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RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE). New children; talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4
20–15392
The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis; The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson; Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children; The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.
“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not necessarily final.”
+ − Review 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative. Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite wanton and unnecessary.”
+ − Spec 124:619 My 8 ’20 900w
“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey
+ − Survey 45:136 O 23 ’20 510w
RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI, pseud.). Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920
20–9932
These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the book is well illustrated.
Boston Transcript p6 Ag 4 ’20 350w
“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the American reader.”
+ − N Y Times 25:25 Jl 18 ’20 490w
RAEBURN, HAROLD. Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796
“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering; Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles. The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and index.
“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn
+ − Ath p579 O 29 ’20 1050w + Boston Transcript p3 D 4 ’20 250w
“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment. The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes with conviction and refreshing candour.”
+ Spec 125:819 D 18 ’20 900w
“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and mountaineering.’”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p529 Ag 19 ’20 820w
RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces. 4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7
20–18302
A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof, Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin, Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.
“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 13 ’20 500w
“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the collection.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 180w
RAGSDALE, LULAH. Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner
20–11498
“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter, were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times
Booklist 17:73 N ’20
“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of ‘light reading’ for a summer day.”
+ N Y Times 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 390w
“An excellent story for young people.”
+ Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w
RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.[[2]] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–19181
This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners, whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here. There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for the deserving.
“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”
+ − Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”
− N Y Evening Post p10 N 27 ’20 190w
“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”
+ N Y Times p23 Ja 30 ’21 580w
“The story has ‘punch.’”
+ Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 30w
RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD. Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–6711
A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war. Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen, gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the winning of Ramona.
Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20 Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 40w
“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn material.”
+ N Y Times 25:326 Je 20 ’20 700w
“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 100w
RAINSFORD, W. H.[[2]] That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane
20–20431
Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn and it ends well.
“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a trifle.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 D 4 ’20 240w
“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much description.”
− N Y Evening Post p10 N 20 ’20 170w N Y Times p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w
“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip Gray.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p583 S 9 ’20 510w
RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR. From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373
20–2288
The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval; Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home trail; Appendix.
“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is the antithesis of war.”
+ Booklist 16:238 Ap ’20 + Boston Transcript p11 Ap 24 ’20 850w + Cath World 112:116 O ’20 370w + Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 200w
“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear, expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in books about the war.”
+ Review 2:464 My 1 ’20 460w R of Rs 61:445 Ap ’20 170w
RAMSAY, ROBERT E. Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659
20–2516
A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title) Chapter one describes a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part 2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.” There is an index.
“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”
+ Booklist 16:228 Ap ’20
“His style is easy and readable.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”
+ N Y Times 25:296 Je 6 ’20 160w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p585 S 9 ’20 220w
RAPEER, LOUIS WIN, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner 379.17
20–4557
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and contains articles by leading specialists and successful workers in this field. Its object is to elucidate the general aim of the consolidated school: social efficiency, with its subordinate aims of vital, vocational, avocational, civic, moral efficiency. It shows how the new method fosters cooperation, and socialization, how children may be physically and mentally changed by suitable methods and how the consolidated school can furnish opportunity for a school farm, homes for teachers and a community centre. The first chapter, National and rural consolidation, and many of the subsequent chapters are by the editor, Louis W. Rapeer. Other chapters are: The American rural school, by Philander P. Claxton; Community organization and consolidation, by Warren H. Wilson; Rural economics and consolidation, by T. N. Carver; The growth of consolidation, and Transportation of pupils at public expense, by A. C. Monahan; A visit to a consolidated school, and The country girl and the consolidated school, by Katherine M. Cook; Methods and facts of consolidation, by W. S. Fogarty; The difficulties of consolidation, by L. J. Hanifan. The book is indexed and has a bibliography.
+ Booklist 17:14 O ’20
“The book is to be commended on its attempt to use the problem approach to the various topics.”
+ El School J 21:231 N ’20 450w School R 28:796 D ’20 240w
RASHDALL, HASTINGS. Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Bampton lectures, 1915) *$5.50 Macmillan 232.3
20–9571
“Mr Rashdall traces the history of the doctrine of the atonement down from its pre-Christian origins through the New Testament, and then by way of the Apostolic fathers, the Latin theology, the Schoolmen, and the Reformers down to modern times. His main interest lies in the controversy between the subjective and the objective types of atonement doctrines.”—Nation
− Ath p412 Mr 26 ’20 420w
“Even so competent and scholarly a discussion as this of Mr Rashdall’s carries with it a suggestion of belonging to a stage which we have left behind us. Those who are acquainted with Mr Rashdall’s work will find the sincerity and thoroughness of discussion which they have learned to expect from him.” R: Roberts
+ − Nation 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w
“This is one of the most important theological works that have appeared for more than a generation. Its quality is scientific.”
+ Spec 124:311 Mr 6 ’20 1750w
“It is probably the most important constructive treatise on systematic theology which has been published by an English divine during the present century. Parts of it will be found difficult by readers who are not experts in theology, for it deals with problems of great complexity. But it is both subtle and lucid; it is a unity and not patchwork; and, as compared with the reticence of some fairly recent work, it is remarkably outspoken.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p250 Ap 22 ’20 1550w
RASKIN, PHILIP M. Songs and dreams. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
20–9428
In a foreword the author tells something of the conditions under which his poems have been written. He learned English after the age of nineteen, published his first book of verse in English, with an introduction by Israel Zangwill, in London in 1914, and has since come to New York where he now makes his home. The poems are in five groups: Love and longing; Autumn flowers; Echoes of exile; Chequered shadow; The dawn of a nation. Some of the poems in the third group, such as To free Russia (1917), The Torah and “No news” are racial in theme, but the one purely Jewish section of the book is the concluding one, devoted to the Zionist ideal.
“Despite Israel Zangwill’s opinion that ‘the best of Mr Raskin’s poems might have been written by Robert Browning,’ there is much in them that is merely ‘pretty work’—though the same thing might be said, heaven knows, of the famous Victorian poet. In fact, the first of this volume, dealing, as it does, with love, is fairly puerile. But toward the end of the volume we happen upon a collection of poems entitled ‘The dawn of a nation’ which contains one or two verses worth while. The one poem which makes the collection notable is that called ‘After the British declaration.’”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ’20 380w
RAVEN, CHARLES E. Christian socialism, 1848–1854. *$6.50 Macmillan 335.7
“This work is based on the Donellan lectures delivered by the author, who is dean of Emmanuel college, Cambridge, at Trinity college, Dublin, in May, 1919. It traces the ‘Christian socialist’ movement from its origin in the reaction against the ‘laissez faire’ principles of the early 19th century to the apparent failure of the effects of Maurice, Neale and Ludlow in 1853, after the passing of Slaney’s act, which gave recognition to the cooperative movement. The concluding chapter deals with the ‘Foundation of the working men’s college’ after the breakdown of the earlier hopes of the Christian socialists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The volume as a whole is a genuine contribution to English economic history and will doubtless be received as such. Mr Raven would have been a little more convincing in some parts if he had been less profuse in praising his heroes and at the same time had shown more charity for Mrs Sidney Webb and other critics of the Christian Socialists.”
