 Cleveland p42 Ap ’20 70w
“Mr MacClintock is very agile, very well-informed, his touch is light and his taste is catholic.”
+ Freeman 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 200w
“His book is excellent in every way, a model for the other contributors to the Contemporary drama series. It is founded upon indefatigable investigation, at once broad and deep. It is informed with a fine critical spirit. It is logically planned and proportioned. It is written in clear English. And it is as unfailingly interesting as it is unhesitatingly instructive.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times 25:226 My 2 ’20 2100w
“In spite of occasional infelicities of expression and errors of fact or of judgment, it is a distinctly valuable contribution to the study of modern Italian literature. Dr MacClintock’s first chapter, and his last, ‘Futurism and other isms,’ are the least satisfactory part of his book, since they involve broad generalizations based on a profound knowledge of the background. This knowledge he does not yet sufficiently possess, if one may judge from his tendency to accept and incorporate the views of previous writers.” K. McKenzie
+ − Review 3:452 N 10 ’20 1000w
MCCONN, MAX. Mollie’s substitute husband, il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–14216
“Professor” John Merriam, principal of the Riceville high school, on account of his startling likeness to the “Boy senator,” George Norman, was induced to represent that gentleman under rather amazing circumstances. The Reform league of Chicago was trying to secure better traction conditions in that city and upon Senator Norman rested the decision, and it was his intention to veto the measure. Then what was simpler than for the enterprising Reform league to kidnap the senator and substitute his double—John Merriam, who would put the thing thru for them in short order. He agreed to play the part, which involved playing husband to Mollie June, with whom he had been in love since she was a school girl. The situation naturally led to complications both public and private, and all the people concerned were led a merry chase escaping detection. A happy outcome at times seemed impossible—but at length it is achieved for all except the unfortunate Senator Norman himself—and perhaps he deserved his fate.
“The story is brisk and brilliant, if complicated in plot.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ’20 290w
“A certain levity of style with which he writes disarms criticism and adds to the entertainment he has provided.”
+ N Y Times p29 Ag 15 ’20 550w Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 120w
MCCORD, JAMES NEWTON. Textbook of filing. il *$2 Appleton 651
20–4539
“Based on our experience in training thousands of girls and women for filing positions no matter what methods were involved, or what particular manufacturer’s system was employed, this book has been compiled.... Its purpose is to instruct in the different methods of filing, which are limited, while the different systems are numerous and must be reduced to a possible four methods.... Office routine, short cuts, cross reference and different refinements and ramifications all come in for proper consideration and the volume is equally as valuable as a reference book as a textbook.” (Preface) Contents: Filing equipment; Routing; Alphabetic methods; Numeric filing; Geographic methods; Subject and decimal methods; Automatic system; Card indexing; Transferring; Legal filing; Insurance; Real estate; Follow-up methods; Banking; Sales; Manufacturing; Stocks and bonds; Card ledgers; Appendix; Index. The author is director of the New York school of filing.
“A clear, simple presentation.”
+ Booklist 16:334 Jl ’20 + Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 120w
MCCORMICK, ROBERT RUTHERFORD. Army of 1918. *$2 Harcourt 940.373
20–19162
A work by a member of General Pershing’s staff, with chapters on: The background of the army; The inspired ambassador; Early days of the A.E.F.; The great division; Germany’s last offensive; A few technical points; The pursuit from the Marne; The American offensives; Some elements of national defense; New weapons and their use; The general staff; The crime of silence; The only solution. The solution offered in the concluding chapter is a strong military establishment with a trained army based on European, preferably French, models.
“It should be read by everyone who is interested in our future military policy.”
+ R of Rs 62:671 D ’20 100w
MACCRACKEN, JOHN HENRY. College and commonwealth, and other educational papers and addresses. *$3 Century 378
21–159
The collection consists largely of college addresses delivered at opening or commencement exercises, including, as the title essay of the book, the author’s inaugural address as president of Lafayette college. One of the leading ideas in this collection is the superiority of individualism to conformity, communism or state control. Even the desirability of cooperation is set forth with certain reservations. The war with its problems furnishes some of the topics. Among the titles are: The college and the individual; Liberty and cooperation; War and education; The college and the shadow of war; Federal leadership in education; Why the trust idea is not applicable to education; The college man and freedom; The education of women; Broader education of engineers; Scientific method and therapeutic impulse; Religion and education.
+ N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 240w
MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. Anderson Crow, detective. il *$2 (3½c) Dodd
20–4957
Anderson Crow, besides being the detective of the title, held a number of important municipal offices in the town of Tinkletown, including those of deputy marshal, deputy superintendent of the fire department, commissioner of water-works and others. His zeal on the trail of crime was therefore keen, and he rarely was outwitted, whether he was capturing German spies, or solving the mystery of a suicide or following up the effects of hard cider in the Foreign missionary society. His understudy was Alf Reesling, the village drunkard, who had been sober for twenty-five years, but who was living on the reputation of one hilarious week of his youth. Harry Squires, the editor of the weekly Banner, was a thorn in the side of the detective, although but for him some of his successes would have been failures.
+ − Booklist 16:313 Je ’20
“The tales are written in a farcical, extravagant style which, when applied to characters obviously intended to represent everyday human beings, needs a strong dash of humor to make it palatable. Mr McCutcheon has not made them funny enough. The illustrations, by the author’s famous brother, are full of ‘pep’ as one would expect them to be.”
+ − N Y Times 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 300w
“Good fun.”
+ Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w
“While sketchy and episodical, the narrative is well knit. It is, perhaps, not far from the truth to say that Mr McCutcheon’s story is a satire on the detective creation of the fiction writers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 280w
MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. West wind drift. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–18655
The Doraine, in the treacherous days of the war, sailed one day from a South American port carrying a thousand souls. And from that day she was never seen again, and was eventually reported lost with all on board. But two German spies might have given a fuller report if they had told of their work before they dropped off onto the launch that was awaiting them in the middle of the South Atlantic. The Doraine was left to helplessly drift, at the mercy of wind and tide. So finally she was borne to the shores of an uninhabited island. And there the six hundred or so human beings who had survived the rigors and exposure of the trip, landed and made a settlement. All the elements in human nature which men are familiar with in normal circumstances made themselves felt here, capacity for leadership, love, jealousy, temptation, treachery, justice, but strongest of all, hope in the future. Algernon Adonis Percival, in spite of his name and the fact that he was a stowaway on the doomed ship, is the strongest character of all, and his career is the most interesting as he rises to the governorship in quite Admirable Crichton style.
+ Booklist 17:117 D ’20 Boston Transcript p8 D 11 ’20 210w
“George Barr McCutcheon, the facile creator of mythical kingdoms, has invented a new ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ quite stupendous enough for production by Mr Griffith.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 150w
“There is a straightaway yarn, which, if not particularly original or strikingly dramatic, at least leads one logically from the first chapter to the last with the feeling that one has been in company of a good-humored entertainer. Brightly written throughout, Mr McCutcheon’s latest novel is worthy of his reputation.”
+ N Y Times p25 D 26 ’20 480w
“The book is worth reading for itself and also because it brings saliently to mind some of the things which are essential to liberty and combined effort in civilized countries, as well as in desert islands.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 90w
“The book was not written to prove anything for which many will be thankful.” Caroline Singer
+ Pub W 98:1190 O 16 ’20 180w
“It is an entertaining tale which holds the reader enthralled through its various stages.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 200w
MACDONALD, GREVILLE. North door. *$2 (1½c) Houghton
20–26987
This romance, whose scene is the coast of Cornwall more than a century ago, has a historic background. It shows us the dawn of modern industrialism and how a country’s prosperity may be paid for with the blood of a once prosperous peasantry. The central figure is a saintly but rather unorthodox priest who puts his faith in the good to the supreme test by himself crossing the threshold of the accursed “North door” of the church in search of the reality of sin and evil. He finds both only to see it vanish before the higher reality of a divine goodness. A two-fold romance runs through the story, that of a peasant girl’s heroic love for a giant fisherman and smuggler and the highly spiritualized romance between the priest and Lady Evangeline.
“In this attempt to reproduce the life of a Cornish parish during the first decade of the nineteenth century some faults of construction are redeemed by much charm and sincerity.”
+ − Ath p815 Je 18 ’20 130w
“Something of Hawthorne’s moral sense, his superstitious awe, his sternness, his artistry, and, to a certain extent, his power of construction are more than noticeable—they are outstanding. George Brandes once declared that literature’s task is to give a ‘condensed representation of a people and an age.’ If this is true, then ‘The north door’ is surely entitled to consideration as literature.”
+ − N Y Times p24 Ag 29 ’20 640w
“The book has a marked character of its own, it is unusual and arresting.”
+ Sat R 130:262 S 25 ’20 90w
“The portrait of Christopher Trevenna is a real, if slightly sentimental, piece of character drawing. The author’s rather verbose and involved style places an unnecessary obstacle in the way of the reader’s enjoyment.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p370 Je 10 ’20 150w
MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY. Government of India. *$1.50 Huebsch 354
(Eng ed 20–509)
“The appearance of this informative book is stated by the author to have been delayed by the war. He reviews the origin and evolution of the links which connect India with ourselves, and reminds readers that the needs of that empire cannot be met by an adjustment here and an adjustment there: ‘they have to be viewed in their wide sweep.’ Mr Macdonald discusses with considerable fullness the Montagu-Chelmsford report, deals with the religious problems in India, and remarks that a very common opinion of both Indians and English is that the Christian missions in India thwart the nationalist movement—partly by implanting in the minds of the people thoughts which lead them away from Indian leadership and ideas. In the author’s judgment, the Legislative councils should have more authority, especially in finance, and the Viceroy’s council be made more representative.”—Ath
Ath p1272 N 28 ’19 200w Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“This new volume has been produced in an international milieu which is characterized by at least two sets of conditions. The first are those generated by the talk of a league of nations, and the second is the fait accompli of a socialist state in bolshevik Russia. And it is because the author seeks to harmonize his theories with these novel phenomena that his book acquires an importance such as is hardly indicated by the limitations of its title.” B. K. Sarkar
+ − Freeman 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 1200w
“The trouble about Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s book on India is that portions of it are obsolete. He describes a form of government which is about to undergo great modifications. Little further need be said by the way of criticism. Mr Macdonald writes with a practised hand, sometimes even with charm. He has handled his theme with moderation and restraint. It is a pleasure to pick up a book about India which contains no word of bitterness, no trace of violent controversy, no exaggeration or over-statement.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p723 D 11 ’19 950w
MACDONALD, JAMES RAMSAY. Parliament and revolution. (New library of social science) *$1.50 Seltzer 335
20–26685
“‘Parliament and revolution’ is a careful comparison between the existing government in England and the aims and projects of the Bolshevists. While the book is antibolshevist, Mr Macdonald is quick to recognize any sound reasoning in the bolshevist theories to denounce the flaws in the rule of Parliament. He includes a description of the working of the soviet system in Russia, and a discussion of ‘direct action,’ the name under which bolshevism is discussed and advocated by the British labor party.”—Springf’d Republican
“Not in any sense an objective scientific study, but an assertion of principles that deserves attention.”
+ Booklist 17:54 N ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w + Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 60w
“As a piece of argumentation ‘Parliament and revolution’ leaves a good deal to be desired. Its logical texture is not of the finest; too often it gives us assertion where we want demonstration; and as for ‘scientific’ and ‘unbiased,’ these adjectives, by which the book is described in the publishers’ advertisement on the paper cover, have no more to do with the case than the flowers that bloom in the spring.” R. L. Schuyler
− Nation 110:826 Je 19 ’20 850w
“In a measure, Mr Macdonald’s book is a salutary corrective to a good deal of loose vituperation. But there is another aspect to the matter with which he has failed to deal. Granted the ignorance and inertia of the modern electorate what, at bottom, are its causes?... The trade unions have an importance which Mr Macdonald altogether fails to give them in this study.” H. J. L.
+ − New Repub 22:383 My 19 ’20 1800w
“The book is one that, we warrant, will not fully satisfy any single Socialist. One feels himself at times tantalized between enjoyment of some excellent statement of principle or fact or analysis of some particular question, only to draw a conclusion here and there that appears to be a concession to conventional opinion. Yet the book will appeal to all but the romanticists and those of fixed opinions.” James Oneal
+ − N Y Call p10 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The first volume of the New library of social science seems to me the most straightforward treatise on government which has come out since the beginning of the war.” M. H. Anderson
+ Pub W 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“It is to be hoped that this contribution may stimulate a further discussion on these important questions of the technique of revolution.”
+ Socialist R 10:28 Ja ’21 920w
“It is forceful in logic and classic in clearness.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 100w
“The whole book is a careful study of dangerous political tendencies of the times and well worth reading by adherents and opponents of socialism alike.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:417 Je 19 ’20 450w The Times [London] Lit Sup p615 O 30 ’19 240w
MACDONALD, ZILLAH K. Eileen’s adventures in Wordland. il *$2.25 (5c) Stokes
20–17532
“This is the story of a little girl who visited the land behind the dictionary and found out for herself that words are alive.” Eileen was sitting in the schoolroom writing out the words she had misspelled and trying to remember that syntax doesn’t end in tacks, when the letter X suddenly jumped out of her inkwell and confronted her. Under his guidance she visited Dictionary Town and there met the words who live in English Wordland, “plain strong Anglo-Saxon words, French aristocrat words who came over with William the Conqueror, the old giant Greek and Latin words, foreign words from every land who have been adopted by Mother English Language, and the happy-go-lucky slang words who live in a gipsy camp outside of Dictionary Town.” The whimsical illustrations are by Stuart Hay.
“A very clever little idea, this. With all her fun, the author tries to be soundly etymological, which will please the educators, without annoying the children. The illustrator, Stuart Hay, adds much with his line-drawings to a book which is bound to give its readers a good time.”
+ Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 270w
“It will be an excellent book for supplementary reading in the elementary grades. The story moves with much briskness and variety.”
+ N Y Evening Post p14 N 13 ’20 220w
MACDONNELL, JAMES FRANCIS CARLIN (FRANCIS CARLIN, pseud.). Cairn of stars. *$1.50 Holt 821
20–9075
A second volume of poems by the author of “My Ireland.” As in the previous volume lyric verse predominates and the themes are drawn from Irish landscape and custom and fairy lore. A few of the titles are: The cairn of stars; A girl’s song; The black swans; The market town; The seventh son; A Munster marriage; An Irish madonna; For a god-child; The queen of Kerry; The coming of the fairies; The herdsman’s son; The beggar’s blessing.
+ Booklist 16:337 Jl ’20
“There is more pure poetry to the square inch of expression on the printed page of Francis Carlin than there is on the whole leaves of printed pages by any Irish-American poet of today. ‘The cairn of stars’ is far better than the earlier book. In the nearly three years since ‘My Ireland,’ Mr Carlin has added a deliberately finished technique to the instinctive technique that was his original gift. He has learned to manage his metres in a way to bring out all the finer shades of his moods and without impairing the spontaneity of feeling. At the same time he has greatly broadened the scope of his interests.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p11 My 22 ’20 1450w
“Very tuneful and pleasurable and wholesome even if the more rare and mysterious promise of certain earlier poems is not entirely fulfilled.”
+ Cath World 112:397 D ’20 190w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ Nation 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 140w
“A book that is delightful to read from beginning to end. Mr Carlin will never be a great poet, but he will always be a sincere and honest poet of indubitable talent.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 490w
MCDOUGALL, WILLIAM. Group mind. *$5 Putnam 301
20–13131
“A sketch of the principles of collective psychology with some attempt to apply them to the interpretation of national life and character.” (Sub-title) The author holds that “a society, when it enjoys a long life and becomes highly organized, acquires a structure and qualities which are largely independent of the qualities of the individuals who enter into its composition and take part for a brief time in its life.” Thus a collective mental life is not merely the sum of the mental lives of its units but is a “collective mind” or, if one prefers, “a collective soul.” The book is a sequel to the author’s “Introduction to social psychology” and assumes the reader’s acquaintance with it. The contents fall into three parts: General principles of collective psychology; The national mind and character; The development of national mind and character. There is an index.
“Soundly empirical as his methods are, Mr McDougall may well fail to convince the ardent humanitarian of the error of his ways.... Nevertheless, the problem of a national eugenics must be faced and solved, not simply burked on sentimental grounds. Meanwhile, whatever moral be drawn from them, the facts must first be reviewed impartially; and Mr McDougall’s book is the model of a treatment conceived and executed in the dispassionate spirit of science.” R. R. M.
+ Ath p834 Je 25 ’20 1000w
“The rule which prevents a physician from operating upon a member of his own family because his emotion would interfere with his judgment is one that no scientist can afford to ignore. Mr McDougall has ignored it. That is to say he has not searched his heart to free himself from his own group affiliations sufficiently to approach his subject with a clean and clear mind.” Walter Lippmann
− New Repub 25:82 D 15 ’20 1600w
“There are one or two of Mr McDougall’s statements to which we might take exception; but they are few in number and of no importance to his main argument. He is invariably impartial, lucid, and candid, making use of no theory, however plausible, unless it will bear the strictest scrutiny, and advancing no conclusions as proved so long as any reasonable doubt may be entertained of their soundness.”
+ Spec 125:214 Ag 14 ’20 1050w
“The book is well worth reading, but the student will look in vain for any considerable contribution or stimulating suggestion.” J. K. Hart
+ − Survey 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 470w
“The three chapters on ‘The race-making period’ and the following one on ‘Racial changes during the historic period’ form a singularly illuminating study of race problems.... The defence made on page 174 of the maxim ‘My country right or wrong’ suggests that his enthusiasm for the virtue of group loyalty is a little in danger of obscuring to his eyes the rights of the individual conscience. A Treitschke might with a little sophistry subscribe it.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p730 N 11 ’20 2000w
MCDOWALL, ARTHUR SYDNEY. Realism; a study in art and thought. *$4 Dutton 701
(Eng ed 19–12352)
“Mr McDowall makes his position clear. The material world has, he believes, a real existence apart from man. At the point of consciousness its circle and our apprehension intersect, but they remain separate circles. The problem of realism is to represent this world that our senses claim for us, not, as Zola supposed, by a literary photograph, not scientifically, but by ‘truth of impression in which feeling and imagination play the essential part.’ ‘Truth for the realist artist can never consist in ... a simple correspondence with facts. He is an observer, but he is not a reporter. He does not copy, but he creates a world which refers us back to our own world and shows it to us more truly.’”—N Y Evening Post
Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 980w
“Often the book is murky with the philosophical abstractions, crystallizing into dogma. He has the caution of the scholar, and not the audacity of the artist. He avoids the impertinences of brilliance, but also its decision.”
+ − Dial 69:547 N ’20 130w New Repub 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“Mr McDowall’s book should be read. It has the awareness, the keen interest in living problems, of the work of William James.”
+ N Y Evening Post p3 O 23 ’20 700w
“Mr McDowall approaches his topic from many angles and cites a wealth of relevant illustration, but finally leaves the impression that he has failed to get at the heart of it. One reason of his inadequacy is the ease with which he dismisses as obsolete the older uses of the term realism.”
+ − Review 4:58 Ja 19 ’21 1200w
MCEVILLY, MARY A. Meslom’s messages from the life beyond. *$1.50 (6c) Brentano’s 134
20–6732
The book is a record of automatic writing executed by the author and bearing messages from the beyond by Meslom, an ancient Hindu, and, with the aid of Meslom, by “L,” a victim of the war, to his mother. In the introduction the author relates how she developed her gift. The messages are chiefly confined to spiritual problems, to God’s creative force and love and the growth in spiritual power and peace of both “L” and his mother.
+ Booklist 16:327 Jl ’20
“The ‘messages’ have no evidential value whatever—there is not a single test of ‘identity.’ There are vastly more verbal expressions than thoughts expressed. Is it not safe to assume that the central element in the treatise, the love of God, is part of the author’s conception of Christianity, and that the ‘messages’ simply are subconscious elaborations of her mind? Everything points in that direction.”
− Cath World 111:552 Jl ’20 550w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− Dial 69:208 Ag ’20 290w
“The messages are expressed with simplicity and clarity and reveal ardent spiritual aspiration.”
+ N Y Times 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 200w
MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET. Preventive man. *$1.75 Lane
20–8449
A story of smuggling on the Dorset coast a century ago. The “preventive man,” in the vernacular of the time, is a government agent, who comes into the neighborhood to run down the law breakers. In truth however, he is less interested in the smuggling than in his own more weighty private concerns, for he has reason to believe that his loved brother has met foul play in this very community. By a trick he gains admittance into the house of Simeon Coffin, the miser, and begins to gather the evidence that confirms his suspicions. At first he associates Simeon’s niece, Horatia, with the crime and attributes her confusion—which is really due to the possession of a piece of smuggled silk—to her guilt. She is cleared in his eyes however and he is ready enough to atone for her suffering and his cruelty.
“In spite of improbabilities, the book is well worth reading.”
+ Ath p226 F 13 ’20 100w
“Miss McFadden is quite successful in developing her atmosphere of mystery, and her characters, although all of them are severely shaped into well-known types, manage to convey a certain sense of reality. The action of the story is swift enough to sustain the interest and it rises at times to several thrilling scenes.”
+ N Y Times 25:273 My 23 ’20 220w
“The story has everything that is necessary to make it fine, except that touch of ability which turns a credible narrative into a romantic one. The landscape writing is recognisably good.”
+ − Sat R 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
“The work is not without merit, but would benefit greatly by pruning the description and adding to the action.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 200w
“A capital adventure tale of the days when smuggling was a respectable pursuit.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p126 F 19 ’20 40w
MACFARLAN, ALEXANDER. Inscrutable lovers; a tragic comedy. *$1.75 (4c) Dodd
(Eng ed 20–5589)
Margaret, the daughter of Count Kettle, Irish patriot and champion of lost causes, has been nourished on romance. As Count Kettle’s daughter she is pointed out as the most picturesque and romantic figure in Ireland. But she hates her position and she marries Charlie Macaig to escape it. “I could have loved a grocer,” says Margaret in extenuation, “just any grocer.” Charlie Macaig is the youngest member of a firm of shipowners. He is steady, he is practical, he is reliable, he is everything that Margaret’s familiar associates are not. But, as it turns out, his own dreams for all his practical business years have been of romance and adventure, and Margaret is the fulfillment of his dreams. There is mutual shock of discovery when the truth comes out, and then love, abetted by the Catholic church—which is practical or romantic as you happen to look at it—triumphs.
“To crispness of visualization, the author adds crispness in dialogue. Novelists cannot eschew some description; here Mr MacFarlan is little gifted.”
+ − Boston Transcript p11 Ap 17 ’20 430w
“‘The inscrutable lovers’ is Mr MacFarlan’s second book and he is said to be very young. It is a very modern sort of youth that is his. His perceptions are very sharp, but his nature seems wintry. The book is a study in contrasting temperaments. The contrasts are very clear. They are indeed too clear and their edges are too glittering. People are not as simply made as all that.”
+ − Nation 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 240w
“It has not only brilliancy but a delicate completeness comparable to (not like) that of Mr Hewlett’s earlier bits of romantic comedy. A delightful piece of literary comedy.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 700w
“This charming little tale must be classified rather as an essay in pure comedy than as a reproduction of actual life.”
+ Sat R 128:229 S 6 ’19 450w
MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD). Boy heroes in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell
20–17319
The stories of seven boy heroes in fiction are here presented in condensed form. The foreword says, “Some of these boy heroes of yesterday may not be known to boys of today, partly because their stories are imbedded in extra large volumes, which do not stop with boy life, but include many other things. It has been the happy task, therefore, of the present editor to disentangle and condense these stories, presenting only the portions which pertain to the boy life of each hero.” Contents: Little Gavroche (from “Les misérables”); David Balfour (from “Kidnapped”); Oliver Twist; Jim Davis (from Masefield’s “Jim Davis”); David Copperfield; Jim Hawkins (from “Treasure island”); and John Halifax.
Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 50w
“Her volumes would have gained as much in effect as they would have lost in length had she limited herself to quotations instead of supplementing them with paraphrases.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p25 O 23 ’20 70w
MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD). Girl heroines in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell
20–17320
The six girls chosen for this volume are Little Dorrit, Maggie Tulliver, Ellen (from “The wide wide world”), Little Nell, Eppie (from “Silas Marner”), and Cosette (from “Les misérables”). “Each girl is introduced in very nearly her author’s own words, and thus preserves her own individuality.” As in the book of boy heroes, the editor expresses the hope that the stories as presented here may serve as an introduction to the full-length versions.
Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 50w + − N Y Evening Post p25 O 23 ’20 70w
MCFEE, WILLIAM. Captain Macedoine’s daughter. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–26979
The story of Captain Macedoine’s daughter is told by the “quiet and occasionally garrulous” Chief of H. M. S. Sycorax, detailed to escort convoys through the Ægean in war time. The Chief had known the Mediterranean in the days of peace and this is a peace-time story of plotting and intrigue, involving Captain Macedoine’s great international bubble, the Anglo-Hellenic development company, in which his daughter is used as a tool. From her mother the girl had a mixture of dark blood. Mr Spenlove, the chief, who had been one of those who fell under her spell, tells all that he knew of her tragic life and death, drawing from it his own conclusions on the nature of love.
+ Booklist 17:117 D ’20
“A tale of strange people, strange places, strange motifs, strange morals told with brilliant effect and satisfying completeness.” S. M. R.
+ Bookm 52:370 D ’20 360w
“This well-written novel, broader in its scope than Mr McFee’s previous books is strong not only in its character portrayal but in the philosophy interspersed throughout its pages.”
+ Bookm 52:367 Ja ’21 90w
“While ‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is not so good a story as either ‘Casuals of the sea’ or ‘Aliens,’ it has in it all the original qualities of unconventional fiction that long ago established Joseph Conrad and that is placing Mr McFee in the same rank of novelists.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 1200w
“William McFee’s new novel has the same elusive perfume as Conrad’s ‘Arrow of gold.’” A. W. Welch
+ N Y Call p7 Ja 9 ’21 380w
“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ gladdens the heart of the serious lover of English prose, for it proves that in Mr McFee we have no mere casual of the pen, no fortunate adventurer upon ink who triumphed by chance, but a soberly devoted novelist from whom many years of fine work may confidently be expected.”
+ N Y Evening Post p5 N 13 ’20 1100w
“‘Captain Macedoine’s daughter’ is, first of all, a masterful portrayal of two colorful personalities.... But it is far more than that; it is, too, a contrast between occidental and eastern civilizations and philosophies, a commentary on human nature, particularly an analysis of love, and an achievement in beautiful prose.”
+ N Y Times p18 N 7 ’20 1000w
“There is less sea and more siren in this novel than Mr McFee’s readers would perhaps expect. Few readers will resist the charm of the style; some will think the dénouement unsatisfying.”
+ − Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w
“Unmistakably a big, compelling, haunting book.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub. W 98:1190 O 16 ’20 420w
“The outstanding impression is the sense of atmosphere which the narrative imparts to the reader. The narrative has many curious ramifications, but each is an important part of the whole, and the reader will find himself enthralled from the first to the last scene.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 640w
MCGIBENY, DONALD.[[2]] 32 caliber. *$1.75 Bobbs
20–18770
“Although the author is unusually progressive in having his villain operate with the aid of airplane and machine gun, the general plot and the situations created are such as might be encountered in every-day life and modern crime. An attorney and his wife, on the way to keep an appointment that involves the domestic happiness and honor of both, are found at a lonely spot, the car wrecked, the man dead from a bullet wound, the wife unconscious in the tonneau. Was it another automobile accident, was the man murdered by the wife or did an outsider have a part in the tragedy? These are questions that perplexed the authorities and will perplex and mystify the reader.”—Springf’d Republican
“The basis and material used in the tale is excellent and would make a capital short story.”
+ − Boston Transcript p9 Ja 26 ’21 150w
“A not too lurid mystery interestingly built up and broken down, in a rapid, easy narrative style.”
+ Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The only marked defect is the author’s attempt to force the reader’s suspicions on characters whose guilt, if ultimately proved by the story, would shock any decent sense of plausibility.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p11 N 27 ’20 70w
“He has written so well, made his people so living and so pleasant, handled his subject so surely, that it is difficult to think of this book as a maiden essay.”
+ N Y Times p25 D 19 ’20 580w
“Among the better of the new detective tales, ’32 calibre,’ early arouses the interest of the reader and holds it through a series of adventures, with the solution of the mystery not even indicated until the close.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 150w
MACGILL, PATRICK. Maureen. *$2 (1½c) McBride
20–13698
Mr MacGill’s new story of Donegal is a mingling of pathos and humor, hard toil and grim poverty, beauty and stark tragedy. Maureen, the daughter of Kathleen O’Malley, tastes all the sorrow and loneliness of an illegitimate child and after her mother’s death leaves the parish. She has won the love of young Cathal Cassidy and he would have her stay, but long before her mother had warned her that her only happiness would lie in marrying a man outside the parish who would not have to suffer for her shame in the eyes of his neighbors, and to spare Cathal this she leaves him. She meets experiences that are bitterly cruel, but after them finds a haven with kind people and at the end of two years returns. Cathal has been faithful and it seems that their love is to bring them happiness, but tragedy overwhelms them. The war and Sinn Fein have a place in the background of the story.
“The characters in general are well drawn, and have that tragic intensity which Synge and others have made us believe to be in the Celtic blood.”
+ Ath p1242 N 21 ’19 120w
“Unmitigated truth and sincerity produce a strong reality of characters and atmosphere though not a pleasant story.”
+ Booklist 17:72 N ’20
“Such a thing to be done at all must be done exceptionally well, and Mr MacGill, with a good style at his command, has achieved a triumph.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 520w
“The minor characters are admirably drawn; the chief ones are less vivid and convincing. The weaknesses of the story are glaring: it is poor both in structure and in motivation. Keeran, in the final chapters, is drawn on the lines of Dickens at his worst, and the tragic conclusion brings the reader up with the jolt of an express train coming to a violent halt.”
− + Cath World 112:547 Ja ’21 220w
“The chief and tragic emphasis falls upon youth, in spite of which the best of the story lies in the penetrating, vivid, and thoroughly human presentation of the old people.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 50w
“Much of the power of the story lies in the intermingling of quite Russian realism, with an idealism which bursts flamelike through the recital of brutal details. ‘Decent’ is the salutation of the people of Dungarrow for the strangers they meet, and decent is the epithet uppermost in the mind of the reader, in spite of Mr MacGill’s frank exposure of the vices of his own people.” E. L.
+ Grinnell R 15:283 N ’20 240w
“‘Maureen’ is the story of a peasant girl in Donegal, a terrible story in many ways and a curiously fascinating one. Mr MacGill knows how to flash a scene so vividly before your mind that it haunts your visual memory for days afterward.”
+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 120w
“In ‘Maureen’ there is considerable alloy, yet much good metal and some precious. But the whole thing needs fusing.” J. C. L.
+ − New Repub 23:261 Jl 28 ’20 400w
“‘Maureen’ is not up to ‘Children of the dead end’ or ‘Rat pit,’ but it is well worth reading, especially to Irish folk and the legion that love the Irish.” S. C. Daljord
+ N Y Call p11 Ag 1 ’20 600w
“There are very few figures in the story that evoke admiration; most of them, to be quite frank, suggest the opposite. But their vitality is amazing, and because of this authentic possession of the power to make his characters live and breathe, Mr MacGill takes a prominent place with those other admirable Irish fictioneers, St John Ervine, Shaw Desmond, James Joyce and James Stephens.”
+ N Y Times 25:279 My 30 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:679 Je 30 ’20 500w
“Mr MacGill’s story is a stern presentation not only of characters, but of racial characteristics and psychology. It is always real and alive. The book unrolls before the reader’s eyes a segment of life from rural Ireland with all the reality of a picture film.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 650w
“Nothing farther removed from the individualist English novel could be imagined. It is not that the characters are in any way lacking in individuality. They are creatures of flesh and blood right enough, terrible in their humanity. But it is as social rather than as personal values that they count. There is little joy in Mr MacGill’s book—one feels that the sun seldom shines in Donegal—but it has creative richness and the supreme quality of truth.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p712 D 4 ’19 400w
MCGILVARY, MARGARET. Dawn of a new era in Syria. il *$2.50 Revell 940.356
20–20216
“Miss McGilvary during the progress of the war was the secretary of the Beirut chapter of the Red cross and hence had unusual opportunities for following the trend of events. The story which she tells, and of which she herself was a part, is of deep interest; how an American printing house was converted into a relief bureau; how American philanthrophy did its part in ameliorating the condition of the unhappy people; how difficulties were thrown in the way by the Turks; culminating presently in the arrest of the entire American mission. She tells in thrilling language of a year of horror, and toward the end, of the collapse of the Central powers, the decline of German prestige, and lastly of the end of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript
“Hers is a story very well worth the reading, for it is the story of one who was upon the spot and was a witness of all of which she writes.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 27 ’20 330w
“Her book contains vivid notes on the personalities of Enver, Talaat, and Jemal.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p638 S 30 ’20 140w
MCGOVERN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. Modern Japan; its political, military and industrial organization; with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. *$5 Scribner 915.2
(Eng ed 20–9379)
“Dr McGovern spent ten years in the Far East, ‘six of which were devoted to school and college studies in Japan.’ He is, therefore, eminently qualified as an interpreter of Japanese thought and Japanese ideas. He begins with an ethnographical, geographical and historical introduction. Having discussed the early history of the Yamato race, he proceeds to give a summary of the evolution of the country since it was opened up by Commodore Perry’s famous visit. He tells of its constitution and political parties, of its organization and government, of its finances, of its efficient bureaucracy (as compared with the cumbrous British form), its imperial socialism (as he calls the centralization of all economic activity), of its military efficiency (based on German models), of its naval menace, of its industrial and commercial development, its banking system, its agriculture, its foreign trade. The concluding section is a very brief statement of the language and literature, the arts of sculpture, painting, the drama, poetry and religion in its three-fold phase.”—Boston Transcript
“His book is distinctly illuminating, although we may complain that too much space is devoted to the dry bones of political and military matters, and not enough to the psychology of the people and its expression in literature and the other arts.”
+ − Ath p528 Ap 16 ’20 100w
“A clear, forceful condensation.”
+ Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
“Much of Dr McGovern’s book is the expression of a full knowledge and an open mind. It is perhaps the fairest exposition of the whole field of Japanese thought and accomplishment to be found in the vast number of books which have been written about Japan. Dr McGovern’s style is not noticeable for grace.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p11 My 1 ’20 900w
“To those who wish to gain an insight into the potentialities of this forward pushing nation Dr McGovern’s book offers information that is well worth having.”
+ N Y Times 25:18 Jl 11 ’20 1550w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 80w
“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if, instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether unexplored.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p247 Ap 22 ’20 850w
MACGRATH, HAROLD. Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–17960
The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether “Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the drums of jeopardy.
Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21 + Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 180w
MACGRATH, HAROLD. Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
20–26106
The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored his family name to new honor.
“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”
+ − Ath p619 N 5 ’20 130w Booklist 16:172 F ’20 Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 480w
“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and sufficiently rapid in movement.”
+ N Y Times 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 500w + − Pub W 96:1692 D 27 ’19 300w Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 7 ’20 230w
“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the ‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p670 O 14 ’20 320w
MACHARD, ALFRED. When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee
20–17171
A story of child life translated from the French. Popaul, a little boy of ten whose father is at the front, adopts Marie, a Belgian refugee and takes her home to Madame Medard. The two have many adventures, humorous and serious, and a deep devotion develops between them. A blinded soldier tells them the tale of Paul and Virginia and they see the parallel to their own story. Deeply in love they go through a marriage ceremony and regard the affair with great seriousness, accepting Tytie, the American doll, as their child. Popaul, following his father’s death, is adopted by a rich countess who, finally moved by his sorrow, sees that the children cannot be separated and takes Marie to live with her also.
MACKAIN, F. E. Buzzy; the story of a little friend of mine. il *$1.50 Jacobs
This story for little children relates the adventures of a teddy bear. In the first of them Peggy, Buzzy’s little mistress, takes him out into the snow and sets him up, back to a tree, while she makes a snow man, and then the tea bell rings and she runs away and forgets all about him. But Buzzy, left alone, enters into an interesting conversation with the snow man and makes the acquaintance of a rabbit who invites him to his home for the night. Buzzy has other adventures, meets a princess and takes an unexpected journey to London in a suit case. There are pictures in color and humorous drawings in black and white by the author.