+ Nation 112:sup247 F 9 ’21 410w
“Mr Raven’s contribution to the history of economics is valuable, and has obviously entailed much research. But he does not go deeply enough into the philosophic and historic interrelation of things, such as the relation of socialism to liberalism, or to anarchism, or to naturalism and supernaturalism.”
+ − Sat R 130:397 N 13 ’20 1700w + − Spec 125:405 S 25 ’20 1300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p538 Ag 19 ’20 100w
“Mr Raven has found a good subject for a book and has studied it industriously. The best part of his book is his account of the men who made the movement, especially of Ludlow, a man far less known than he deserves to be. But it is a pity that he tries to exalt his heroes by depreciating every one else.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p594 S 16 ’20 2100w
RAYMOND, E. T. All and sundry. *$2.25 (3½c) Holt 920
(Eng ed 20–6135)
The book consists of a collection of striking pen pictures of prominent contemporaries in politics and letters, as seen through a brilliant and witty man’s eyes. The author’s avowed object is to show the “accredited hero,” as he really is and not in the effulgence of a halo. Among the sketches are: President Wilson; Georges Clemenceau; John Burns; G. K. Chesterton; Sir Eric Geddes; Dean Inge; Rudyard Kipling; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Smillie; Harold Begbie; Lord Robert Cecil.
Ath p31 Ja 2 ’20 60w + Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − Bookm 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“He is particularly good in his vivid sketches of John Burns, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Smillie, and Lord Robert Cecil.”
+ Freeman 1:382 Je 30 ’20 150w
“The inside analyst should be in a class by himself, and generally is. Mr Raymond demonstrated that he was one of the leaders of that class in ‘Uncensored celebrities,’ and ‘All and sundry’ is merely the second volume.”
+ N Y Times p16 S 12 ’20 2200w
“His second volume of character sketches is a worthy companion of his first. No one will maintain that the portraits are all equally successful, that all are speaking likenesses.” Archibald MacMechan
+ Review 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 1450w
“Entertaining and chatty essays.”
+ R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 50w + Springf’d Republican p8 O 4 ’19 130w
“A mind full of ideas and a flowing pen are as exhilarating a combination as a wet sheet and a flowing sea. But they tend to run away with one. ‘All and sundry’ does—or do—not escape this danger. Nor does it altogether escape the contagion of war-time opinion. But it is a refreshing volume.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 1100w
“No man can seriously pretend that he is able to write with equal authority on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, the Bishop of London, Mr Hilaire Belloc, Sir Thomas Beecham, and Mr Frank Brangwyn—to take only a few names at random. Another unfortunate thing for Mr Raymond is that in his ‘Uncensored celebrities’ he had picked out the largest plums. However, even here Mr Raymond has his effective flashes, for he is a clever draughtsman with the pen, especially upon political subjects. There is real humour, as well as observation.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p729 D 11 ’19 950w
RAYMOND, E. T. Life of Arthur James Balfour. il *$3 Little
20–20922
“Most distinct as an individual, Mr Arthur James Balfour belongs to an easily recognisable type, represented both in England and France by a number of statesmen who owe their fame less to any specific performance than to the impression created by their intellectual brilliance.... He has always been credited with an indefinable superiority over his performances. They have been notable; but it is vaguely felt that the man is more notable still; in the midst of his greatest failures he was more interesting than other men in their most triumphant success. With others the “might-have-been” is a reproach: with men like Mr Balfour it is a tribute: they please in disappointing.” (Chapter I) The book is indexed.
“Wit, irony, detachment—these a writer must have if he is to ‘do’ Mr Balfour, and Mr Raymond has them. Why then does he leave us unsatisfied? At bottom, we think, because he does not bring the philosopher and the politician into any real relation.” S. W.
+ − Ath p808 D 10 ’20 1050w + Booklist 17:153 Ja ’21
“His book is not ‘A life’ in any vital sense; it being a mere enlargement of a ‘Who’s who’ entry, with a few comments and quotations thrown in. There are, to be sure, some bright and witty things in the book.” F. P. H.
− + N Y Call p8 Ja 9 ’21 520w
“Concise and serviceable biography.”
+ R of Rs 63:110 Ja ’21 110w
“Mr ‘Raymond’s’ biography of Mr Balfour is an entertaining book. He states the facts fairly, and his comments are lively and on the whole sympathetic. But the author is obviously conscious of difficulties.”
+ Spec 125:856 D 25 ’20 780w
“He has not, in spite of the claim put forward in the title, produced what is commonly understood by a biography. The study is, in the first place, limited to a single aspect of Mr Balfour’s many-sided personality, and, in the second place, objective; but to say that is, by no means, to deny that it is worth reading. Within its limitations, it is brilliantly clever.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p727 N 11 ’20 900w
RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING.[[2]] Ethics and natural law. *$2 Putnam 171
20–11578
“Intuitionalism is restated and made to account for all our ethical judgments. Conscience is asserted to be the basis of obligation, and the whole ethical problem is treated on psychological basis, as a conflict of the desires of the mind and of the body. All the particular problems treated, among them courtship and marriage, social pleasures, commercial and business relations, government, are solved by the exhortation to keep the mind’s desires uppermost.”—Springf’d Republican
Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 140w
“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge of the history of ethical thought by reading the book, especially the first twelve chapters.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p862 D 16 ’20 440w
READE, WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT. Revolt of labour against civilization. *$1 (*3s) Longmans 331
(Eng ed 20–9138)
“The author’s main thesis we shall best summarize in his own words:—‘Progress in civilization does always and everywhere manifest the working of a single and fundamental law—the greater the necessity of things, the smaller their importance.’ To pass on to the application of his thesis to the present situation, we find him in whole-hearted opposition to the ideal, as he conceives it, of Bolshevism, and the labour movement in general. In this he detects the main and imminent danger to civilization. The conflict between the Allies and the Germans was, he holds, of comparatively minor importance, not because he defends or justifies our enemies, but because he discovers no plain or clear-cut conflict of principle. The real danger he descries in the attempt, on the part of the so-called working-class, to evade or reverse his fundamental law of civilization, to make the satisfaction of the most primitive needs the only social activity of any value or deserving of any reward.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p1410 D 26 ’19 100w
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
Nation 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w
“Mr Reade has no specific remedy to propose: that indeed is a merit of his essay, which is intended to make the reader think furiously, and which achieves its purpose.”
+ Spec 123:735 N 29 ’19 200w Survey 43:782 Mr 20 ’20 180w The Times [London] Lit Sup p679 N 20 ’19 300w
“Mr Reade’s book is one that provokes to disagreement; but for all that, perhaps even because of it, it demands to be read. After all, mere assent or dissent matters little compared with the pleasure to be derived from contact with so vigorous and sincere an intellect, and though we may traverse every one of his conclusions, it is with the sense that Mr Reade is, at least in spirit, on the side of the angels.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p728 D 11 ’19 1350w
READE, WINWOOD. Martyrdom of man; with an introd. by F. Legge. *$2.50 Dutton 909
“This book was published in 1872. Its author’s first intention was to write on the part which Africa had played in the world’s story. But the conception grew under his hands until it became a full-fledged philosophy of history. His guiding principle of explanation is given in the last pages of the book. ‘I give to universal history a strange but true title—“The martyrdom of man.” In each generation the human race has been tortured that their children might profit by their woes.’ The successive stages in this painful upward struggle he designates as war, religion, liberty, and intellect, and to each of them he devotes a section of his book. But another stage is yet to be traversed: we must in the interests of right thinking rid ourselves forever of anthropomorphic religion. It was mainly owing to Reade’s attack on Christianity that his book was passed over in disdainful silence by so many. ‘The martyrdom of man’ has now reached its twenty-first edition.”—Review
“Everything is made simple and clear with a few bold strokes, and the multiplicity of the trees never obscures the woods. The lively style is an added stimulus to the reader, for the author possessed an undeniable talent for direct and forcible statement. When he becomes enthusiastic in his narrative he can revivify the past as tellingly as Macaulay, whom he resembles also in the crispness of his sentences.” W. K. Stewart
+ Review 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1000w 550w Springf’d Republican p10 Mr 19 ’20
RECOULY, RAYMOND. Foch: the winner of the war. *$3 (4½c) Scribner
20–3252
This volume has been translated from the French by Mary Cadwalader Jones. The author has been closely associated with Marshal Foch as a brother-in-arms and in his estimation the co-ordinated military talent in the Allied leaders found its highest expression “in the keen intelligence and strategic genius of their generalissimo—Foch.” The account of Foch’s career in the great war is preceded by a short description of his family and earlier life. Contents: Some glimpses of Foch; His family and his career; His lectures at the Ecole de guerre; In command of the twentieth army corps; At the head of the ninth army; The pursuit and the check; The battle of Flanders; The French offensive of 1915; Verdun; The Somme; A visit to Foch; The change of command; Foch, generalissimo; The widening battle; Illustrations, maps, index.
“While Captain Recouly’s is not a very inspiring study of one of the few men of undoubted military genius in the late war, it does help the reader to some understanding of the man and to make clearer to him the battles fought by Foch.”
+ − Ath p273 Ag 27 ’20 230w Booklist 16:241 Ap ’20 + Springf’d Republican p8 Je 4 ’20 450w
REED, EARL H.[[2]] Tales of a vanishing river. il *$3 (5c) Lane
20–22228
The river was the Kankakee, near the southern end of Lake Michigan, and once the main confluent of the Illinois. Once it lapped its leisurely course with many ramifications through low marsh lands, teeming with natural beauty and bird life, the home of the Miami and Pottowattomie Indians. Now the Indians and the beauty and the birds are gone and a mighty ditch of straight-channelled course has drained away the marshes. The book is an attempt at the interpretation of the life along the river that has vanished and is illustrated with sketches by the author. The contents are: The vanishing river; The silver arrow; The brass bound box; The “Wether book” of Buck Granger’s grandfather; Tipton Posey’s store; Muskrat Hyatt’s redemption; The turkey club; The predicaments of Colonel Peets; His unlucky star.
“All have a rich flavor of newness, of freshness, of originality.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 15 ’21 620w
“When you establish yourself in front of a wood fire in an easy chair with an hour or two of leisure to look forward to, an excellent book to have at hand is ‘Tales of a vanishing river.’”
+ Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 100w
“Mr Reed writes with a queer, mellow philosophy and humor and in a gently meandering style which seems to recapture something of the slow, placid course of the river whose loss he mourns.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 Ja 8 ’21 230w
“They are invariably quaint and whimsical. Perhaps the most diverting is ‘The “wether book” of Buck Granger’s grandfather.’ Like the companion volume on the dunes of Lake Michigan, this work is rather unusual in character and invariably entertaining.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 27 ’20 420w
REES, ARTHUR JOHN. Hand in the dark. *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–13345
A house party at an English country home is going on. The guests are at dinner when they are startled by a woman’s shriek of horror, followed by the report of a pistol. They flock upstairs, to find Mrs Heredith, a bride of three months, the victim of murder. The police start investigations which result in the arrest of Hazel Rath, the daughter of the housekeeper. Altho she pleads innocence there are many suspicious things in her conduct which she refuses to explain. Philip Heredith, husband of the murdered girl, does not believe her guilty, and hires a private detective, who suspects Captain Nepcote, a house guest at the time of the murder. Then, from an unexpected quarter, comes a clue to the actual criminal, who had planned his crime with such diabolical skill and cunning, aided by chance, that it was only by as strange a chance that he was ever discovered.
“A detective story above the average, though to some readers it will seem too long drawn out and to others too tragic.”
+ Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
“The details are rather gruesome, but the plot is one of the best of the year.”
+ Cleveland p107 D ’20 40w
“Mr Rees has set before the reader a mystery whose blind and baffling qualities are likely to puzzle and lead astray the most astute and skillful of lovers of detective fiction. For the author writes well, with a good, forceful, interesting style, makes graphic and pleasing pictures of his background, and puts vitality and individuality into the delineation of his characters.”
+ N Y Times 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 620w
“The book is better written than the average crime tale.”
+ Outlook 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 50w
“In this detective story the murderer is really ingenious, and will not easily be discovered. Mr Rees has spent too much time at the beginning in picturing old-world details, and elsewhere by being ‘literary’ he delays the action of the story which is everything in a tale of this sort.”
+ − Sat R 130:525 D 25 ’20 130w
“Mr Rees spins us with deft entanglements another of his first-class mystery yarns.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p781 N 25 ’20 80w
REES, BYRON JOHNSON, ed. Modern American prose selections. $1 (1c) Harcourt 810.8
20–10539
A selection of some twenty examples of modern American prose. The compiler’s aim has been to bring together examples of “typical contemporary prose, in which writers who know whereof they write discuss certain present-day themes in readable fashion.” Among the selections are: Abraham Lincoln, by Theodore Roosevelt; American tradition, by Franklin K. Lane; Our future immigration policy, by Frederic C. Howe; A new relationship between capital and labor, by John D. Rockefeller, jr.; My uncle, by Alvin Johnson; When a man comes to himself, by Woodrow Wilson; The education of Henry Adams, by Carl Becker; The struggle for an education, by Booker T. Washington; Traveling afoot, by John Finley; Old boats, by Walter Prichard Eaton.
Booklist 17:147 Ja ’21
REID, FORREST. Pirates of the spring. *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–26325
The story is of a boy, Beach Traill, not clever at books, but of unusual integrity of character, and of his friends. They are all at the same school, three of them, and a fourth has recently been added as a sort of disturbing element. This fourth is Evans, a handsome, intellectual, timid lad, a bit off-caste socially, and somewhat lacking in manly spirit and upstanding courage. Troubles come, partly through bad influence, partly through irrepressible animal spirits, but the boys’ uprightness finds a way out. Beach wins out with his widowed mother and against a suitor of hers whom he detests. Beach and Miles fight it out in fierce battle which rivets their friendship. Palmer, the most clever, subtle and daring of the three, holds his own through his strong sense of justice, and it is in him that Beach eventually discovers, with an exuberant sense of happiness, his real friend.
Ath p338 Mr 12 ’20 500w
“There is no climax in the story, but only the flow of everyday happenings, no progress but the development of the boys’ characters; and the whole is told in a narrative of quiet beauty.”