MACKALL, LAWTON. Scrambled eggs. il *$1.25 Stewart & Kidd 817
20–6377
“A diverting tale of barnyard life. Eustace the duck and his wife, who believes in a communal incubator, Martha the hen who believes that the female’s place is on the nest, and her frivolous husband Clarence, who is always finding an attractive new pullet, have various adventures that parody amusingly the complications of present-day life.”—Cleveland
+ Booklist 16:377 Jl ’20
“The skillfully ludicrous is not half plentiful enough in this sad world of printed pages. ‘Scrambled eggs,’ however, is just that.”
+ Bookm 52:348 D ’20 40w + Cleveland p85 S ’20 50w
“The satire is amusingly carried out, and the illustrations by Oliver Herford help a great deal.”
+ N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 190w + Review 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 130w
“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 100w
MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY). Chill hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield
20–3265
Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches, Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon a time, long ago before the war.
“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of the abiding fragrance.”
+ Ath p494 Ap 9 ’20 180w
“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing sketches that has come from the war.”
+ Booklist 16:271 My ’20
“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in ‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist, and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 500w + Dial 69:321 S ’20 50w
“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained in all her bits of prose.”
+ N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 230w Review 2:605 Je 5 ’20 130w
“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”
+ − Spec 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 150w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p22 Ja 8 ’20 80w
MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.[[2]] Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran 234
20–10742
“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib World
“Preachers especially and all students of the phenomena of Christianity will find this a fresh, stimulating book. It will add a new accent to the usually dismal discussions of sin and salvation.”
+ Bib World 54:644 N ’20 190w
“The analogy between physical and spiritual conditions enables the writer to offer counsels for spiritual treatment which are clearly the result of a keen insight into the characters of men and the conditions in which they live. Readers may not be able to accept some of the author’s theories and tabulations, but the book is an important contribution to the study of sin, its origin, its growth, and its remedies.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p11 Ja 2 ’19 340w
MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE. Rip Van Winkle. il *$1.50 Knopf 782
20–923
This version of the legend is in the form of a folk-opera in three acts for which Reginald DeKoven has written the music. Like Dion Boucicault’s drama, it is based on Washington Irving’s story but, the author tells us, with more differences than resemblances to both. “The differences have developed mainly from the consideration that I was writing—not a story or a play, but an opera; and this constant consideration has resulted in the two main contributions of mine which modify the old legend—the creation of a new character, Peterkee, and the introduction of a new element in the plot, the magic flask.” (Preface)
Booklist 16:195 Mr ’20
“It is fair, however, to warn the reader that he will find here some graceful verse but little poetry, many characters, but little distinct characterization, and hardly anything of either the pathos or the humor of the old story beloved of all readers of English.”
− + Theatre Arts Magazine 4:260 Jl ’20 190w
MCKENNA, STEPHEN. Lady Lilith. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18657
The sobriquet, Lady Lilith, is applied to Lady Barbara Neave, daughter of a viceroy of India. From childhood on she has been a problem to her family and has kept their nerves on edge with her surprising escapades. Early accustomed to social prominence and adulation, her craving for sensations soon seeks wider fields than through conventional channels. Her excessive vanity makes her an adroit actress, and her heartlessness enables her to walk roughshod over everybody in search of new emotions and new rôles to play. She seems vulnerable only in one spot: her superstition. Throughout the story she toys with the sensation of Jack Waring’s blunt criticism of herself and his persistent love-making. The reader is left somewhat in doubt how much of her remorse after her final refusal of him is genuine feeling, how much theatrical pose, and how much superstitious fear.
“If Mr McKenna’s novel were witty, amusing, an aspect of the human comedy, or just nonsense—or even melodrama—we should not protest. But to butcher his gifts to make a snobs’ banquet is surely a very lamentable pastime. It would be interesting to know whether he has—a dozen, say—readers of his own sex.” K. M.
− Ath p616 N 5 ’20 420w
“The author gives us a picture of present day social and political life in London, but we sincerely trust that his heroine is not typical of the modern English woman.”
+ − Cath World 112:553 Ja ’21 190w
“An engrossing picture of English society just before and during the war.”
+ Cleveland p105 D ’20 40w
“Two solid volumes of Sonia richly sufficed us and we rather resent having her served up to us again; even under another name. Lady Barbara Neave is just Sonia, only more so.” V. G.
− + Freeman 2:358 D 22 ’20 220w
“The most striking thing in this novel is the fact that though we see and know Barbara in all her shallow selfishness, we fall under her spell, even as those who make the story with her fall under it.”
+ N Y Times p26 D 19 ’20 1800w + − Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 150w
“Next to ‘Sonia,’ this is the author’s most finished and interesting work. Indeed, he sometimes attains the high level set in that admirable book.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 420w
“One cannot fail to recognize that artistically he is at home, conveying always a very fair impression of reality in general detail, writing with ease and often with wit, drawing characters which are all recognizable as types. But the significance is the question, and here, so far, he is not convincing.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p666 O 14 ’20 420w
MCKENNA, STEPHEN. Sheila intervenes. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–26313
The outstanding personages of this story are Denys Playfair, an Irishman with a family history that has made resentment towards the English governing classes a part of his inheritance; Sheila Farling, also Irish, slight, black-eyed, clever, full of the joy of life, and on occasion full of mischief, and scorn and a faculty for raillery; and Daphne Grayling, Sheila’s cousin, daughter of an old-fashioned mother who is keeping her in leading strings even to the choice of a husband for her, and who condemns her to a life of boredom and inactivity. Sheila’s exuberant spirit leads her to play providence for her friends. She engineers Denys into a political career, and noticing the blossoming out of Daphne under Denys’s friendship, does violence to her own feelings for him, while she engineers the two into a love compact. Fate intervenes in the form of a serious accident to Daphne’s ex-fiancé, which brings the latter to a realization that duty is stronger than love. It also intervenes to acquaint Denys with Sheila’s true feeling for him for when he collapses before her eyes from the effects of over-work and strain, her assumed indifference likewise collapses.
“Her delightful grandfather is one of the best characters and Sheila herself is irresistible.”
+ Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20
“Despite this slightness of plot, the story carries its own sentimental interest and is continually a matter of touch and go. Moreover the characters are delightful.” M. E. Bailey
+ − Bookm 51:205 Ap ’20 240w
“An earlier work has been resurrected from the obscurity of the novelist’s earlier career to share the success of his later books. In many cases the act is justified. But in Mr McKenna’s case it seems to us decidedly a mistake.”
− + Boston Transcript p7 Mr 24 ’20 220w
“Yet in spite of its failings and its extremely weak—at times almost ludicrously weak—motivation, the novel is not without its good points. Sheila herself is attractive, and the dialogue is easy and not infrequently even bright.”
+ − N Y Times p116 Mr 14 ’20 500w
“Imagine a new ‘Dolly dialogues’ with a serious motive behind it, and you get somewhere near the aim and substance of this earlier work by the author of ‘Sonia.’” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 97:998 Mr 20 ’20 400w
“It is all very interesting, for Mr McKenna’s people are brilliant, and the dinner parties, social gatherings and political conferences scintillate with wit and sharp exchanges of opinions on public questions of the moment. Meanwhile, the principal romance is handled with skill by the author.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a Ap 4 ’20 600w
MACKENZIE, COMPTON. Poor relations. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
19–19599
A successful playwright, suddenly grown rich, is surrounded by a host of poor relations, brothers and sisters with wives, husbands and offspring, all more or less failures, all tactlessly anxious to drink at the golden fountain. They drive him from his country home, they assail him in his town house, they turn against him their slanderous tongues when their expectations are not fulfilled. He is a good sort and goes the full length of the bearable, but at last, in desperation, elopes with his long-loved secretary on a honeymoon to America after committing one revengeful act. Mindful of the internecine warfare among his relations, he makes a present of one-fifth of his country home to each family group respectively.
“The Touchwood family is one of those detestable, fascinating families that we cannot have enough of.” K. M.
+ Ath p1035 O 17 ’19 1000w Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20
“Mr Mackenzie has here the material for a short story or, let us say, a well-balanced novelette. But instead of selecting, and sorting, and packing it down, he lets it take possession of him. There is of course a lot of amusing stuff in it, no end of satirical material, no end of clever and witty touches. But the book as a book is without form and void.” H. W. Boynton
− + Bookm 51:341 My ’20 420w + Cleveland p83 S ’20 50w
“‘Poor relations’ is a farce. Any number of children and adults pass through its pages, all acting exactly as children and adults act. A plot of quite exceptional banality and incidents of incredible age and vulgarity serve to display these life-like wares. It would be easier to think lightly of Mr Mackenzie’s failure if one did not have to remember what Henry James said of him. Remembering that, and remembering Jenny Pearl, the brief story of Mr Mackenzie’s career takes on some of the proportions of tragedy.” Gilbert Seldes
− Dial 68:611 My ’20 1100w
“‘Poor relations’ shows, moreover, that recognition of how strange people really are which has always been one of Mr Mackenzie’s virtues. He has resisted that persistent underwriting of character and circumstance which has been the curse of refined English literature ever since the days of Gissing, and has not been afraid to allow fantastic people to do fantastic things.” Rebecca West
+ New Repub 21:362 F 18 ’20 1200w
“Written in a light ironic manner, with much deftness of phrasing and a thorough understanding of the follies and meannesses and hypocrisies to which his ‘poor relations’ are so exceedingly prone, it yet usually and skilfully contrives to keep the reader in sympathy with its vain, generous, sentimental and self-deceived hero.”
+ N Y Times 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 750w
“Though marred toward the end by that longwindedness which is his besetting sin, it is exceptionally amusing.”
+ − N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Mr Mackenzie may object to the expression: ‘this well known author writes in an entirely new vein’ but it seems to fit the occasion. He handles his hero with affectionate jocularity bordering on farce. Yet the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, human and lovable—perhaps just because of its convincing defects.” Doris Webb
+ Pub W 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 260w
“It was with some trepidation that we opened ‘Poor relations.’ Our delight was therefore doubly great on finding no taint of the Scarlett novels marring its pages. Quite early in the book the principal character remarks: ‘This passion for realism is everywhere.... Thank goodness, I’ve been through it and got over it and put it behind me for ever.’ Let us pray that he is speaking with the voice of his creator.”
+ Sat R 128:319 O 4 ’19 1150w
“This is an ingenious and at times diverting recital, bordering on extravaganza, but not too remotely detached from reality to be incredible, and not too malicious in its satire to be unenjoyable.”
+ Spec 123:865 D 20 ’19 400w
“‘Poor relations’ is engagingly light-hearted in all its phases, with a discernible grain of reality beneath the shell of comedy and satire.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 600w
“The oppression which has seemed of late to brood over the work of Mr Compton Mackenzie has cleared away, we hope never to return. In ‘Poor relations’ the sun comes out brightly from the clouds, a gentle breeze of humour blows the story along, and the reader from the first page to the last enjoys himself immensely.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p513 S 25 ’19 850w
MACKENZIE, COMPTON. Vanity girl. *$2 (1½c) Harper
20–7724
It is the story of the clever scheming of a vain, selfish, heartless but very beautiful girl. Her first step to use her beauty as an asset was to go on the stage. As “Vanity girl,” opportunities offered to cast her net for a titled husband. She captured the fifth Earl of Clarehaven and was received by the family on equal terms. Her first disappointment came when the fates denied her a son to inherit the earldom, and her second when her foolish husband, with cards and horses, succeeded in losing the family estate. When he is killed in France, and the sixth Earl of Clarehaven at last arrives, the impoverished countess still has one trump card left. She marries the millionaire Jew, who is now owner of Clare, on the condition that he make over the entire estate to her son.
“In whatever contempt Mr Mackenzie may hold his public—how is it possible that he should dare to invite them to partake of such sickly food? We should not waste space upon so pretentious and stupid a book were it not that we have believed in his gifts and desire to protest that he should so betray them.” K. M.
− Ath p639 My 14 ’20 760w
“This writer does have the instinct for action and, once you accept his people as figures in a picaresque novel, you have something to tie to, as you never do with Mr George. The ‘trouble’ here, indeed, is that Mr Mackenzie, not being aware of his true job, deviates into sense, that is, into interpretation, just often enough to queer his real pitch.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Bookm 52:251 N ’20 300w Boston Transcript p4 S 22 ’20 1200w − Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 80w
“As his art approaches its maturity, he adds to his native wit and cleverness a sure mastery of technique which puts him unmistakably in the forefront of the English novelists of the day. So clever and interesting is Mr Mackenzie’s new novel that one regrets the more to find, if anything, an increase in the smart nastiness that occasionally blemishes his writing.” Stanley Went
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 S 25 ’20 1500w N Y Times p18 S 19 ’20 700w
“Mr Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical. Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called ‘Sylvia Scarlett,’ I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing novels about every one of the Vanity chorus.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:269 S 29 ’20 160w
“For the reader, unless he likes flippancy and fireworks for their own sakes, the end of it all is not much better than vanity. Mr Mackenzie, at least, is a story-teller of a sort. However encumbered with facts, his narrative always has the charm of an adventure which, if it never quite gets anywhere, is at least always amusingly on its way.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“That this plebeian girl should step into her exalted social station and so speedily absorb the new life and arouse love and veneration for the Clarehaven tradition and inheritance is little short of a miracle. But Mr Mackenzie makes it seem natural.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 470w
“Mr Compton Mackenzie will receive praise for this new novel from those to whom it was chiefly intended to appeal; it will receive adverse criticism from those whose judgment Mr Mackenzie has by now, perhaps, ceased to take into account. It will have earned the one and thoroughly deserved the other. Deliberately he has written a story of a snob for snobs.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20 720w
MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR. Korea’s fight for freedom. *$2 (2c) Revell 951.9
20–2360
Instead of a new edition of the author’s “Tragedy of Korea,” this is a new book including some of the old matter and bringing the story of Korea up-to-date. It is the story of the injustice and the cruelty practised by Japan against Korea in its policy of imperial expansion. “In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long sleep, under conditions of tragic terror, that has seized hold of and is clinging fast to, things vital to civilization as we see it, freedom and free faith, the honor of their women, the development of their own souls.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Opening the oyster; Japan makes a false move; The Independence club; The new era; The rule of Prince Ito; With the rebels; The last days of the Korean empire; The missionaries; Torture à la mode; The people speak—the tyrants answer; Girl martyrs for liberty; World reactions; What can we do?
“This book deserves a wide reading. It breathes a real humanitarian interest in the present unhappy fate of over ten million people; and on its constructive side suggests a way out of a far eastern situation full of dangers for the American people.” W. W. McLaren
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:518 Ag ’20 200w
“A well written account.”
+ Booklist 16:238 Ap ’20
Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby
Review 2:545 My 22 ’20 1400w R of Rs 61:335 Mr ’20 20w
“It is impossible not to feel admiration for the Koreans in reading the history of its people as written by an author who understands and sympathizes with them.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 20 ’20 250w
“A few minor statements are incorrect. But none acquainted with the situation can deny the accuracy of its statements of fact, or the propriety of its positions.” A missionary
+ − Survey 43:657 F 28 ’20 300w
“Of Mr McKenzie’s trustworthiness as a witness there can be no question.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p528 Ag 19 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
Yale R n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR. Pussyfoot Johnson. il *$1.50 Revell
20–20628
“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled ‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A. McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d Republican
“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 560w + Outlook 125:714 Ag 25 ’20 900w R of Rs 62:334 S ’20 70w Springf’d Republican p6 S 7 ’20 240w
“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg
+ − Survey 44:732 S 15 ’20 460w The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 250w
MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES. Future of medicine. (Oxford medical publications) *$5 Oxford 610
26–26322
“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of ‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four closely printed pages.”—Spec
Booklist 16:227 Ap ’20 + Sat R 128:466 N 15 ’19 1200w
“One lays aside the book with a feeling of great respect and admiration for this great and honest physician. All the same, one cannot help feeling that the disadvantages of the present system of teaching in the medical schools is exaggerated by the writer, and that, were the attempt made so to alter it as to meet the demands of a man of so keen an intellect as Sir James Mackenzie, a few giants might be reared, but that the work of the average man would suffer.”
+ − Spec 122:476 O 11 ’19 1300w
“The social worker who expects to find in Dr Mackenzie’s book on ‘The future of medicine’ a discussion of the socialization of medicine and the solution of many of the medical problems of the future will be disappointed. The medical and perhaps the lay reader, however, will be amply rewarded by the brilliant and, sometimes, scathing criticism by Dr Mackenzie of the present laboratory research and specialty aspects of medical science.” G: M. Price
+ Survey 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 240w The Times [London] Lit Sup p439 Ag 14 ’19 80w
“Much thought has been devoted to the composition of this attempt to influence the future of medicine. A good deal of this material is highly technical, which is doubtless unavoidable, but has the disadvantages of making the weighing of the evidence exceedingly difficult for any except members of the medical profession.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p493 S 18 ’19 1400w
MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.[[2]] Story of a fortunate youth. $1.25 (7c) Atlantic monthly press
These “chapters from the biography of an elderly gentleman” (Sub-title) are sketchy bits from the career of a minister who began life as a little Scotch boy in the East Highlands. His first fortune was a “bawbee” found in the dust, then came real earnings—beginning with six-pence and the duties of a shepherd—to help eke out the family income—until the great country across the water beckoned him. There the usual course from farm hand and country school-teacher to college and the ministry are gone through, all told lovingly and in whimsical style by the old gentleman’s daughter. The chapters are: The boy and the bawbee; The boy and the half-crown; The boy and the dollar; The wages of youth.
MACKENZIE, JOHN STUART. Arrows of desire; essays on British characteristics. *$3.75 Macmillan 914.2
“The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is as misleading as Ruskin’s ‘On the construction of sheepfolds.’ Professor Mackenzie’s book consists, in fact, of essays on our [England’s] national character. He discusses ‘Henry V.’ on the assumption that Shakespeare regarded the king as a typical Englishman. He then considers the English character, taking in turn each of the reproaches hurled at us by native and foreign critics. He contrasts the sister-nations with England, and incidentally repeats what we believe to be the fallacious statement that the Scotsman is more democratic than the Englishman. In the end Professor Mackenzie seems to conclude that we are not so bad after all, and that our chief danger lies in a ‘superficial optimism.’”—Spec
“An analysis of British characteristics by a British professor is a difficult task for any fair-minded man, which is probably why Mr J. S. Mackenzie draws upon a consensus of other people’s opinions with which to support his own. This continual reference to authorities is a little wearisome to the flesh, the more so since Mr Mackenzie shows himself a really competent judge of the matter, avoiding self-gratification without the obverse fault of detraction in order to prove himself just.”
+ − Nation 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“He is too attentive to detail, too eager to back up what he has to say with chapter and verse. The professor in him is uppermost, to the detriment of the writer. Nevertheless, in spite of these handicaps, there is acute analysis in Professor Mackenzie’s book. In its parts his book is good; as a whole it lacks coherence and smoothness.”
+ − N Y Times 25:296 Je 6 ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan
Review 2:546 My 22 ’20 1300w − + Sat R 130:319 O 16 ’20 820w
“It is an entertaining book.”
+ Spec 124:215 F 14 ’20 160w
“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p207 Ap 1 ’20 1950w
MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH. Cattle and the future of beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2
Agr20–243
A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle; Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F. H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.
“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the farming community generally.” C. C.
+ Nature 105:62 Mr 18 ’20 850w
“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”
+ Spec 124:278 F 28 ’20 1200w
“Mr Mackenzie is original and daring in some of his suggestions.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p549 O 9 ’19 200w
MACKIE, RANSOM A. Education during adolescence. *$2 Dutton 373
20–4028
“Basing his arguments very largely on Stanley Hall’s ‘Educational problems,’ the author proceeds to describe what are the essentials of a high school curriculum.” (Cleveland) “In the introduction, Dr Hall states that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and so-called formal studies and methods of discipline are largely a delusion and a snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. In chapter I the author states that the purpose of education, based not only on the needs of society but also on the needs of the adolescent, are, according to Dr Hall, ‘to train character, to suggest, to awaken, to graft interest, to give range and loftiness of sentiment of view, to broaden knowledge, and to bring everything into touch with life.’ During this age every effort possible should be made to ‘fill and develop mind, heart, soul, and body,’ especially with a view to vocational training. Such training demands vitalized and humanized materials of education and methods of instruction.” (School R)
“A good summary written with forceful simplicity.”
+ Booklist 17:54 N ’20 Cleveland p91 S ’20 50w El School J 21:158 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by Paul Shorey
− Review 2:433 Ap 24 ’20 1600w
“Taken as a whole, this book is quite suggestive and inspirational. Those persons who find the original works of G. Stanley Hall a little weighty will have their minds refreshed with some of his doctrines by reading Mr Mackie’s book, in which Dr Hall’s philosophy is presented in a very readable style, yet with less tonnage than is found in his own works.” J: B. Clark
+ School R 28:717 N ’20 820w
MCKIM, WILLIAM DUNCAN. Study for the times. *$2.50 Putnam 150
20–21213
The author calls his study “an inquiry into thought and motive,” and this he considers imperative in these post-war times of restlessness and impatience, of fads and crazes, of hasty formulation of rights and noisy demand for their concession. Although much in this mad onward rush may be of lasting value and help towards a rejuvenation of the race, the latter, he holds, can only be accomplished through careful patient thought and a study of the limitations and frailties of our own individual natures. The book deals largely with human psychology and the findings of psycho-pathology. Contents: Introduction; Social influences; The individual mind; The knowing function; The feeling function; Conclusion; Index.
MACKINNON, ALBERT GLENTHORN. Guid auld Jock. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
19–18839
Jock had a keen relish for other people’s affairs, especially those of Scotchmen. At the military hospital he ferreted out all such and became their father confessor, their lawyer and general confidant. The book is a collection of such confessions, of wrongs committed, of secret sins, of weighted consciences. And every story had its complement. The other man always turned up and in his turn made a confession, and, thanks to Jock’s discretion, quick wit and sense of humor, there was always a righting and a smoothing over. Some of the titles are: Jock’s neebors; How Jock healed his comrade’s worst wound; The barbed wires of misunderstanding; A prank o’ the post; A maitter o’ conscience.
MCKISHNIE, ARCHIE P. Son of courage. il *$1.75 (2c) Reilly & Lee
20–17187
Billy Wilson was one of the boys in a small settlement on the north coast of Lake Erie. He was full of fun, always ready for some boyish deviltry and the leader among his chums. The other side of his character was love of nature and animals, undaunted courage and love of fair dealing. He was afraid only of ghosts and even against those he felt secure with his rabbit’s-foot charm. His exploits are many and exasperating but he wins the heart of his stepmother and of the prettiest girl in the settlement and becomes instrumental in solving several mysteries and discovering a treasure.
“A satisfying story of outdoor life.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 70w
MCKOWAN, EVAH.[[2]] Graydon of the Windermere. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–21188
Kent Graydon of the Windermere is a young Canadian engineer who has gone West and made good. Since his schoolboy days he has cherished the memory of Alleyne Milburne as his ideal of womanhood. Then one summer he meets her again in his own western country. He woos her ardently and it is not until he loses out to his rival of earlier days that he realizes that it is not she who embodies his ideals, but her cousin Claire, who is “honourable and generous, sportsmanlike and fair, sympathetic and womanly.”
MCLACHLAN, HERBERT. St Luke, the man and his work. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 226
20–14133
“In a dozen chapters, Mr McLachlan, lecturer in Hellenistic Greek in the University of Manchester, discusses St Luke, the man of letters, the linguist, the editor, the theologian, the humorist, the letter writer, the reporter, the diarist, etc. The work gives in brief the views of German and English Protestants and Rationalists on every phase of the Lucan problem—authenticity, language, accuracy, doctrine and the like.”—Cath World
“This is a book from which the student of the Lucan writers will learn much, whether he is among the conservatives or the revolutionaries in textual criticism.”
+ Ath p540 Ap 23 ’20 800w + − Cath World 111:686 Ag ’20 320w
“This scholarly book is to be commended to the notice of New Testament students.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p111 F 12 ’20 290w
MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW CUNNINGHAM.[[2]] Steps in the development of American democracy. *$1.50 Abingdon press 342.7
20–8377
“A small volume comprising the lectures delivered by Professor McLaughlin at Wesleyan university. This series of lectures was the first to be given on the George Slocum Bennett foundation ‘for the promotion of a better understanding of national problems and of a more perfect realization of the responsibilities of citizenship.’ The author tells us in the preface that his purpose ‘is simply to recount a few salient experiences which helped to make America what it is, ... as also to describe certain basic doctrines and beliefs, some of which may have had their day, while others have not yet reached fulfillment.’”—Am Hist R
“In a work of this character, the presentation of new historical facts is not to be expected, but rather a new and fresh treatment of them and of their significance. This latter task is what Mr McLaughlin essayed in this series of lectures and this he has most successfully achieved. Mr McLaughlin’s firm grasp upon the history of the country is apparent throughout his treatment, and his discussion is characterized by brilliant exposition and frequently enlivened by flashes of wit and even restrained sarcasm.” H. V. Ames
+ Am Hist R 26:344 Ja ’21 540w + Am Pol Sci R 14:739 N ’20 50w
“Necessarily, the treatment of the subject is broad but it is marked by a sense of proportion and by genuine insight.”
+ Bookm 52:368 D ’20 120w
MCLELLAN, ELEANOR. Voice education. *$1.75 (7½c) Harper 784.9
20–16097
The author claims to have discovered a system of scientific vocal technique through many years of practical research work by beginning with correcting abnormalities of speech and voice action. “This means rectifying conditions such as hoarseness, thickness of the vocal cords and surrounding muscles, nodules, paralyzed vocal cords, loss of high or low notes, stuttering, and all allied phonation and action troubles.” (Preface) The contents are: Breath; Tone versus vowel; Attack and poise of tone; Consonants; Interpretation; Requirements of a great career; Emotions and characteristics of singers.
“Every teacher and singer—and just people—would do well to take the chapter on ‘Emotions and characteristics of the singer’ in this book to heart. But there the practical help of the book to a singer or teacher ends.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p27 O 23 ’20 150w
MACMANUS, SEUMAS. Top o’ the mornin’. *$1.90 (3c) Stokes
20–17081
A collection of old and new tales in the Irish dialect. Some of the copyright dates go back to 1899. Others belong to the present year. The titles are: The lord mayor o’ Buffalo; The Widow Meehan’s Cassimeer shawl; The cadger-boy’s last journey; The minister’s racehorse; The case of Kitty Kildea: Billy Baxter’s holiday; Wee Paidin; When Barney’s trunk comes home; Five minutes a millionaire; Mrs Carney’s sealskin; The capture of Nelly Carribin; The bellman of Carrick; Barney Brian’s monument; All on the brown knowe; The heartbreak of Norah O’Hara.
“Splendid for reading aloud and full of fun and good Irish wit.”
+ Booklist 17:118 D ’20
“Mr MacManus has a certain delicate whimsicality of utterance that transforms his somewhat sordid characters into beings of real interest. They provide a volume of extremely pleasant little stories, all quite indelibly branded with the mark of the shamrock.”
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 20 ’20 220w
“Mr MacManus makes potent use of the folk-flavour: he draws his inspiration from the touchstone of common humanity; but he never hesitates to take what liberties he chooses with his material.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 3:238 N 17 ’20 170w + Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 60w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 380w + Springf’d Republican p8 D 28 ’20 130w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 90w
MCMASTER, JOHN BACH. United States in the world war (1918–1920). v 2 *$3 Appleton 940.373
20–12608
This is the second volume of Professor McMaster’s history of the war. It deals with the work of the American troops in France and ends with the peace conference and the rejection of the peace treaty by the United States senate. Contents: Submarines off our coast; War work at home; Fighting in France; Peace offensives; The armistice; The president goes abroad; The peace conference; The treaty of peace; The treaty rejected; Appendices; Index.
+ Booklist 17:25 O ’20
“The arrangement may be registered at once as both logical and, within the scope of logic, rhetorical, even dramatic. He did not make as good use as he might have done of the reports of Pershing and March. When the chapter ‘War work at home’ is so well written it is a pity that no attention should be paid to the efforts the enemy was making to render that work futile.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p22 Ag 29 ’20 2500w + Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 100w
“The second volume is a distinct disappointment. Even considering the haste with which it must have been prepared, the single chapter devoted to the military phase of the war is almost absurdly inadequate and our naval participation is snubbed still more severely. The chapter headed ‘War work at home,’ however, is well done, and the one entitled ‘The treaty rejected,’ considering all the difficulties of the topic, is also handled with considerable skill.”
− + Review 3:508 N 24 ’20 220w R of Rs 62:445 O ’20 160w
“We do not observe that Professor McMaster has utilized any sources of information which are not readily accessible; he seems indeed to have relied largely upon the reports in the newspapers. The book is disfigured by some careless mistakes.”
− + Spec 125:643 N 13 ’20 170w
MCMASTERS, WILLIAM HENRY. Revolt. il *$1.60 Small
19–18647
“William H. McMasters has produced ‘Revolt,’ a tale of the presidential election in the year 1940. The hero is Roger Morton, a young multi-millionaire of thirty-eight, son of the world’s first billionaire, John Paine Morton, president of the Universal trust company, which has controlled both political parties of the United States for many years. This marvelous young man, being urged to do so by one of the professors on his death bed, forms the revolutionist party, outwits his father at every point, and elects Dan Holman, one of his Harvard classmates as president of the United States.”—Springf’d Republican
N Y Times 25:297 Je 6 ’20 340w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 100w
“His characters are rather wooden at first, and he has to jerk hard on the strings to make them do the next thing next, but as the story gathers speed and momentum, they almost run away from him.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 280w
MCMICHAEL, CHARLES BARNSLEY, tr. Short stories from the Spanish. il *$1.50 Boni & Liveright
20–8278
“The present volume is published with the intention of interesting American readers in the Spanish short story—a form in which the Spanish excel. There are three stories by Ruben Dario, three by Jacinto Octavio Picon and one by Leopoldo Alas. In addition there is a helpful introduction giving a short sketch of the life of each of these authors.”—Boston Transcript
“The translation is on the whole effective though sometimes awkwardly literal.”
+ − Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21 Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 320w
“Exquisite little word pictures of a way of living full of delicate grace and beauty.”
+ Cleveland p83 S ’20 30w
“These seven tales are marked by charm and delicacy, rather than by strength and passion. Judge McMichael’s translation is generally effective, although it sometimes suffers from excessively conscientious literalness.” W. H. C.
+ − New Repub 23:183 Jl 7 ’20 260w
“The publishers of this volume have performed a genuine service in offering to American readers in an attractive form these literary gems from a language in which public interest is constantly increasing.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“There is a clear simplicity and naive directness to be found in the work of all three writers which marks them as of the same race.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 25 ’20 300w
MACMURCHY, HELEN. Almosts: a study of the feeble-minded. *$1 50 (4c) Houghton 132
20–5606
The book is a study of “the fool” in literature, the author maintaining that valuable suggestions for the treatment and care of the feeble-minded can be obtained thereby. “Sometimes the poet sees more than the scientist, even when the scientific man is playing at his own game. The novelist can give a few points to the sociologist, and the dramatist to the settlement worker.” The great writers have studied the feeble-minded from life. They have “discovered long before the modern ‘uplifter’ was born, that we must reckon with the mental defective as one of those many things in heaven and earth that are not dealt with by some philosophers, and yet that make a great difference to the community and social progress.” The writers from whom the characters are taken are: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Charles Reade, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawthorne and others.
“The value of the book is perhaps the greatest in pointing out concretely to the general reader the common characteristics of defectives through these well known examples.”
+ Booklist 16:297 Je ’20
“It is not only valuable, but it has as the clever author doubtless intended, the delight of recalling to one’s mind, old time favorites and old familiar friends.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 18 ’20 360w Cleveland p74 Ag ’20 40w N Y Evening Post p11 My 1 ’20 600w
“Although slight and relatively unimportant, the book will doubtless reach many persons with its message of the need for segregation and institutional treatment who would not have been attracted by a work couched in the more prosaic terminology of science.” K. M. G.
+ Social Hygiene 6:594 O ’20 130w Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 2 ’20 180w
“‘The almosts’ will surely help the recognition and adequate care of the feebleminded. It should help to form public opinion.” Alexander Johnson
+ Survey 44:449 Je 26 ’20 550w
MACNAMARA, BRINSLEY. Clanking of chains. *$1.90 Brentano’s
19–17481
“The tale is called a story of Sinn Fein, yet it is not the history of that party or a novel that deals primarily with party matters: rather it is the study of an individual, whose finer instincts are never understood by his daily companions and whose efforts do not prove immediately fruitful. Michael Dempsey, the hero, we first meet taking the part of Robert Emmet in an amateur play given in the town of Ballycullen. The novel, then, is only incidentally a story of Sinn Fein, and chiefly the tale of Michael Dempsey’s two loves—Ireland and ‘Mirandolina.’ In the first case, he wooes and loses; in the second, his victory is, one is almost sure, partly defeat.”—Boston Transcript
Ath p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“An extraordinary and tragic book.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:345 My ’20 250w
“On the whole, ‘The clanking of chains,’ though a very readable piece of work, does not measure up to ‘The valley of the squinting windows’; its characterization is less clear, its incident less varied, its impress less lasting.” I. G.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 F 18 ’20 950w Lit D p94 S 4 ’20 1650w
“The story is very vivid and very interesting. Irish village life is satirized with considerable skill. But one wonders what exactly Mr Macnamara intends us to infer.... Emigration seems to be his own counsel to the better spirits, as it was Dickens’s counsel in ‘David Copperfield’ to the disappointed English Chartist. But then, as now, this was a counsel of despair.” H. L. Stewart
+ − Review 2:462 My 1 ’20 1050w
“This is a strong, sombre, and disquieting book.”
+ Spec 124:247 F 21 ’20 750w
“The picture is painted in drab colors, and in the narration of the slender story the author is never at pains to cater to any party’s sympathies or prejudices.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 30 ’20 180w
“The story is told in a confused way, and in several places the action hangs fire. The book also contains too much rhetoric. But the analysis both of the inhabitants of Ballycullen and of the problems which these individuals personify is acute and honest. Mr Macnamara is, for a writer on Irish topics, impartial, and he makes a great effort to consider the case from every aspect.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p200 Mr 25 ’20 540w
MACNAUGHTAN, SARAH BROOM. My war experiences in two continents; ed. by her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young). *$5 Dutton 940.48
(Eng ed 19–8145)
“The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to some extent for her earlier book, ‘A woman’s diary of the war,’ but there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the description of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her soup-kitchen at Furnes, is vivid and moving. After a year in Belgium and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Macnaughtan went to give her help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships she had to endure, she was forced home by illness in the following spring, and she died a few months later. If the chapters dealing with this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her pen.”—Spec
“Though one feels that her deliberate aim was to set down faithfully what she saw—the result is infinitely more than that. It is a revelation of her inner self which would perhaps never have been revealed in times less terrible and strange.” K. M.
+ Ath p237 Ap 25 ’19 1200w Brooklyn 12:43 N ’19 40w + Pittsburgh 24:612 D ’19 40w + Sat R 127:426 My 3 ’19 700w + Spec 122:637 My 17 ’19 200w
“The definite opinions she expresses are so often at variance with one another that the reviewer must tear up his laboured analysis and plead ignorance. But her inconsistency is only superficial; through it all she is affirming her love for what is noble and disinterested.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p176 Ap 3 ’19 1100w
MCPHERSON, LOGAN GRANT. Flow of value. *$2.50 (2c) Century 330.1
20–1957
Proceeding from the premise that human energy ought to be directed to the service of human kind, it is the author’s object to ascertain how human activities can be so coordinated as to result in the general good. His problem is to assemble the findings of economists and sociologists into a body of scientific facts from which the trained investigator can draw correct conclusions. The book is a continuation of the presentation embodied in a previous volume: “How the world makes its living,” and presents the sequence of cause and effect in determining prices, wages, and profit. A partial list of the contents is: Human effort and human wants; Property in matter and property in force; Utility and utilities; The exchange of utilities and the unit of exchange; The actual development of industry and commerce in the United States; The relativity of human effort and the relativity of human wants; The interrelations of effort, prices, and profit; Value; Capital; The ultimate units of production and consumption; Money; The trend of the monetary and banking system; Sound minds in sound bodies; Index.
+ Dial 68:671 My ’20 80w
“The value of the present work lies in the clearness with which the fact is developed that all commodities and services are the product of human effort. The vigorous enforcement of this truth at a time when the world seems bent on a hunger strike is a real service.”
+ Review 2:282 Mr 20 ’20 1000w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 140w
“Teachers of college courses in economics will find in Mr McPherson’s ‘The flow of value’ an admirable book for collateral reading. The clarity of exposition, the wealth of concrete illustration, and the refreshing novelty of some of the analysis deserve special commendation.” E. R. Burton
+ Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 170w
MCPHERSON, WILLIAM LENHART. Short history of the great war. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.3
20–6967
This volume “dealing particularly with its military and diplomatic aspects and the part played in it by the United States” (Sub-title), offers a general outline story of the war with the main object of giving a clear and accurate running account of its origin and progress. It is a complement to the author’s other book, “The strategy of the great war,” and gives in detail all the outstanding facts and principal operations of the war with appendices and an index.
“Because this book relates to military policy, it is equally interesting to the trained soldier and to the intelligent civilian.” X. Y. Z.
+ Nation 111:106 Jl 24 ’20 950w
“The only regret of the reader in regard to Mr McPherson’s one-volume history of the war is that it has no maps; otherwise, within the limitations of space set, it leaves nothing to be desired.” Walter Littlefield
+ N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w
“Clear and good it is, but it leaves the impression in one’s mind of newspaper material dished up into a book. On the score of originality of presentation, freshness of statement, vigor of style, it suffers by comparison with Pollard’s, nor does it exhibit the same nicety of proportion and balance.”
+ − Review 3:424 N 3 ’20 170w R of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 100w + St Louis 18:238 O ’20 40w
MACQUARRIE, HECTOR. Tahiti days. il *$4.50 (7½c) Doran 919.6
20–19772
The author was ordered to the Tahiti Islands for his health and found it there, and now invites the reader to step onto his magic carpet and follow him thither, to the fairy land of the South seas, to the “Island of tranquil delight” where the gentle Polynesians will pluck oranges for him, climb the cocoanut palms for nuts for him and regale him with their bananas and breadfruit and where he can see the natives diving for pearls. Among the contents are: Raratonga; The Moana; Tahiti; Babies; The hula-hula; Hikuero, the pearl island; Pearl diving; Breakfast on Hikuero; The Marai and Miggimiggi; Firewalking on Tahiti; The epidemic. The book is profusely illustrated.
+ Booklist 17:151 Ja ’21
“He writes of his stay in Tahiti in an interesting fashion, although he spoils his book by his coarseness and his contempt for the moral law. He is at his best when he describes the pearl diving near Kikuero Island, the pagan rite of the fire-walkers of Tahiti, or the customs of the natives.”
+ − Cath World 112:695 F ’21 130w
“It is a charming book, and one well calculated to disturb the contentment of any city dweller.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p12 D 26 ’20 1450w
“It is one of the most entertaining of the recent books about adventure in the islands of the Pacific.”
+ Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“Hector MacQuarrie’s ‘Tahiti days’ is a much more creditable book than some other recent works on the same subject. Mr MacQuarrie writes with appreciation of the islands and the people, he writes with directness and humor, and best of all he writes like a man, not like a snickering little boy with naughty stories to tell.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:558 D 8 ’20 110w
MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER, ed. Famous detective stories. *$1.50 (2c) Crowell
20–15065
The stories selected for this collection are: The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; An interview with M. Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau; A scandal in Bohemia, by A. Conan Doyle; The adventure of the hansom cabs, by Robert Louis Stevenson; The adventure of the toadstools, by Sax Rohmer; Gentlemen and players, by E. W. Hornung; The black hand, by Arthur B. Reeve; The grotto spectre, by Anna Katherine Green; The mystery of the steel disk, by Broughton Brandenburg; The sign of the shadow, by Maurice Le Blanc; The mystery of the steel room, by Thomas W. Hanshew.
Booklist 17:72 N ’20 Freeman 2:142 O 20 ’20 150w
“There is much entertainment in J. Walker McSpadden’s eleven ‘Famous detective stories.’ One thing is certain, the detective story, entertaining as it may be, is the most thoroughly standardized product in modern literature, as bright and hard and competent as a jackknife, and hardly one iota more humane.”
+ − Nation 111:354 S 25 ’20 220w Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 130w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 80w
MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER, ed. Famous psychic stories. *$1.50 (2½c) Crowell
20–16801
Mr McSpadden, who had compiled an earlier collection of ghost stories, touches on the difference between the “psychic” and the “ghost” story in his introduction. In the latter the “old fashioned spook” predominates, while the wide range possible under the term psychic is disclosed by his analysis of the twelve stories. These stories are: The white old maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; The dream woman, by Wilkie Collins; The open door, by Margaret Oliphant; The stalls of Barchester cathedral, by Montague Rhodes James; The man who went too far, by E. F. Benson; Moxon’s master, by Ambrose Bierce; The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey; From the loom of the dead, by Elia W. Peattie; The ghoul, by Evangeline W. Blashfield; The shadows on the wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The widow’s mite, by Isaac K. Funk.
Booklist 17:118 D ’20 Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 140w + Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 140w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 90w
MACVEAGH, EWEN CAMERON, and BROWN, LEE D. Yankee in the British zone. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.373
20–3186
The object of the book which has a foreword by Major General Wood, and which gives an account of the good understanding and mutual helpfulness existing between the British and American troops is to point a lesson for preparedness so that we may not “become too well satisfied with the outstanding fact that the war was ultimately won,” but may plan during the new phase of our history upon which we are now entering what to retain of and what to add to our hastily constructed military machine. Among the contents are: Getting acquainted; Reasons for the Yankee in the British zone; Tommy Atkins’ estate in France; The Yanks explore and rehearse: Off for the battle of a hundred days; The breaking of the Hindenburg line; Hun opinions of the Yankee; Accomplishments, discoveries, and results of the Yankee in the British zone. There are many illustrations and four appendices.
“The humorous tone saves the book from the charge of propagandism.”
+ Booklist 16:238 Ap ’20
“The book contains a wealth of anecdotes, which throw light on the failings of both American and English soldiers towards each other.” O. McK.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 480w
“It is good-humoured, accurate, full of incident, and a bit ‘hurrah.’”
+ Dial 68:539 Ap ’20 40w
“A frank, brave, sportsmanly record.” Coningsby Dawson
+ N Y Times 25:1 F 22 ’20 1200w
“The humorous as well as the serious side of soldier life comes out in strong relief.”
+ Outlook 124:291 F 18 ’20 120w
“The authors are announced as ‘trained observers,’ and the reader concedes the title, adding that of trained or naturally facile writers, for they have dressed their material with real skill.”
+ Review 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 420w R of Rs 61:336 Mr ’20 80w + Spec 125:573 O 30 ’20 180w The Times [London] Lit Sup p638 S 30 ’20 180w
MAGNUSSEN, JULIUS. God’s smile; tr. by Daniel Kilham Dodge. *$1.75 (4½c) Appleton 134
20–13992
A work translated from the Danish. The author is a Danish dramatist whose plays have been produced at the National theater. At the age of thirty-seven and at the height of his popularity he suddenly lost interest in the comedy he was writing and found his attention turned to psychic matters by a series of curious experiences. These are described in this book. They began with table rappings, which aroused only amusement and derision, and continued with automatic writings which finally routed his scepticism. The book is said to have run thru ten editions in the first month of publication in Denmark.
“There is little imaginative power and no trace of originality in these supposed communications from the spirit world, which bear a familiar stamp of vague and grandiloquent optimism. The translation does not impress us as particularly good.”
− Ath p678 N 19 ’20 70w
“Deeply sincere, and well told in spite of excessive egoism and introspection.”
+ − Booklist 17:7 O ’20
“The book is spiritism watered and sugared; its ‘God’ will make converts for atheism, and its ‘smile’ will beget pessimists.”
− Review 3:350 O 20 ’20 250w
“As a matter of fact, his self-revelation is more interesting than are the psychical experiences that he narrates.” Lilian Whiting
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 320w
“Mr Magnussen begins his account in a vein of naive egotism, which—at any rate when in the dress of another language—sometimes approaches the comic; but as he proceeds his story assumes a literary quality by means of its directness and simplicity.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p687 O 21 ’20 100w Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 20w
MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE. Books and their writers. *$2 Dodd 824
(Eng ed 20–9510)
A series of literary essays and reviews. The author says, “All I have sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained from desultory reading of all kinds during the last few years.” In part 1, Novelists and novels, he writes of Compton Mackenzie, Norman Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Stephen McKenna, Jane Austen, Clemence Dane, Dorothy Richardson. Part 2, Poetry and poets, is devoted to J. C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols, Dora Sigerson, Chinese poetry. Part 3, Books in general, contains reviews of Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians,” Smith’s “Trivia,” and other recent works, also papers on Alice Meynell as critic and Lafcadio Hearn. Some of the essays are reprinted from the Fortnightly Review and To-day.
“A light and sketchy, appreciative and not over-critical, yet useful contribution to the history of current literature.”
+ Ath p384 Mr 19 ’20 90w
“There is not one author treated by Mr Mais of whom the reader will get a just estimate, for frothy appreciation is not justice; but there is one author whom the reader will come to know all too well, and he is Mr Mais. Even in his interminable and ill-written summaries of other men’s work, of which the bulk of the book consists, Mr Mais obtrudes himself. He cannot create, he cannot judge, and with his own clamour he deafens judgment.” O. W.
− Ath p542 Ap 23 ’20 1300w
“The most interesting part of Mr Mais’s ‘Books and their writers’ is, to my mind, that devoted to novels and novelists.” K. F. Gerould
+ − Bookm 52:264 N ’20 460w
“Although Mr Mais’s title is commonplace, his essays are not likewise dull. They are variable in quality, to be sure, and there is in them a revelation of the critical faculty their writer so explicitly denies himself.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p5 S 22 ’20 750w
“An easily readable book, full of time beguiling extracts from the authors under review—an excellent reference book to supplement more critical and comprehensive works on contemporary literature.”
+ N Y Evening Post p8 S 25 ’20 170w
“One likes Mr Mais because he likes all sorts of things, and writes about them with a zest which compels you to like them, too, whether you agree with his judgments or not.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − N Y Times p8 O 17 ’20 1700w
“He has undeniable talent, great industry, almost fanatical enthusiasm: such qualities might carry a man far, but his untidy and careless mind is in danger of wrecking his literary career almost at the outset.”
+ − Sat R 129:280 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“Mr Mais has not much of value to say: he just flows on chatting intelligently about the books people are reading (or supposed to be reading) and the authors they are talking about.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 F 26 ’20 240w
MAJOR, CLARE TREE. How to develop your will power. (How to develop ser.) *$1.25 (4c) Clode, E. J. 170
20–14873
This volume, which follows “How to develop your personality” and “How to develop your speaking voice,” has chapters on Self-examination; Will: its power, function and development; Physical dominance (three chapters); Be courageous; Learn the value of habit; Self-control; Self-control and business power; Business success; Will in idealism; with a Review of chapters at the close.
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 6 ’20 50w
MALDCLEWITH, RONSBY, pseud. Professor’s love-life. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–19246
“The book comprises a series of genuine letters, written by a man who here appears under the name of Ronsby Maldclewith to his fiancée, Katherine, a woman of the old South now some years dead. They are published in accordance with a wish expressed by her. The young professor, devotee of literature and art, within a few months of the discovery of their mutual love, becomes the victim of incipient lung trouble. The letters to Katherine—from Denver during an apparently beneficial sojourn; from New York city, where he settles in order to be able to consult often with great specialists; from his home, to which he returns full of courage and hope of ultimate recovery, and lastly from Denver, where he loses the great fight—are intensely pathetic and from beginning to end tell a story of measureless devotion.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Ath p463 Ap 2 ’20 80w Boston Transcript p6 Ja 7 ’20 120w + Dial 68:399 Mr ’20 60w
“Were it not for beauty of language, pathos, lofty sentiment and apt quotations, there is no denying that reading the book would at times be depressing.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 9 ’20 360w
“It would be hard to trace the impalpable quality which stamps these letters with the seal of truth: but it is there to illustrate the law that style is the touchstone of all fine and sincere literature.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p38 Ja 15 ’20 600w
MALINS, GEOFFREY H. How I filmed the war; ed. by Low Warren. il *$4 Stokes 940.48
(Eng ed 19–19271)
“This stirring narrative describes the innumerable adventures that occurred to Mr Malins in the pursuit of cinematograph records of the fighting on the western front. Mr Malins’ devotion to his job is surpassed only by his courage.”—Ath
Ath p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
“Very few men have displayed such courage and devotion in winning an empire or in winning a wife as Mr Malins has shown in taking his war films. That he is alive to write a book (and an extremely good book) about them is one of the incredible things of the war.”
+ Ath p1121 O 31 ’19 600w
“A brisk interesting account of soldiering with the camera. It gives assurance that the scenes of war in the movies were taken at the front, often in positions of danger.”
+ Booklist 16:200 Mr ’20
“The pictures are good, and his story, told in a very conversational and natural way, is especially instructive.” J. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 17 ’20 500w
“No doubt Mr Malins’s volume is making a stir in cinematographic circles; but apart from them, we question if it will have a long career as a ‘library book.’ The films themselves were efficiently done, but they were all that counted; there was not enough stuff left to make a readable book.”
− + Sat R 130:99 Jl 31 ’19 370w
“Very readable account.”
+ Spec 123:512 O 18 ’19 50w
“There was excellent material for a book in all these adventures, and Lieutenant Malins writes with great spirit, if without any special distinction of style.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p598 O 30 ’19 440w
MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL. Memoirs of life and literature. il *$2.50 Harper
20–16292
“Memoirs,” says the author, “represent life as seen by the writers from a personal point of view.... Thus if any writer attempts to do what I have done myself—namely, to examine or depict in books of widely different kinds such aspects and problems of life—social, philosophical, religious, and economic—as have in turn engrossed his special attention, he may venture to hope that a memoir of his own activities will be taken as representing an age, rather than a personal story.” (Chapter I) The first three chapters are devoted to the author’s family antecedents and early life and some of the other chapters are: Winter society at Torquay; The basis of London society; Vignettes of London life; Society in country houses; From country houses to politics; Cyprus, Florence, Hungary; Two works on social politics; Religious philosophy and fiction; Politics and society in America; Literature and action. The book has an index and a number of portraits of famous writers.
Ath p583 O 29 ’20 1300w
“To some the philosophy will seem too self-satisfied and the ease of tone, varied only by urbane satire, indicative of a class heedlessness of much of the passion, discontent and injustice below the surface.”
+ − Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21
Reviewed by H: L. West
+ Bookm 52:269 N ’20 480w
“His ingenious mingling of the records of his own life and mental progress and achievement with accounts of his contact with other men and women of his time, give to Mr Mallock’s memoirs a rare quality. Its pages are all filled with an exceptional sympathy for the mental attitude of even those from whom he differed on problems of vital and lasting importance.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 18 ’20 1800w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
Dial 70:217 F ’21 2100w
“It is with something of shock that we discover Mr Mallock’s conservatism as unyielding as when in the complacent days before the war he came to expound it from the rostrums of our universities. Events have marched, but Mr Mallock has not marched with them. And yet, disappointing though it is, Mr Mallock’s volume contains chapters that redeem it from the commonplace.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p6 S 18 ’20 1100w
“Too much of the memoirs are snobbery, genealogical dissertations and comments on the author’s own novels and economic studies. He possessed the opportunity for a surprisingly good book but he has not wholly availed himself of it.” H. S. Gorman
− + N Y Times p12 O 3 ’20 2100w
“What the author has given us in his books, with all sincerity, has been, so it seems, not ‘confessions’ by any means, but his real inner thought without compromise or unexpressed reservations. This, rather than its suavity of style, its variety of interests, its numerous personalities, explains the charm of the volume. There is an air of intellectual and moral success and good-breeding about it such as one rarely finds.”
+ No Am 212:713 N ’20 1850w
“His comments and anecdotes are not always agreeable or calculated to give the reader high ideals.”
− Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 220w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:249 S 22 ’20 150w
“This constant didacticism goes far to spoil what is otherwise so good. If only Mr Mallock had expended his energies more exclusively on the descriptive and anecdotal parts of his book, he might have produced a work of rare charm; he has the insight and the literary skill to have done this.”
+ − Review 3:377 O 27 ’20 950w + R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 80w Spec 125:470 O 9 ’20 1500w
“Delightfully entertaining work. Not once in a blue moon do lovers of good literature fall upon anything so richly suggestive, so charmingly satisfying.” Lilian Whiting
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 2300w
“Mr Mallock in the lucidity of his style, in his confident logic and graceful sense of proportion, in his fastidiousness and his cynical undertones, betrays the mind of the eighteenth-century aristocrat.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p597 S 16 ’20 1800w
MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE. Russian republic. *$1 (4½c) Harcourt 947
20–5655
As the basis for an opinion as to the possibilities of peace negotiations with Soviet Russia, the author undertook an examination of the political, social and military conditions there at first hand, by a personal visit. The book records his findings in diary form interspersed with interviews, conversations and personal reflections. Throughout, the author draws a comparison with the French revolution and concludes that the only way to head off a military dictatorship in Russia is through one of two policies; the unthinkable one of making war on her on a grand scale, or “to make every effort to give the Soviet republic internal and external peace, and to establish commercial bonds with them, to the great blessing of mankind and to the prosperity of all countries.” Contents: Introductory; To Petrograd; Moscow; Social reconstruction; Trotsky and the red army; Industry; Religion and women; The peace terms; Homeward bound; Conclusions; Appendix—Prinkipo and Nansen.
Booklist 16:308 Je ’20
“Colonel Malone’s attitude is one of a somewhat suspicious solicitude; he is aware of the danger of being taken in, and this gives to his report an air of special authenticity. Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that dealing with the Red army.”
+ Freeman 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 300w
“Colonel Malone’s book will be popular among sympathizers with Soviet Russia, especially those of a more or less conservative stripe. It explodes the grosser fabrications about Russia without implying too much violence against what cautious folk conceive to be a properly centered world. Its superficiality from this point of view may prove an asset: for no one can deny that it is essentially a superficial study.” Evans Clark
+ − Nation 111:47 Jl 10 ’20 750w R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 60w The Times [London] Lit Sup p90 F 5 ’20 150w
MANDER, JANE. Story of a New Zealand river. *$1.75 (1c) Lane
20–4462
A story by an author apparently familiar with the country of which she writes. For its beginnings it goes back a full generation to a pioneer age in a new country. Alice Roland is as unfitted for this life as her husband is fitted for it. An English woman, adrift with a young child, she accepts Tom Roland’s offer of marriage and goes with him up the river to the wild country where he is to carve out his fortune. She has never loved him, and finds her life, with its hardships and recurrent child bearing, dreary enough. Then love for her husband’s partner, David Bruce, comes to complicate the situation. Alice’s scruples and David’s loyalty to his partner keep them from transgression. In the meantime Alice’s daughter, Asia, grows up, with ideals very different from her mother’s, with a sure knowledge of what she wants, and she doesn’t let the fact that the man she loves is already married stand in her way. There are good pictures of the New Zealand landscape and of its developing civilization.
“She lacks confidence and the courage of her opinions: like the wavering, fearful heroine, she leans too hard on England. There are moments when we catch a bewilderingly vivid glimpse of what she really felt and knew about the small settlement of people in the lumbercamp, but we suspect that these are moments when she is off her guard. These serve nothing but to increase our impatience with Miss Mander. Why is her book not half as long, twice as honest?” K. M.
− + Ath p49 Jl 9 ’20 600w
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
Bookm 51:440 Je ’20 160w
“The author not only knows her country, but those who live in it, and she describes both with strong feeling and yet with artistic restraint.”
+ Boston Transcript p11 Ap 17 ’20 250w
“The theme of this book is good but it is not good enough for 430 pages of closely printed matter. Of the characters that create ‘The story of a New Zealand river,’ which, by the way, is an extremely bad title, nothing but praise may be given.” H. S. G.
+ − New Repub 23:234 Jl 21 ’20 650w
“The novel presents an interesting picture of pioneer life on the unnamed river and some of Alice’s struggles are well portrayed, but there is so much reiteration and so much of what can only be called padding that the effect of the novel is greatly weakened and it loses its hold on the reader long before the climax is reached.”
+ − N Y Times 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w
“The author handles this tale of an isolated New Zealand lumber camp with considerable romantic effect.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 220w
“The authoress has a real ability to describe character and differences of outlook; but she does not allow the plot to become lost in disquisitions. The book would have been more emphatic if it could have been shortened, but in its present form it is a patient study of one example of the immemorial clash between impulse and convention. The authoress never exactly hits the bull’s-eye, but she is always on the target.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p386 Je 17 ’20 220w
MANNERS, JOHN HARTLEY. All clear, God of my faith, and God’s outcast. *$1.25 Doran 812
20–4129
These three plays: All clear; God of my faith; and God’s outcast, “written during the horrors of the unjust and cruel war forced by Germany upon civilisation ... founded on actual incidents, may serve to keep alive remembrance of some of the barbarous outrages perpetrated by the Hun on innocent and wretched peoples.” (Foreword) They are songs of hate and the Germans, in the author’s opinion, are “a race apart, unfit to associate with and to be shunned forevermore.”
Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 480w
MANSBRIDGE, ALBERT. Adventure in working-class education. *$2 (*6s) Longmans 374.2
“This book chronicles the genesis and growth of the Workers’ educational association which was founded to promote the higher education of working men and women by means of an alliance between co-operation, trades unionism, and university extension. It began in 1903, not without opposition and with very little financial support, which Mr Mansbridge, to whose enthusiasm the organisation owes much of its vitality, counts like a true fighter amongst the reasons for its success. Mr Mansbridge and his colleagues preserved their eager optimism even through the depressing years of the war until, at the present day, they can number over seventeen thousand members in the British islands and many prosperous branches in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. The vivifying idea of the movement is that most workers have an interest in education if they would only realize it; and to stimulate that interest and provide facilities for its gratification are the objects for which the association was formed.”—Spec
Ath p814 Je 18 ’20 80w + Spec 124:85 Jl 17 ’20 480w
“This book is a short but inspiring introduction to the spirit of the whole movement. In passages it rises to levels of fine eloquence. The prologue should be read by every teacher; and the whole spirit of the movement should become known to social workers and lovers of democracy everywhere.” J. K. Hart
+ Survey 45:136 O 23 ’20 320w The Times [London] Lit Sup p304 My 13 ’20 40w
MANTLE, MRS BEATRICE. In the house of another. *$1.90 (2½c) Century
20–17410
When the heroine of the story comes back to consciousness after an auto accident, she finds herself in a strange environment and among unfamiliar people. She even realizes she has a husband, Alan Leland, whose existence she has no remembrance of, and a circle of friends whom she does not recognize. But they take her quite for granted, which adds to her mystification. She wonders if she is out of her mind. The difficulties of the situation are increased by Willett Renshaw’s attitude to her which is that of a recognized lover. His attentions are distressing to her, but she does not understand the situation clearly enough to be able to straighten it out. Renshaw’s attitude finally results in her separation from Alan, to her sorrow. But she bravely tries to reconstruct her life on a new plan, until a wise friend who realizes that there is some big trouble in her life goes to the bottom of her fears and paves the way for her future happiness and Alan’s.
“It needs a Wells or at least an Anstey (as in ‘Vice versa’ or ‘The statement of Stella Maberly’) to carry out this idea of exchanged personalities satisfactorily.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p21 O 23 ’20 90w
“As a novel written to divert and mystify, ‘In the house of another’ succeeds in its purpose.”
+ N Y Times p11 O 17 ’20 220w
MANTLE, BURNS, ed. Best plays of 1919–20, and the Year book of the drama in America. *$2 Small 822
20–21432
This volume marks the first appearance of a new annual which attempts to do for the professional drama what Mr Braithwaite’s anthology does for poetry and Mr O’Brien’s year book for the short story. Mr Mantle has selected ten of the successful plays from the New York season of 1919–20 and has presented them, partly in summary, partly in dialog. They are: Abraham Lincoln, by John Drinkwater; Beyond the horizon, by Eugene O’Neill: The famous Mrs Fair, by James Forbes; Declassee, by Zoe Aikins; Jane Clegg, by St John Ervine; The jest, by Sem Benelli; Wedding bells, by Salisbury Field; Mamma’s affair, by Rachel Barton Butler; Adam and Eva, by George Middleton and Guy Bolton; Clarence, by Booth Tarkington. The volume opens with “The season in review” by Mr Mantle and the year book at the close includes surveys of the season in London and in Paris, along with statistical summaries and other data relating to the stage.
“As to at least five of the ten, there will be general acquiescence in Mr Mantle’s choice, and as to the other five there will be general diversity of opinion.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p4 Ja 30 ’21 360w
“Friends of the drama in America owe Mr Mantle a real debt of thanks.” Dorothy Grafly
+ − Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 400w
“Altogether a much-needed piece of work, and well done. If the next time Mr Mantle will include some account of the significant achievements in stage-craft, his year-book will prove even more valuable.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 5:85 Ja ’21 230w
MANUEL, HERSCHEL THURMAN. Talent in drawing; an experimental study of the use of tests to discover special ability. (School and home education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 136.7
20–4546
Account of a pioneer investigation in the province of specialized ability, or talent, conducted by Professor Whipple, Miss Genevieve L. Coy, and Dr T. S. Henry among selected public school pupils and college students of Urbana, Illinois. The problem the investigators set before them was to discover “the essential psychophysical characteristics of persons talented in drawing,” and to learn how the test methods could best be used in the diagnosis of such talent. To the individuals selected were given certain tests of: general intelligence; higher thought processes; memory and learning; reading; observation; sensory discrimination; handwriting and drawing; also physical and motor tests. Tests given were taken from Binet-Simon, Whipple, Thurstone and other authorities. The investigation, completely described in this little volume, together with a list of the tests, and a bibliography of books used, “resulted in a somewhat detailed statement of the nature of talent in drawing and has yielded a tentative program of tests for the measurement of this talent.” (Conclusion)
MAPU, ABRAHAM. Sorrows of Noma. il *$1.50 (1½c) National bk. publishers, 200 5th av., N.Y.
20–4891
A translation, by Joseph Marymont of the Hebrew historical romance, “Ahavath Zion,” the first novel that appeared in Hebrew literature. The story, beginning with sinister treachery and deceptions, and a bitter tragedy, centers about the motive so often recurring in the great Greek narratives—that of a noble son hidden away from evil intrigues of enemies, and raised in rural simplicity as a lowly born shepherd. In this case there is also a mother falsely accused by her husband’s enemies, and a beautiful daughter. The finding of the lad Ammon by an exalted lord’s only daughter, his restoration to his birthright both of nobility and property, the vindication of his mother Noma from false accusations, the inevitable punishment of the followers of iniquity, the loves of Ammon and his sister, are interwoven with a picture of the city of Zion during the reign of Ahaz, and the austere fear of God and love of nation inextricable from any conception of the ancient Hebrew.
“The story is well told in language borrowed for the most part from the Old Testament, and the manners and customs of the Jewish people are well described.”
+ Cath World 111:544 Jl ’20 60w
“As a contribution to the cause of acquainting the world with Hebraic literature, ‘Sorrows of Noma’ comes as a valuable addition. But aside from the literary and classical considerations there is still a third value to this book. The human interest of it.” Rose Karsner
+ N Y Call p10 My 9 ’20 430w
MARBLE, ANNIE RUSSELL (MRS CHARLES FRANCIS MARBLE). Women who came in the Mayflower. $1.50 (13½c) Pilgrim press 974.4
20–8510
“This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in the Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in the Ann and the Fortune.... There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during 1621–1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual matrons and maidens.” (Foreword) Contents: Endurance and adventure; The voyage and landing; Communal and family life in Plymouth 1621–1623; Matrons and maidens who came in the “Mayflower”: Companions who arrived in the “Fortune” and the “Ann.” Index.
+ Bib World 54:552 S ’20 200w
“A very attractive little volume. It is well worth reading.” W. A. Dyer
+ Bookm 52:125 O ’20 60w
“Full of pleasant gossip about the Mayflower folks is this little volume.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 300w N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 180w
“Within its limits it is extremely comprehensive, and well worth reading.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Je 2 ’20 300w
MARCH, NORAH HELENA. Towards racial health. *$2 (2c) Dutton 612.6
19–15994
A book on sex hygiene and sex instruction designed for parents, teachers and social workers. It is an English work and is brought out in America with an introduction by Dr Evangeline W. Young of Boston, in addition to the original foreword by J. Arthur Thomson of the University of Aberdeen. The subjects covered include: The physical development of the child; The mental and emotional development of the child; Care of children; Supervision—psychological aspect; Nature study in the service of sex instruction; Further aids towards understanding the biology of sex; Ethical training; Education for parenthood (two chapters); Social safeguarding. Other important matter is presented in appendices, including suggested ways of answering children’s questions. There is a bibliography of seven pages and an index.
Booklist 16:290 My ’20
“The soundness of the author’s biological background is attested by Professor J. Arthur Thomson’s commendatory foreword, while her willingness to deal with delicate practical difficulties betrays the sympathetic understanding and intimate personal knowledge of the teacher.”
+ Dial 67:274 S 20 ’19 60w
“What Miss March has done is well done—her chapters are poorly named, however. The American edition would be improved if statistics from American institutions and organizations were added.” E. M. Achilles
+ − J Philos 17:192 Mr 25 ’20 320w
“The author exhibits a singular ignorance of the ways of real boys and girls and is to be credited with an extensive knowledge of the literature of the subject.” H. C. M.
− + School R 28:159 F ’20 140w
“It is an unusually successful attempt in this difficult field.” L. B.
+ Survey 43:438 Ja 17 ’20 130w
MARCHANT, JAMES, ed.[[2]] Control of parenthood. *$2.50 (5½c) Putnam 176
20–21358
Arguments for and against birth control are presented in this volume, to which distinguished men and women of Great Britain contribute. The Bishop of Birmingham writes the introduction. J. Arthur Thomson and Leonard Hill write of Biological aspects; Dean Inge and Harold Cox of Economic aspects; Dr Mary Scharlieb, Dr F. B. Meyer and Dr A. E. Garvie of Social and religious aspects; and Sir Rider Haggard and Dr Marie C. Stopes of Imperial and racial aspects.
MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK. Adventures in interviewing. il *$4 (4c) Lane 920
20–645
The book, the author tells us, grew out of a series of articles dealing with war-time interviewing. He believes in making a record of people and events while they are alive and when the interest in them is keenest and he has met many of the commanding figures of the day. He introduces the reader to them both by word and picture. All the most prominent contemporary journalists, statesmen, military men, novelists and actors pass review along with the history of the launching of many a popular book and touches of personal friendships with the author. The contents are: Watterson and the early days; New York and the world’s work; A great American editor; The art of interviewing; Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; The real Lloyd George; Northcliffe, the king-maker; Haig and other British notables; Kerensky and the revolution-makers; Pershing and Wood; Foch and Clemenceau; The Wall street sphinxes; Some literary friendships; Other literary associations; The story of “The jungle”; Plays and players. There are sixty-one illustrations and an index.
+ Ath p751 Je 4 ’20 120w + Booklist 16:167 F ’20
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice
+ Bookm 50:562 F ’20 1550w
“Mr Marcosson’s book is good reading for the general reader and a good text book for young writers and young newspaper men.” J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p10 F 7 ’20 440w Nation 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 260w
“This is a rarely readable volume. It is also excellently illustrated; the photographs with which its pages are generously adorned are exceedingly well reproduced, and the volume takes on value, therefore, as a popular portrait gallery.”
+ − N Y Times 25:26 Ja 18 ’20 1200w
“It is packed with big personalities described in a most entertaining way by a man who has a genius for interviewing and has had rare opportunities for its exercise.”
+ Outlook 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 50w
“The style is already familiar to hosts of readers—popular, fluent, rapid, pointed, occasionally showing irritating haste and carelessness, yet never losing the good journalist’s knack of telling his story interestingly and vividly.” E. M. Brown
+ − Pub W 97:181 Ja 17 ’20 220w
“A book of many limitations. Mr Marcosson is not even an observer, he sees only the most obvious features in a man’s face and the most conspicuous qualities in his mind. Nevertheless his book is interesting. He sees little, but he sees clearly; and, again, he writes barbarously, but he writes clearly.”
+ − Review 2:135 F 7 ’20 360w
“Mr Marcosson seems to have been especially fortunate in his intimacies with writers.”
+ R of Rs 61:333 Mr ’20 120w
“Unfortunately, Mr Marcosson has not the gift of revealing his personality in his writing, nor do any of the famous men whom he describes emerge from his pages bright and clear-limned. His book, indeed, is a pedestrian piece of work. But though its sole interest lies in the various subjects presented to the reader, that interest is substantial and well recompenses one for the momentary boredom produced by certain appallingly vapid statements.”
+ − Sat R 129:589 Je 26 ’20 650w
“A bright, racy and interesting account of interviews with a host of notables. From start to finish the personal pronoun ‘I’ looms up with great frequency. This detracts much from the delightfulness of the book.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w The Times [London] Lit Sup p305 My 13 ’20 150w
MARDEN, ORISON SWETT. You can, but will you? (Marden inspirational books) *1.75 (1c) Crowell 170
20–9415
A collection of the author’s essays on right living. Among the subjects are: The new philosophy of life; The new idea of God; Facing life the right way; Winning out in middle life; How to realize your ambition; The web of fate; The open door; Do you carry victory in your face?
MARKHAM, EDWIN. Gates of paradise, and other poems. *$1.75 Doubleday 811
20–7451
This is Edwin Markham’s fourth volume of verse. It is made up of short poems arranged in eight groups: Van-couriers; At my lady’s window; Wings for the spirit; Deeper chords; Finger-posts for the highway; Echoes from the world war; Memorable men; Songs to the supernal woman. There is a frontispiece portrait of the author.
+ − Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“Is, at its best, rhymed moralizing: eloquent, sincere, restrained, but withal too absorbed in immediate domestic and sociological interests to touch the deepest mysteries of the heart of man.” R. M. Weaver
+ − Bookm 51:453 Je ’20 100w
“‘Gates of paradise’ is pleasant for its simple yet technically capable lines only. The thought contained therein is as old and hackneyed as ham and eggs for breakfast. If he is not careful the mantle of Ella Wheeler Wilcox will descend upon him.” H. S. Gorman
− + N Y Times 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 150w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
Review 3:653 D 29 ’20 420w
MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD. Many Junes. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–6431
Something stronger than himself had always dominated over Hugh Lelacheur even from infancy. First it was a strong-willed father that interfered with his destiny at the death of his mother. Later a too well disciplined reasonableness always triumphed over his strongest desires to make him give up what he liked best for the second best. The best things came too late and kept his life a lonely one with few high lights and many shadows. The shadow’s turn into bitterness and a hardening of the heart when on a memorable June day, given over to memory and a reliving of his past life, it comes to him that he could offer his unloved wife a measure of spiritual companionship, as the only remaining second best thing that he had so far withheld.
Booklist 16:313 Je ’20
“Reaching us twelve years after its first appearance in England. ‘Many Junes’ reveals the constant quality of Mr Marshall’s genius. It might as well have been written yesterday, as far as internal evidence discloses. To ‘Many Junes,’ therefore, we may turn for the reading of a novel in its writer’s best and most characteristic manner.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 1200w
“Archibald Marshall has told the story pleasantly and neatly enough to hold one’s interest; and yet he fortunately does not make one take the book seriously enough to object to some of the incredibilities in the plot.” J. C. L.
+ New Repub 22:428 My 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Marshall’s new novel is something of a departure from his customary type of fiction. This new book is in a different vein, one more serious and more sorrowful.”
+ N Y Times 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 1100w
“The present novel has the same attractiveness with the exception that it lacks that pervading humor which made some of Mr Marshall’s earlier books so delightful.”
+ − Outlook 125:280 Je 9 ’20 240w
“‘Many Junes’ is a rambling, disjointed series or sequence of episodes in the life of an extremely disagreeable Englishman. Hugh Lelacheur is a prig, a snob, and an egotist.” H. W. Boynton
− + Review 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 250w
“The characters all are vividly portrayed flesh-and-blood people. Altogether the story is admirably conceived and developed, and will afford agreeable entertainment to Mr Marshall’s readers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 600w
MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD. Peggy in Toyland. il *$2.50 Dodd
20–18754
A story about a little English girl and her two favorite dolls, one of them made of wood, one a very handsome person known as Lady Grace. There is a teddy bear too, and one night in her dreams the three of them conduct Peggy to Toyland where she has many strange adventures.