+ Booklist 16:246 Ap ’20
“Lovers of boys will appreciate the sympathetic understanding of Mr Reid’s portraying. The story gives added pleasure in its descriptions of the countryside and is altogether an artistic delight.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 360w
“The narrative is of a singular though very quiet beauty—a beauty gained partly by the writer’s marvellous closeness to his subject, partly by his cool tenderness, partly by his sense of the almost pagan interpenetration of nature and the lives of his characters.”
+ Nation 110:305 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“‘Pirates of the spring’ is less a story than a study of character development during the troubled and turbulent years of adolescence, a study handled delicately and sympathetically; with much subtlety and many deft touches of humor. It is of course admirably written.”
+ N Y Times 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 400w Review 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 500w + Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“One thinks of this book with Richard Pryce’s ‘Christopher,’ Hugh Walpole’s ‘Jeremy’ and E. F. Benson’s ‘David Blaize.’ But discriminating taste will accord a higher degree of artistry to Mr Reid’s work than to the efforts of these able delineators of adolescent boyhood. The mentality and philosophy of boyhood are an open book to Mr Reid.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 600w
“The boys are boys, and not merely the mouthpieces of ideas.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p173 Mr 11 ’20 220w
REIK, HENRY OTTRIDGE.[[2]] Tour of America’s national parks. il *$4 Dutton 711
20–18059
“Colonel Reik’s book brings out the distinctive features of the greatest of these western parks. He shows that no two of them are alike, that each is worth seeing on its own account. While he has not attempted to write a guide book in the ordinary sense of the term, his chapters contain much of the kind of information that is sought in guide books and that will be found indispensable to anyone attempting a tour of the parks for the first time.”—R of Rs
+ N Y Evening Post p30 O 23 ’20 270w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p9 Ja 9 ’21 100w + R of Rs 62:672 D ’20 160w
REPINGTON, CHARLES À COURT. First world war, 1914–1918. 2v *$12 Houghton 940.48
20–22246
“Colonel Repington in two stout volumes has recorded his ‘personal experience’ of the great war, and in so doing has given to the public the first of the great books of the war that is not simply military, political or diplomatic, but a combination of each that is focused on the personal activity and relationship of a single individual who was behind the scenes and in touch with almost every phase of the war. These pages of personal experiences during the war are a ‘contribution towards the elucidation of the truth so far as I was able to ascertain it at the time, and will, I hope, enable many to understand better the events of these memorable years,’ Colonel Repington declares. They are given from his diaries as he scrupulously kept them, recording the most trivial incidents innocently tucked away in some social engagement of chance meeting of soldiers, statesmen, journalists, or comments of the larger events which followed each other with such amazing rapidity.”—Boston Transcript
“Colonel Repington is, in fact, so simple that we cannot take any interest in him. His views on the war, in any important sense, are negligible. The only portions of his diary of any interest are his items of political and military information and the light he throws on prominent personages connected with the war. For the rest, and except when his professional interests are awakened and he gives lists of troops and ‘wastage’ figures, the whole diary is at the gossip level.”
− + Ath p436 O 1 ’20 1250w Booklist 17:149 Ja ’21 + Boston Transcript p4 O 20 ’20 1150w
“Colonel Repington moves between a bloodbath and a stale spittoon, and is apparently prouder of dipping his pen in the latter than in the former.” Shane Leslie
− Dial 59:64 D ’20 1050w
“The book is a curiosity. We have not been able to find in it the slightest evidence that Col. Repington, viewing the supreme tragedy of secular history, was even remotely aware of its human implications. He could observe a world convulsed, and report upon it without compassion, without gravity, without understanding.” Lawrence Gilman
− Freeman 2:499 F 2 ’21 1800w
“As a diarist he is intimate and unaffected and racy and explicit like Pepys, and he is almost as disconcertingly complete.”
+ Nation 111:786 D 29 ’20 320w
“The self-assurance of Colonel Repington is to be noted. It is to that self-assurance, plus his vanity, that we owe this monumental book. But if we do not get too weary of his ‘practically no English articles are read and discussed except mine,’ we may find illumination—most of it unintentional—in his accounts of his work running to and fro between the generals, the politicians and the press.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 24:274 N 10 ’20 3500w
“He has produced an extraordinarily interesting gossip-book which will doubtless be widely read and extensively commented upon. It is apparent from the briefest characterization of this amazing book that it is on the delineation of society in the war that the readers will linger longest. It is one long indiscretion.” W. C. Abbott
− + N Y Evening Post p2 N 27 ’20 1350w
“To an American reader the chief criticism to be made of all these accounts of luncheons, dinners and concerts in the company of the rich and fashionable is that they are intolerably wearisome. Colonel Repington continually speaks of the play of wit in these high circles, but gives very few examples of it.”
+ − N Y Times p1 O 24 ’20 2400w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:376 O 27 ’20 340w
“In short, his tendency to take his hostesses overseriously, apart from some waste of space, does little to impair the value of an enlightening book. His taste may be a bit at fault but rarely his judgment.”
+ Review 3:559 D 8 ’20 800w
“This is the best book on the war that has appeared, and we hope it is the last. Everybody is sick of the war, its horrors and its squabbles, and wants to forget it. The excellence of the book consists in its twofold claim on our attention. There is the exhaustive criticism of the conduct of the war by a military expert of European reputation: and there is the picture of manners in that section of society ruled by American women, drawn by one who lived in its favour.”
+ Sat R 130:260 S 25 ’20 1450w
“Go into a shady part of the garden, or better still, into a damp shrubbery and lift up some big flat stone. Underneath you will find a quantity of crawling creatures, disturbed by the light so suddenly let in upon them.... Such a garden adventure recurs irresistibly to the mind as one reads Colonel Repington’s diary of the war years.... As to the enlightenment which his book should bring in regard to the way in which public affairs are too often handled, as to the advantages of the lessons to be learnt, and finally as to the value of this first step in the reform which comes with knowledge, we have no doubt whatever.”
+ Spec 125:434 O 2 ’20 2900w
REPPLIER, AGNES. Points of friction. *$1.75 (4c) Houghton 814
20–19680
Essays reprinted from periodicals. Six have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, two in the Century, one in the Yale Review and one in the Nation. Contents: Living in history; Dead authors; Consolations of the conservative; The cheerful clan; The beloved sinner; The virtuous Victorian; Woman enthroned; The strayed prohibitionist; Money; Cruelty and humour.
“Keen and original, upholding recognized standards.”
+ Booklist 17:106 D ’20
“I find myself liking best the essay on ‘Dead authors,’ because it gives us more of the humor we have come to look for in Miss Repplier’s presentment of human error. But I confess myself at a disadvantage in dealing with her: I have almost never found myself failing to agree with her on any essential point, and my appreciation is apt to take the form of gratitude for the distinguished expression of what would seem to civilized people to be obvious.” K. F. Gerould
+ Bookm 52:265 N ’20 290w
“Miss Repplier upholds many wholesome truths which in these days seem in danger of oblivion, and her ironic shaft pierces many a sham notion high in popular esteem. The noble art of the essay suffers at her hands neither diminution nor dishonor. ‘Points of friction’ is a stimulating and eminently readable book.”