“The illustrations have the charm of the narrative; a child would like both story and pictures.”
+ Ind 104:376 D 11 ’20 50w + Springf’d Republican p10 D 17 ’20 80w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p836 D 9 ’20 170w
MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD. Spring walk in Provence. il *$3.50 (4½c) Dodd 914.4
20–17745
The original preface to this book is dated August, 1914, but events immediately following that date delayed its publication. In an added word the author says: “I have been over the manuscript again and made a few alterations here and there, but have altered nothing that shows it to have been written five years ago.” Among the chapter titles are: Hills and olives; Flowers and scents; In old Provence; Aix; Les baux; Mistral; Saint-Remy; Avignon; The palace of the popes; Vaucluse; Villeneuve-sur-Avignon; Arles. There are illustrations and an index.
+ Booklist 17:111 D ’20
“A volume of finished excellence, written without affectation, but with due regard for the stateliness of English prose.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:344 D ’20 80w
“Mr Marshall’s journeyings through Provence inspire us with a desire to follow his footsteps.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 2 ’20 1350w
“The accompanying photographs are good.”
+ N Y Evening Post p30 O 23 ’20 120w
“Mr Marshall has produced a book that is interesting and quietly entertaining, but it is not one that will add to his reputation as a writer of finished prose. The book bears the marks of hasty composition, of a haste that has resulted in an occasional slovenliness and a frequent awkwardness of expression.”
+ − N Y Times p18 D 26 ’20 720w
MARSHALL, EDISON. Voice of the pack. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little
20–26323
Dan Failing, the grandson of a frontiersman, has spent all his life in cities. In his twenty-ninth year he finds that he is far gone with tuberculosis and is told that he has but six months to live. He feels a yearning toward the mountain country he has never known except through his grandfather’s stories and he goes out to the Cascades. An old mountaineer who remembers the elder Failing takes him into his home, altho he cannot conceal his disappointment in this weak descendant of a mighty man. But Dan wins his host’s respect almost at once, for he is a natural born woodsman. He regains his health and later wins the love of Lennox’s daughter, a girl called Snowbird. There is much of forest and animal lore in the story.
Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20
“Again and again Mr Marshall leaves his commonplace style to indulge in some really good writing, but as often he returns to the dull monotone.”
− + Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 260w
“The story in the main is merely a woodsman’s idyl, rich in poetic fancy—although stern in its fidelity to the truth as that woodsman sees it—and throbbing with reverent love for nature.”
+ N Y Times 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w
“Mr Marshall’s story runs close to nature’s heart. Thru a most engrossing and intimate presentation of forest life, develops a fine love drama.” Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 97:1288 Ap 17 ’20 220w
MARSHALL, F. HENRY.[[2]] Discovery in Greek lands. il *$3.40 Macmillan 913.38
“Mr Marshall has written an attractive sketch of the chief results attained by excavations in Greater Greece since 1870. He treats the subject historically, starting with the age of Knossos and Mycenae, and describing under each period the main sites examined. He gives special chapters to temples, to the famous centres like Delphi and Olympia, and to isolated discoveries like the Sidon sarcophagi or the fine statues dredged up near Cerigotto in 1900–1.”—Spec
“Though so highly compressed as to be little more than a skeleton review, his narrative is not without interest. The illustrations that accompany the text add much to its value.”
+ N Y Evening Post p12 D 31 ’20 160w
“He provides a useful bibliography and a number of good photographs. As an introduction to a large and fascinating subject, the book is much to be commended.”
+ Spec 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 100w
MARSHALL, ROBERT. Enchanted golf clubs. il *$1 (3½c) Stokes
20–3577
At the war office he was “Major the Honourable John William Wentworth Gore, 1st Royal light hussars”; to his friends: “There goes good old Jacky Gore, the finest sportsman living!” But he despises golf. The beautiful American widow, Katherine Clendenin Gunter, with a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling, is an enthusiastic golfer. To win her he decides to play a match with a golf champion and enters into a compact with the ghost of a cardinal to use his enchanted clubs. With the ghost’s aid he wins the game, but not the lady.
“Of course what the author describes in his shallow plot could not take place, for the book is admittedly a burlesque. But as a burlesque it is too extravagant to be funny.”
− Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 7 ’20 60w
MARTIN, EDWARD SANFORD. Life of Joseph Hodges Choate. 2v il *$10 Scribner
20–21406
“The reader will promptly discover that this life of Mr Choate is not so much a biography after the manner of Plutarch as a compilation. The chief contributor, by far, is Mr Choate himself, whose writings, public and private, make up four-fifths, or more, of the book.” (Introd.) The first volume opens with Mr Choate’s own story of his boyhood and youth, a fragment of autobiography dictated by him in 1914 while convalescing from an illness. The editor says further, “I have borrowed—whenever it could be done to advantage—from newspapers, commentators, and eulogists. A series of scrap-books, kept for forty odd years and covering more or less Mr Choate’s experiences as ambassador, supplemented the long series of letters which could be drawn upon.” Volume 1 covers the period to the nineties. Volume 2 covers the years of ambassadorship to England and the period of the war, closing with a review of his life. There are interesting illustrations and an index.
“It is a difficult task to cover adequately the many-sidedness of such a man in a biography unless it is systematic and well rounded. The career of Mr Choate merits such a biography. It has not yet been written. When it is, Mr Martin’s interesting and richly filled volumes will be the biographer’s chief source book.” S. L. Cook
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 20 ’20 1450w
“The two volumes are a new thing in biography. They will constitute a classic in editing.”
+ N Y Times p6 N 14 ’20 1700w
“This is an ideal method of combining biography with autobiography.” R. R. Bowker
+ Pub W 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
MARTIN, EVERETT DEAN. Behavior of crowds; a psychological study. *$2 Harper 301
20–20958
The book is somewhat of a critical enlargement on Le Bon’s “The crowd.” Its conclusions are based on the latest research in analytical psychology originated by Freud. The author holds that “as a practical problem, the habit of crowd-making is daily becoming a more serious menace to civilization. Events are making it more and more clear that, pressing as are certain economic questions, the forces which threaten society are really psychological.” (Foreword) As a remedy to this menace he suggests re-education along the lines of humanism expounded by such writers as James, Schiller, Dewey and others. Contents: The crowd and the social problem of today; How crowds are formed; The crowd and the unconscious; The egoism of the crowd-mind; The crowd a creature of hate; The absolutism of the crowd-mind; The psychology of revolutionary crowds; The fruits of revolution—new crowd-tyrannies for old; Freedom and government by crowds; Education as a possible cure for crowd-thinking; Index.
MARTIN, GEORGE (MADDEN) (MRS ATTWOOD R. MARTIN). Children in the mist. *$1.75 (3c) Appleton
20–11222
In a series of eight sketches the writer, who has lived with the negro in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in Florida, the Carolinas and Kentucky, shows him as he is, neither praising him as his over-zealous advocate, nor indulging in race hatred. It is an arraignment of the white race for keeping this primitive people so long in confusion, discouragement and ignorance. The stories cover the period from the emancipation to the present and are arranged in chronological order. The stories are: The flight; The blue handkerchief; An Inskip niggah; Pom; The sleeping sickness; Fire from heaven; Malviney; Sixty years after.
“The stories are very readable.”
+ Booklist 17:72 N ’20
“The eight stories in this book are written with a commendable intention, but that intention does not after all extend beyond a limited field and a circumscribed aspect of the negro.” W. S. B.
+ − Boston Transcript p7 S 8 ’20 600w
“Unfortunately, while Mrs Martin writes with the authoritative manner of one who has known the black man intimately, she has, as she concedes, laid no emphasis in her tales upon negroes who have, to use her phrase, forged ahead. The result is an obvious struggle between the complacence which comes of having met coloured people as servants chiefly, and the feeling that it is inconsistent to deny them opportunity and to charge their race with the consequences.” H. J. S.
+ − Freeman 2:190 N 3 ’20 210w
“Mrs Martin avoids both sentiment and indignation; her tone is warm but quiet; she lets the stern implications arise in their bare and tragic force.”
+ Nation 111:276 S 4 ’20 350w
“They are typical of the kind of studied work in short-story writing which carefully applies principles of preparation, suspense, contributing effect, and climax, and never achieves the dynamic impulsion and the artistic inevitability of a directly told unpremeditated tale.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p20 O 23 ’20 360w
“This book will prove her to have advanced in her art. Mrs Martin is too good an artist to let the purpose obtrude itself. It is there, none the less, and it gives her book a permanent value aside from its quality as fiction.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p24 O 3 ’20 1550w Outlook 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 60w
“A broad vein of humor runs through the tales, but invariably there is a serious note at the ending.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 140w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 80w
MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN). Schoolmaster of Hessville. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–16342
The schoolmaster of Hessville, a Pennsylvania Dutch village, was John Wimmer, fine and strong of character but with the cravings of youth in his young body. It was flesh calling to flesh that made him love Irene, the glowing beauty with the coarse instincts. She played cat and mouse with him and her wiles were finally responsible for John’s marriage to Minnie, Irene’s opposite. Minnie’s winsomeness never quite compensated John for Irene’s more sensuous charms and when a cruel accident deprives Minnie of her reason leaving John with two motherless children on his hands, the now, on her part, widowed Irene, offers her services as housekeeper and becomes John’s mistress. He has fallen an easy prey but in time his eyes are opened, and when a successful operation restores Minnie to him he blesses her breadth of view that can condone his lapse.
“Not alone are the main characters well drawn, even the most minor minion is unforgettably sketched. The author has studied children and has thoroughly expressed her understanding of them.”
+ − N Y Times p27 S 12 ’20 240w
MARTIN, MABEL WOOD. Green god’s pavilion. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes
20–14601
This novel of the Philippines shows in almost lurid colors the irreconcilable difference between the East and the West. It is symbolized in the figures of two women, one, Julie, an American of a fair and spiritual beauty who goes out to Manila as a teacher and with the spirit of a crusader. The other, a native woman, Isabel, the “Empress of the East,” with the fierce passion of life that stops not at evil. It is a tragic story of how the East breaks all who come to her with the best of intentions of uplift and improvement, except they miraculously rise from the dead for a second birth. It broke Julie and left her for dead among the plague stricken huts of the natives. It broke Barry McChord, the man with the “Excelsior” face, who fell a victim to the plague after his high hopes were gone. But something selfless in both finally triumphs over all self-deceptions, even over death. Much philosophizing and much gruesome realism are a part of the story.
“Smoothly written and vivid tale of love and faith and hardship.”
+ Bookm 52:174 O ’20 220w
“From its opening chapter, the reader’s interest is caught and held. Amy Lowell, herself, has done no more vivid color bits than this author has introduced in descriptions of Manila. Aside from the brilliancy of the local setting, she has woven a tale of exceeding interest and charm, and super-excellent quality in novels of today, its ‘third act’ is most engrossing.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 4 ’20 540w
“‘The green god’s pavilion’ may hardly be termed an extraordinary novel, for it is built too obviously for thrill purposes, but it displays an intimate knowledge of conditions in the Philippines and presents with frequency pictures of native life that are vivid and finely written.”
+ N Y Times p10 O 10 ’20 600w
MARTYN, WYNDHAM. Secret of the silver car. *$1.75 Moffat
20–5579
Another book of the adventures of Anthony Trent, master criminal. In an indiscreet moment while they were shut in a caved-in dugout in Flanders, expecting death at any moment, Trent had told the story of his life to his unknown and unseen companion. Both escape and with the war over, he sets himself to find this unknown “William Smith” who knows too much about him for his own safety. He meets “William Smith’s” sister, falls in love with her and for her sake resolves to give up his brilliant criminal career. In her service he goes out to the Balkans, becomes involved in international intrigue, has many hairbreadth escapes, but secures the papers that mean so much to Lady Daphne’s father and is rewarded with her hand.
Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ’20 300w
“Nor is this book mere swashbuckling. It is written always adroitly, sometimes humorously, and with the zest of the author’s own enjoyment.”
+ N Y Evening Post p20 Ap 24 ’20 200w
Reviewed by M. K. Reely
Pub W 97:996 Mr 20 ’20 320w + Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 200w
MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY, ed. Recent developments in European thought. *$6.25 Oxford 901
20–17403
“This volume, which is a sequel to ‘The unity of western civilization’ (1915) and ‘Progress’ (1916), is, like them, the fruit of a course of lectures given at a summer school at Woodbrooke, Birmingham. The addresses composing it were given in August, 1919, and it traces the idea of progress in European history since 1870. Among the contributors, besides the editor, are Mr A. E. Taylor, who writes on ‘Philosophy,’ Dr F. B. Jevons, who writes on ‘Religion,’ Mr A. D. Lindsay, of Balliol, whose subject is ‘Political theory,’ and Mr A. Clutton Brock, who discusses ‘Art.’ Each article is followed by a bibliographical note as a guide to further reading.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup N 11 ’20
Ath p509 Ap 16 ’20 1400w
“In spite of the difficulties of handling the vast intricate masses of still fluid material, the contributors have given readable and yet valuable summaries of the progress of thought. For the beginner, there could be no better introduction to the essential contributions of man’s recent achievement.” M. J.
+ Int J Ethics 31:114 O ’20 460w
“Naturally, the essays by different authors vary in value. The least satisfactory is the first, on philosophy.... The most brilliant essays are those dealing with the fields of thought most intensively cultivated by the last generation.... Compared with the treatment accorded history, the studies here offered of political theory and of economic progress are slightly disappointing.... Taken as a whole, the cumulative impression of these various lectures is greater than that of any one taken separately.” Preserved Smith
+ − Nation 111:379 O 6 ’20 1000w
“The personality of each of the twelve writers is given full expression. It makes the diversity more interesting than the unity.” H. W. C.
+ − Nature 105:607 Jl 15 ’20 500w
“The aim of the writers is to trace the progress and acquisitions of thought and give a general picture of the results obtained by modern knowledge; and they have succeeded in producing essays that are of a high quality and also thoroughly readable.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p247 Ap 22 ’20 2450w The Times [London] Lit Sup p742 N 11 ’20 110w
MARX, MAGDELEINE. Woman; tr. by Adele Szold Seltzer. *$1.90 (6c) Seltzer
20–11894
A translation of a novel that is said to have created a sensation in France. It is a record of emotional moments. The characters have no names, no appearances. They are only personalities. The “woman” of the story loves and marries and bears a child. While still loving her husband she takes a lover and then loses both husband and lover in the war. Out of these experiences she emerges invincible, with an undimmed capacity for life and an indomitable will to live. Henri Barbusse says in his introduction, “In no other book perhaps so markedly as in this has the integrity of an individual been more respected, and never has an imaginary character so consistently warded off whatever is not of itself. You don’t even seem to feel that this ‘woman’ talks or tells a story. You simply know what she knows.”
Reviewed by Theodore Maynard
− + Bookm 52:75 S ’20 700w Dial 69:433 O ’20 70w
“To those in search of a well-written book, not to mention a contribution to real literature, Magdeleine Marx has nothing whatever to offer. The style is wordy, pretentious and empty, a disjointed collection of hollow phrases embodying all the platitudes of the so-called revolt of woman.” E. A. Boyd
− Freeman 2:43 S 22 ’20 960w Ind 104:64 O 9 ’20 500w
“The story is frank and sincere and full of isolated perceptions that are both searching and beautiful. But it is also thin and scrappy and disjointed, and the complete shadowiness of all the characters robs its theories of the inner energy of a human content. In a word, Madame Marx has felt very deeply and reflected intensely, and those who agreed with her passionately have taken it for granted that she has written a great book. But that is taking for granted far too much.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + Nation 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 900w
“A very great deal of it gives the reader the impression of a mind out-stretching itself, to the point of dislocating all its joints, in order to perceive and express something that nobody else has ever perceived or expressed.”
− N Y Times 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 850w
“The book is written in a resignedly magnanimous strain, and passages occur, which, taken by themselves, might affect us as noble. Yet as a whole its absence of elevation in the midst of calls to elevation is confounding.”
− + Review 3:347 O 20 ’20 750w
“‘Woman,’ if nothing else, is an interesting psychological study of the type of mind that dwells upon sex and psychoanalysis with a neurasthenic intensity, when the world is full to overflowing with real woman problems.” M. E. Sangster
+ − Social Hygiene 6:590 O ’20 260w
“It does seem to me that the book might more appropriately have been called ‘A woman.’ For the rest, the book is perfervid in a way that we do not quite like in America, perhaps because we are not wholly acclimated to it. It has pages of unusual beauty, and a high degree of unity and directness.”
+ − World Tomorrow 3:350 N ’20 350w
MASEFIELD, JOHN. Enslaved. *$2.50 Macmillan 821
20–13322
The long narrative poem of the title depicts courage born of love and begetting the brotherhood of man even in the untamed. A fair damsel is carried off by a pirate galley into the captivity of a khalif’s harem. Her lover follows into slavery to rescue her. He does so with the aid of a brother slave who must kill a traitor to accomplish their purpose. Recaptured and brought before the khalif they are set free because their tale causes human stirrings in the hawk breast of the latter. The other poems are: The hounds of hell; Cap on head; Sonnets; The passing strange; Animula; The Lemmings; Forget; On growing old; Lyric.
+ Ath p718 My 28 ’20 60w
“It seems to us that Mr Masefield’s first business is to regain control of his words; and that he can only do this by deliberately attempting a subject that bristles with psychological nuances, and insisting that his language shall accommodate itself to them. Otherwise we fear he will never succeed in expressing that elusive beauty which he sees, but which at present comes to us only in assertion or in fitful gleams through the interstices of an opaque style.” J. M. M.
+ − Ath p823 Je 25 ’20 2300w + Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“Mr Masefield is the single poet writing in English today who both in popular esteem and by the most exacting critical estimate legitimately belongs to the august line of poets who are among the chief glories of our race: to his greatness no journalistic cavil can add or take away.” R. M. Weaver
+ Bookm 52:65 S ’20 240w
“In this poem, [On growing old], as in so many aspects of the other poems in this volume, one feels the shadows of the world, deepened by the tumult of war, settling upon the radiance of a brave visionary spirit. The thrill, the excitement, the adventures of living are all now subdued to this key of sadness, in which the passion and beauty that was once a flame becomes an effable glow.” W. S. B.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ’20 2400w
“The whole thing seems bookish, remote, unreal. The characters do not become sufficiently interesting: seem, in fact, insufficiently equipped with a back-ground of flesh and blood experience.” J: G. Fletcher
− + Freeman 2:163 O 27 ’20 1050w
“One of the signs that the times are good in English poetry is the fact that Mr Masefield keeps on writing poems which tell stories.” Mark Van Doren
+ − Nation 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 310w
“In his latest volume there are some serious offenses against rhyming, euphony, and scansion, but in the larger aspects, in the essential substance and indescribable quality of authentic poesy, he is more richly endowed than any other living writer.” Lawrence Mason
+ New Repub 23:340 Ag 18 ’20 1250w
“‘Enslaved,’ his latest book of poems, offers a peculiarly fine view of Masefield in all his variety. There is no poet in England, unless we except Hardy, who possesses keener insight into the hearts of men. It is this attitude toward life, this same fatalism that recognizes the worst, yet sees the best behind, that makes John Masefield one of the finest living figures in the whole field of English poetry.”
+ N Y Times 25:1 Jl 11 ’20 2450w
“A volume which reveals anew the amazing power and versatility of that English poet.”
+ Outlook 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 450w
“‘Enslaved’ is a dramatic adventure tale. But ‘Enslaved’ is likewise a dreamy, semi-lyrical, murmurous, and caressing tale. It is Masefieldian in its power to be both these things at once.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 3:317 O 13 ’20 600w
“The book is extraordinarily rich, for it contains beside others, ‘Forget’ and ‘On growing old,’ two of the most beautiful poems that Mr Masefield ever wrote, and in this age of singers Mr Masefield remains our poet of greatest achievements.”
+ Spec 124:765 Je 5 ’20 500w
MASEFIELD, JOHN.[[2]] Right Royal. *$1.75 Macmillan 821
20–18954
“In ‘Right Royal’ Mr Masefield celebrates in a narrative poem the story of a horse-race. The story of Mr Masefield’s poem is that of a horse with great points and virtues, for speed and endurance, but very undependable, having lost a number of races by going panicky from fear. He was bought by Charles Cothill, who believed that all his potential qualities as a winner could be developed. Cothill backed his own horse to the extent of all his possessions, which created a crisis in his love for the woman he hoped to marry. If he lost, his love was lost. In fact, it was win all or lose all.”—Boston Transcript
“It will be acknowledged that the preliminaries of the race, the discussions in the stables, the professional tips and omens, the catalogue of the entries, are sandy soil for the growth of poetry. The best of the poem has no relation to the worst; the worst might have been sacrificed. Even in the best are imperfections, but we have learnt to swallow Mr Masefield’s longer poems without straining at the gnats.” E. B.
+ − Ath p692 N 19 ’20 600w + Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“It is growing very trite to say that Mr Masefield does this thing or that thing better than any contemporary poet. He does the things that nobody else does and is thus in competition with himself. ‘Right Royal’ may not be as fine a poem as ‘Enslaved,’ but no one can dispute that it is the best narrative of a horse-race that has been written by any modern poet.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 20 ’20 1500w
“‘Right Royal’ is a bad poem, both intrinsically and because it fails to satisfy certain necessary expectations. It promised to be as good as ‘Reynard the fox,’ but it is woefully, incredibly worse.” Mark Van Doren
− + Nation 111:sup670 D 8 ’20 240w
Reviewed by W. B. D. Henderson
+ N Y Evening Post p2 N 20 ’20 1650w
Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times p17 D 26 ’20 1700w
“The feeling that ‘Right Royal’ deserves to be placed below the earlier volume [‘Reynard the fox’] may be purely a matter of individual temperament on the part of the reviewer. In any case, it is a volume which occupies an enviable place in the field of modern poetry.”
+ Outlook 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 120w
Reviewed by G: D. Procter
+ Pub W 98:1893 D 18 ’20 320w
“The weather—cloud, sun, wind, and shower—is given more prominence and is better conceived in ‘Right Royal’; but to balance this, the unsuccessful passages are decidedly worse than those in ‘Reynard the fox.’ Another fault it seems to the present writer to possess, which the incomparable ‘Reynard the fox’ does not: it is a little monotonous. As a ‘galloping poem,’ however, it is certainly one of the best in English.”
+ − Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 1200w
“He piles simile on simile and each simile is beautiful in itself, each is a patch of ornament stuck on, not woven into the fabric. Mr Masefield has told a brave tale bravely. If his courage had been like Right Royal’s, he would have dared to leave undecorated the beauty inherent in the tale.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p734 N 11 ’20 1050w
MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY. Summons. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–18656
Harry Luttrell had a strong sense of military honor and of the necessity for self-discipline. The first drove him to join the army, the second to tear himself away from the woman he loved and accept a post in Egypt. His friend and classmate, Martin Hillyard, had had a chequered career: as a sailor; in a three years’ struggle for existence in the port-towns of Spain; as an Oxford student and successful playwright; and during the war his knowledge of Spain serves him in good stead as a secret service agent. Stella Croyle, Luttrell’s one-time love, in his absence eats her heart out in neurotic, undisciplined longing and occasionally has recourse to the comfort of drugs. While on a leave of absence during the war, Luttrell meets Stella again without experiencing the old-time thrill and at the same time he meets and falls in love with Joan Whitworth. Poor Stella commits suicide under circumstances that throw suspicion on Joan. Through his experiences in the secret service, Hillyard is enabled to clear Joan and smooth the way for her and Luttrell.
“An interesting variant of the modern detective story.”
+ Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21
“It is a splendid story which Mr Mason has written, based upon his experiences in the war, full of dramatic vigor—a real novel in every sense of the word—and permeated with the atmosphere of England, Spain, and Egypt.”
+ Bookm 52:368 D ’20 90w
“This novel is an excellent substitute for a modern detective story. Instead of possessing a single, unified plot it is composed of a rosary of minor plots which endows it with somewhat of the character of real life.”
+ N Y Evening Post p21 O 23 ’20 250w
“One cannot help wishing that the important character of Joan Whitworth were less exaggerated and more likable, for she does more than a little to harm the book, but it is easy to forgive this shortcoming when one remembers Martin Hillyard and the picturesque José Medina, the very amusing Sir Chichester Splay, Millie, and several others among the varied figures depicted on Mr Mason’s richly colored canvas.”
+ − N Y Times p24 O 10 ’20 660w
“Mr Mason, here as always, has an exciting and unusual story to unfold. This novel is hardly the equal of the ‘Four feathers’ or ‘The broken road,’ for the author attempts to ming a not very successful humorous vein with his natural plot-and-action type of fiction writing.”
+ − Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 60w
“The touch of melodrama in the last section of the book is well conceived and exciting. The best piece of writing in the book is the description of the night passed by Martin Hillyard on the shore of a river in the Sudan. This vivid picture of the life of the game-hunter in wild countries affords a striking contrast to the sophisticated chapters at the beginning of the book.”
+ − Spec 125:539 O 23 ’20 470w
“Mr Mason has shown better form than this.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p683 O 21 20 650w
MASON, ARTHUR. Flying bo’sun. *$1.75 (4c) Holt
20–19236
The narrative, the author claims, is of his own experience. It tells of the voyage of a sailing schooner from San Francisco to the Fiji Islands, of the superstitious sailors’ taking alarm at the alighting on the ship of the “flying bo’sun,” the bird of bad omen, the subsequent death of the captain, his haunting of the cabin and spiritualistic rappings. On the return voyage the Hindoo stowaway has a mysterious illness and is left in a state of coma on the captain’s bed while a terrific hurricane is raging. During a critical moment, when all seems lost, the frail little Hindoo is suddenly seen in charge of the wheel giving commands in the captain’s voice with the captain’s ghost standing beside him. With the ship safe and calm restored the Hindoo is found just coming to life on the captain’s bed. He disclaims all knowledge of commanding a ship but is still shaken by the memory of the hideous dream he has had.
“The feeling persists that, with the exception of the spiritual phenomenon, the whole dramatic voyage actually occurred.” S. M. R.
+ Bookm 52:371 D ’20 90w
“As a story of the sea it ranks with the best of Jack London or Morgan Robertson, and as a story of the uncanny it is comparable with ‘Dracula’ and ‘The master of Ballantrae.’”
+ N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 200w
“In spite of the undoubted accuracy of Mr Mason’s idiom, however, the discriminating layman is likely to find less of the authentic or communicable essence of the sea in ‘The flying b’sun’ than in the spiritual reaction of Masefield, Conrad, Tomlinson and McFee.”
+ − N Y Times p25 Ja 16 ’21 340w
MASON, AUGUSTUS LYNCH. Guiding principles for American voters. *$2 Bobbs 320
20–18679
“Mr Mason aims this ‘handbook of Americanism’ chiefly at the newly enfranchised women and at the young men about to cast their first vote. He analyzes the make-up of the government and argues for what he aptly calls a ‘re-dedication to those principles which have made America great’—i.e., a conservative application of the underlying ideas of the Constitution. He objects to radical methods of taxation, to too much government ownership, governmental price fixing, etc., and he sees ‘Socialism’ as a menace.”—N Y Evening Post
“His arguments are cogently presented and supported by carefully examined data: an excellent brief for the preservation of a conservative republic rather than a radical democracy.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 O 30 ’20 100w
“Its purpose is to popularize an argument, and it has no other value.”
− Springf’d Republican p8 N 9 ’20 50w
MASON, WILLIAM LESLEY. How to become an office stenographer. (Just how ser.) il $1.50 Pitman 652
20–26543
“A handy book intended for the untrained shorthand student who is ambitious to secure a good position without previous experience.” (Title page) The book is adapted for use as a text in business schools and in high school commercial departments. There are thirteen chapters, entitled: Your attention, please! “Safety first”; What business men expect of a stenographer; Preparedness; Your “busy” day; Taking the business letter; Transcribing the business letter; Typing the business letter; Typing business forms; The use and care of the typewriter; Words: their use and abuse; Filing letters; Time-saving office appliances. There are two appendixes giving postal regulations and information regarding the civil service.
Booklist 16:303 Je ’20
MASSENET, JULES ÈMILE FRÉDÉRIC. My recollections. il *$3 Small
19–15403
“An autobiography telling the story of this modern French musical leader’s career, and especially of his many works. [It is] translated, by express desire of the author, by his friend H. Villiers Barnett. Illustrated.”—Brooklyn
“Will be enjoyed by the average reader as well as the opera-goer and student of music.”
+ Booklist 16:79 D ’19
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
Bookm 51:171 Ap ’20 180w
“A charming autobiography.”
+ Brooklyn 12:68 Ja ’20 40w
“His narrative, like his music, reveals facility, grace, and charm, and is alternately gay and sentimental to the point of pathos. One is not very much wiser after reading the book, but one closes it with a certain regret at parting from such amiable company.” Henrietta Straus
+ − Nation 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman
Yale R n s 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w
MASSEY, MRS BEATRICE (LARNED). It might have been worse. *$1.75 (6½c) Wagner, Harr 917.3
20–4452
An account of a motor trip from coast to coast taken in the summer of 1919, with notes on roads, hotels, and other matters of interest to travelers. Contents: The start; New York to Pittsburgh; Ohio and detours; On to Chicago; Through the dairy country; Clothes, luggage, and the car; The Twin cities and ten thousand lakes; Millions of grasshoppers; The Bad lands; The dust of Montana; A wonderland; Westward ho! Nevada and the desert; The end of the road.
MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN. Letters to X. *$2.50 Dutton 824
20–26887
“In ‘Letters to X,’ H. J. Massingham discourses on a great many phases of modern life and literature. There is hardly a modern English author of any consequence who does not come under the appraisement of his pen.”—Springf’d Republican
“The book contains many excellences of detail, and reaches at times and maintains for a while a level notably above its average. Perspective is perhaps Mr Massingham’s outstanding quality.” F. W. S.
+ − Ath p110 Ja 23 ’20 950w
“Familiar, rambling essays of a book lover that will please the ‘gentle reader’ with like leanings, particularly if he be fond of the Elizabethans and Carolines. Their exclusive bookishness will make them seem cold and remote to others.”
+ − Booklist 17:62 N ’20
Reviewed by S. P. Sherman
Bookm 52:108 O ’20 1950w
“These are essays of rare quality in which the essayist is writing continuously of the alliance between literature and life.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Jl 17 ’20 1100w
“Mr Massingham’s essays are delivered ex-cathedra and in a style both heavy and dense. He is a lover of dust covered books, but he seems widely read rather than discriminating, and though he ranges all the way from Richard de Bury’s ‘Philobiblon’ to John Gould Fletcher, he hardly does much to illuminate the names which he mentions. He declares many enthusiasms but lacks the gift of differentiation.”
− + Nation 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 180w
“It is a pity that Mr Massingham has chosen to hide this wise, witty, companionably learned and most comforting book under the bushel of a title which not only gives no hint of its quality, but is actually dry and forbidding. Of the value of good literature, of the qualities which constitute it and of the laws of its making, he says some of the wisest, most pertinent, things written in a long day.” R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times p7 Ag 8 ’20 2650w
“The word which fits his style exactly is one of the best adjectives in our language which the language is guilty of criminal negligence in permitting itself gradually to lose—the word ‘lusty.’ If it were dead instead of merely decaying, it might be recalled to life by the easy, careless, rushing vigor of Mr Massingham’s undaunted prose.”
+ − Review 3:172 Ag 25 ’20 360w
“Mr Massingham’s attacks on his own age, sharp, dipped in bitterness, aimed with truth though they are, do not really touch the monster. Bad though the age may be, he is too impatient and petulant with it; and he is divided in his desires.”
+ − Sat R 129:232 Mr 6 ’20 1050w Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 10 ’20 40w
“Treating his work as art, susceptible to form, even in the rather strained sense of that word which he adopts, we find it deficient in that very quality, and especially in that element of form, tranquillity, upon which he so insists.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p30 Ja 15 ’20 1300w
MASSINGHAM, HAROLD JOHN, ed. Treasury of seventeenth century English verse, from the death of Shakespeare to the Restoration (1616–1660). (Golden treasury ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 821.08
(Eng ed 20–10754)
“Mr Massingham has marked out as his claim the most characteristic part of the century in time, and has not excluded any kind except the dramatic. Most of his selections are naturally lyrical, but by no means all; and he has thus been able to find room for at least specimen fruits from the half-wilderness gardens of ‘Pharonnida’ and ‘Cupid and Psyche.’ He has also cast his gathering net unusually wide, and his readers will make acquaintance with authors who will pretty certainly be new to them, such as Thomas Fettiplace and Robert Gomersal. In giving uniform modern spelling throughout Mr Massingham may invite censure from some purists, but certainly not in this place. Whatever may be the case earlier, the printers’ spelling of the mid-seventeenth century is, as he justly says, ‘only externally archaic.’ Half its differences from present use are not uniform and are evidently haphazard. One may not perhaps approve quite so heartily his practice of excluding some beautiful things as ‘too well known.’ The authors are alphabetically arranged.”—Ath
Reviewed by G: Saintsbury
+ Ath p40 Ja 9 ’20 1400w
“A fresh, provocative, beautiful little book. Palgrave’s volume was not a bit better gauged for Palgrave’s time than Mr Massingham’s is for ours. The purest twentieth-century principles are in operation here. Mr Massingham’s notes are lively to the end, though often they are cleverly irrelevant and gloriously slap-dash. It is as if Mr Saintsbury were twenty again.”
+ Nation 110:151 Ja 31 ’20 370w
“The completeness of the book makes it an excellent compendium for any one studying that era, although it is to be feared that many a general reader will be frightfully bored by the stiff artificiality that marks many of the poems, especially after they get past the Elizabethan era.” H. S. Gorman
+ − N Y Times 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 170w
“The poems, as a whole, are excellently chosen, and the enthusiasm of the introduction makes pleasant reading. The notes, with their short biographical summaries, are especially valuable. But it needs a certain type of mind to appreciate seventeenth century literature, and if all readers are not stirred to the same joy in it as Mr Massingham, it is not his fault, but that of the period.”
+ Sat R 129:39 Ja 10 ’20 480w
“Mr Massingham’s introduction is a delightful essay written in a style that has caught something of the curious felicity of the poets in whose work he has steeped himself.”
+ Spec 124:212 F 14 ’20 1000w
“He claims, and with justice, that the ordinary reader will find here a whole body of poetry with which he has never before had the chance of making acquaintance. This is a service for which the student of English poetry will be heartily grateful to Mr Massingham. But if he be a lover as well as student he will probably find it hard to keep down some irritation at an anthologist who sets out with the resolve to give him as few as possible of the poems which he is known to like.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p129 F 26 ’20 3400w
MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Domesday book. *$4.50 Macmillan 811
20–19678
In this volume Mr Masters has told a long story in verse. The body of Elenor Murray is found by the river near Starved Rock in Illinois and the coroner, William Merival, sets out to assemble the evidence, the material evidence from the man who finds the body, the doctor who performs the autopsy and the spiritual evidence from those who had known the girl from her birth or her parents before her. The effect of these testimonies brought together is to throw light on the many-sided character of one human being when all secrets are laid bare and to show how one life, however humble or pitiful, affects countless other lives, its influence radiating like ripples in a pool when a stone is dropped.
“If Masters can rid himself of his oracular airs and the bad Browning-Shakespeare patois with which he wearies his staunchest admirers, there are few limits to his possible achievements. ‘Domesday book’ is too diffuse and prosy to be a masterpiece of poetic fiction, but it contains the seeds and strength—and the hope—of one.” L: Untermeyer
+ − Bookm 52:363 Ja ’21 550w
“The great American poem of the war has come in the ‘Domesday book’ and come from the hand of the poet who laid the foundation in the synoptic Americanism of the ‘Spoon river anthology.’ The latter was a great work; ‘Domesday book’ is greater.... ‘Domesday book’ is a great national topic of America’s soul symbolized in the character of Elenor Murray.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p7 D 4 ’20 1900w
“The trouble with ‘Domesday book’ is chiefly that it thins this raw material out until it becomes hopelessly prosaic. The realism of ‘Spoon river’ had the virtue of selection and of epigram. In his latest work, Mr Masters has become extensive without any corresponding enlargement of the imagination and the power behind his broader canvas.” O. M. Sayler
− + Freeman 2:357 D 22 ’20 600w
“The total effect is often crude and heavy, now pretentious, now hopelessly flat; and yet beneath these uncompleted surfaces are the sinews of enormous power, a greedy gusto for life, a wide imaginative experience, an abundance of the veritable stuff of existence—all this, and yet not an authentic masterpiece. ‘Spoon river anthology’ still has no rival from the hand of its creator.” C. V. D.
+ − Nation 111:566 N 17 ’20 470w
“For all its largeness of intention, all its vitality and forcefulness, ‘Domesday book’ is not, to my mind, finally articulated. It seems to me unfinished. I do not mean that the poem is not brought to a conclusion. It is concluded, and, I believe, appropriately concluded. But it has parts that should have been cut away or have been more wrought over.” Padraic Colum
+ − New Repub 25:148 D 29 ’20 1700w
“It could have been produced nowhere but in America and nowhere so justly as in the Middle West. The epigrammatic compactness of ‘Spoon river anthology’ is lacking in it, but it takes on a huge strength that the former book lacked.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p18 Ja 16 ’21 840w
“If there be any one who does not clearly realize that life is infinitely complex, that it is in the last analysis practically impossible to assign responsibility for evil, that much good may be where convention sees only evil ... if there be any one who is not convinced of these things already or cannot learn them from his own observations and the daily papers, he may derive great benefit from reading Mr Masters’ book. But those to whom these things are commonplaces will perhaps not care to wade through the poem.”
− + No Am 213:286 F ’21 900w
“The Edgar Lee Masters, whose ‘Spoon river anthology’ blazed a new trail thru American literature, returns with ‘Domesday book.’ Perhaps he is less sardonic now, but the vision of ‘Domesday book’ is broader and it is, happily, gently suffused with a very human tolerance and forgiveness.” G: D. Proctor
+ Pub W 98:1894 D 18 ’20 430w
“The first part is very interesting, and the whole book is readable. Its essence is prosaic, though a back door is left open through which poetry can let herself in in a neighborly fashion, if she chooses. Her visits are infrequent.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 4:15 Ja 5 ’21 1350w
MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Mitch Miller. il *$3.50 Macmillan
20–17009
Mitch Miller’s story is told by his friend Skeeters Kirby. It is a story of boys and a boy’s town written for adults. Mitch has read “Tom Sawyer” and Tom is to him a living personality. The two boys hunt for buried treasure and try to repeat all of Tom’s exploits. They dig for treasure in Old Salem where Lincoln lived, and an old man who knew Lincoln talks to them of a different kind of treasure. They run away intending to visit Tom Sawyer but are brought back home. Later their fathers take them on a journey to Hannibal, Missouri, where they meet life’s first disillusionment. Mitch is something of a dreamer and a poet. He is killed stealing rides on the cars, and in the epilogue, written thirty years after, the author can say that he is now glad that his chum did not live to face the shattered idealism of the present day.
+ Booklist 17:72 N ’20
“The best boy’s story in our generation of American authors has been written by Mr Masters in ‘Mitch Miller.’” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p5 O 9 ’20 1500w
“Those who have neatly ticketed Mr Edgar Lee Masters as a cynic will be obliged after reading ‘Mitch Miller,’ to change their label—if they must have labels. There is, to be sure, a sub-acid quality in the epilogue. But the mood of the book is one of dedication rather than of challenge. Its tone is sunny and fresh and sweet; its beauty quiet and unobtrusive. ‘Mitch Miller’ comes close to being a masterpiece with its breadth of interpretation, and the fineness and singleness of its mood. It is complete, even to the tragedy at the end.” C. M. R.
+ Freeman 2:214 N 10 ’20 250w
“The narrative is tangled in a snarl of moods. Its movement is often thick, its wings gummed and heavy. Only in flashes does the powerful imagination of Mr Masters shake itself free and burn with the high, hot light which so often glows in the ‘Anthology.’ There are touches of admirable comedy and strong strokes of character and some racy prose; but as a whole ‘Mitch Miller’ falls regrettably between the clear energy which might have made it popular and the profound significance which might have made it great.” C. V. D.
+ − Nation 111:566 N 17 ’20 480w
“If fidelity to nature were the whole of art, Mitch Miller would be a perfect book, or almost perfect.... The defect in the author’s method comes out in the end of the book.... Is there nothing in American life significant and interesting enough to make it worth while for a boy like Mitch to grow up? Perhaps there is not; but if that is true, it is an artistic problem to be faced, not evaded through a petulant dismantling of a stage well set.” Alvin Johnson
+ − New Repub 24:276 N 10 ’20 1250w
“Mr Masters’s novel is put down with mingled feelings. It has many faults, but it has quite as many virtues. There is so much to the book that it leaps into the mind to advise the author to write novels henceforth and forevermore and let poetry rest.”
+ − N Y Times p20 N 7 ’20 980w
“The book is unusual and captivating.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
“We are in the habit of looking to Mr Masters for clear-cut character drawing and for sympathetic, if sometimes ironic, understanding of the motives of men but we have often felt regretfully, that he seemed to be too much interested in the morbid side of human nature. ‘Mitch Miller’ comes as a grateful answer to that doubt.” Marguerite Fellows
+ Pub W 98:1192 O 16 ’20 300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:447 N 10 ’20 630w + Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 70w
MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Starved Rock. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
19–17050
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Perhaps the poet’s first worthy successor of ‘Spoon River’; but while displaying something of its sardonic spirit the present collection is of far wider range.”
+ Booklist 16:162 F ’20
“He is at his ripest and surest in such mordant and merciless analyses as Lord Byron to Doctor Polidori, The barber of Sepo. They’d never know me now, Oh you Sabbatarians! and that profound disquisition on Poe, Washington hospital. And the man who wrote Sagamore Hill, that incomparable portrait of Theodore Roosevelt; who wrote Chicago and I shall go down into this land, manifests an intimate understanding of the American heart at its noblest.” H: A. Lappin
+ Bookm 51:216 Ap ’20 250w + Cleveland p86 O ’20 20w
“In ‘Starved Rock’ there is little music but much food for thought.”
+ Ind 104:165 O 9 ’20 40w
“It is beginning to be apparent that Mr Masters neither can nor needs to depart from his original tone and method. He cannot do so profitably and there is no need, since the vein which served them seems inexhaustible. There are not lacking here the old familiar notes of sour, practical tragedy, of hoarse, heroic scepticism, of good, round, pagan, Chicago fleshliness. But [the reader] is sorry for a certain strenuous complacency which has been growing in Mr Masters over a considerable period and which is particularly objectionable in the present volume.”
+ − Nation 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 550w
“Unfortunately, Mr Masters frequently fails to sing because he fails to simplify. He is a thinker, first of all, and the thinker is naturally more discursive than the singer. And now a word for the best of the book. It is a poem about Roosevelt, called At Sagamore Hill. Here is a poem which has in it truth, dignity, vision, vitality.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − N Y Times 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 1100w
“In ‘Starved Rock,’ the reader will not starve, though he will scarcely feast. There are the usual monologues, of which only two are slimy. There are bulky and hazy philosophies, cosmicisms, idealisms, feeble sedatives for bitter griefs. There is an excellent bit of journalism, self-described in the title, Sagamore Hill. There are landscapes of an alluring but unsatisfying picturesqueness. There are instances of that lyric pliancy and invitation which surprise the ear among the ruder notes of Mr Masters, and there are rare moments of true inspiration.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 2:519 My 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Masters is the same versatile narrator who builds poems of facts rather than of fancies, and who presents carefully analyzed characters and situations in a cold, direct and fearless way. He is still at his best as an analyst or narrator, and he is still unsatisfactory and unconvincing when he wanders from matter-of-fact or satirical verse.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 F 20 ’20 850w
MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH. Argonauts of faith: the adventures of the “Mayflower” Pilgrims. il *$1.50 Doran 974.4
20–10629
In this book for boys and girls, with a foreword by Viscount Bryce, there is a prologue comparing the embarking of the Pilgrims on their quest for liberty to the ancient Argonauts’ quest of the Golden fleece. The epilogue suggests that the Pilgrim fathers had their counterparts in the heroes of “Pilgrim’s progress,” and that they laid the keel for a new Argo—the ship of state of a new commonwealth. The stories told are: On the great north road: The stormy passage; The land of threatening waters; The house with the green door; The ship of adventure; The adventures of scouting; A clearing in the waste; Builders in the waste; Greatheart, Mr Standfast, and Valiant-for-truth. There are a chronology, an index, illustrations and maps.
“The story is so well told that it is a pity not to have had it accurate in details.”
+ − Bib World 54:645 N ’20 190w + Booklist 17:37 O ’20
“Follows history with admirable care, presents an excellent atmosphere, and tells an absorbing story.” W. H. Dyer
+ Bookm 52:126 O ’20 60w
“Of all the books relating to the Pilgrims, ‘The argonauts of faith’ by Basil Mathews has the best dramatic form and the most suggestive content for the story-teller, teacher, or librarian.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 52:261 N ’20 100w
“It is a very readable account and the impression it leaves is an accurate one.”
+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 140w + Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 50w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 19 ’20 60w + Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“Basil Mathews has written an old story in an interesting way.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 180w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p242 Ap 15 ’20 80w
MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH, ed. Essays on vocation. *$1.75 Oxford 174
“The purpose is to inculcate the importance of vocation as distinguished from mere profession or making one’s living, and the spirit of the book is ethical and idealistic. One of the essays, Vocation in art, by H. Walford Davies, is an inspiring piece of literature. The other essays are: Vocation and the ministry, by Edward Shillito; Vocation in law, by Sir E. Pollock; Vocation in the home, by Emily E. Whimster; Commerce as a vocation, by W. H. Somervell; Vocation in industry, by A. Ramage; Vocation in education, by J. Lewis Paton; The career of an elementary school teacher, by Fanny Street; and Sir William Osler’s Vocation in medicine and nursing.”—Ath
Ath p1081 O 24 ’19 100w
“As one might expect, a book of essays on vocation edited by Mr Basil Mathews, with contributions by such people as Mr Edward Shillito, Mr Lewis Paton and Sir William Osler could hardly be anything but good. But a good book on vocation is not good enough. It should possess, especially at such a time as this, a certain prophetic quality. It ought to be constraining, irresistible. But this is just what Mr Mathews’s book is not.” R: Roberts
+ − Freeman 2:236 N 17 ’20 840w
MATURIN, EDITH (CECIL-PORCH) (MRS FRED MATURIN). Rachel comforted. *$2.50 Dodd 134
20–16938
The authenticity and truthfulness of these “conversations of a mother in the dark with her child in the light” (Sub-title) are vouched for in a preface by W. T. Stead and a note by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The conversations between the author and her dead son were carried on by means of a planchette over a period of years and the mother asserts that she retired from the world and gave up herself, her health and her life to them and that the one essential condition for such communications are a perfect love on both sides. The object of the book is to comfort other bereaved parents.
Ath p589 Ap 30 ’20 60w + Boston Transcript p7 O 23 ’20 420w − Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 220w
MAUGHAM, REGINALD CHARLES FULKE. Republic of Liberia. il *$6.50 Scribner 916.6
20–26544
“The author, Mr Maugham, knows much of Africa, has written on Africa, and, when he completed in 1918 the pages which are now published, he had had for some years personal experience of life in Liberia as British consul-general at Monrovia. He deals with Liberia from all aspects, with its geography, history, administration and institutions, its climate, races, birds and beasts, plants and trees. The words and the music of the Liberian national anthem are supplied, and a very clear account by a practised pen is made more attractive by a number of excellent illustrations and an adequate map.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Ath p431 Mr 26 ’20 80w + Booklist 16:308 Je ’20
“His study of Liberia tries on the one hand to say pleasant things concerning Liberia, and on the other hand to show British merchants that now and here is their chance to exploit a rich land.” W. E. B. DuBois
− Nation 111:350 S 25 ’20 330w
“All through the book Mr Maugham gives evidence of genuine sympathy and understanding for the Liberians and their problems.”
+ N Y Times p6 O 10 ’20 660w
“An excellent account of Liberia.”
+ Spec 124:248 F 21 ’20 180w
“This is a timely, interesting and valuable work, giving a fairly complete description of the Negro republic. It is written in a kindlier tone than has sometimes been employed by other writers on the country.” I. C. Hannah
+ Survey 44:310 My 29 ’20 320w
“Of this republic the present book tells us all that is to be told, and tells it well. Owing to difficulties and delay in publication, the book is a little complicated by two prefaces, and the editing or revision has not been immaculate. But, taken as a whole, it is a most interesting and informing book.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p132 F 26 ’20 1450w
MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Land of the Blessed Virgin. il *$2.50 (5c) Knopf 914.6
A20–1263
In this book the author gives his recollections of Andalusia in a series of sketches—the land ablaze with sunshine, opulent with luminous soft color, with cities bathed in light, desolate wastes of sand, dwarf palms and the flower of the broom. The character of the country he finds typified in the paintings of Murillo and the colors of his palette—“rich, hot, and deep”—the typical colors of Andalusia. Some of the sketches are: The churches of Ronda; Medinat Az-Zahrā; The mosque; Cordova; Seville; The Alcazar; Women of Andalusia; The dance; A feast day; Before the bull-fight; Corrida de Toros; Granada; The Alhambra; The song.
“Its objective descriptions are full of rich and vivid color, its travellers’ tales are intimate and charming and its records of the impressions made upon the mind of the author, though not without touches of affectation, are so individual as to be far more interesting than most chronicles.”
+ Booklist 17:27 O ’20
“If the reader of ‘The land of the blessed virgin’ is not anxious to visit Andalusia after reading these pages he is impervious to the picturesqueness of the scene and to the rare qualities of Mr Maugham’s style.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 1300w + Freeman 2:165 O 27 ’20 340w + N Y Times p24 Ag 22 ’20 650w
MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Mrs Craddock. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26573
This is one of Mr Maugham’s earlier stories now first brought out in America. It is a story with one central interest, one woman’s passionate love for a man, its change to hate and gradual cooling to indifference. Bertha Ley, of Court Leys, falls rapturously in love with a handsome young tenant farmer on her estate and marries him in the face of his lukewarm response and the disapproval of everyone else. She is mistress of her own fortune and has but one relative, a keen-minded acerbic aunt who believes in standing aside and letting others follow their own courses. Bertha gives everything into Edward’s hands and Edward proves a model English squire. But as he rises in county estimation, Bertha’s love for him wanes and her abject devotion gives place to distaste. She leaves him, has a brief love affair with a quite different type of man, and comes home again to settle into a state of apathy and indifference from which his death, under the very circumstances she had once imagined with such poignant pain, does not rouse her.
“An unusual character study.”
+ Booklist 16:349 Jl ’20
“The merits of ‘Mrs Craddock’ as a story are no less than its high qualities as a character study, and it should have been offered to American readers long ago.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 1000w
“It has some subtlety, but moves rather heavily and joylessly.”
+ − Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
MAULE, MARY KATHERINE (FINIGAN) (MRS JOHN P. MAULE). Prairie-schooner princess. il *$1.75 (2c) Lothrop
20–15508
A story of the crossing of the plains and the settlement of Nebraska. The Peniman family, Quakers from Ohio, are going west in a prairie schooner when fate throws little Nina Carroll into their hands. Her father has been killed by an Indian arrow but there is reason to believe that it was a white man not an Indian who was responsible. Valuable papers relating to the little girl are stolen and nothing can be learned of her family connections. She is adopted by the Penimans, altho they know that she has enemies who for some reason wish to gain possession of her. Because of their Quaker principles they treat the Indians with kindness and justice and at several crises in the story they are rewarded by the timely aid of their Indian friends. The children grow up, the boys take part in the Civil war, the mystery in Nina’s story is cleared away and Nina and Joe Peniman and two other pairs of young people set up new homes in the prairie state.
“This story of the West has all the atmosphere of the region it describes—that is to say, it is flat, monotonous, and dry.”
− N Y Evening Post p20 O 23 ’20 60w
MAUROIS, ANDRÉ. Silence of Colonel Bramble. *$1.25 (3½c) Lane
20–4463
This light-hearted war book is an interpretation of English, Irish and Scotch character from the point of view of a witty Frenchman. During the war the author acted as interpreter with a Scotch division, a position occupied by Aurelle in his story. It is composed largely of a series of mess-room conversations in which the different characters are allowed to reveal themselves. The translation is by Thurfrida Wake, with translations of Aurelle’s occasional verses by Wilfrid Jackson. The originals of these verses are given in an appendix.
“The humour of the story is somewhat less enjoyable in the translation than in the original; but the reader is still able to appreciate the incisive delineation of the gallant officer who fills the title-rôle.”
+ Ath p832 Ag 29 ’19 100w + Booklist 16:245 Ap ’20 Bookm 51:443 Je ’20 30w
“The volume is interesting for its portrayal of the way a Frenchman sees the English race.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 480w
“Those who have been the guests of British officers at the various staff and brigade headquarters will recognize every scene and every character in the pages of this book. It is distinctly a man’s book—a trifle risqué at times from a Puritanic point of view, but always witty and artistically delicate.” F: T. Hill
+ N Y Times 25:208 Ap 25 ’20 800w
“‘The silence of Colonel Bramble’ is the wittiest book of comment on warfare and our national prejudices that we have yet seen. The rendering now published is well done on the whole, but it cannot equal the original.”
+ Sat R 128:226 S 6 ’19 850w
“No more sympathetic, and at the same time penetrating, appreciation of British character has appeared than this modest collection of sketches, which, by the way, include passages of unexpected tenderness and restrained power.”
+ Spec 123:771 D 6 ’19 1350w
MAXSON, CHARLES HARTSHORN. Great awakening in the middle colonies. *$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 277
20–7587
A study of the religious revival of 1740 as it affected the middle colonies, supplementing Tracy’s “Great awakening,” (1842) which dealt mainly with New England. Writing so many years later the author found himself “more in sympathy than was common in Tracy’s day with the catholicity of Whitefield and with the democratic tendencies of the revival which were so largely responsible for the destruction of the ecclesiastical system of New England.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction, and pietism in Pennsylvania; Frelinghuysen, and the beginning of the revival among the Dutch Reformed; The Tennents, and the beginning of the revival among the Presbyterians; George Whitefield, and his alliance with the New Brunswick Presbyterians; The year 1740, the great awakening at high tide; The schism in the Presbyterian church in the year 1741; Period of expansion and organization; Whitefield the pacificator; Triumphant evangelism in an age of unbelief; Conclusion; Bibliography (seven pages).
Reviewed by F. A. Christie
+ − Am Hist R 26:105 O ’20 730w
“This little book is a worthy treatment of a most interesting and important movement.”
+ Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:160 S ’20 250w
MAXWELL, DONALD.[[2]] Last crusade. il *$7.50 Lane 940.356
20–20028
“With 100 sketches in colour, monochrome and line made by the author in the autumn and winter of 1918, when sent on duty to Palestine by the admiralty for the Imperial war museum” reads the informing sub-title of this book. The author further informs us that hostilities were over when he reached his destination and he had to hurry up with his pictures and get over the ground as quickly as possible. He thus obtained glimpses of things and places from every point of view without rhyme or reason and found, in sorting out his drawings, that he was much better off than he would have been with more leisure. The pictures with his diary and explanatory notes make the story of the “Last crusade.” The contents are: Over old roads; Pisgah Heights; The streets of Askelon; Chariots of iron; Abana and Pharpar; The glory of Lebanon; The coasts of Tyre and Sidon; Sea-plane ships; The gates of Gaza; Armageddon; The valley of death; In terra pax.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON. For better, for worse (Eng title, Remedy against sin). *$2 (1c) Dodd
20–8240
A story based on the injustice of the English divorce law. Feeling herself unloved and unwanted in her own home, Claire Gilmour marries Roderick Vaughan. She knows nothing of marriage and the feeling of admiration and affection which she had confused with love quickly dies. Roddy is a spendthrift and a brute. He squanders all of Claire’s fortune he can lay his hands on and bullies her into giving him more by threatening to take her child from her. She endures every indignity, but the members of her family, who had disapproved of the marriage, are set absolutely against divorce. Roddy goes to America and Claire learns the meaning of peace. He returns and consents to a divorce, but withdraws his consent when Claire inherits money and brings a counter charge of infidelity against her, quite false but easily proved true in court. Roddy and Claire are both declared unfaithful and hence forced to live in wedlock. Claire takes the one way open and goes away with the man who loves her and whose career has been ruined by the divorce scandal.
“The author who sets out deliberately to write a novel with a purpose must content himself with being a little less than an artist, a little more than a preacher. In ‘A remedy against sin’ Mr W. B. Maxwell has chosen to obscure his talents under a wig and gown that he may deliver a tremendous attack against the monstrous injustice of our present divorce laws. Up to a certain point we must admit that ‘A remedy against sin’ is a great deal better than the majority of novels.” K. M.
+ − Ath p543 Ap 23 ’20 780w
“The end is one that few novelists would have the courage to record, but it is a logical end, although it is not one that readers who seek for a novel with a ‘high moral purpose’ will approve. But since Mr Maxwell is writing the truth about life, he has made convincing the culmination of the tragic tale of the marriage of Roderick Vaughan and Claire Gilmour.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 1300w
“One of the strongest pleas ever made against the existing law in England. As a work of art the novel suffers little from the evident propaganda, because of the clearness of characterization, and the gradual working out of an inevitable crisis in an intolerable situation.”
+ Ind 104:384 D 11 ’20 130w
“One thing about this new novel cannot, in view of its subject, be too strongly emphasized, and that one thing is this: it is absolutely clean. Admirable in its construction, sane and realistic in its development, intensely interesting from beginning to end, this new novel by W. B. Maxwell is a thoughtful, conscientious and notable book, a book worthy of the man who wrote ‘In cotton wool’ and ‘Mrs Thompson.’”
+ N Y Times p22 S 26 ’20 1100w
“A more moving fiction character than Claire is not often drawn—and all the more so that the author refrains from forcing the note of pathos. There are a few passages in the book that may offend taste by their baldness of statement, but the impact and purport of the novel are the reverse of immoral.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w
“The character drawing is vivid and satiric. As in other books of Mr Maxwell, the tale unfolds with flawless logic—it has the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.”
+ Pub W 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w
“Mr Maxwell’s novel with a purpose is entirely free from that suspicion of dullness which, not always with justice, attaches to this type of fiction.”
+ − Sat R 129:393 Ap 24 ’20 540w
“The story is told at great length and with considerable attention to detail, but it is difficult to feel great interest in the heroine, whose anæmic personality pervades the whole atmosphere of the book and increases its dreariness.”
− + Spec 124:798 Je 12 ’20 120w
“The narrative is well handled—related with force and yet with restraint. The book will, perhaps, excite more curiosity than corrective resolution. But it is at least reasonably lifelike and convincing.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 300w
MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON. Glamour (Eng title, Man and his lesson). *$1.75 Bobbs
20–3060
“The hero of this story is a writer of popular plays who, after being jilted by a very prominent beauty in favour of a duke, marries a more common-place young woman, with whom he is exceedingly content. Unfortunately his old love whistles him back, and his fall so preys on his mind that he is about to commit suicide, when the war breaks out, and he reflects that the enemy can probably ‘do the business’ as expeditiously as he himself. His final redemption of character and his wife’s forgiveness are effectively described.”—Spec
Ath p948 S 26 ’19 900w Booklist 16:282 My ’20 Boston Transcript p8 Mr 10 ’20 1450w Lit D p120 Ap 17 ’20 2050w
“It is a good and satisfying book, full of the stuff of life, beautifully told.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times 25:1 F 29 ’20 1100w
“Not a new story, you surmise, only the eternal triangle. But Maxwell has seen it from a new angle.” Katharine Oliver
+ Pub W 97:601 F 21 ’20 360w Spec 123:478 O 11 ’19 90w
“Mr Maxwell presents his characters with an imaginative intensity and emotional fidelity that win the reader’s sympathy with them in their dilemmas.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 320w
“In this latter part of the story there are some fine descriptions of phases of the Somme battles; moreover, the change in Bryan from selfishness to altruism and nobility of outlook merging into war-weariness and a more wholesome selfishness, is excellently given.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p484 S 11 ’19 650w
MAYNARD, THEODORE, comp. Tankard of ale; an anthology of drinking songs. *$1.75 McBride 821.08
20–18409
In his introduction the author bewails the triumph of the teetotaller and the fact that “perfect social reform casteth out conviviality.” “In this book,” he says, “I have tried to offer to my readers practically the whole cream of our convivial songs. But ... I tried to omit everything that was not English in its spirit and in its authorship.... I have compromised to the extent of admitting poems by Scotsmen and Irishmen, while excluding their work when in dialect.... There are some good American drinking songs, but a prohibitionist nation does not deserve to be represented in the jolliest book in the world.” Only a few modern songs have been included, for the author holds that they lack spontaneity and appear to have been written out of pleasant affectation or in order to point a moral. There is an index of first lines.
Ath p1385 D 19 ’19 180w Booklist 17:62 N ’20 Cath World 112:406 D ’20 120w
“The collection is sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently gay for all practical and abstemious purposes.” L. B.
+ Freeman 2:21 S 15 ’20 260w + Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times p7 S 19 ’20 800w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:229 S 15 ’20 150w + Spec 122:116 Ja 24 ’20 200w The Times [London] Lit Sup p699 N 27 ’19 80w
MAYO, KATHERINE. “That damn Y”: a record of overseas service. il *$3.50 (2½c) Houghton 940.47
20–9934
Katherine Mayo, originally prejudiced against the Y. M. C. A., went to France, so she says, on these terms: as a free agent, paying her own expenses, and only receiving from the Y. M. C. A. the right to wear its uniform and to examine its records. Her manuscript was not submitted to any member of the Y. M. C. A. for criticism or approval. The title she has given it she considers a disguised tribute: “They both wanted and expected to find the Y everywhere.... So, as naturally as breathing, always and all the time: ‘Where’s that damn Y?’” She renders a high tribute to Edward Clark Carter, “the head and shaper of the whole Y effort overseas.” The chapters giving her impressions include: The point of view; The key man; Christmas with the A. E. F.; The post exchange; Hot water, by gosh! Never dare judge; The way the people’s money goes; How can we thank them? Contributing facts. There are an index and two appendices: A. Partial lists of overseas Y secretaries killed and disabled in service and decorations and citations; B. Financial statement.
“A very timely and readable book.”
+ Booklist 16:340 Jl ’20
“The fullest, completest and most interesting account of Y. M. C. A. activities which has yet appeared.”
+ Ind 104:69 O 9 ’20 320w
“She tells her stories remarkably, with a crisp, dramatic style and with vivid, forceful words. The judicial quality is not often found mated in books with fire and force and vividness, but Miss Mayo has achieved their commingling, in most of her work, with very great success.”
+ − N Y Times 25:9 Je 27 ’20 2600w
“Miss Mayo’s narrative is of many-sided interest; in style it is both sprightly and intense; it expresses deep feeling and at the same time shows an extraordinary grasp of facts, figures, situations. Every sentence, stinging, appealing or probative, makes its impression.”
+ No Am 212:283 Ag ’20 1100w
“It would be difficult to imagine a more complete vindication of the work as a whole than it affords. As to the book itself, it is brilliantly written, with a vivid style, and it is full of humor and pathos. Taken altogether, it is one of the very best war books that has appeared.” F. H. Potter
+ Outlook 126:66 S 8 ’20 2450w
“We hope that no one who contributed to the Y. M. C. A. war fund will be deterred by the title from reading this book; for in it will be found the most complete account of the ‘Y’ work in France that has yet been published as well as the ablest defense of its management. It is truly an inspiring story.”
+ R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 180w
“The book is frankly personal, emphasizes personalities, and in its generous hero- and heroine-worship sometimes fails to do justice to the less spectacular phases of the collective effort that made possible the achievements recorded.” J. D. Spaeth
+ − Survey 45:72 O 9 ’20 1000w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p792 D 2 ’20 950w
MAYRAN, CAMILLE. Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten; tr. by Van Wyck Brooks. (Library of French fiction) *$2 Dutton
20–11072
“Although this series of translations from the French is described by the publishers as ‘illustrating the life and manners of modern France,’ the first of the two exquisite tales which make up the present volume has to do, not with France, but with Flanders. It relates the history of the bellringer’s motherless daughter, christened Marguerite, but always called Gotton Connixloo, telling of her pathetic childhood, into which there entered few caresses and little play, and of her love for the lame, red-haired smith, Luke Heemskerck, who for her sake deserted his shrewish wife and five little children. Very delicately, very surely, does the author trace the slow development of remorse and of that consciousness of sin which at last, when the German inundation swept over the countryside, caused Gotton to become a martyr, ransoming by her sacrifice the lives of all those in the village. ‘Forgotten,’ the second of the two tales, is also a story of the German invasion, but a story of a very different kind, and of a very different class of people.”—N Y Times
“The first story is told with a penetrating appreciation of lowly life. The appeal of both stories is to those who appreciate artistic workmanship.”
+ Booklist 17:72 N ’20
“As delicate as two brooches, they are as appealing to the heart as they are fragile to the eye. Set in English by Van Wyck Brooks they constitute an unusual ornament to the library of Franco-American literature.”
+ Dial 70:230 F ’21 60w
“The sympathetic quality, the deep, strong feeling, the lovely style and fine artistry shown by these two simple tales make the volume a welcome and a notable one.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 22 ’20 640w
MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE. Mazzini’s letters to an English family, 1844–1854. il *$5 Lane
21–207
In the introduction E. F. Richards, the editor of these letters, gives a short sketch of the career and character of Mazzini with their historical background and describes the various members of the English family, the Ashursts, to whom the letters were written. The value of the letters themselves, she says, lies in their exhibition of Mazzini’s character, his great and tender heart, never yet adequately shown. Explanatory paragraphs by the editor, throughout the book, help to unify the contents. The book contains several portraits of Mazzini and of the Ashurst family, and an index.
“The book has not much fresh information to offer; but it revives the Mazzini legend in all its magic.” D. L. M.
+ Ath p433 O 1 ’20 1750w + − Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21 + Boston Transcript p4 Ja 5 ’21 700w
“A notable addition to the Mazzini literature.”
+ Review 3:652 D 29 ’20 700w
“Mrs E. F. Richards, as editor of the ‘Letters,’ has done her work with a refreshing enthusiasm tempered with a rare conscientiousness and a notable grasp of the events as well as the personnel of her period.”
+ Sat R 130:240 S 18 ’20 760w
“The letters do not add much of importance to Mazzini’s biography, but they help to show why he was beloved by his friends. The editor has taken great pains with the introduction and the commentary to these interesting letters.”
+ Spec 125:446 O 2 ’20 180w
“The world can never know too much of a man so noble as Mazzini. His life is at once an inspiration and a warning to the world in its present condition. Almost every page is a warning to those idealists who have not learnt that the very alphabet of the art of politics is to act gradually, step by step.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p511 Ag 12 ’20 1900w
MEAD, ELWOOD. Helping men own farms. il *$2.25 Macmillan 334
20–10715
“A practical discussion of government aid in land settlement.” (Sub-title) The author is professor of rural institutions in the University of California, and he devotes himself chiefly to the methods and results of land settlement in California, that state having taken the lead in this form of agricultural development. He also draws extensively on Australian experience. The chapters are: State aid in California due to economic and social needs; National carelessness in the disposal of public lands; Australia’s influence on the land policy of California; State aid in Italy, Denmark, Holland, and the British Isles; Methods and results of state aided settlement in Victoria; The practical teachings of Australian state aided settlement; The defects of private colonization schemes as shown by practical results in California; California’s first state settlement; Aid to farm laborers in the Durham settlement; Social progress through coöperation at Durham; The capital required by settlers; The lessons of the Durham settlement; Homes for soldiers; The function of government in social and industrial development. The California land settlement act is given in an appendix. There is no index.
Booklist 17:14 O ’20 + New Repub 23:180 Jl 7 ’20 840w + N Y Times p13 O 10 ’20 1050w R of Rs 62:333 S ’20 60w
MEAD, GEORGE WHITEFIELD. Great menace: Americanism or bolshevism? *$1.25 (4c) Dodd 335
20–6569
A sensational appeal to the people of the United States to arise and combat the great menace of “ultra-radicalism.” Contents: The great menace; The relation of the people, labor, and capital in the impending revolution; Conditions favoring bolshevism that do not right themselves; and reasons for faith in the people; The new patriotism; Vital messages of religion for today; Appendix: a citizen’s working creed.
− Nation 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 240w R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 50w
MEADER, STEPHEN WARREN. Black buccaneer. il *$1.75 Harcourt
20–16856
The story of a New England boy of colonial days who is kidnapped from an island off the Maine coast by pirates. Among the cruel and bloodthirsty crew he finds one friend, Job Howland, a New Englander who is ready to abandon his reckless career. After a terrible sea fight the two make their escape but Jeremy is recaptured and there is every reason to believe Job dead. His life is now more filled with danger than before but a companion is brought to join him, young Bob Curtis of Delaware, who is held for ransom. In the meantime Job, who has escaped, joins Bob’s father in his search for his son and the two boys are rescued. The pirates are captured, Jeremy returns to his home and the buried treasure for which the pirates had sought is found on the very island from which Jeremy had been taken.
MEARS, DAVID OTIS. David Otis Mears, D. D., an autobiography, 1842–1893. il *$1.50 (2½c) Pilgrim press
20–9024
The autobiography is an incomplete record of Dr Mears’ life, written for his children. It is edited and supplemented with a memoir and notes by H. A. Davidson. The whole commemorates the career of a successful minister who was “preeminently a man of vision, of decision, of action.” (Editor’s note) The book falls into two parts: The autobiography, 1842–1893; and the Chapters by the editor. The appendix contains appreciations and resolutions and a list of publications written or edited by Dr Mears. There are five illustrations.
“As a piece of agreeable autobiography the pages by Dr Mears are unusually interesting.”
+ Bib World 54:651 N ’20 100w
“The biography has many interesting features.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 320w
MECKLIN, JOHN MOFFATT. Introduction to social ethics. *$3 (1½c) Harcourt
20–8267
In defining democracy the author holds that equity is more fundamental to it than popular sovereignty and that the insistence of equality must be limited to equality of opportunities. “Deeper than the notion of popular rule or of equality is that of fraternity, of spiritual and moral like-mindedness.” On this basis he looks upon the development of a social conscience as the task of democracy. Part 1 of the book which is Historical and introductory contains: The problem of democracy; The religious background; Calvinism; The triumph of individualism; The great society; Our uncertain morality. Part 2. Psychological, contains: The organization of the moral sentiments; The social conscience; Public opinion and the social conscience; Limitations of the social conscience; The problem of moral progress. Part 3, The social order, contains: The rôle of the institution in the moral economy; The individual, and the institution; The home; The ecclesiastical ethic; The school and the social conscience; The ethics of private property; Mechanism and morals; The worker and the machine process; The ethics of business enterprise; The problem of the city; Political obligation in American democracy. There is a bibliography at the end of each chapter, with a list of magazine articles and there is an index.
“Professor Mecklin’s book, like every other that is vital, contains many provocations to controversy, but from beginning to end it moves in a healthy atmosphere. It is an educative book, not a package of predigested dogmas.” A. W. Small
+ Am J Soc 26:245 S ’20 550w
“Largely theoretical; will appeal to the reflective reader.”
+ Booklist 17:49 N ’20
“For a treatise on ethics, it is exceptionally interesting; it is unusually well written; it is peculiarly free from the conventional jargon of the schools; in short, it is a very readable book. The main criticism to which he exposes himself is that he does not go far enough, and that he stops short of the natural conclusion of his own logic.” R: Roberts
+ Freeman 1:596 S 1 ’20 1450w
“The book offers much good material for college classes and the references at the end of each chapter make it still more useful in this respect. It is a welcome sign of broader ethical interest by the teacher and a contribution to further development of the field.” J. H. Tufts
+ Int J Ethics 31:111 O ’20 750w
“The book is excellently written and will be enjoyed by moderate liberals, who will find in it abundant matter with which to buttress their liberalism. To the more radical-minded the book will make little appeal.”