+ Cath World 112:386 D ’20 680w
“A halfscore of the delightfully keen-witted and observant papers which Miss Repplier is kind enough to write from time to time for the enjoyment of appreciative readers. They are always welcome and invariably worth while.”
+ Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
“It would not be amiss to call Miss Repplier the Chesterton of America. Both are Tories of a sort, lovers of the good things mankind has found by long toil and is now so childishly anxious to discard.”
+ Review 3:563 D 8 ’20 400w
“Miss Repplier’s essays are sound in workmanship and sound but not granitic in thought. Not often does finished and pungent phrasing serve merely as a covering for thin or tawdry ideas. Usually there is an edge to the thought, and it will be found suggestive to those who may not accept all its implications.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 10 ’21 680w
REW, SIR ROBERT HENRY. Food supplies in peace and war. *$2.25 (*6s 6d) Longmans 338
20–4724
“In this essay, Sir Henry Rew considers briefly the world’s supply and demand and the extent to which the United Kingdom met its own demands for food before and during the war, and then discusses the outlook now that the war is ended.... [He concludes] that the cries of ‘Famine!’ are wide of the mark, inasmuch as nature, upon which the recovery of agriculture mainly depends, never goes on strike. He thinks that after the harvest of 1921 Europe will be producing as much food as before. He evidently believes that the Germans are deliberately exaggerating their troubles. He defines the British nation’s interest in agriculture as two-fold—to secure the maximum quantity of food, and to maintain the maximum number of persons on the land. He points out that insurance against famine caused by war implies not only a large wheat crop, but also a large stock of cattle, since milk and fat are as necessary as bread. He concludes with a reminder of the importance of the human factor in agriculture and the necessity for a life of wider scope and variety in the villages.”—Spec
“A very sane and reasonable discussion of the food problem.” T. N. Carver
+ Am Econ R 10:590 S ’20 260w
“It is written in popular style and in this lies its real value.”
+ Ann Am Acad 90:173 Jl ’20 80w
“This book is not very big, but it is full of information and of sagacious comments on the facts set out for the reader’s benefit.”
+ Ath p428 Mr 26 ’20 160w
“Sir Henry Rew has the happy and unusual faculty of making statistics interesting. The book was badly needed, for it is highly important that the average man should realise the facts.” E. J. Russell
+ Nature 105:320 My 13 ’20 950w + Spec 124:464 Ap 3 ’20 250w
“The book is stimulating, authoritative and well worth reading.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:309 My 29 ’20 440w
REYMONT, WLADYSLAW STANISLAW.[[2]] Comédienne. *$2 (2c) Putnam
20–20943
The story is translated from the Polish by Edmund Obecny and relates the fate of a young actress. Janina Orlowski is driven from home by an insanely tyrannical father, whose choice of a husband she has refused. Her ambition is to become an actress and she goes to Warsaw and is taken on by a third-rate company. Her experiences there are a series of disillusionments, the actors she meets are not interested in art but are a sordid, coarse lot. She falls into dire poverty and on the verge of starvation and about to become a mother, she commits suicide.
“It is almost inconceivable that the novel has lost anything in translating, so delightfully lyric are the descriptions of the Polish countryside, so poignant the characterization, so diverting the dialogue.” W. T. R.
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 4 ’20 770w
REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS). Also Ran. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–19180
Jacynth Pennant had spent her early life away from her home, having been adopted as a baby by an aunt. When she returned to it as a young lady, she found an air of mystery enveloping everything. Her father, though affectionate, was unhappy and worried. The neighborhood had not ceased talking about the murder of Guy Warristoun some time before. His brother Ranulf was suspected of the murder, but acquitted upon the testimony of a chauffeur. Ran subsequently disappeared and had not been heard of since. Shortly after Jacynth’s return, he unexpectedly put in his appearance once more. When he persuaded Jacynth to marry him after a short acquaintance, her impelling motive of acceptance was that her father was under heavy obligations to him. He explained as his reason for asking her that he wanted to put it out of her power to marry his cousin Hector, a worthless fellow with whom she was half in love, and to whom, though his lawful heir, he did not wish to leave his property. His one biggest reason he did not give—he was in love with her. How she came to realize this, after doubt and heartache for both is the culmination of the story, and in the process of its development is revealed the true explanation of Guy’s death and the chauffeur’s part in it.
“Though not always convincing the story is wholesome and ingenious and will interest men or women.”
+ Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
“The tale, although not very convincing and one in which it would be easy to pick holes, is ingenious and interesting.”
+ − N Y Times p25 O 3 ’20 400w
“The author makes a fairly interesting book with a happy ending to this rather hackneyed theme.”
+ − Spec 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w
REYNOLDS, MYRA. Learned lady in England, 1650–1760. il *$2.25 Houghton 396
20–26551
The book is one of the Vassar semi-centennial series, published in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar college. Although it is specifically limited to the learned women in England in the period between 1650 and 1760, the first chapter is devoted to those before 1650, beginning with Juliana Barnes, who, although a nun, wrote a book on “hunting, hawking and fishing” in 1481. The outcome of the research is that in all ages “there have been individual women who by force of native endowment and through some favorable conjunction of circumstances, have risen into prominence in realms not ordinarily open to the women of their time,” but they have been isolated cases and “what was actually accomplished in the century before 1760 was a lavish sowing of seed, a steady infiltration of new ideas, a breaking up of old certainties as to woman’s place in domestic and civic life, and an accumulation of examples proving women capable of the most varied intellectual aptitudes and energies.” Contents: Learned ladies in England before 1650; Learned ladies in England from 1650–1670; Education; Miscellaneous books on women in social and intellectual life; Satiric representations of the learned lady in comedy; Summary; Bibliography; Index; and illustrations.
+ Booklist 16:331 Jl ’20
“It is an interesting and original piece of work and covers ground that has hardly been touched before.” Martha Plaisted
+ Bookm 51:689 Ag ’20 300w
Reviewed by C. M. Rourke
Freeman 2:68 S 29 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
Nation 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 800w
“Years of research must have been devoted to gathering materials for this illuminating treatise. The presentation is clear and orderly; nor is it anywhere swamped by the multitudinous and clear-cut detail.”
+ Review 4:18 Ja 5 ’21 400w
RHEAD, GEORGE WOOLLISCROFT. Earth- (5c) Dodd 738
(Eng ed 20–8046)
The author of this volume, we are told by H. W. Lewer in the foreword is a practical potter and, moreover, an artist and art examiner in pottery to the board of education. With his help, therefore, it is hoped that the collector will be enabled to discriminate between well authenticated examples and worthless specimens and probably forgeries. “The book covers the whole story of British earthenwares from those of the Slip and Salt glazed period, now more and more sought after, to the less coveted but still interesting specimens of the early nineteenth century.... The illustrations include many rare examples from well-known collections.” (Author’s preface) Among the contents are: Early British, mediæval and sixteenth century wares; Slip wares; English Delft wares; Wedgwood; Contemporaries and followers of Wedgwood; Lustred wares; The makers of image toys and chimney ornaments; Glossary of terms; Bibliography; Index.
“The subject of Mr Woolliscroft Rhead’s work is so enormous that we can hardly complain of inadequate treatment, but it is less well written than Mr Young’s [‘The silver and Sheffield plate collector’] and less likely to be useful. His spelling and phraseology are also sometimes at fault. It is further extremely inconvenient that the plates are not numbered, which makes reference to them a complicated matter.”