+ − Nation 111:381 O 6 ’20 610w
“‘An introduction to social ethics’ is one of the most interesting and valuable [volumes dealing with the subject] that have appeared recently.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 9 ’20 220w
“The chapters entitled Mechanism and morals and The workers and the machine process are particularly good. The chapter on Public opinion sounds somewhat less in touch than the other chapters with the realities of today through its omission of the hurtful effects of the various kinds of war propaganda and wartime coercion. The best thing about the book is its repeated insistence upon a positive and creative conception of democracy.” H: Neumann
+ − Survey 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 350w
“A comprehensive and useful survey of its subject.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p879 D 23 ’20 160w
MEES, CHARLES EDWARD KENNETH. Organization of industrial scientific research. *$2 McGraw 601
20–5221
“‘Conceding the value of a research laboratory, the head of a large manufacturing firm will ask: “What will it cost?... Where shall I get the men?... What should it do? What may I expect to get from it, and when?... What should be its organization?” It is to answer these questions that this book has been written.’ The discussion is based on an extensive study of laboratories both in this country and abroad.”—Booklist
+ Booklist 16:303 Je ’20
“The scope of the book and the method of presentment employed in its preparation are excellent, and both industrialists and scientific workers will find it interesting and informative. It is thought, however, that most of its readers will regret that the author has given such brief treatment to certain of the aspects of the subject, that no attention is accorded to the co-ordination of research, and that more space is not devoted to the systematic collection and distribution of scientific information.” W. A. Hamor
+ − Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering 23:641 S 29 ’20 270w
“The scope of the book and the sequence of chapters are admirable. Many readers will doubtless wish that the author had gone further into detail than is the case in many chapters. In general, however, the book bears the marks of experience throughout, and will well repay perusal.” A. P. M. Fleming
+ Nature 105:771 Ag 19 ’20 650w
“Clearly, forcefully, tersely written, this book merits a wide reading in professional and business circles.” O. T.
+ New Repub 23:260 Jl 28 ’20 650w + N Y P L New Tech Bks p37 Ap ’20 150w
MEIGS, CORNELIA. Pool of stars. il *$1.60 Macmillan
19–18455
“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post
“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the ‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”
+ Booklist 16:176 F ’20
“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 50:381 N ’19 40w
“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives color and life to that period of our history following the war with the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main narrative.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 51:91 Mr ’20 150w
“The style is vague and indefinite.”
− Boston Transcript p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w + Cleveland p80 Ag ’20 50w + N Y Evening Post p3 D 20 ’19 220w
“A story of mystery with melodrama refreshingly absent.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 100w
MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. Relation of the judiciary to the constitution. $2 W: J. Campbell, 1731 Chestnut st., Philadelphia 342.7
This study of the relation of the judiciary to the constitution is a defence of judicial supremacy. The author’s studies have led him to believe that its origin antedates Marbury vs. Madison and he argues that “the judiciary was plainly pointed out by our history for the vast function it has exercised, and that it was expected and intended, both by the Federal convention and the opinion of the publicists of the day, to exercise that function.” Two chapters on The British colonies in North America and The public beliefs of our colonial days are followed by an examination of cases. There is an index. The author has written “The growth of the constitution,” also lives of Calhoun and Thomas H. Benton.
“This careful volume should take its place among the essays of high authority in our legal literature. The discussion of individual leading cases which Mr Meigs gives us is of deep interest.” S. L. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 550w
“The result will prove disappointing to the special student of the subject, though it is not without value for the general reader. Altogether it seems not unjust to remark that Mr Meigs will probably be remembered for his pioneer article of a generation ago, rather than for this more ambitious but one-sided and unoriginal study.” E: S. Corwin
− + Review 3:449 N 10 ’20 300w
MEIKLEJOHN, ALEXANDER. Liberal college. *$2.50 (4c) Jones, Marshall 378
20–18040
The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college. The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in educational theory; The curriculum.
“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare strength and clarity.” H. T. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 20 ’20 260w
“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse, well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.
+ Grinnell R 16:332 Ja ’21 440w
“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved Smith
+ Nation 111:734 D 22 ’20 780w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker
+ N Y Evening Post p8 D 31 ’20 1400w
“It is written in a clear, earnest, straightforward, and convincing style, never abstruse and never platitudinous, but always fresh and always interesting. In spite of the author’s professed fondness for inviting misunderstanding, the book is throughout lucid and single in its aim.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 11 ’20 1150w
“Dr Meiklejohn’s discussion maintains a high level practically throughout the book. He meets many of the criticisms that have been brought against the college and liberal education.” J. K. Hart
+ Survey 45:545 Ja 8 ’21 660w
MEIKLEJOHN, NANNINE (LA VILLA) (MRS ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN). Cart of many colors. (Little school-mate ser.) il *$1.65 Dutton
19–19357
“It is the tale of a small Sicilian lad, dowered with artistic gifts and aflame with desire to make the most of his talents who, at the instance of his wise and indulgent mother and through the kindness of an uncle who recognizes his possibilities, accompanies the latter to Florence, there to study art. The greater part of the story is concerned with his life in the cultured family with whom he makes his home in the beautiful Tuscan town, and through whom he is given opportunity to see Rome, Siena and other cities of note. Its earlier chapters, however, have to do with his happy days in the midst of his own people in Palermo.”—N Y Evening Post
+ Booklist 16:247 Ap ’20
“A well-written story of life in Italy. We have seen nowhere so informing and so humanized an account of Italian life in America as Miss Converse gives in her introduction.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 50:33 S ’19 240w
“Though throughout the tale much stress is thrown on description both of places and customs, yet there is sufficient incident of a simple sort to focus its interest upon the fortunes of Nello and his associates.”
+ N Y Evening Post p3 D 20 ’19 300w
“Pictures with insight and sympathy the life of children in Italy.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 20 ’19 180w
MEISSNER, MRS SOPHIE (RADFORD) DE. Old naval days. il *$3 Holt
20–20090
The author of these sketches from the life of Rear-Admiral William Radford, U.S.N. was the latter’s daughter and her record abounds in reminiscences, private and public. The admiral began his naval career in 1825 as midshipman on the “Brandywine” which conducted Lafayette back to France after his visit to America. He served through the Civil war and was retired in 1870. The book is illustrated and has an appendix.
R of Rs 63:110 Ja ’21 80w
MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS. Book of burlesques. *$2 Knopf 817
20–26583
“The present edition includes some epigrams from ‘A little book in C major,’ now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole contents of the book appeared originally in the Smart Set.” (Author’s note) Contents: Death: a philosophical discussion; From the programme of a concert; The wedding: a stage direction; The visionary; The artist: a drama without words; Seeing the world; From the memoirs of the devil; Litanies for the overlooked; Asepsis: a deduction in scherzo form; Tales of the moral and pathological; The jazz Webster; The old subject; Panoramas of people; Homeopathics; Vers libre.
“Mr Mencken is a clever and witty satirist, with an encyclopædic knowledge of the latest crazes and imbecilities.”
+ Ath p322 Mr 5 ’20 160w Booklist 17:85 N ’20
“The great difficulty about this book is that it will not irritate the intelligent and none but the intelligent can be amused by it.”
+ − Dial 68:401 Mr ’20 100w
“Satire at times extravagantly and cheaply cynical, but also at times keen and entertaining is to be found in ‘A book of burlesques.’”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a F 29 ’20 200w
MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS. Prejudices: second series. *$2.50 (4c) Knopf 814
20–20969
In the present volume the author continues his tirade on American letters, generalizing on his theme in the first essay, ‘The national letters.’ In spite of the prophetic optimism of such men as Emerson and Whitman and, to some extent, even the pessimistic Poe, we have so far achieved nothing but a respectable mediocrity which he attributes to the absence of a cultural background, and of a civilized aristocracy. The other essays of the book are: Roosevelt: an autopsy; The Sahara of the Bozart; The divine afflatus; Scientific examination of a popular virtue; Exeunt omnes; The allied arts; The cult of hope; The dry millennium; Appendix on a tender theme. There is an index.
Dial 70:232 F ’21 80w Ind 104:382 D 11 ’20 290w
“As for his second series of prejudices, they are even as his first; his prejudices have not changed; nor his manner of hurling them at the fat heads of us Philistines. Some of his missiles are true dynamite, some—in my humble opinion—are duds; but not one of them is discharged at random.” L. W. Dodd
+ − N Y Evening Post p7 D 4 ’20 880w
“Nothing is sacred in his hands, and by the same token is he interesting and unreliable. His style is as vigorous and bold as his ideas. It is a little hard to keep up with Mencken, but at any rate you will not be bored if you try.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 3 ’21 480w
MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND. Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331
20–17254
“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times
“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy the existing unrest.”
+ N Y Times p11 O 31 ’20 230w
“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 9 ’20 200w
MERCER, JOHN EDWARD. Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2 Dutton 236
“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt; but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican
Int J Ethics 30:113 O ’19 100w
“Though it is doubtful whether either scientists or philosophers would heartily endorse all the positions taken by Dr Mercer, it is pleasant to read a book written with good temper and rationality, without appeal to the prevalent superstitions of mediums and table-tipping.”
+ − Nation 110:269 F 28 ’20 300w
“Bishop Mercer pursues an extremely interesting and richly suggestive line of inquiry. It is one distinctly removed from that involved in psychical research. It is the purely religious inquiry of an eminent scholar and thinker who is familiar with all modern scientific thought, and whose wide culture and liberal mind endow him with vision.” Lilian Whiting
+ Springf’d Republican p13a F 8 ’20 700w
MERCIER, DESIRÉ FÉLICIEN FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, cardinal. Cardinal Mercier’s own story: prefatory letter by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$4 (3½c) Doran 940.3493
20–5912
The book consists chiefly of Cardinal Mercier’s correspondence with the German governor general in protest to the latter’s régime as imposed on the Belgians. The work of collecting and editing these letters has been delegated by the Cardinal to Professor Fernand Mayence, of Louvain university, who has supplied them with an explanatory preface. Most of the correspondence is with Baron von Bissing and Baron von der Lancken and some with Baron von Falkenhausen. The correspondence on the Belgian deportations is of special interest.
+ Booklist 16:341 Jl ’20
“It must remain among the permanent records of the war.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 260w + Cath World 111:390 Je ’20 1150w
“It is the sheer courage of the letters more than anything else which makes them impressive, but they have also a dignity, a sobriety and a definite knowledge of facts which makes them peculiarly valuable at a moment when reparations and indemnities are under discussion.”
+ Ind 104:245 N 13 ’20 140w
Reviewed by Muriel Harris
+ Nation 110:770 Je 5 ’20 340w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:184 Ap 18 ’20 3100w + N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 220w
“Every one who reads this book will feel that he has come in contact with a really great personality, and will be the better for the feeling. The story of Belgium, in which the cardinal is the dominant figure, is as fascinating, in one aspect, as ‘The pilgrim’s progress.’ The cardinal’s book, too, like Bunyan’s classic, is almost as good a story for the young as it is for the old.”
+ No Am 212:139 Jl ’20 1500w
“A serious omission which ought to be supplied in any new edition is the lack of any index.” Lyman Abbott
+ − Outlook 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 2450w + Spec 125:146 Jl 31 ’20 1550w
“The correspondence, always written in the lofty tone and closely reasoned manner of state papers, is interesting throughout; but the most engrossing pages of the book are those which deal with the deportations.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p392 Je 24 ’20 950w
MEREDITH, MRS ELISABETH GRAY (LYMAN). Terrier’s tale. il *$1 Houghton
20–19080
“Although of a retiring disposition, I have always known that I am a person of importance, but recently I have become a person of note, and I have been asked to write my memoirs.” Thus the terrier begins his tale and it is full of interest and excitement and some wise reflections. It contains: Early days; Domestic life; Concerning baths; Sport; Travel; On being left behind; Fatherhood; Guests; Social life; As to cats; My great adventure; Through the window; Conclusion. The illustrations are by Mia E. Rosenblad.
N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 70w
MERIAM, JUNIUS LATHROP. Child life and the curriculum. $3.60 World bk. 375
20–8866
A work by the professor of school supervision and superintendent of university schools, University of Missouri. That the subject matter of modern life should be used as the means of instructing boys and girls is his thesis. “In working out the details of this curriculum the effort has been, not, as some critics have erroneously judged, to get away from the traditional curriculum, but, on the positive side, to get as close as possible to the lives of children as found in the home and in the larger community.” (Preface) The book is divided into five parts: Point of view; The traditional curriculum; Principles in the making of curricula; The contents of a curriculum; Methods and results. Supplementary readings are suggested at the end of each chapter, and special reading lists, as well as lists of songs, games, etc., are given in appendices. In addition there is a general bibliography of fifteen pages, followed by an index.
“Not a course that can be adopted in a moment or by any school, but a virile, well presented point of view which has something of value for every elementary teacher.”
+ Booklist 16:330 Jl ’20
“The reader may be unable to agree with all of the conclusions of the book, but it furnishes material for critical thought, and will be of interest to those dealing with courses of study. The manner of presentation is somewhat tedious at times, and one feels that occasional condensations would serve to emphasize the content.”
+ − El School J 21:150 O ’20 680w
“One may find some of his conclusions from well-known studies in the field of education surprising; and may be unwilling to see measurement deferred until after the attainment of seemingly impossible conditions. Nevertheless he will recognize in the book and the experiment it reports a contribution to the great effort to provide a curriculum more closely related to life.”
+ − School R 28:552 S ’20 560w
MERLANT, JOACHIM. Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence (1776–1783); tr. by Mary Bushnell Coleman. *$2 Scribner 973.3
20–7496
“‘Soldiers and sailors of France in the American war for independence’ is an account of the part played by our allies during the Revolution, written by one who participated in the world war. The author is Capt Joachim Merlant, assistant professor of the faculty of letters in the university of Montpellier, who, after a few months with the territorials, joined an active unit as infantry officer. Severely wounded in 1915 he never fully recovered, and being unable to fight resolved instead to write and talk for his cause. Thus he came to America, and from January to May in 1916 he lectured throughout the country. And through his gratitude toward America he decided to investigate the Franco-American alliance of 1778–1783 and retell the story of Rochambeau and LaFayette.”—Springf’d Republican
Booklist 16:341 Jl ’20 + Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 420w
MERRICK, HOPE (BUTLER-WILKINS) (MRS LEONARD MERRICK). Mary-girl; a posthumous novel. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8792
“Ezra Sheppard is a man with a consuming ideal. A devout Quaker, it is his dream to build a seemly meeting-house instead of the dilapidated barn where the Friends have hitherto met. The lavish terms offered for the services of Mary in nourishing the Earl of Folkington’s heir would convert his dream into real stone and lime. So he lets Mary go. Mary, poor girl, with the best will in the world, finds when her year is up that the life of a working gardener’s wife is not so pleasant as it used to be. And Ezra behaves badly about it, too. He repents, it is true, and realizes that his idol has cost him too dear, but not before Mary has been brought to shame, and his repentance takes the form of attempted arson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Booklist 17:34 O ’20
“‘Mary-girl’ deserves something better than so foolish and inept a designation. If it were merely one among a thousand sentimental romances, its title would be unobjectionable, but it is something more than that, and it is a pity that it should be so misrepresented. As a whole, it is a notably truthful record of a soul conflict and an absorbingly interesting story.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 17 ’20 800w + Cleveland p105 D ’20 40w
“A delightful human and unpretentious story, well written and very interesting, the tale has realism without pessimism, sentiment without sentimentality. A delightful book, vivid, human, dramatic at times and always entertaining, is this story of ‘Mary-girl.’”
+ N Y Times 25:27 Jl 11 ’20 750w
“The late Mrs Leonard Merrick was endowed with the rare gift of being able to write a thoroughly sentimental story with undoubted charm. The episode of Mary’s downfall is the least satisfactory thing in the book. It is false to the character, and for all its disguise is mere ‘novelette’ in essence.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p157 Mr 4 ’20 250w
MERWIN, SAMUEL. Hills of Han. il *$2 Bobbs
20–6286
“Betty Doane, the heroine, daughter of a missionary, returns to China after six years in the United States. On the steamer she meets Jonathan Branchy, author, explorer and newspaper man and a somewhat unromantic love affair develops between them. The development of their emotions is interwoven with the dangers threatening all foreigners in China from a new society, a recrudescence of the old Boxer organization, known as ‘the Lookers.’ The chief item in the creed of this society is the extinction of all ‘foreign devils.’ Betty’s position becomes increasingly difficult and complicated through the intolerance of her father’s missionary coworkers, and through a want of a sense of humor on the part of her lover. The adventures of the principals attain a climax at the headquarters of a French mining concern; this form of foreign activity excites the particular antipathy of ‘the Lookers.’”—Springf’d Republican
“Both the story and the setting hold the reader though one dislikes the pictures of the mission teachers and the incidents are melodramatic. Some people will object to this.”
+ − Booklist 17:72 N ’20
“As for the Chinese atmosphere and personnel of the story, one may accept them as sound—if that matters in a story of this kind, and if atmosphere and personnel can be sound when the action is unsound or patently artificial. All this, you may say, is the breaking of a butterfly on the clumsy wheel of criticism. ‘Hills of Han’ is not a butterfly; it is a sort of gilded bat with the butterfly label.” H. W. Boynton
− Bookm 51:583 Jl ’20 320w Dial 69:320 S ’20 60w
“Samuel Merwin has written better novels than ‘Hills of Han,’ but it offers agreeable entertainment for an uncritical hour.”
+ − Ind 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 70w
“While neither as entertaining nor as vivid as some of Mr Merwin’s earlier romances, the story is an interesting one and has some dramatic moments.”
+ − N Y Times 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w
“There is good fiction stuff here, but it is clumsily put together.”
+ − Outlook 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w
“A thoroly absorbing romance, and a most workmanlike piece of novel writing.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“Through the color which Mr Merwin dashes upon his background and his descriptions of picturesque customs, and countryside, much of the unevenness of character portraiture is compensated for. Generally, the story holds the reader’s close attention.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 6 ’20 700w
MERZ, JOHN THEODORE. Fragment on the human mind. *$4.50 Scribner 192
(Eng ed 20–10637)
“After having mastered the history of modern philosophy the author considers its main problem to be the relation of religion and science. The problem of this relation is best approached, the author holds, by a study of the human mind. This may be done in a number of ways, but he prefers two, observation and introspection. Observation is the method used in studying the development of the race, going back to primitive times; introspection is used in the study of the individual life, going back to the infant mind. Special attention is given to the latter in this treatise. Many of the great metaphysical problems [are discussed] and such subjects as the moral law, the world of values, the relation of science to art and the respective provinces of each, the social order and the world of freedom.”—Boston Transcript
“In this brief treatise we find the idealistic philosophy set forth by a masterly mind which includes the common sense of the practical business man, the convincing logic of the acute thinker, and the wisdom of the broadminded scholar.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 850w
“Admirable both in clarity of style and depth of matter.”
+ − Sat R 129:63 Ja 17 ’20 900w
“The treatise, small as it is in bulk, fragmentary as it confessedly is, is a worthy crown to a lifetime of devotion to the task of instructing and enlightening the mind of its author and his numerous readers as to the history and nature of themselves and the world they live in.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p97 F 12 ’20 2000w
MIDDLETON, GEORGE. Masks. *$1.60 Holt 812
20–8218
Here are six one-act plays of modern American life all more or less satiric and all with the same implication as the title play. In “Masks” we are introduced to the shabby home of a hitherto unsuccessful dramatist at the moment of his first success. While he is musing at his desk over the change in his fortune he is haunted by two of the characters of a former, rejected play, which now having been remodeled is making him rich and famous. They are the bitter reflections of one who knows that he has killed the real artist in himself in courting public favor. The other plays are: Jim’s beast; Tides; Among the lions; The reason; The house.
Booklist 16:337 Jl ’20
“The present volume not only maintains the high level of those preceding, but contains some work that challenges comparison with anything done earlier, while suggesting a new vein. This is particularly true of the title-piece. In all the six plays the trained hand of the practical theatre artist is evidenced in the stage directions and the conductment of the action.” R: Burton
+ Bookm 51:472 Je ’20 700w
“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader, and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its title seems a bit forced in treatment.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 380w
“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes
− + Dial 69:214 Ag ’20 120w
“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”
+ Drama 10:355 Jl ’20 350w
“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little folk-speech.”
+ − Nation 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w
“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.
+ − New Repub 24:26 S 1 ’20 500w
“Each of the plays is written with the least possible waste of words or of motion. There is a bitter tang to them, except the last, with its note of whimsical tenderness. It is a book that Mr Middleton’s readers will be glad to have, for it carries on fitly the work he has been doing, that of writing the one-act play with a true sense of its form and value and as a medium for swift and keen interpretation of modern life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times 25:228 My 2 ’20 880w
“His art is akin to mathematics. Apart from the soundness of the fabric, his strength lies largely in the hardness, the firmness, the insistence of the individual stroke. Unfortunately for Mr Middleton, this hardness strikes inward, and the virtue of the technician becomes the limitation and incumbrance of the man.”
+ − Review 2:632 Je 16 ’20 300w
“Perhaps the first is the most satisfactory. ‘Reason,’ a rather grim little study, is the other play in the book which has come off. The rest are a little nebulous, especially perhaps the playlet à la Sir James Barrie at the end.”
+ − Spec 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Whether Mr Middleton is saving his best for Broadway today, or whether the six one-act plays published in this volume are what is left over from the early literary days and published now in the hope of sharing the sun of success, it is certain that, as a group they are distinctly dull, undramatic and unconvincing. ‘Among the lions’ and ‘The reason’—both satirical comedies of the irregular relation—are better than the others.”
− + Theatre Arts Magazine 4:258 Jl ’20 80w
MILES, EUSTACE HAMILTON. Self-health as a habit. il *$2.50 Dutton 613
20–6058
“Self-health, according to Mr Eustace Miles, is mainly an affair of balanced (vegetarian) diets, good cooking and mastication, no alcohol, but habitual sipping of hot water, deep breathing, and ‘sensible exercises’—more particularly the ‘daily stretch.’”—Ath
Ath p62 Ja 9 ’20 40w
“While experts will probably not agree with all that Mr Miles teaches, his advice is stimulating and helpful.” B. L.
+ − Survey 45:103 O 16 ’20 180w
“That he has a great deal that is extremely sensible to say about the individual’s life and habits, both physical and mental, all will admit.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p770 D 18 ’19 80w
MILIUKOV, PAVEL NIKOLAEVICH. Bolshevism: an international danger; its doctrine and its practice through war and revolution. *$3.75 Scribner 335
(Eng ed 20–10286)
“In view of the fact that most of the criticism of bolshevism that we are privileged to read comes from non-Russian sources, we should welcome this attempt of a great Russian scholar and statesman to appraise both the doctrine and the practical outcome of bolshevist rule from an international standpoint. Professor Miliukov, who will be remembered as the leader of the first government formed after the revolution of 1917, here traces the progress of bolshevism through war and revolution into a practical experiment in government and exposes the bolshevist propaganda in other countries, showing that its leaders are aiming at nothing short of a world-revolution.”—R of Rs
“An informative study to be recommended to the well read, discerning type of reader.”
+ Booklist 17:54 N ’20
“When finally he traces the coal-strike and the steel-strike to Moscow, we regretfully set his volume on the shelf, in its alphabetical order, next to Baron Munchausen.” Harold Kellock
− Freeman 1:620 S 8 ’20 550w
“Beyond any doubt, he here renders a great service to the bolshevist cause by using ‘propaganda stuff’ which is so easy to refute. One might expect from a man like Miliukov a sounder criticism of Bolshevism, because it can and must be criticized from an entirely different angle.”
− + Nation 111:sup423 O 13 ’20 1150w
“The book is too detailed and assumes too much knowledge of details to be available for the general reader, but it is for this very reason the more valuable for students.”
+ Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 120w R of Rs 62:221 Ag ’20 100w
“M. Miliukov’s eminence in Russian politics and his first-hand knowledge of conditions in Europe and the United States make him a sure guide to those engaged in public affairs; his masterly handling and clear exposition of so complicated a subject render the reader’s task not only easy, but pleasant.”
+ Sat R 130:463 D 4 ’20 110w
“An instructive account.”
+ Spec 124:725 My 29 ’20 1300w
“His facts are wonderfully correct. No honest man reading this work on Russian politics ... can come to any other opinion than that M. Miliukov’s work carries conviction, not only because it is well compiled, but because it is—at times almost painfully—correct in every detail.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p375 Je 17 ’20 1200w
MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE. Sportsman’s wanderings (Eng title, Wanderings and memories). il *$5 (5½c) Houghton
20–26324
The author fired his first gun (and almost his last) at the age of six. At school his ornithological obsession repeatedly brought disgrace upon him, but he lived to become one of the most versatile of sportsmen and naturalists, as the book shows. The tropics and arctic ice are alike familiar to him and with the motto “The great thing in life is to live,” he has found being a “Jack of all trades” the most interesting existence. “In turn I have been soldier, sailor, a British consul, artist, zoologist, author and landscape gardener.” His desultory accounts include a description of his father the painter, and their family life, and of many distinguished personages. The illustrations are from drawings by the author and from photographs. Contents: When I was young; Some early experiences in shooting; Travels in Iceland, 1889; All sorts and conditions of men; Arthur Neumann, pioneer and elephant hunter; Scottish salmon-fishing; One African day, 1913; The Lofoden Islands, 1915; An arctic residence, 1916; Fealar, 1918—highland deer-stalking.
“A story that is interesting, varied, and well spiced with anecdotes.”
+ Booklist 16:232 Ap ’20 + Boston Transcript p11 My 1 ’20 330w
“Here is a readable blend of lively reminiscence and first-hand observation, without verbal or scientific excess baggage.”
+ Dial 68:666 My ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:285 My 30 ’20 220w + Sat R 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 1250w
“He ought to be able to write an interesting book, and he has done so. His reminiscences are disjointed, as—one imagines—his life has been; but they are alive with his own enthusiasm for describing live things.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p707 D 4 ’19 1000w
MILLEN, WILLIAM ARTHUR. Songs of the Irish revolution and songs of the newer Ireland. $1.50 Stratford co. 811
20–8530
The author of these poems is an American of Irish descent who lived eight years in Ireland as a student and who believes that the National university of Ireland will be the salvation of the country. With his love for the land of his fathers and sympathy for the “Newer Ireland spirit” he combines great faith in Ireland’s men of learning. The book falls into two parts: At the dawning; and Echoes of Erin.
“Mr Millen is obviously pamphleteer rather than poet. One cannot help feeling that he would be more pleased at winning converts to his cause than at winning laurels for himself.” F. E. A. T.
+ − Grinnell R 16:357 F ’21 200w
MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER). Beauty and the bolshevist. il *$1.50 (7c) Harper 20–18254
Ben Moreton, the radical editor of “Liberty,” runs off hastily to Newport to prevent his brother’s marriage to Eugenia Cord, daughter of a multi-millionaire. He is too late to do that but he does something else, he falls in love with her sister. Crystal finds the common ground that will unite her irate conservative father and her radical lover and brings the story to the right ending. It appeared in Harper’s Magazine, May-July, 1920.
“Not so good as some others by the author, but amusing.”
+ − Booklist 17:118 D ’20
“A clever and paradoxical comedy full of repartee.”
+ Cleveland p105 D ’20 30w N Y Evening Post p9 N 6 ’20 210w
“One has come to expect clever conversation from Alice Duer Miller, and ‘The beauty and the bolshevist’ does provide that, but it is far from being as pleasing as some of Mrs Miller’s earlier novels.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 110w + Wis Lib Bul 16:238 D ’20 80w
MILLER, ARTHUR HARRISON. Leadership. *$1.50 Putnam 355
20–8069
“In the schooling of officers no course was included nor lectures given in leadership as a human science or in its relation to military success as a morale factor in peace or war.” (Preface) It is the object of the book to standardize the acknowledged methods of leadership in the army, and, for the sake of brevity, the methods and “formulae,” merely, are given without their psychological reasons. Contents: Foreword by Edward L. Munson; Leadership and morale; Character and personality; The leader and the soldier; The leader and the organization; Index.
The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 50w
MILLER, LEO EDWARD. Hidden people; the story of a search for Incan treasure. il *$2.50 Scribner
20–16498
“The hair-raising adventures of a couple of shipwrecked college boys among the wild Indians, ‘monkey men,’ reptiles and gorgeous birds of South America, especially their adventures among a remnant of the old Incan civilization with their horde of gold.”—Cleveland
Cleveland p106 D ’20 40w
“A scientific novel for boys, a really sound study of a remnant of an ancient South American tribe in interesting natural surroundings.”
+ Ind 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w N Y Evening Post p25 O 23 ’20 80w
“Neither youth nor age need form a barrier to the enjoyment of ‘The hidden people.’ Mr Miller is particularly fortunate in the way by which he applies his local color.” Kermit Roosevelt
+ N Y Times p5 N 14 ’20 1150w
“Is the kind of book that will appeal to all lovers of adventure.”
+ Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Those who follow his fascinating story, gain also a knowledge of the birds and beasts, the volcanic mountains and other interesting things that a scientific observer may see in South America.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 28 ’21 80w
MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS. Ring-necked grizzly. il *$1.50 (2½c) Appleton
20–7922
A hunting story for boys. Sid Colvin is recovering from typhoid and his father decides to give him a year in the open and sends him, accompanied by his chum Scotty, out to the Rockies where the boys are taken in charge by Big John, a trusted guide. They spend a winter in the mountains and the story tells of their adventures and exploits, which include, in addition to the killing of the ring-necked grizzly, other hunting and fishing experiences, snow-blindness and an encounter with outlaws. Mr Miller is author of “The boys’ book of hunting and fishing” and other works.
Wis Lib Bul 16:198 N ’20 70w
MILLIGAN, HAROLD VINCENT. Stephen Collins Foster; a biography of America’s folksong composer. il *$2.50 Schirmer
20–9485
By a careful sifting of material the author has sought to present an authentic account of Foster’s career, taking special pains to dispel some of the legends that have grown up around his later years and death. The early chapters give an interesting picture of American pioneer society and suggest the state of development of music in America at the time. The concluding chapter gives an estimate of Foster’s musical attainment and an analysis of the influence of his environment on his career. Contents: The family; Boyhood; Youth; First songs; Ambition; Drifting; Tragedy; The composer. Among the illustrations are several facsimile pages from Foster’s manuscript book.
N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 520w
MILLIN, SARAH GERTRUDE. Dark river. *$2 (2½c) Seltzer
(Eng ed 20–4268)
Human destinies rather than events form the interest of this South African story. Of the three men and three women that figure in it, John Oliver and René van Reede bungle their lives through defects in character. George Buckle possesses the substantial social virtues that make good in this workaday world and even enable him to take his rebuff in love philosophically. The three women, sisters, untouched by feminism, are more passive instruments in the hands of fate and are reduced to watchful waiting for the right man. Alma’s marriage to George is frustrated through the untimely interference of the flighty René, who goes off and forgets. Hester, feeling youth slipping away from her, marries the regenerate John, to her sorrow. Ruth, the youngest, eventually becomes the happy wife of George, although Alma’s shadow occasionally flits by.
“To read ‘The dark river’ is, after so much wind and brass, to listen to a solo for the viola. Running through the book there is, as it were, a low, troubled throbbing note which never is stilled. Perhaps a novel is never the novel it might have been, but there are certain books which do seem to contain the vision, more or less blurred or more or less clear, of their second selves, of what the author saw before he grasped the difficult pen. ‘The dark river’ is one of these.” K. M.
+ Ath p241 F 20 ’20 380w
“So well does the writer of this story know her South Africa, and more particularly the diggings, that she has not attempted to add the glamour usually found in tales of these regions. In fact, so clearly defined has been her purpose to tell ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ that the story would be rather depressing in its sombreness and worse than drab details were it not enlivened by bits of real humor and by a delightful background of local color.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 270w
“‘The dark river’ is well written, in a clear and vigorous style, it is interesting, it gives that sense of reality which makes us feel that we are actually observing the lives and fortunes of a group of living people. Moreover, it has the rare quality which distinguished Arnold Bennett’s ‘The old wives’ tale’—it gives an effect of the passing of time. ‘The dark river’ is a notable novel.”
+ − N Y Times p28 Ja 2 ’21 780w
“Outside of Hardy it would be difficult to find a setting which affords a more harmonious background for the characters whose sombre destiny is recorded in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s ‘The dark river.’” Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 98:1192 O 16 ’20 310w
“It is written not unpleasantly, but with a serious simplicity, and the characters introduced are well and distinctly drawn.”
+ Sat R 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p89 F 5 ’20 90w
MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH. Adventures of a nature guide. il *$3.50 (5½c) Doubleday 508
20–2049
“Storm, sunshine, night, desert, stream, and forest are crowded with waiting attractions and moving scenes. To have the most adventures and the greatest enjoyment in a given time, ramble the wilds alone and without a fishing-rod or a gun.” (Preface) This is the author’s advice to nature lovers. He calls the wilderness the safety zone of the world and declares its experiences less dangerous than staying at home; while the hunter, armed and killing, multiplies dangers and enjoys less variety and fewer adventures. The book gives a solitary and unarmed camper’s adventures in the wilds of the continent. Contents: Snow-blinded on the summit; Waiting in the wilderness; Winter mountaineering; Trees at timberline; Wind-rapids on the heights; The arctic zone of high mountains; Naturalist meets prospector; The white cyclone; Lightning and thunder; Landmarks; Children of my trail school; A day with a nature guide; Play and pranks of wild folk; Censored natural history news; Harriet—little mountain climber; Evolution of nature guiding; Development of a woman guide. The many beautiful illustrations are from photographs by the author.
“Boy scouts will like it.”
+ Booklist 16:201 Mr ’20
Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers
Bookm 51:103 Mr ’20 1450w
“The humor with which he relieves a tense situation, and his keen observations on the habits of the wild life of the mountains add to the interest of the book. A number of remarkably good photographs.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p15 Ja ’20 80w + Outlook 124:203 F 4 ’20 40w
“It is altogether a fascinating book; and its best title to recognition is that it approaches nature study from new angles, and with an unflagging and ever new interest.” Phillip Tillinghast
+ Pub W 96:1697 D 27 ’19 380w R of Rs 61:448 Ap ’20 70w
MILLS, JOSEPH TRAVIS.[[2]] Great Britain and the United States. *$2.50 Oxford 327
20–9352
“An English scholar’s critical review of the historical relations between the two countries. The book is made up mainly of extracts from lectures that were delivered to various units of the American army of occupation in Germany in May and June, 1919. The author naturally takes the ground that in the family dispute of 1776 ‘Britain’s policy was logically defensible, however unwise her action.’ In other words, he contends that there really is a British ‘case.’”—R of Rs
“His audiences considered, Mr Travis Mills was outspoken indeed, and there must have been some shaking of wise young heads over the Kiplingesque patriotism of this Britisher. No harm is done, however, by a ‘straight talk,’ and the lecturer advanced a sound argument when he contended that want of understanding, rather than the intention to oppress, produced the rupture between the American colonies and Great Britain.”
+ Ath p12 Jl 2 ’20 370w R of Rs 63:111 Ja ’21 80w
“Much of it will probably be new to English readers, whose notions of the American revolution are derived from text-books with a strong Whiggish bias.”
+ Spec 124:659 My 15 ’20 220w
MILN, LOUISE (JORDAN) (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN). Invisible foe. *$1.25 (1½c) Stokes
20–11300
This story, adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, is based on the possibility of communication with the dead. Helen Bransby is loved by two brothers, Stephen and Hugh. Thwarted in his love by Hugh’s success with Helen and smarting under a business failure as well, Stephen commits a crime which he contrives so that Hugh is blamed for it. The only person to discover the true state of affairs is Helen’s father, and the shock of it proves too much for his weak heart and he dies before he can right the wrong. Helen is positive of Hugh’s innocence, and as time goes on she is made more confident by the impelling feeling that her father is trying to get some message thru to her from the other world. The crisis of the story comes when she actually receives the message, and the hiding place of the paper that clears Hugh is psychically revealed to her.
“‘The invisible foe’ could easily stand on its own merits as a crime story without the aid of the spooks.”
+ N Y Times 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 650w
MILN, LOUISE JORDON (MRS GEORGE CRICHTON MILN). Mr Wu; based on the play “Mr Wu” by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes
20–7524
Wu Li Chang, one of the richest, most powerful of Chinese mandarins had had an English education and was an Oxford man. His daughter, Nang Ping, whose mother died when she was born, and who was reared in the utmost Chinese luxury, was betrayed by a young Englishman. How Wu, the father punished his daughter’s transgression in the time-honored Chinese way, by killing her, and how he took revenge on her seducer through the latter’s mother makes an impressive tale. It abounds in vivid descriptions of Chinese social customs and traditions and reflections on the habits of Englishmen in China, that are not much to the credit of our western civilization.