+ − Sat R 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w
“Mr Rhead, as an artist and a potter, writes of a subject which he knows, and young collectors will find some useful hints in his pages.”
+ Spec 123:698 N 22 ’19 120w
RHEAD, LOUIS JOHN. Fisherman’s lures and game-fish food. il *$4 (7c) Scribner 799
20–9836
A book intended as a companion volume to the author’s “Trout stream insects,” and like that work illustrated with pictures in color painted from living specimens. The author states: “This book has a two-fold object. First: to multiply largely all species of game-fish for the people’s use by a new method and a logical system of ‘feeding’ that will more rapidly attain a better result in the conservation of American fresh-water game-fishes.... Second: to vastly improve present angling conditions by introducing a new and entirely superior style of fishing with artificial nature lures in place of the live bait that is now being employed in ever-increasing quantities.” (Preface) The illustrations include pictures of live creatures that fish eat and of artificial nature lures; also chart plans to show feeding places. The book is indexed.
“Mr Rhead’s new volume is commended to Outlook anglers as a book which deserves a place in every library beside the writings of George La Branche and Dr Henshall.” H. T. Pulsifer
+ Outlook 125:614 Ag 4 ’20 2300w + Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 2 ’20 250w
RHOADES, CORNELIA HARSEN (NINA RHOADES). Four girls of forty years ago. (Brickhouse books) il *$1.50 (2½c) Lothrop
20–20005
A story for girls picturing the social life of New York in 1880. The four girls, Dulcie, Daisy, Maud and Mollie, live in an old house near Washington Square and spend their summers on the Hudson river at Tarrytown. They live with a stepgrandmother who enforces the rule that children should be seen and not heard, but there is an Uncle Stephen who comes from California and takes them to see “The pirates of Penzance,” and they have other good times. The news that their father is coming home from China bringing a stepmother fills them with consternation, but the dreaded stepmother proves to be their loved friend Miss Leslie and every one is left happy at the close.
RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD. American towns and people. il *$3.50 (6c) McBride 917.3
20–20209
Papers that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, touching lightly and with humor on the external aspects of certain American cities. There are six essays of this character: Why is a Bostonian? Who is a Philadelphian? What is a New Yorker? The portrait of Chicago; Washington, the cosmopolitan; Baltimore; and one other, Is there a West? devoted to California. To these are added: The hotel guest; The high kingdom of the movies; The American child; The society woman.
“Although there are serious moments and some penetrating analyses, the sketches are on the whole light and entertaining, not thorough studies.”
+ Booklist 17:151 Ja ’21
“Never is Mr Rhodes dull, never does brilliancy become an obsession with him, but his writings on American days and ways are of decided value.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p3 D 11 ’20 360w
“‘American towns and people’ has its classic prototype in Henry James’s ‘The American scene,’ but it is a version highly journalized and simplified, intended not so much to interpret as to amuse. In this doubtless quite as important capacity, it for the most part succeeds admirably, only at times seeming a little fatuous, a little too effusive, a bit bland perhaps.”
+ − Dial 70:231 F ’21 50w
“Generally speaking, Mr Rhodes only sees about one-third of his subject. He sees the Four hundred, but not what O. Henry called the Four million. The book is a credit to its publishers, and is beautifully illustrated. If it is one-sided or no-sided, it is at any rate written in a swift, bright style, illuminated by a keen sense of the comic.”
+ − N Y Times p8 D 5 ’20 1600w
“The unusually discriminating comment of this book is matched by exceptionally good pictures.”
+ Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 30w + R of Rs 63:112 Ja ’21 50w
“To have discovered the individuality of some of our American cities and to have in so many little things shown exactly in what it consists, is no small achievement. So much for the social student’s appreciation of this book. As a piece of descriptive writing, its excellence is likely to appeal to a much wider circle.” B. L.
+ Survey 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 260w
RHODES, HARRISON GARFIELD.[[2]] High life: and other stories. *$2 (3c) McBride
20–17527
High life, the first and longest story, is an amusing skit picturing life in a colony of exiled royalty in Switzerland. The other stories are: The little miracle at Tlemcar; Fair daughter of a fairer mother; The importance of being Mrs Cooper; The sad case of Quag; Springtime; Vive l’Amerique! They have been copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company, Collier’s, the Ridgway company, the Metropolitan and Harper’s.
“It is all told with much grace, cleverness and conversation, realism, and with a Daudetesque humor. Mr Rhodes is a cosmopolitan, and he understands the art of the short story; only in two or three passages is his manner of writing open to any censure.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p1 D 11 ’20 450w
RHODES, JAMES FORD. History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley, 1877–1896. *$2.75 Macmillan 973.8
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Mr Rhodes’s new eighth volume is not a fair continuation of his memorable five volumes on the Civil war, or even of the sixth and seventh in which he gave a partial picture of the next dozen years. Its abbreviated scale of treatment affects both contents and manner of presentation. Rarely do the related facts in this volume appear to have meaning or to be parts of a coherent structure.... Stopping short of McKinley’s inauguration, he fails to show the foundations of the silver movement and the Populist party, with the result that his picture of the second Cleveland term lacks its background. Yet he fails also to explain the emergence of the tariff issue and the identification of the Republican party with it, although these facts are vital to the period of his choice. Mr Rhodes has probably not broadened his historical repute by this volume, but he has not ceased to be sagacious along the lines of his experience and attainment.” F: L. Paxson
+ − − Am Hist R 25:525 Ap ’20 1050w
“The author’s impartiality is little short of miraculous. South and North can read him on the Civil war without great irritation.”
+ Ath p273 Ag 27 ’20 150w + Booklist 16:200 Mr ’20
“If the most recent volume of the ‘History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley, 1877–96’ is of less importance than those which preceded it, this is not due to any shortcomings on the part of the author. Dr Rhodes shows the same robust good sense, severe impartiality, and scrupulous accuracy which have secured him his position among American historians.” H. E. E.
+ Eng Hist R 35:476 Jl ’20 130w
“This volume is of the same general character as the preceding volumes and with one possible exception, deserves to rank with them. While the style is not brilliant, it affords easy, sometimes even attractive reading. Yet, for all that, the student of our recent history will close the book with disappointment, a disappointment due to the feeling that the author has failed to show a discriminating sense of proportion. On the topics discussed the author, in most cases, can hardly be said to have touched the bottom. The treatment of industrial unrest falls far below chapter IV of his earlier work, dealing with slavery.” D: Y. Thomas
+ − Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:84 Je ’20 600w
“It seems invidious to speak in any tone of disparagement of a work of Mr James Ford Rhodes, who has given us the classic interpretation of our history from the compromise of 1850 to the close of the reconstruction period. And yet competent judges must feel grieved that the ‘History of the United States from Hayes to McKinley’ is added, as an eighth volume, to the classic seven. It is as thin as the lean kine that followed the seven fat ones in Pharoah’s dream.”
− + Nation 110:805 Je 12 ’20 350w + Spec 124:624 My 8 ’20 250w
“He has industry and a judicial temperament which, though not always quite unbiassed in regard to individuals enables him to survey contemporary politics without evidence of partisanship. He has, moreover, a lucid narrative style and a happy gift of choosing apt and trenchant phrases. Not all his authorities are first-rate; but he uses them nimbly. It is very much to be regretted that a book which represents so much sound labour and has so much permanent value, in the assistance which it will be to all future writers on this period, should be so marred by petty faults.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p448 Jl 15 ’20 1500w
RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE), and RICE, CALE YOUNG. Turn about tales. il *$1.90 (8c) Century
20–16343
There are ten short stories in this book, five by Cale Young Rice, and five by his wife, Alice Hegan Rice, arranged alternately. Mrs Rice’s contribution includes Beulah; The nut; A partnership memory; Reprisal; and The hand on the sill; while Mr Rice’s are entitled Lowry; Francella; Archie’s relapse; Under new moons, and Aaron Harwood. Some of the stories have appeared in magazine form.
“This volume of stories should hold its own with any collection likely to be published this year. They cover a wide range of emotion, background, and subject, and are of high literary merit.”
+ N Y Evening Post p9 S 25 ’20 170w + Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 150w
RICHARDS, MRS CLARICE (ESTABROOK).[[2]] Tenderfoot bride. il *$1.50 Revell
20–21005
“A cultured eastern woman with a delight in new things and a sense of humor describes events on a Wyoming ranch.” (Booklist) “When the ‘tenderfoot bride’ arrived it was still a lawless, pioneer land, with cattle, cowboys, and desperadoes. Then came a pastoral age: sheep and Mexican herders, followed by the farmer. Her record covers but sixteen years, yet the earlier phases are as extinct as the Pharaohs. She has caught them all in passing, and portrayed them to the life.” (Bookm)
+ Booklist 17:118 D ’20
“She has given us more than a bit of current history, for one senses the writer’s personality,—a growth through the delights and trials of existence among elemental conditions to a broad vision of life and its responsibilities. Therein lies the rare charm of the book.”
+ Bookm 52:368 D ’20 140w
RICHARDS, CLAUDE. Man of tomorrow. new ed *$2 Crowell 174
“A discussion of vocational success with the boy of today.” (Sub-title) The author believes that there is special need of attention to vocational guidance today. “Following this great world war, civilization will take on an aspect of general reconstruction, and hence the man of the future will need an equipment that will fit him to take his place in a society with difficult problems to solve and big tasks to perform.” (Preface) The book is divided into seven parts: The need of vocational guidance; The importance of specializing; The need of a broad foundation; Choosing a vocation; Representative vocations; Avocations; General conditions of vocational success. An appendix contains a word to the counselor and there is an index. The author states that while the work is intended primarily for men there is little in it that does not apply equally to young women.
“An excellent vocational guide-book. Its tone is high and the little ethical teaching that it contains is safe and sound.”
+ Cath World 112:120 O ’20 220w
RICHARDS, GRANT.[[2]] Double life. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–18767
Olivia Pemberton was the wife of a semi-commercial, therefore fairly successful novelist. She was all that a wife and mother should be until her two children were away at school, when she became bored and restless. Half apathetically she accompanied her husband to Newmarket one day where he went in quest of racing atmosphere for a new novel. It ended with a tentative, very small and haphazard bet on one of the horses. From now on Olivia secretly takes to reading sporting papers and making greater and greater ventures, even ordering a trainer to buy and train a horse for her. She goes thru all the stages of the gambling fever, sometimes on the verge of a breakdown. Twice her horse wins and when she is dreaming of the triple crown at the Derby with honored publicity to herself, her trainer informs her that the horse is broken down and will race no more. But with her winnings and the sale of the horse, she is enabled to accompany her confession to her husband with a goodly sum of money and her complete renunciation of gambling.
“The technical details will be found interesting even by neophytes, and the whole produces that effect of coherence and facility proper to a practised pen.”
+ Ath p80 Jl 16 ’20 120w N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 120w
“The book will prove entertaining, but hardly more than that.”
+ − N Y Times p18 D 5 20 460w
“To put it bluntly, Mr Grant Richards is not an artist. ‘Double life’ has some power to please, partly because it conveys double the number of sensations enjoyed in the ordinary routine of life by that never realized type—the average, everyday person.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p401 Je 24 ’20 400w
RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE). Honor Bright. il *$1.65 (3c) Page
20–17823
The story of an American girl’s school days in Switzerland. Honor is an orphan and the Pension Madeleine is the only home she knows. She speaks in the quaint French-English of her teachers and is very happy with her school-girl companions. While on an expedition into the mountain, she slips and sprains her ankle and is kept a prisoner in an Alpine cottage for a time. It is a delightful experience and Honor thereafter dreams of spending her life in the Alps, making cheese and tending goats. But an unknown cousin from America comes to take her away to a new and strange world.
RICHARDSON, C. A. Spiritual pluralism and recent philosophy. *$4.50 Putnam 192
(Eng ed 20–7073)
“Mr Richardson, a disciple of Professor James Ward, sets himself the task of elaborating, on purely metaphysical lines, the case for the ‘spiritual’ and theistic pluralism which formed the basis of his master’s ‘Realm of ends: pluralism and theism.’ Incidentally he undertakes to answer the neo-realists in general and Mr Bertrand Russell in particular. He accepts Mr Russell’s conclusions as valid with limits, i.e., the limits of reality considered as objective. But, Mr Richardson urges, Mr Russell and his school, with all their ingenuity, do not account for the subjective reference, whereas spiritual pluralists can account for it without detriment to the positive results of the neo-realists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The book is written with great care and much subtlety. There is, however, a tendency to rely too much on arguments from concepts, without due inquiry into their meaning and source. In general, I think the book would gain cogency through a larger use of empirical material.” D. H. Parker
+ − J Philos 17:611 O 21 ’20 1100w Nature 105:773 Ag 19 ’20 70w
“To speak bluntly, Mr Richardson is excessively difficult reading, and some part of the fault lies with himself, and not with the subject. As a provisional guess, one would suggest that he has thought mainly about the general philosophic attributes of his universe, and has not sufficiently pondered, not only the position but the capacity and attributes of the individual who exists therein. This part of his work, it seems to us, he will not get right until he dips down more thoroughly into the grand question of consciousness.”
+ − Sat R 129:253 Mr 13 ’20 840w
“It is not easy to justify a pluralist metaphysic on intellectualist grounds, and one cannot help feeling that, as against Mr Russell on the one hand and Mr Bradley on the other, Mr Richardson is ‘playing the odd’ all the time. But he plays with spirit and no mean dialectic skill.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p15 Ja 8 ’20 580w
RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M. Interim. *$2 Knopf
20–9715
“Fifth in the long series of volumes published under the general title of ‘Pilgrimage,’ Miss Dorothy M. Richardson’s new novel, ‘Interim,’ continues the history of that young woman, Miriam Henderson. So closely connected with its predecessors as to be a part of them rather than a separate book, ‘Interim’ would probably be almost unintelligible to any one not possessed of a close acquaintance with the earlier books. When ‘The tunnel’ came to an end Miriam Henderson was apparently on the verge of leaving Mrs Bailey’s house, but we find her still living there when we meet her in ‘Interim,’ despite the coming of the boarders. Among these boarders there are several young physicians from Canada, and one of them, bearing the unattractive name of von Heber, supplies the suggestion of a plot, which is the only thing of the kind the book contains.”—N Y Times
“She leaves us feeling, as before, that everything being of equal importance to her, it is impossible that everything should not be of equal unimportance.” K. M.