“It differs from most novelized plays in that the bones are not visible or even suggested. Mrs Miln must have put into it sufficient of her own personality to make the story quite her own. It is probable, moreover, that all three authors contributed something to the impression we have of being for the first time actually in the heart of China.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 420w
“Though the vengeance of Wu Li Chang’s forms the climax of the book the best and most interesting part of it is the introductory portion, closing with the tragic fate of poor little Wu Nang Ping.”
+ − N Y Times 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 500w
“Poignant emotions and a portrayal of oriental manners and customs combine to make ‘Mr Wu’ of more compelling interest than the ordinary run of adventure fiction.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 30 ’20 330w
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. First plays. *$2 Knopf 822
(Eng ed 20–12856)
A volume of five plays, written during 1916 and 1917. They are not, the author says, “the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.” The first, “Wurzel-Flummery” is a one-act comedy in which two distinguished members of Parliament are offered an inheritance of fifty thousand pounds—on condition of accepting the name Wurzel-Flummery. A two-act version of the play was produced in London in 1917. “The lucky one” is a three-act play. “The boy comes home,” a comedy in one act, is the one war play in the volume. “Belinda” is a comedy in three acts that has been performed in London and in New York, where Ethel Barrymore played the title rôle. “The red feathers,” the final piece, is an operetta.
“The lightness and irresponsible gaiety of Mr Milne’s dialogue are equalled by his wit.”
+ Ath p1017 O 10 ’19 150w + Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“They are intelligently amusing and have all the quality of admitting a thousand technical imperfections and carrying them off with wit or the grace of nice human relations.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − Dial 69:214 Ag ’20 140w
“Throughout all these ‘First plays’ of Mr Milne’s the word whimsical haunts us. It is the trademark of the school, the school of Barrie; and as in so many plays in the Barrie manner the form has taken the place of the substance. What these plays show is simply that no glamour of pictorialism, no colouring of language can atone for an indifference to the fundamental requirements of drama.” J. C. M.
− + Freeman 1:406 Jl 7 ’20 200w
“No young continental artist, discovering himself to be a playwright during the very years of the war, would have written with this sobriety, good humor, and straightforward realism. Such an artist would, no doubt, have written more profoundly and imaginatively, but also more obscurely and, in no low sense, less usefully. Mr Milne, to be sure, is capable of being both trivial and sentimental. But his dialogue is deft and natural, and his observation of human nature cool and sane. His best play, The lucky one, is an admirable piece of dramatic writing.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 280w
“Mr Milne’s plays belong to what might be termed the Barrie school of drama. It is the idea of whimsicality raised to terms of life. Situations that in the hands of another would be either broadly comic or broadly depressing are made by this school of dramatists into a fantastic realism. While these plays are extremely diverting to read, one will sometimes doubt their adaptability to the stage.” H. S. Gorman
+ − N Y Times 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“The others are excellent entertainments, they abound in high spirits and good nonsense, but ‘The lucky one’ cuts deeper. They are all excellent fun, superficial, naturally, but thoroughly sound and wholesome of its kind.”
+ − Spec 123:477 O 11 ’19 750w + Springf’d Republican p8 S 9 ’20 360w The Times [London] Lit Sup p501 S 18 ’19 70w
“They are delightful parlour-games, all five. They do not affect, like the newest of Mr Shaw’s parlour-games, to be fantasies in the Russian manner. They are modestly and tactfully and good-humouredly in the English manner.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p564 O 16 ’19 700w
“‘Wurzel-Flummery’ is what high comedy should be—satirical yet not bitter, amusing yet not farcical. The reader of a play is perhaps too apt to dwell upon its style; but, other qualities being equal, a play is really none the worse for being well written. And Mr Milne writes well.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:257 Jl ’20 240w
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814
20–13982
“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be ‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the seasons.”—Review
“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer than ‘Not that it matters.’”
+ Review 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w
“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his writings for the pages of a book.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 27 ’20 500w
“There is the satisfaction of knowing that wherever you may dip into this book you will be amused. So much of modern literature is only rough hewn that a finely finished work—even on goldfish—is welcome. In that respect ‘it’ does ‘matter.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p693 N 27 ’19 680w
MINNIGERODE, MEADE. Laughing house. *$1.90 (3½c) Putnam
20–18258
Laughing house is another name for Shirley House, the ancestral home of the Shirley family in Shirley, Connecticut. It is packed with family lore and tradition, which Francis and Mary Elizabeth love and respect. There they have a happy childhood, whose joys are shared by Newell and Isabelle Rushmore and Billy Vane, who are almost as much at home at Shirley House as the Shirleys themselves. When the children grow up they are still the best of comrades. In fact, they know each other so well that all their future relations are taken for granted and it is tacitly understood that Mary Elizabeth is to marry Billy. But then a stranger comes into their midst, a nouveau-riche neighbor who tramples on their traditions and upsets all their calculations. But altho her methods are a trifle ruthless, she opens the eyes of several people to their real feelings toward various other people. Billy suffers most, but deservedly so. Mary Elizabeth does not marry him, but Newell, and Isabelle who had fancied herself in love with Billy, too, finds it is Francis after all.
“When Mr Minnigerode is dealing with this family he is altogether charming. Perhaps he cannot write of ugliness: when he brings in a member of the nouveau riche, and introduces us to a vulgar and ‘designing woman,’ his skill departs.” W: L. Phelps
+ − N Y Times p8 O 31 ’20 380w
“There is a pleasantness about the tale, and the reader will relish the quiet old Shirley homestead, the quiet of the village and surrounding hills, and the principal characters. The story is natural in its telling.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a D 5 ’20 120w
“Slight both in matter and in length, and not free from preciosity.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p801 D 2 ’20 50w
MIRZA, YOUEL BENJAMIN. When I was a boy in Persia. (Children of other lands) il *$1 (3c) Lothrop 915.5
20–7997
The author is a young man of Persian birth who served in the United States navy during the war. He begins his story with an account of his parents’ marriage, thus giving a glimpse of the Persian caste system as well as of marriage customs. Subjects covered in other chapters include: The birth and care of a child; Schooldays; Persian games, amusements and massalie (stories); Persian fasts and festivals; Persian rugs and rug-makers. The final chapter, Preparations for a far journey, tells of the departure for America.
“An unaffected sincerity and a ring of truth and intimate knowledge are the fascinating things in this story.”
+ Booklist 16:316 Je ’20
“This is a delightful book.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 360w Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 20w Wis Lib Bul 16:198 N ’20 70w
MISCELLANY of American poetry, 1920. *$2 Harcourt 811.08
20–16870
“This volume is as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most recent work of eleven American poets. These eleven form no particular group, illustrate no single influence, constitute no one ‘movement.’... Each poet has been his own editor. As such, he has selected and arranged his own contributions.... The poems that follow are all new. They are new not only in the sense that they have not been previously issued by their authors in book form but, with the exception of seven poems, none of them has ever appeared in print.” (Publisher’s foreword) The eleven poets are: Conrad Aiken; Robert Frost; John Gould Fletcher; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; James Oppenheim; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Carl Sandburg; Sara Teasdale; Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.
Booklist 17:105 D ’20
“Some of the poems have come out in magazines; and, what is really important, most of them are below the author’s level. For a first number this volume might pass. But the next should be made to count by the contributors looking ahead and planning for it. Otherwise it is only a pleasant venture.” Stark Young
+ − Bookm 52:266 N ’20 550w Boston Transcript p8 O 2 ’20 1200w
“An eminently sane and revealing experiment, and one which justifies itself in the results.” Lisle Bell
+ Freeman 2:213 N 10 ’20 490w
“Containing whatever it does, it vindicates with unusual accuracy the critical preferences which seem to prevail just now and so embarrasses the reviewer who would like to declare something newer than that John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg are better than other poets today.”
+ Nation 111:481 O 27 ’20 840w
“The most interesting thing about this volume is the curiously stratified cross section which it offers of contemporary poetry in America.” J: L. Lowes
+ N Y Evening Post p5 S 25 ’20 2200w
“Here are all fashions, from free verse to the most conservative lines, and all done with exceptional finish and comprehension of poetic values. The book suggests in its general scheme those excellent Georgian anthologies. But a difference must be noted between these books and this American miscellany. In the American book is a wider range, the dissimilitude of the poets included is far greater than that of the Georgian group.”
+ N Y Times p11 D 5 ’20 1250w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 2:292 O 6 ’20 350w
MITCHELL, ROY. Shakespeare for community players. il *$2.50 Dutton 822.3
20–3019
“Mr Mitchell’s authority as director of the Hart House theater of the University of Toronto and former technical director of the Greenwich Village theater, New York, is unquestioned. Taking Shakespeare as his text, he teaches the fundamentals of stagecraft which are applicable to community production, starting with the choice of a play, and discussing organization, rehearsal, stage-setting, furniture, dresses, lighting, make-up, music and other important elements.”—Survey
Booklist 16:304 Je ’20 + St Louis 18:227 S ’20 40w
“His advice is sufficiently detailed to permit a clear grasp of all that is required. His principles are sound and scholarly.”
+ Survey 44:308 My 29 ’20 220w
“Many a professional man of the theatre could learn something from Mr Mitchell’s book. The ordinary amateur actor will find it full of ‘tips.’ To the community theatre it will be necessary.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p79 F 5 ’20 700w
“Suggestions on acting and stage-directing, and full illustrations covering every phase of the text, round out the volume as one of the most helpful of the many recent contributions to what may be termed the practical literature of community drama.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:258 Jl ’20 300w Wis Lib Bul 16:116 Je ’20 80w
MIX, JENNIE IRENE. At fame’s gateway. *$1.75 (1½c) Holt
20–6128
Josephine Prescott was a musical prodigy in her little town of Parksburg and the admiration of her townspeople made it possible for her to continue her studies on the piano with a famous teacher in New York. There her personal charms secured her many friends among musical and literary people whose Bohemian life she shared. A great violin virtuoso chose her for his inspiration and she loved the man in him while the artist left her indifferent. Her teacher, the great Brandt, dubious about her artistic testing, tried her out; one year, two years. In the third year he tells her that, with all her talent, she will never be a great artist, for she lacks understanding. Despondent and with all her hopes shattered, she again hears the great violinist and suddenly awakes to the realization that she understands and thrills to his music, that she no longer loves the man but the artist. And outside of the hall on the sidewalk romance stands waiting for her.
“Although conventional, the well-sustained suspense and the pleasant characterization give it an interest that will appeal to women and girls.”
+ Booklist 16:313 Je ’20
“The illuminating discussions of temperament, technique and the larger understanding necessary to genius, should prove valuable to many seeking a career in music, or indeed in any of the arts.”
+ Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 80w
“A moral tale but interesting, it has a lot of musical good sense and is highly to be recommended to the concert-stage struck girl.”
+ Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 50w
“The book lacks character development. The novel drags badly at times, but some of the scenes are well written. Brandt’s speeches are usually good, and as a whole it is a conscientious piece of work with an excellent moral.”
+ − N Y Times 25:321 Je 20 ’20 450w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 180w
MOELLER, PHILIP. Sophie. *$1.75 Knopf 812
20–13983
Sophie Arnould, famous Parisian singer, actor and wit of the eighteenth century, is the heroine of this comedy in three acts for which Carl Van Vechten writes a prologue giving the historical background of the play with a brief sketch of the life of Sophie Arnould. Although it is based on history, says Mr Van Vechten, the historical facts of the play are negligible while the author has “lighted up the atmosphere and the period, and re-created character. Sophie lives in this comedy, lives as she must have lived at the height of her career.” We see her as a triumphant lover, get glimpses of her as the superb artist, as the kind-hearted woman, but chiefly as the resourceful wit who cleverly outflanks her enemies.
“Philip Moeller, the creator of ‘Madame Sand’ and of ‘Moliere,’ has developed in ‘Sophie’ more searchingly his gift of satire and sparkling repartee. The lines of his play are closely interwoven in thought, and their significance is often multiple. In the repartee and in the rapid interplay of ideas lies the individuality of Mr Moeller.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 450w
“The play fails not because its plot is unreal, its ‘morality’ frankly unmoral, its characters exaggerated. All this is true of many of those great comedies ‘which are in the best traditions of the English stage.’ It fails because it is not good of its kind.”
− Theatre Arts Magazine 4:258 Jl ’20 200w
MONASH, SIR JOHN. Australian victories in France in 1918. il *$8 Dutton 940.394
20–11507
“The part played by the Australian corps under Lieutenant General Monash in France during the closing months of the war is recorded in this volume. The corps commanded by Lieutenant General Monash was the largest on the western front, and while the body of his troops were Australians it contained some imperial divisions and the 27th and 30th American divisions. These troops went into action in the defence of Amiens when it was menaced by the great drive of the ‘Kaiser’s battle,’ and fought up to the taking of Montbrehain on Oct. 5.”—Boston Transcript
“Not only a valuable document but a human chronicle that adds distinctly to the literature of the war.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 10 ’20 730w + Spec 124:244 F 21 ’20 1050w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p95 F 12 ’20 850w
MONEY, WALTER BAPTIST. Humours of a parish, and other quaintnesses. il *$2 Lane 827
20–16287
Mr Walter Herries Pollock in the introduction to this book of reminiscences pays tribute to the author as clergyman and cricketer. The book itself is a collection of anecdotes and stories, part of the accumulated store from thirty years of work as a parochial clergyman.
“Mr Money’s anecdotes are good, but one has the tantalizing feeling as one reads them that the printed version is only the palest reflection of the real thing.”
+ − Ath p273 Ag 27 ’20 140w
“Embedded in Mr Money’s book of anecdotes there are an extraordinarily large number of really delightful stories; but the book on the whole suffers, as do most books of good stories, in being too long.”
+ − Spec 125:153 Jl 31 ’20 500w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p453 Jl 15 ’20 490w
MONKHOUSE, ALLAN NOBLE. True love. *$2 (2c) Holt
20–13704
A psychological novel with special emphasis on the psychologic reactions of the war on its characters. Geoffrey Arden is an introspective journalist and playwright in love with Sibyl Drew, an actress. The war finds him on neutral ground and his comprehensive view leaves small room for narrow enthusiasm. Nevertheless the patriotic appeal wins out and he enlists. On proposing to Sibyl he finds that her stage name covers a German ancestry and that she is German to the core. They make a compact to be “chivalrous enemies” and lovers at the same time and in this lies the gist of the story: that to intellectually honest, well meaning people the war has presented two phases—the one the international human aspect, the other the national and patriotic.
“Mr Monkhouse is a professional novelist, quietly confident, carefully ironical, and choosing always, at a crisis, to underrate the seriousness of the situation rather than to stress it unduly. Admirable as this temper undoubtedly is, it nevertheless leaves the reader a great deal cooler than he would wish.” K. M.
+ Ath p1259 N 28 ’19 800w
“‘True love’ adheres to a course as conventional as its title, unrelieved by plot invention and unredeemed by emotional significance.”
− Dial 69:432 O ’20 50w
“But those who like much fine and high feeling and good talk and whose interest in character study is strong will find it very satisfying. There is in it a great deal of clever, sometimes brilliant, and always interesting, conversation that covers a wide variety of subjects.”
+ N Y Times p24 S 5 ’20 600w
“As fiction the book is not appealing, but it is keenly and sometimes brilliantly written.”
+ − Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:561 D 8 ’20 270w + Sat R 128:589 D 20 ’19 400w
“‘True love’ is an interesting and painfully engrossing story, in which the author practises a most artistic self-effacement.”
+ Spec 122:733 N 29 ’19 750w
“His style is careful, neat and polished. His skill at play-writing has taught him how to make his novels dramatic, and the book advances in a good, orderly well-drilled fashion. Mr Monkhouse has given us a most readable novel.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p712 D 4 ’19 620w
MONTAGUE, JAMES J. More truth than poetry. *$1.75 Doran 811
20–19075
A volume of reprinted newspaper verses, many of them for or about children. Irvin Cobb, who writes the introduction, confesses that his favorites are “Healthy” and “Thoughts on pie,” of the Doughboy ditties, and “The Sleepy-town express.” Other poems are: The evening suit; Around the corner; The pictures on the panes; Why the katydids sing; Peter Pan; The mine sweepers; The road to success; The farmer’s idle wife; In behalf of the movies.
MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT. England to America. *$1 (14c) Doubleday
20–8625
A reprint of a short story that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in September 1919. It is the story of an American soldier on leave who visits his English friend’s family in Devonshire. The strange reserve of his hosts puzzles him and he interprets it, as coldness towards himself or his country. On the last day the truth comes out and he learns that for his sake they have been concealing the tragic news that had just preceded his own arrival. John Drinkwater writes an appreciative introduction. The story was awarded the O. Henry memorial prize for the best American short story of 1919.
+ Booklist 17:73 N ’20 + Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 40w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 30w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 80w
MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT. Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. *$1 (11c) Doubleday
20–11895
A short story reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. The old southern mountaineer known as Uncle Sam, for his likeness to that national figure, has carried the fervor of the Civil war patriotism all through his life. In that spirit he gives up his only son and receives the tidings of his death in France without flinching. After the war he is heart and soul for the treaty and at the news of its rejection by the Senate takes his own life in the mystic belief that he is offering atonement for his country’s failure. The story has been commended by President Wilson.
Booklist 17:34 O ’20 + Freeman 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 30w
“The simple, homely, genuine appeal of the central figure of Miss Montague’s parable makes a much needed call to the better spirit of the country, the real spirit of the great masses of the people.”
+ N Y Times 25:15 Jl 18 ’20 600w
“It is one of those rare, great little books that all patriotic people will read eagerly and pass on to their friends, just as sixty or seventy years ago people read and passed on ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 7 ’20 220w
MOODY, JOHN. Masters of capital; a chronicle of Wall street. (Chronicles of America ser.) per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 332
19–19139
“In the course of the forty-first volume in the Chronicles of America series, Mr Moody discusses the necessity and value of capital as an accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use in the production of more wealth, and he outlines in a series of nine chapters the leading factors in its development. His starting point is the rise of the house of Morgan, and thereafter he chronicles briefly, in scarcely more than two hundred pages, the development of American railroads, the rise of the ironmasters and the Standard oil company, with successive chapters on The steel trust merger, Harriman and Hill. The apex of ‘high finance,’ The panic of 1907 and after, and Wall street and the world war.”—Boston Transcript
“Both books are written from the Wall Street standpoint. However, Mr Moody has given us two interesting, authoritative, and impartial narratives describing dramatic and not unimportant episodes in our economic history. And his firm biographies and stories of great financial deals—accompanied as they are by a constant flow of informing comment—enable an understanding reader to deduce more than he specifically tells.” V: S. Clark
+ − Am Hist R 26:120 O ’20 380w
“The entire story of the development of American capital and capitalists is picturesque in itself and especially romantic as told by Mr Moody.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Je 12 ’20 1250w
“One of the most fascinating volumes in the entire series.”
+ N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w
MOODY, JOHN. Railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 385
19–19138
“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and corporation securities.’” (St Louis)
Reviewed by V: S. Clark
+ − Am Hist R 26:120 O ’20 380w
“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.
+ Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:158 S ’20 250w
“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself at the present time.”
+ N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w
“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”
+ R of Rs 61:672 Je ’20 70w St Louis 18:100 Je ’20 30w
MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD. Local government in ancient India; with a foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford 352
20–4025
“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all sources of information. The systems of self-government, which communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare, were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations, which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term ‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern Europe.”—Eng Hist R
Dial 68:668 My ’20 50w
“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson
+ − Eng Hist R 35:260 Ap ’20 1050w The Times [London] Lit Sup p433 Ag 14 ’19 1050w
MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL. Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5
20–20904
Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman. Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books; Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in the text.
+ Booklist 17:92 D ’20
“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s reading.”
+ Ind 104:379 D 11 ’20 150w
“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”
+ Lit D p90 D 4 ’20 110w
Reviewed by Annette Wynne
+ N Y Evening Post p2 Ja 8 ’21 520w
“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”
+ Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w
MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.[[2]] West and East. *$4 Scribner 266
(Eng ed 20–12838)
“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919 increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures, setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.” (Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page from a multitude of footnotes and references.”
+ Bib World 54:650 N ’20 210w Booklist 17:149 Ja ’21
“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to Professor Moore’s book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p566 S 2 ’20 2000w
MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT. Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710
20–19679
The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world, past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the author and his family are reflections on historical, literary, artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.
+ Ath p1353 D 12 ’19 90w
“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight value as information.”
+ Booklist 17:106 D ’20
“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”
+ Bookm 52:274 N ’20 220w
“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 8 ’21 800w Brooklyn 12:131 My ’20 30w
“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates
+ N Y Evening Post p9 D 31 ’20 820w
“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and reflection with their gardening and their reading.”
+ Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 40w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 90w
“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently recommended.”
+ Review 3:424 N 3 ’20 270w
“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”
+ − Sat R 129:109 Ja 31 ’20 950w
MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND. Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday
20–5120
A party of three Americans hire a schooner in Manila and go out in search of an island of gold, on the say-so of a crazy ex-captain. The captain of the schooner and the crew, with a few exceptions, are a criminal gang who are bound to come to their reckoning whichever way the trip turns out. The island is reached but no gold is found, except the gold of love between Marjorie Locke and Robert Trask. The wicked captain and crew are outwitted, after a trial of strength, and the party returns safely to Manila.
Booklist 16:282 My ’20
MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND. Sailor girl. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–5774
A tale of adventure in the China sea. Eleanor Glendon, sole owner after her father’s death of a fleet of ships, has reason to believe that all is not well with her affairs in the Far East and she goes out to investigate on her own account. With a friend, Harriett Wade, she arrives in Manila to find that the “Coral Queen” is on the point of sailing for Hong Kong, and without warning to the captain, goes on board. She finds that the first mate is one John Strang, accused of complicity in a recent daring piece of piracy, and on hearing rumors of a plot to sink the ship readily connects him with it. But she is to learn that he is not the culprit, and following a series of stirring events, the truth comes to light and there is a reorganization of her company with a new man at its head and a wedding in prospect.
“A satisfactory adventure-comedy-romance, stirring enough but never distressing.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:582 Jl ’20 80w
“The reader will probably feel that the love story is perfunctory, while the adventure story is hair-raising enough for anyone.”
+ − N Y Times 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 300w
MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND. Siberia today. il *$2 Appleton 915.7
19–19482
“As one of a number of intelligence officers dispatched by the United States to Siberia in the summer of 1918, Mr Moore had opportunity to see something of the diplomatic and political conditions of that distracted country, as well as much of its peasant life. His volume is a lively narrative devoted rather to description than to analysis.” (N Y Evening Post) “He has much of interest to tell about the people, the prisons, the Cossack chiefs, the work of Bolshevists, and the German propaganda, and there are a great number of photographs.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A breezy account with serious convictions set down in journalistic style.”
+ Booklist 16:201 Mr ’20 + Boston Transcript p10 F 7 ’20 320w
“Captain Moore has a good journalistic sense, and he has enlivened his criticisms by many vivid and lively pictures of life in Siberia today.”
+ Cath World 111:682 Ag ’20 480w Cleveland p43 Ap ’20 60w
“An interesting journalistic account.”
+ Ind 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 60w
“It is an easy, chatty chronicle that Mr Moore writes, filled with apparently insignificant details, the cumulative effect of which is to create an arresting portrayal.”
+ N Y Evening Post p8 F 14 ’20 650w + R of Rs 61:221 F ’20 70w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p175 Mr 11 ’20 60w
MOORE, GEORGE. Avowals. *$8 priv ptd Boni & Liveright 801
19–15898
“A literary criticism in beautiful prose, much of it in the form of imaginary conversations between Moore and Gosse in which they discuss achievements in English fiction. Another conversation between Moore and an American gives the author an opportunity to state his opinion of censoring literature according to standards of morality, instead of according to art. Discussions of Tolstoy, Tourgueneff, Kipling and Pater, whom he admires greatly. A lecture in French on Shakespeare and Balzac is reproduced, together with Paris impressions.” Booklist
Booklist 16:196 Mr ’20
“With all its side-issues, its personalities, its portraits, its wisdom and wit and perversity, ‘Avowals’ is fundamentally an essay on the English novel of quite extraordinary subtlety and of rare charm and stimulating power.” S: C. Chew
+ Nation 110:239 F 21 ’20 1000w
“Mr George Moore’s ‘Avowals’ is one of the most companionable books of criticism I know.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 440w (Reprinted from New Statesman)
“Here is Mr George Moore talking about books, and giving us the most delightful example of printed talk that we can remember to have met with in English.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p606 O 30 ’19 2100w
MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, comp. World beyond. (World Bible ser.) *$1.50 Crowell 208
20–12826
The compiler has selected passages from oriental and primitive religions bearing on life, death and immortality. The selections are arranged under three headings: The world beyond; The higher knowledge; Life.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 25 ’20 430w
MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, and HOUSTON, CHARLES A. Problems in business law. (College of the city of N.Y. ser in commerce. civics and technology) *$2.50 Appleton 347.7
20–9488
The present volume confines itself to stating all the various problems of a legal nature that a business man has to deal with. It is a case book, pure and simple, designed for use in classroom discussion and quizzing, giving carefully selected cases, that have actually come up for decision in court, without the answers. It is intended for business colleges, corporation training schools, commercial high schools and universities where business law is a subject of study. After giving a table of the cases cited, the subjects are grouped under: Contracts; Quasi contracts; Sales; Personal property; Chattel mortgage; Lost property; Pledged property; Bailments; Agency; Carriers; Master and servant; Suretyship and guaranty; Negotiable instruments; Checks; Insurance; Partnership; Corporations; Bankruptcy.
Am Econ R 10:829 D ’20 30w
“This is perhaps the most interesting and excellent case book of commercial law ever published for use in the classroom.”
+ R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 150w
MOORE, THOMAS STURGE. Little school. *$1.50 Harcourt 821
This is an enlarged edition of the book by the same title, and contains children’s poems on subjects of everyday life and of special interest to children as some of the titles show: Beautiful meals; To cook; Leaf-land; A song of cleanness; Picture folk; Nursery enactments; The house we built; The wild cherry; A child muses; Snow.
+ Booklist 17:123 D ’20
“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”
+ Dial 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G. Fletcher
− + Freeman 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 250w
“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown, ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren
+ − Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“Strange to say, he is successful in several of the poems. For the most part, though, he does not quite hit off the elphin twist and whimsicality of de la Mare.” H. S. Gorman
+ − N Y Times 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 190w
MOORE, THOMAS STURGE. Some soldier poets. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.09
20–17758
A series of essays on a group of young poets who are associated with the war, concluding with an essay on The best poetry, written for the Royal society of literature in 1912. Contents: Julian Grenfell; Rupert Brooke; A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon]; R. E. Vèrnede; Sorley; Francis Ledwidge; Edward Thomas; F. W. Harvey; Richard Aldington; Alan Seeger; The best poetry.
“Mr Sturge Moore’s volume is interesting because it contains, besides much acute and serious criticism, an illuminating summary of the poet’s artistic psychology.”
+ Ath p1397 D 26 ’19 570w Booklist 17:62 N ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“Within a fixed circle, Mr Moore’s criticism is honest and impassioned, but his vision is limited by the horizons of the nineteenth century and he abhors anything modern or irregular.”
+ − Dial 69:434 O ’20 100w
“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:16 Jl 4 ’20 860w
“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here praises.”
− Sat R 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 560w
“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He is also a master of the comparative method.”
+ − Spec 124:243 F 21 ’20 720w The Times [London] Lit Sup p678 N 20 ’20 80w
MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE. Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960
(Eng ed 20–22707)
The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2) Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation and reform.
“Mr Morel writes in a clear, hard style, without prejudice or sentiment, and it will be impossible for any normal human being of white origin to read these two hundred and forty pages without a feeling of profound shame.” Llewelyn Powys
+ Freeman 2:522 F 9 ’21 1100w
“His attitude toward the black men is that of the liberal Englishman: that is to say, he is opposed to the past atrocities and wants Africa helped in every benevolent and philanthropic way. He has, however, no conception of a self-governing, independent black Africa.” W. E. B. Du Bois
+ − Nation 111:351 S 25 ’20 640w The Times [London] Lit Sup p174 Mr 11 ’20 280w
“The book can be judged on its merits. The merits consist in recalling and setting forth undoubted and glaring injuries inflicted upon Africa and the Africans by European individuals, companies, and governments, and in warning against the danger of repeating the injustice and wrong. The warning is needed at the present time. On the other hand, like other books of the kind, it lends itself to criticism both in detail and on general grounds. Though the author can discriminate and does, when he likes, discriminate, there are wholesale and one-sided statements and generalizations which are far too wide.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p194 Mr 25 ’20 1200w
MORELAND, WILLIAM HARRISON.[[2]] India at the death of Akbar. *$4.50 Macmillan 954
“The opening of the seventeenth century—the period selected by Mr Moreland—was a critical epoch in the history of India. It was immediately antecedent to the appearance of new forces destined to influence India profoundly, and may be described as the close of the medieval history of India and the beginning of its modern history (it was in the year 1608 that the English ship Hector reached Surat.) For the economic story of the next three centuries substantial sources of information are available, and Mr Moreland’s aim is to supply an introduction to the study of that period. List of authorities, 5pp.’—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Certainly no one could accuse Mr Moreland of forcing from the facts a too confident conclusion. His judgment is so cautious, so balanced, so hesitating, that if the one object of his book had been a definite comparison in material wealth and prosperity between 1605 and 1914, a captious critic might complain that the results arrived at hardly compensate for the sedulous care lavished on the inquiry. There are many shrewd reflexions on matters political and financial, the outcome of independent study and an original survey.” P. E. Roberts
+ Eng Hist R 35:455 Jl ’20 950w
“Mr Moreland’s excellent study of the condition of India in 1605, at the death of Akbar, shows how the subject should be approached. If we are to determine whether India has advanced or declined in wealth, we must have some standard by which to measure the changes.”
+ Spec 124:794 Je 12 ’20 1650w
“It is pleasant to record a further advance in the study of Indian economics. All scholars will be delighted that Mr Moreland has resisted the obvious temptation to defer publication until the sources of our information had been more fully explored. No pioneer can hope to write the definitive work upon a subject of this magnitude, and Mr Moreland may reasonably hope to earn the more enviable distinction of founding a school and seeing others build upon his foundation.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p360 Je 10 ’20 1550w
MORGAN, ANGELA. Hail man! *$1.25 Lane 811
20–86
With a few exceptions—which include the title poem, reprinted from the New York Times—the poems of this book appear here for the first time. They are arranged in eight sections: Symbols; Man in light; Man in darkness; Enchantment; Contrasts; Fancies; Tributes; Man tomorrow.
+ Cleveland p86 O ’20 30w
“Her note is ecstasy con fuoco; her exaltation is unremittingly fortissimo. Often on the point of a crashing success she fails because of this very too-determined vigour. Miss Morgan can and has done far better than this. Gifted with an ease and fluency, she lets her rippling sentences run on till they become a mere babble of words.” L: Untermeyer
− + Dial 68:529 Ap ’20 250w Nation 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 30w
“The best things in this book are the shorter and less pretentious poems, ‘Common things,’ ‘Steam’ and ‘Gardens.’ Many of the others have the energy and feeling essential to the making of poetry, even the imaginative touches, occasionally, and the love of natural beauty, but lack the masterly touch of proportioned art which might make of these spiritual conflagrations a serene and permanently shining light.”
+ − N Y Times 25:173 Ap 11 ’20 360w
MORGAN, ANNA BLUNT. Little folks tramping and camping. il *$1.75 (3c) Lothrop
20–17826
A bird book for children with information presented in story form. The Marsden children learn about birds from an uncle who is an enthusiast. Their study begins in the winter with tramps through the snow to the haunts of cedar waxwings, grossbeaks and other winter habitants, and for Marshall, the eldest, who is an invalid, a feeding shelf is arranged outside the window to attract nuthatches and chickadees. The expeditions are continued into the spring and early summer and in July the children are taken on a camping trip where they learn more about wild life and where Marshall grows strong and well. The birds studied are those native to Wisconsin.
MORGAN, BYRON. Roaring road. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–9273
Stories of automobile racing, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. The titles are: The junkpile sweepstakes; The undertaker’s handicap; The roaring road; The hippopotamus parade; Second-hand ghosts; The bear trap. The same characters appear in all the stories.
“A chain of stories, that stir the blood and keep the attention in a manner that is sometimes called ‘breathless.’”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 15 ’21 290w
“Mr Morgan’s style is perfectly suited to his matter; the sharp staccato of his sentences is like the clean-cut crash of a flaming exhaust, and the sustained, compelling flight of his narrative matches the speed of the plunging, pounding cars of which he writes.”
+ N Y Times 25:309 Je 13 ’20 450w
MORGAN, JOHN DAVID. Principles of electric spark ignition in internal combustion engines. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 621.43
(Eng ed 20–12283)
“During the past few years a large amount of research has been carried out on ignition problems, and the object in the following chapters is to bring together the main results which are of direct value to designers and students interested particularly in the patrol[petrol] engine. Discussion of design and constructional details of ignition apparatus has been excluded, for the reason that the need for information of this kind is already well supplied.” (Preface) Contents: Gas characteristics; Spark characteristics; Interaction of spark and gas; Spark plug and test gap characteristics; Spark generator characteristics; Index. References follow the chapters and there are thirty-nine figure illustrations in the text.
“A wide circle of readers will feel grateful to the author for providing in this convenient form an account of the more important work along these lines, and for the reference which he provides to the sources from which information in fuller detail may be obtained. Mr Morgan puts them still further in his debt by the lucidity with which he writes.”
+ Nature 104:372 D 11 ’19 340w N Y P L New Tech Bks p9 Ja ’20 30w
MORGAN, WILLIAM THOMAS. English political parties and leaders during the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (Yale historical publications) *$2.75 Yale univ. press 942.06
20–7448
“In this book the author embodies the results of many years of painstaking and fruitful research. He has carefully studied ‘the new evidence that has become available in the last thirty years’—in the archives of England and Holland, in the recent reports of the Historical manuscripts commission, as well as in a mass of pamphlets and periodicals—and has reread, with a keen eye, all the older literature on the period, including the materials on which it has been based. He has been able to show that Queen Anne was a much more assertive person than is commonly believed, and that, from the beginning, the Duchess of Marlborough exercised much less influence on the policy of her sovereign than most writers on the period have assumed. On this perplexing period when personalities counted for so much, and when cabinet and party government were still in such an inchoate state, new lights are thrown; moreover, much fresh vivid detail is presented on the iniquitous methods of conducting elections which had come into vogue.”—Am Hist R
“Building on such secure and broad foundations he has succeeded in constructing a sound and enduring work.” A. L. Cross
+ − Am Hist R 26:132 O ’20 600w
“The author has been able to gain access to a large amount of hitherto inaccessible material which has enabled him to produce a critical discussion of this era of much value to the historical student.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 N 13 ’20 540w
“Mr Morgan has written ably for scholars, and has performed just that sort of task which it is incumbent upon contemporary scientific historians to accomplish.” J. W. Krutch
+ N Y Evening Post p8 O 30 ’20 780w
“The book is extremely interesting, too, for its sketches of the leading politicians, as illustrated from their correspondence. Mr Morgan would have added to the value of his numerous citations from unpublished papers if he had dated them. It is sometimes difficult to follow his argument for lack of the dates of the letters to which he refers.”
+ − Spec 125:340 S 11 ’20 1450w
“Professor Morgan has his merits, but he takes himself very seriously. His predecessors on the same voyage are swept aside with minute omniscience. He seems to us to mistake the phases of influence for the permanence of character, and to be indiscriminate in the party labels he applies. But in the process of his criticism he has rendered a real service to history.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p628 S 30 ’20 1850w
MORGENSTERN, JULIAN. Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. il *$1.50 Union of Am. Hebrew congregations 222
19–11743
“This book is addressed to two publics: teachers in Jewish religious schools, that their instruction may be more authoritative and effective; and non-professional students of the Bible, to help them in getting a first-hand knowledge of Judaism. The author stands squarely on the assured results of thoroughgoing critical scholarship, recognizing clearly the presence of myth, legend, and tradition in Genesis, and relative little authentic history, but he is not content to stop with analysis. Whereas most scholars wholly ignore the motives and ideas controlling authors and editors in the process of producing the book as it now stands, the investigation of these motives and ideas is the point of departure for Rabbi Morgenstern, for whom Genesis is ‘a Jewish work, written by Jewish authors, and edited by Jewish thinkers, the product of Jewish religious genius, and a unit of Jewish thought and doctrine,’ hence to be interpreted from a positive Jewish standpoint.”—Bib World
“The author selects his materials wisely, and his comments, critical and practical, are discriminating. Rabbi Morgenstern has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his purpose.”
+ Bib World 54:315 My ’20 300w Booklist 16:258 My ’20 Nation 111:482 O 27 ’20 390w
MORISON, JOHN LYLE. British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–1854. *$2.50 Oxford 342.71
“In ‘British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–54,’ Professor J. L. Morison of Queen’s university, Kingston, Canada, makes an interesting study of the manner in which imperial ascendancy and colonial autonomy were reconciled in the years of early Victorian Canada. He emphasizes the thought that the evolution of colonial Canada into a self-governing dominion was the wisest and best solution of the great problem that confronted the British and Canadian statesmen; through it, he holds, there was great gain to all concerned—gain to the empire as well as to the people across the Atlantic. That it caused no weakening of the tie between the mother country and the daughter land was demonstrated, we are reminded, by the magnificent conduct of Canada in the great war with Germany.”—N Y Times
“The volume is indeed thrice blest; it is felicitous in expression, scholarly in treatment, and broad-minded in its interpretation of public affairs. Notwithstanding its limitations, this volume easily stands out as the best contribution to Canadian history in recent years.” C. D. Allin
+ − Am Hist R 25:531 Ap ’20 900w Ath p963 S 26 ’19 140w
“By far the most important contribution of the volume is the series of vitally human studies of the four Canadian governors-general from 1839 to 1854—Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and Elgin. Apart from the personal equipment of the author in scholarly training, fair-mindedness, absence of racial prejudice, and attractive literary style, his work has the great advantage of a first-hand study of documents, hitherto unavailable, or but slightly employed by writers on Canadian history. The closing chapter, The consequences of Canadian autonomy, is much the least satisfactory.” Adam Shortt
+ − Canadian Hist R n s 1:77 Mr ’20 1450w
“In thanking Dr Morison for a very able and stimulating volume one may be allowed to enter a caveat against the attitude of somewhat contemptuous superiority assumed towards past statesmen.” H. E. Egerton
+ − Eng Hist R 35:145 Ja ’20 1000w + N Y Times 25:254 My 16 ’20 160w
“Excellent book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p523 O 2 ’19 1300w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Hide and seek. *$1.50 Doran 811
20–19297
A volume of Verses, Sonnets, and Translations from the Chinese, varying from the broadly humorous to the whimsical and tender. The “translations,” the author frankly states, are based on a rather rudimentary knowledge of the language gleaned from laundry slips. The poems are reprinted from the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Life, and other periodicals.
“Christopher Morley is not quite so successful this time. He still tries to blend sugary light verse with even more sugary lyrics. He is at his best in the lowbrow translations from the ‘Chinese.’” Clement Wood
+ − N Y Call p8 Ja 9 ’21 120w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:376 O 27 ’20 160w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Kathleen. il *$1.25 (5c) Doubleday
20–5771
The story is an Oxford undergraduate prank. The Scorpions, literary club, agree to write a serial story on shares. In lieu of ideas they make up a tale around certain names mentioned in a letter accidentally found and signed Kathleen. They work themselves up into some romantic fervor about their heroine and eventually go on an expedition to find the real Kathleen at the address mentioned in the letter. She is all their fancy has painted. Under various disguises they gain entrance to her home and after an orgy of mystification, Blair, the Rhodes scholar from Tennessee, makes a clean confession and carries off the palm of victory.
“A slight and amusing tale.”
+ Booklist 16:314 Je ’20 + Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 10w
“‘Kathleen’ is forced from beginning to end. ‘Kathleen’ is a warning to all writers who ignore the fact that there are difficulties even in the construction of a trifle designed for an hour’s entertainment.”
− + N Y Times 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 260w + Review 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 160w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Pipefuls. il *$2 Doubleday 817
20–20442
“Pipefuls” is apropos of the brevity of the sketches in this collection compiled from the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and other journals. The author characteristically declares: “These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits.... And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living?” (Preface) In one of the sketches, Confessions of a “colyumist,” in which he expatiates on the task of conducting a newspaper column, he thus parodies Wordsworth:
“The meanest paragraph that blows will give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for sneers.”
The illustrations are from drawings by Walter Jack Duncan.
+ Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“Short crisp amusing papers with the mellowness and pungency which are characteristic of this fluent author’s work.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:348 D ’20 30w
“Mr Morley is like a painter who converts the commonplace into a work of art.”
+ Bookm 52:368 Ja ’21 30w
“In other words, if one wants to believe things honestly worth while, despite unquestioned difficulties, if one wants to walk in the reflected sunshine he sheds on the ‘sunny side of Grub street,’ if one longs to see the ultimate value of unconsidered trifles, if, in fact, one asks for a lifting grin at the bad crossings, or only some fun, humanwise, by the way, read Christopher Morley.” I. W. L.
+ Boston Transcript p13 D 8 ’20 1000w
“Mr Morley, one is glad to see, seems to be shaking off the sugar-crystals which were threatening to encase his style; and in this volume one rejoices in passages of real charm, the product of an alert and sensitive imagination.”
+ Freeman 2:260 N 24 ’20 180w
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON. Travels in Philadelphia. il *$1.50 (2c) McKay 917.48
20–5213
In his introduction to this collection of sketches, originally printed in the Evening Public Ledger, A. Edward Newton says: “Where else shall we find simplicity, the gayety, the kindly humor, and the charm of this gentle essayist? Who, other than Morley, could make a walk out Market street of interest and a source of fun?... Who, but he, could find in the commonplace, sordid, and depressing streets of our city, subjects for a sheaf of dainty little essays, as delightful as they are unique?” Some of the titles are: Little Italy; Meeting the gods for a dime; Trailing Mrs Trollope; The Ronaldson cemetery; Chestnut street from a fire escape; The recluse of Franklin square; Up the Wissahickon; The Whitman centennial; Anne Gilchrist’s house; Penn treaty park; At the mint; Madonnas of the curb; On the sightseeing bus; Putting the city to bed. The illustrations are from drawings by Frank H. Taylor.
“These articles combine a happy, not too studied description with pleasant humor into a congenial guide book to Philadelphia.”
+ Booklist 16:309 Je ’20
“The book is here for everybody to read and take pleasure in whether or not they have ever seen Philadelphia. Perhaps some day Mr Morley will come hither and give us a like book about Boston.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p9 My 29 ’20 650w + Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 110w
“To an old Philadelphian the insight of Mr Christopher Morley is really wondrous.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:284 My 30 ’20 550w
MORLEY, LINDA H., and KIGHT, ADELAIDE C. 2400 business books and guide to business literature. *$5 Wilson, H. W. 016
This is a revision of the work called “1600 business books,” compiled by Sarah B. Ball and published in 1916. It has been prepared by Linda H. Morley and Adelaide C. Kight of the Business branch of the Newark public library, under the direction of John Cotton Dana. “The sub-title ‘Guide to business literature’ is added to make it plain that the book is far more than a list of 2400 volumes. It is an index to the contents of those volumes; that is, it lists, in alphabetic order, under 2000 different headings, the subjects which are treated in these 2400 books. These headings are in addition to those entries which give the names of the writers of the 2400 books and in addition to the entries which give their titles.” (Introd.) The entries are arranged in one alphabet, with a publishers’ directory at the close.
Booklist 17:136 Ja ’21
MORRIS, EDWIN BATEMAN. Cresting wave. *$1.75 Penn
20–4440
“An American story of a young, successful, but unscrupulous, financier, giving a picture of society financial markets, and the conflict of business methods and the passion of love.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Booklist 16:349 Jl ’20
“Edwin Bateman Morris’s preceding novels have prepared us for moderately good tales from his pen, and ‘The cresting wave’ is no disappointment.”
+ Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 160w
“The author here has taken a safe course in his novel of more than four hundred pages, and if he presents us with nothing especially new, at least he does no violence to no tradition and does not attempt to paint his hero in impossible colors.”
+ − N Y Times 25:330 Je 20 ’20 400w
“‘The cresting wave’ is built upon one of the very oldest of ideas or morals: namely, that it is better to be decent than successful, better to serve than to grasp. Perhaps my gratitude to young William Spade for neither trying to write a novel nor spouting free verse nor hanging about cafes and studios in search of ‘life’ prejudices me unduly in his favor.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 250w + − Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 240w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p285 My 6 ’20 50w
MORRIS, HARRISON SMITH. Hannah Bye. *$1.75 Penn
20–7646
“The Quaker life and character is sketched in this simple and sweet story of Hannah Bye. The scene is in a Quaker community and the characters are varied. Here is Deborah Bye, cold, harsh, uncompromising, whose conscience forms her whole character and whose personality rather than her religion, forms her conscience. Her daughter, Hannah, the heroine of the story, is a far sweeter character and one which appeals strongly to the reader. Ruth Blake, her nearest friend, makes the acquaintance of a city visitor to the country, of whom Hannah warns her without success. The fall comes and Hannah, in her effort to keep and save Ruth, draws upon herself her mother’s anger. The peaceful home is shattered but Hannah in the end restores its peace.”—Boston Transcript
“The story is restful, with here and there a dash of humor, but one which will appeal to all in its quiet delineation of character, which appears to be drawn from real life.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 13 ’20 150w
“Mr Morris’s descriptions of the country are sympathetic and reveal an artist’s eye; he has handled the Quaker jargon with some success, but not exhaustively or to the complete satisfaction of the insider. Any Quaker will, certainly, take exception to the hard, domineering character attributed to Hannah’s mother, Deborah Bye. The Quaker meeting for worship is also incongruous, and the dance and its sequel are inappropriately melodramatic.” W. W. Comfort
+ − Nation 111:621 D 1 ’20 500w
“The picture of a little rural community centered about the quaint meeting-house of the society of Friends is delightful.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 150w
MORRISON, ALFRED JAMES. East by west; essays in transportation. *$1.50 (3½c) Four seas co. 382
20–26869
“A commentary on the political framework within which the East India trade has been carried on from early times, starting with Babylon and ending very near Babylon.” (Subtitle) The book begins with the twentieth century before Christ describing the avenues of trade to and from Babylon, “formed by position for a seat of empire and commerce,” and falls into two parts, part one ending with Venice as the great commercial center in the fifteenth century. Part two begins with the trade ascendancy of Portugal, at the time of the discovery of America, and ends with the Bagdad railway and “The great transportation war.” An edition of the book was published by Sherman, French in 1917.
“The book was probably not designed and is certainly not adapted to fit the needs of a serious student, but may attract the casual reader by its rapid movement and informal style.”
+ Am Hist R 26:138 O ’20 150w + Booklist 16:331 Jl ’20 + Cath World 111:554 Jl ’20 140w Nation 110:773 Je 5 ’20 220w
“Some of the remarks seem but remotely connected with the subject of transportation.”
+ − Review 3:626 D 22 ’20 380w
“The underlying causes which caused the movements of civilization are dealt with in a lively style, which is not often found in books of this kind.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 30 ’20 120w
MORSE, EDWIN WILSON. Life and letters of Hamilton Wright Mabie. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd
20–20980
A biography of a distinguished author, editor and lecturer, quoting liberally from his letters and from the letters written to him by others. There are chapters on: Ancestry, boyhood and youth; At Williams college in the ‘sixties; Recollections of Dr Mark Hopkins and Emerson; In the uncongenial law; On the staff of the Christian Union; Associate editor of the Christian Union; A memorable decade; Non-professional activities; Literary honors; The middle period; Ambassador of peace to Japan; The world war; The last year; Editor, author and lecturer; Character and personality. There is an index of names and places.
+ Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21
“Mr Morse’s ‘The life and letters of Hamilton W. Mabie’ is conceived and carried through in the spirit of its subject. It is clear, sympathetic, and convincing.” H: Van Dyke
+ Bookm 52:355 Ja ’21 1150w
“Mr Morse has performed his task excellently, with sufficient fulness and good judgment in selection of his material. The book is also well illustrated.”
+ N Y Evening Post p9 N 27 ’20 160w
“The reviewer does not mean to suggest that Mr Morse’s volume is dull, but is far from exciting. The subject of it led an uneventful life, in the sense that there were few dramatic happenings in his life.”
+ − N Y Times p20 Ja 16 ’21 1950w R of Rs 63:110 Ja ’21 90w
“Shows careful and sympathetic study of an influential American.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 600w
MOSHER, MRS ANGE (MCKAY). Spell of Brittany. il *$3 Duffield 914.4
20–21069
This volume by an American woman who had lived long in Brittany is devoted largely to its history, traditions and folklore. There are chapters on Madame de Sévigné; Folk-lore and Jeanne de Pontorson; Mont St Michel and its legends; St Malo and Chateaubriand; A folk song of St Malo; Dinard, Dinan and excursions; Félix de Lamennais; The legend and pardon of St Yves; Breton wedding; Brest and the adjacent islands; Audierne, and the legend of Ys; Saints and fairies; Nantes and Anne of Brittany, etc. Among the illustrations are reproductions of paintings. There is an index. The introduction by Anatole LeBraz is in the nature of a memorial to the author, who died in 1918.
“Good print and make-up.”
+ Booklist 17:151 Ja ’21
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:345 D ’20 80w
“Exceedingly bright and fascinating are these chapters out of the life of a lovely woman who made the study of these people her avocation, if not her actual vocation.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p5 D 4 ’20 580w + N Y Times p22 D 12 ’20 270w R of Rs 62:672 D ’20 50w
MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA. Finding a way out; an autobiography. *$2.50 (4½c) Doubleday
20–10075
In writing his story it was the hope of the author “that the telling of it would serve a useful purpose, especially at this time, in helping to a clearer understanding of the hopes and aspirations of my own people and the difficulties which they have overcome in making the progress of the last fifty years which has been so frequently described as ‘the most remarkable of any race in so short a time.’” (Preface) Contents: Out of Africa; On a Virginia plantation; Through reconstruction; Doing and learning; A touch of real life; Ending student days; Black, white, and red; With north and south; From Hampton to Tuskegee; At Tuskegee; War activities; Forward movements in the south; Index. The author succeeded Booker T. Washington as head of Tuskegee institute.
“This autobiography not only impresses one with the worth and dignity of its writer but charms and amuses the reader with the sense of humor and the sweetness which the author has carried with him.”
+ Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
+ Bookm 52:304 Ja ’21 110w
“If not so romantic as the autobiography of his predecessor, Dr Booker T. Washington nevertheless this story of the life of the present head of Tuskegee, is a document of vital interest. The chapters on From Hampton to Tuskegee and At Tuskegee are among the most important of Dr Moton’s autobiography.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 730w
Reviewed by M. W. Ovington
Freeman 1:500 Ag 4 ’20 800w + Nation 111:736 D 22 ’20 50w
“We wish that this volume might find its way into every public library in the United States and into every school and church library in the South.”
+ Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 280w
“His book deserves to be read on his own account, and also for the side lights that it throws upon negro conditions and problems.”
+ R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is easy to read and is highly informing and inspiring regarding the career of one of America’s outstanding figures in contemporary affairs. It is bound to be read, especially by those who enjoy an unusual autobiography.” F. P. Chisholm
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 500w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p712 N 4 ’20 520w
MOTTELAY, PAUL FLEURY, comp. Life and work of Sir Hiram Maxim; knight, chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, etc. il *$2 (4c) Lane
20–13086
Biographical facts are set forth in a foreword by the author. This is followed by an introduction by Lord Moulton. The body of the book is then devoted to the inventions of Sir Hiram Maxim, with chapters on: Electric lighting; Maxim automatic gun; Powders; Explosives; Erosion of guns; Fuzes; Gun for attacking Zeppelins; Lewis gun—Madsen gun; Flight of a projectile; Aerial navigation; etc. There are seven illustrations, appendixes and index.
Ath p604 My 7 ’20 700w Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 60w Spec 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 180w The Times [London] Lit Sup p189 Mr 18 ’20 80w
MOULTON, JOHN FLETCHER MOULTON, 1st baron. Science and war. pa *80c (7½c) Putnam 509
(Eng ed 19–15830)
This small volume contains the Rede lecture for 1919, at Cambridge university. In beginning his enumeration of the debts the war owes to science Lord Moulton, without apparent ironical intent, points out that science made the war possible. He shows that the war represented “the results of the totality of scientific progress” from the beginning and then devotes himself to the more recent developments of science and invention that determined the character and extent of the war. In conclusion he warns that the next war may mean not only the end of civilization but the self-destruction of mankind.
Ath p786 Ag 22 ’19 340w
Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg
Nation 111:104 Jl 24 ’20 160w + Spec 123:284 Ag 30 ’19 90w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p402 Jl 24 ’19 180w
MOULTON, RICHARD GREEN, ed. Modern reader’s Bible for schools; the New Testament. *$2.25 Macmillan 225
20–5983
“‘The modern reader’s Bible’ is not a new translation. It is the ordinary Bible (revised version), without alteration as to matter or wording, but printed in such a way as to bring out to the eye the full literary form and structure. This literary form and structure refers to such things as the difference between story, song, drama, discourse, essay: the distinction between verse and prose, together with the delicate variations of verse which make such a large part of the effect of poetry.” (Introd.) In addition to the general introduction each of the three parts, Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation, has its special introduction. Some forty pages of notes are arranged at the end and there is an index “designed to give assistance in the more systematic reading of the New Testament.” There is also a frontispiece map.
Booklist 16:355 Jl ’20
“On the whole the book seems admirably adapted to the purpose intended—to provide a text of the New Testament with explanations adequate and truthful yet thoroughly adapted virginibus puerisque.”
+ Nation 111:305 S 11 ’20 200w
“Professor Moulton’s ‘Reader’s Bible,’ good as it is, does not please everyone because he varies the order of the canon, and because he adopts the revised version. However, we are glad to see his simplified edition of the New Testament. It is far easier to read than any ordinary Testament.”
+ Spec 125:540 O 23 ’20 170w The Times [London] Lit Sup p637 S 30 ’20 120w
MOWAT, ROBERT BALMAIN. Henry V. il *$3.50 Houghton 942.04
“Henry V in his day was held to be the pattern of a chivalrous knight: round his name has centred the romance of medieval England; in his person Shakespeare found already expressed the glory of the Elizabethan age, the symbol of our national aspirations. The character of Henry V has many of the faults but all the virtues of his time; ... his kindness and good fellowship; his bravery and sense of justice; his unremitting industry; his piety.” (Chapter I) Among the contents are: The legendary and the real Henry; The French war; The conquest of Normandy; The treaty of Troyes; The work and character of Henry V. The book is illustrated and has an appendix, a bibliography and an index. An earlier edition of this work appeared in 1915.
Ath p668 My 21 ’20 1250w
“It is natural in such a biography rather to emphasize the heroic, and within the limits of his space Mr Mowat has given us a very readable and on the whole accurate history. But space would not permit the writer to add much that is new.” C. L. Kingsford
+ − Eng Hist R 35:453 Jl ’20 1100w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:419 N 3 ’20 500w
“Mr Mowat has written a good book, which should be widely read. He has very rightly relied in the main upon the chief French and English chronicles and biographies, and has avoided the tendency, rather too common just now, to pick out erudite and often irrelevant detail from half-read sources.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p182 Mr 15 ’20 1100w
MUIR, EDWIN. We moderns; enigmas and guesses. *$1.75 Knopf 192
20–26566
The volume is the fourth in the series of Free lance books, edited with introductions by H. L. Mencken. It is a book of aphorisms after the manner of Nietzsche and inspired by the philosophy of Nietzsche. They are animadversions on life and all the modern aspects of life as revealed in our art, literature, science, and religion; and are grouped under the headings: The old age; Original sin; What is modern? Art and literature; Creative love; The tragic view.
+ Booklist 17:7 O ’20
“There are lapses, superficialities, but on the whole this is criticism, of life and of literature, which must effect a change in one’s habits of thought.”
+ − Dial 69:102 Jl ’20 90w
“These aphorisms are utterly without the meretricious glitter of the common epigram; they are luminous with the sober light of truth. Like Pascal’s ‘Pensees’ the logic that underlies the book is, in its smaller scale, an unconstructed cathedral of thought: it demands a certain architectural intuition of the reader. One thing is certain: no utterances more tonic, more bracing have rent the sultry firmament of contemporary literature.”
+ Freeman 1:213 My 12 ’20 2150w
“He is, on the evidence of this little volume, a thinker not lightly to be passed by.”
+ N Y Times p8 O 31 ’20 850w
MUMFORD, ALFRED ALEXANDER. Manchester grammar school, 1515–1915; a regional study of the advancement of learning in Manchester since the reformation. il *$8.50 (*21s) Longmans 373
20–8869
“This volume has seventeen chapters with twenty-one appendixes of documents, tracing the history of the Manchester school for three hundred years. The author is more interested in the personal history of its benefactors, directors, masters, and graduates, than he is in detailed information regarding the school’s management, support, system of education, etc., at various periods. This is somewhat disappointing to the American student. On the other hand the volume is much more than a history of one school or even of the educational forces and agencies in Manchester. There is much of value on the educational and intellectual development of England in general, and comment on the larger factors of an economic, social, and religious character, which influenced the course of this development. The main thread of the story has to do with the struggle to democratize the school and to supplant the old classical curriculum with one which would more directly meet the new economic and social conditions ushered in by the industrial revolution. There are numerous illustrations of Manchester, the school and notables connected with it, and a good index.”—Am Hist R
“The book is a creditable piece of work, even if it does not measure up to the high standard of scholarship which other writers have set in their histories of similar schools.” M. W. Jernegan
+ − Am Hist R 26:127 O ’20 460w
“The last chapter of Dr Mumford’s book contains much valuable material. As he was for a long time medical examiner at the school, his testimony against military training in secondary schools is important. Other valuable expert testimony is that given in regard to the irregular development of the adolescent.” W. S. Hinchman
+ Review 2:523 My 15 ’20 1200w
MUNDY, TALBOT. Eye of Zeitoon. il *$2 Bobbs
20–4959
“Those who followed the fortunes of the four friends who traveled ‘The ivory trail’ will rejoice at the opportunity here afforded of meeting them once again and sharing the thrilling adventures which befell them because of ‘The eye of Zeitoon.’ This same ‘Eye of Zeitoon’ was not a precious stone of any kind, but a man named Kagig, an Armenian and a patriot, doing his best to save his countrymen from the Turks. Two women play important parts in the story—Gloria Vanderman, an American girl, resolute, strong-willed and fearless, able to handle a pistol or even a rifle in a moment of danger, and that effectively, and the mysterious Maga Jhaere, the wild, pagan, primitive half-gypsy, a veritable fiend at times, yet almost a child in her naïveté. She is interesting, but not so interesting as Kagig himself.”—N Y Times
“‘The eye of Zeitoon’ shows a great advance on ‘The ivory trail,’ which we reviewed not long ago. It has more coherence, fewer horrors, and a descriptive quality which at times touches the point of brilliance.”
+ Ath p838 D 17 ’20 100w Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“‘The eye of Zeitoon’ has most of the Kipling tricks and some of the Kipling virtues. As a yarn, it drags at times, its briskness of style being in odd contrast with the sluggish action.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Bookm 51:582 Jl ’20 210w + Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 50w
“Talbot Mundy would like to be a second Rudyard Kipling and he never will, but if you don’t insist on making invidious comparisons and if you like hot fighting you can find a lot of interest and excitement in this tale.”
+ − Ind 104:382 D 11 ’20 80w
“A dramatic, well-written and absorbing romance of high adventure.”
+ N Y Times 25:205 Ap 25 ’20 700w
Reviewed by Katharine Oliver
+ Pub W 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“A highly interesting element is the author’s portraiture of eastern characters.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 150w
“Mr Mundy strives valiantly after thrills and excitements, but scarcely succeeds in rising above the level of musical comedy.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p721 N 4 ’20 50w
MUNDY, TALBOT.[[2]] Told in the East. *$2 Bobbs
20–21184
“Two of the three stories in Talbot Mundy’s ‘Told in the East’ are of the proportions of novelets. They are based on dramatic incidents in the Indian mutiny. The third has a humorous trend but is withal a typical Mundy tale. The first of the trio, ‘Hookum, Hai’ has for its central figure Bill Brown, a stoical British sergeant, who, while assigned to an isolated outpost in command of a dozen men, is caught in the maelstrom of the initial uprising. A typical Mundy character—a loyal, aristocratic Rajput officer—is the hero of ‘For the salt he had eaten,’ the second story. ‘Machassan Ah,’ the final tale, relates the humorous experiences of two British bluejackets who go ashore at an Arabian port in pursuit of a native who proclaims himself an Englishman.”—Springf’d Republican
“None of the three tales published in the present volume is lacking in excitement; in fact, there is a little too much of it.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 100w
“Through the magic of these printed pages, we are transported to the India of the last century.”
+ N Y Times p24 D 26 ’20 670w
“The three stories will afford pleasure and entertainment.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 230w
MUNK, JOSEPH AMASA.[[2]] Southwest sketches. il *$3.50 Putnam 917.8
The book describes the mesa and desert country and the coast line of the Southwest geographically, geologically, climatologically and ethnographically. The healthfulness, beauty and rare fascination of the country are dwelt upon and the 133 illustrations give some idea of the scenery and the remains of pioneer and aboriginal life. The contents are: The mesa country; Land of the cliff dwellers; In Hopiland; The Flagstaff region; The petrified forests of Arizona; El Rito de los Frijoles; On the Arizona frontier; Passing of the Apache; Ranch reminiscences; Big irrigation projects; Southwest climate; Southern California.
+ N Y Times p14 Ja 2 ’21 910w + R of Rs 53:223 F ’21 70w
“A pleasantly informal travel book. Mr Munk evidently writes with thorough knowledge and shows an appreciative eye for the beauties and oddities of that country and its native people. Particularly fascinating is the description of the petrified forests of Arizona.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 18 ’21 420w
MUNROE, JAMES PHINNEY. Human factor in education. *$1.60 Macmillan 370.1
20–2741
“A volume defending vocational education and written by a vice-chairman of the Federal board for vocational education. The author tries to show that the old regime of twenty years and more ago was a flat failure in the scheme of education in the United States. There is strong intimation that much of the old system is still in force. He shows how the great world war has helped bring us to our senses in the matter of educating boys and girls in a many-sided way rather than in a narrow way as previously. (School R) “The book does not advocate, however, the separation of vocational from academic schools.” (Booklist)
+ Booklist 16:331 Jl ’20
“The plea for reorganization of elementary and secondary education could hardly be put more forcibly than is here given. To the casual reader, however, there seems to be some overemphasis in places; but this only makes one think more carefully.”
+ − School R 28:390 My ’20 600w
MURCHISON, CLAUDIUS TEMPLE. Resale price maintenance. pa *$1.50 Longmans 338.5
19–17749
“Dr Murchison lays the foundation for discussion of price maintenance in the two chapters upon marketing: The organization of the market, and Irregularities of the present retailing system. The discussion of price maintenance is given in chapters five to eight.” (Am Econ R) “[Other subjects discussed are] the function of the retailer, and attempts to prevent price-cutting. Issued as Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public law.” (Brooklyn)
“A serious study such as this is to be commended even though it does not say the last word upon price maintenance.” H. R. Tosdal
+ − Am Econ R 10:120 Mr ’20 850w Brooklyn 12:62 Ja ’20 30w
“The various forms of price maintenance and of price cutting are described in detail, and the arguments for and against both, as well as for the author’s own compromise position, are stated with lucidity. If the reader remains unconvinced, the reason lies in the fact that in actual life the problem of price determination is bound up with a variety of other problems of equal importance to the consumer.” B. L.
+ − Survey 43:202 N 29 ’19 320w
MURDOCK, VICTOR. China, the mysterious and marvellous. il *$2.50 Revell 915.1
20–20219
“Mr Murdock’s book is simply a narrative of a trip into China that took him rather far into the interior and away from the usual route of the tourist.” (Freeman) “He says, ‘Here is the history of the present volume. My brother in Wichita took the letters I had written and as they had been published in our paper, the Eagle, put them in the form they bear. Our idea was to let me give copies of it to particular friends.” (N Y Times)
“It is unfortunate, we think that Mr Murdock elected to write this story of his travels, not in English, but in journalese. Some three hundred pages of etymological ‘jazz’ places an undue strain on the reader’s literary nerves. And this is more the pity because the author can command good, plain English when he wants to.” Harold Kellock
+ − Freeman 2:188 N 3 ’20 620w
“The text is so frisky, the words so plain and slangy, comparisons so lacking, and the subject dealt with so personally, that I wondered at a publisher printing such a book with paper and labor so dear.” F: O’Brien
− N Y Times p7 S 5 ’20 3650w + Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 50w
MURRAY, ELSIE RIAEH, and SMITH, HENRIETTA BROWN. Child under eight. (Modern educator’s lib.) *$1.90 (*6s) Longmans 372.2
(Eng ed E20–581)
“The book which comes from England with this title, ‘The child under eight,’ is a discussion of the kindergarten after the fashion that might have been found in an American book fifteen or twenty years ago. The titles of the various chapters indicate the temper of the writers. There are chapters entitled The world’s mine oyster, All the world’s a stage, Joy in making, In grassy places, etc. The book is not without some practical suggestions for work in the kindergarten, but in the main it is a defense of the kindergarten with some reference to modern movements in the treatment of little children.”—El School J
El School J 20:716 My ’20 170w + Spec 124:553 Ap 24 ’20 900w
MURRAY, GILBERT. Our great war and the great war of the ancient Greeks. (Creighton lecture, 1918) *$1.25 (13c) Seltzer 938
20–13139
A comparison between the Peloponnesian war and the great war in Europe. The war between Sparta and Athens was the greatest war the world had ever known. “Arising suddenly among civilized nations, accustomed to comparatively decent and halfhearted wars, it startled the world by its uncompromising ferocity.” And it ended in a peace that was no peace and was followed by other wars, the outcome of which was death to both combatants. Drawing on the historians and dramatists of the time the author sets forth a picture that shows many striking similarities to our modern experience. In conclusion he expresses a hope that in spite of the terrible evils growing out of the recent war, we may make use of the opportunity to build a better international life out of the ruin. The work is dated November 7, 1918.
Nation 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“Gilbert Murray’s translations are, as always, enjoyable, even though such words as ‘Niagara’ in the mouth of the Athenians make us a bit suspicious that other lively expressions also may be more Murray than Aristophanes.” J. W. Hughan
+ Socialist R 9:208 N ’20 220w
MURRAY, JOHN.[[2]] John Murray III, 1808–1892. il *$1.50 Knopf
(Eng ed 20–8871)
“John Murray III was the grandson of the John Murray (1745–93, originally MacMurray!) who founded the famous publishing house in November, 1768, and the son of John Murray, jr. (1778–1843), who is perhaps best remembered now as friend and publisher of Byron and as publisher of the Quarterly Review. Of John Murray III (1808–92) there was no account adequate at all, except mere facts in the Dictionary of national biography, until his son’s interesting article appeared in the Quarterly Review for January, 1919. The present little book consists of that article, revised and enlarged, followed by the father’s paper on the ‘Origin and history of Murray’s handbooks for travellers,’ and by some new letters to his family (1830–91), mainly describing vividly various travels abroad and at home.”—N Y Evening Post
“The letters are excellent reading, and we venture to ask for more, if more are to be had.”
+ Ath p76 Ja 16 ’20 300w
“Interesting because of his participation in literary events of real significance, such as Scott’s announcement of his authorship of ‘Waverly’ and the publication of the ‘Origin of species.’”
+ Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21
“One misses such anecdotes and illustrations of literary life as might have been expected from a publisher in close contact with great writers.”
+ − Nation 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“This is a very interesting and welcome little book.” L. L. MacKall
+ N Y Evening Post p14 D 4 ’20 1250w
“The memoir has the unusual fault of being too brief, but it does justice to its subject and adds a new and interesting chapter to the history of English publishing.”
+ Spec 122:81 Ja 17 ’20 1650w
MUSCIO, BERNARD. Lectures on industrial psychology. 2d ed, rev il *$3 Dutton 658.7
20–13083
“A book principally composed of a series of lectures given to general audiences at Sydney university.” (Survey) “These lectures discuss such topics as fatigue, muscle coördination, individual differences, scientific management, motion study, and other applications of psychology to the life of workers.” (R of Rs)
Ath p180 F 6 ’20 1250w
“Taken as a whole, Mr Muscio’s volume may be recommended particularly on account of its lucidity and common sense as providing what is probably the best short account yet published in this field. In certain places, however, these lectures are distinctly weak. The author sometimes betrays only a distant acquaintance with the statistical material of his subject. Another weakness of these lectures is their too great reliance on the anecdotal method.” P. S. Florence
+ − Freeman 2:117 O 13 ’20 600w R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 30w
“There is no other book for the general reader that states the case for a scientific handling of the human factor in industry more clearly or more convincingly.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 280w
MUZZEY, DAVID SAVILLE. American history. il *$1.92 Ginn 973
20–10077
A prefatory note to this revised edition says, “Besides bringing the narrative down to the spring months of the year 1920, the author has entirely recast that part of the book following the Spanish war, and has made considerable changes in the preceding chapters. The changes are chiefly in the direction of added emphasis on social and economic factors in our history. New illustrative material has been added, the maps have been improved, and the bibliographical references brought down to date.” The work was first published in 1911.
+ School R 28:548 S ’20 340w
MYERS, ANNA BALMER. Patchwork; a story of the “plain people.” il *$1.75 (2c) Jacobs
20–5190
The “plain people” is what the religious sects, Mennonites, Amish, etc., in the Pennsylvania Dutch country are called. Phœbe Metz was a child of the “plain people” and this is her story from the time she was a quaint, unusually interesting and original little “Dutchie” of ten until she told David Eby that she would be his wife. She was fond of the world and its vanity, her golden curls and pretty clothes. She was frank about it; she could not be anything else but honest. And she had the courage, likewise, to go her own way, sorely as she grieved and shocked Aunt Maria. She went to Philadelphia to study music; tasted and loved the world’s glitter; saw some of its wickedness too; but when it came nigh to brushing the bloom off her youth, she escaped unscathed to her beloved country. There among the people and things that were a part of her very life she found herself, and when David returned from the war with but one leg, they both knew how much they had cared since they were children. There is much charm in the book’s local coloring.
“Entertaining but with less convincing dialect and background than Mrs Martin’s ‘Tillie.’”
+ − Booklist 16:349 Jl ’20
“There is a good deal of information about the ‘plain sects,’ their ways and speech and ideas, in this perfectly innocuous little story.”
+ − N Y Times 25:321 Je 20 ’20 320w
MYERS, FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY. Human personality and its survival of bodily death. *$4 Longmans 133.9
“This well-known work first appeared about sixteen years ago in two volumes, each of about seven hundred pages in length. The text is here materially condensed, and most of the appendices, which occupied about half each volume and contained examples of phenomena analysed in the text, are omitted. A short biographical sketch of Myers is included.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“As Myers’ theory develops to include more and more unusual phenomena it preserves its persuasiveness and elasticity: Myers’ patient skill is indeed the most attractive feature of the book.” J. W. N. S.
+ Ath p78 Ja 16 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
Dial 69:201 Ag ’20 1150w + Outlook 125:281 Je 9 ’20 140w + Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 650w The Times [London] Lit Sup p719 D 4 ’19 60w
MYERSON, ABRAHAM.[[2]] Nervous housewife. *$2.25 (4½c) Little 616.8
20–21011
“Every practicing physician, every hospital clinic, finds her a problem, evoking pity, concern, exasperation, and despair.” (Introd. note) By examining the various causes and forms of nervousness in housewives, from merely deënergizing neurasthenia to highly pathological cases, from all points of view, the book seeks to stimulate the trend toward greater individualization in women, and to promote a more constructive and intelligent rebellion against old-established conditions and discontents. The book is indexed and the chapter headings are: The nature of “nervousness”; Types of housewife predisposed to nervousness; The housework and the home as factors in the neurosis; Reaction to the disagreeable; Poverty and its psychical results; The housewife and her husband; The housewife and her household conflicts; The symptoms as weapons against the husband; Histories of some severe cases; Other typical cases; Treatment of the individual cases; The future of woman, the home, and marriage.
“Written sympathetically and sensibly for the housewife herself to read.”
+ Booklist 17:144 Ja ’21 Boston Transcript p6 D 4 ’20 360w
“There is a note of pessimism about the book, despite its wholesomeness, that strikes a discordant chord here and there. But on the whole the book is sane, frank without being indelicate, wise, and fairly well-written.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p12 D 31 ’20 270w