− Ath p48 Ja 9 ’20 150w
“We prefer our novels as novels, and not following the technique of Chinese chess explained by a politician in yachting terminology. There are pages and pages of drivel, too.” C. W.
− N Y Call p11 S 12 ’20 250w
“From no point of view could ‘Interim’ be called easy reading, and a method of sometimes almost ignoring punctuation and printing dialogue in solid pages does not tend to make it any the easier.”
− N Y Times 25:320 Je 20 ’20 550w
“There lies the secret of Miriam’s appeal. Nothing seems to escape her. She is never dull or unaware; she never ceases to live and to respond to stimulus. And thus life, seen through her eyes and felt through her emotions, comes to be an exciting business, and the world an infinite stretch of inexhaustible delights.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p766 D 18 ’19 750w
RICHARDSON, NORVAL. Pagan fire. *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner
20–21002
Anne Rennell was quite contented and happy as the wife of an American politician in Washington. Franklin Rennell, too, was contented as United States senator. He took his work seriously and was of the eternal-boy sort of type, honest and plodding without intellectual brilliance. The first disturbance came when political intrigue put the flea into Anne’s ear that she was cut out for an ambassador’s wife in Rome. Rome it must be, henceforth. Anne feels that she has a right to her own life and happiness and that Franklin’s career must give way to it. In Rome she blossoms out, the romance of it enters her blood and with it an infatuation for Prince Cimino. The latter ends with a night with the Prince at his castle in the Campagna. After that Anne has something to live down, which, the reader trusts, she will be able to do with the aid and the sacrifice of two devoted friends.
“The most human and most logical character in the book is that of Senator Lelong. The story is pleasantly told in the slow analytical style of the English novel.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 N 27 ’20 290w
“While Norval Richardson’s well-written novel ‘Pagan fire’ is far from uninteresting as a story, the greater part of its claim on the reader’s attention is derived from its quite fascinating setting.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ja 2 ’21 460w
“The interest of the novel is derived less from the actual story than from the glorious settings of the drama.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
RICKARD, L. (MRS VICTOR RICKARD). Cathy Rossiter. *$1.75 (1c) Doran
20–772
Cathy Rossiter, by birth of the English aristocracy, was a modern woman who, without breaking her old ties, became interested in all sorts of progressive movements. Her personal charms make her a favorite in every circle from the aristocratic drawing room down to the half-starved strikers in Sabury road. Her most intimate friend is Dr Monica Henstock, a successful practitioner and her opposite in character and temperament. At her house she meets John Lorrimer who is about to propose to Monica when Cathy’s beauty and personality intrigue and side-track him. In time Cathy marries Lorrimer and through a complication of circumstances Monica’s and Lorrimer’s emotions and ethics both become befuddled and Cathy after an illness is locked up in an insane asylum on a flimsy pretext. Her experiences at the asylum and her rescue by some of her old friends make a thrilling tale.
“Mrs Victor Rickard has here achieved, without directing her energy towards any lofty or even wayward ambition, a marked success. The story is sheer melodrama from beginning to triumphant and happy end; but melodrama tempered with sound observation of character.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p697 N 27 ’19 340w
RICKARD, THOMAS ARTHUR. Technical writing. *$1.50 Wiley 808
20–7844
“Mr Rickard has served as editor of three leading mining periodicals and has written several well known professional works. He laments the carelessness shown by engineers in the preparation of reports and papers and has brought into this work the expansion of five lectures which he delivered in 1916 to engineering classes in the University of California. The many faults of composition and errors of vocabulary are discussed and illustrated by many examples of bad writing (with corrections) gleaned mainly from mining books and periodicals.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“Mr Rickard’s exposition is vigorous and broad-minded.”
+ Ath p352 S 10 ’20 150w
“It is well worth discriminating perusal, the chapter on style being particularly good. Violations of present-day typographical orthodoxy mar nearly every page of his book. They suggest the amateur. They are not classic. Also, in a work of this sort, it is only reasonable to expect that the author will observe his own precepts.” W. N. P. R.
+ − Engineering & Mining Journal 109:1326 Je 12 ’20 780w
“The lay reader should also get much from the volume.”
+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p40 Ap ’20 100w The Times [London] Lit Sup p587 S 9 ’20 80w
RIDEAL, ERIC KEIGHTLEY. Ozone. *$4 Van Nostrand 546.2
The author begins with the Early history of ozone and its general properties, and continues his treatment of the subject with chapters on: The natural occurrence of ozone: Chemical production; Thermal production; The electrolytic preparation of ozone; Production by ultraviolet radiation and by ionic collision; Production by means of the silent electric discharge; The catalytic decomposition of ozone; Industrial applications; Methods of detection and analysis. There are two indexes, to names and subjects. The author is professor of physical chemistry in the University of Illinois and the book is published as one of the series, A treatise on electro-chemistry, edited by Bertram Blount.
“The author deals with the whole fascinating subject in a manner which should appeal to most readers.”
+ Engineer 129:653 Je 25 ’20 300w
“The author has been distinctly successful in his effort to collect and correlate the various references to ozone which occur in chemical literature, and his monograph will be welcomed if only for that reason. In addition, it contains a valuable summary of what is known about ozone, and by indicating problems which remain to be solved should also serve to promote investigation.”
+ Nature 106:77 S 16 ’20 300w N Y P L New Tech Bks p52 Jl ’20 120w
RIDEOUT, HENRY MILNER. Foot-path way. *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–6491
A story of the Far East. Dan Towers, the hero, is an American adventurer who has decided that it is time to go home. Fate brings him across the path of an old friend, Parimban, an Arabian merchant. Parimban is murdered and Towers is left with Leda, his friend’s beautiful young daughter, on his hands. He finds a refuge for her with a religious order and goes on his way, accepting the dangerous mission he had earlier made up his mind to refuse. He has many adventures, some in company with a religious fanatic, called Hury Seke, from his habit of writing gospel messages on walls and rocks, all beginning “Hury Seke Jehovah.” To others he is introduced by a gay young troubadour, Runa la Flèche. In the end the beautiful ward, who had once shown uncomfortable signs of falling in love with Towers, is more suitably mated with Runa.
+ Booklist 16:350 Jl ’20
“I turn the last page and lay down the book with the sense of having enjoyed a modest work of art instead of having been merely diverted by a pretentious bag of tricks. I like his story, but I like still more his way of telling it, his freedom from the slipshod smartness now fairly encouraged as normal by editors still getting pay-ore from the vein (or the tailings) of the Kipling-O. Henry tradition.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:581 Jl ’20 380w Ind 104:382 D 11 ’20 50w
“The tale is entertaining, swift-moving and romantic, and gives a colorful picture of adventurous lives.”
+ N Y Times 25:252 My 16 ’20 700w
“This is not of a genre that all novel readers care for, but those who do will find this book an excellent example of it, exciting and amusing.”
+ Outlook 125:281 Je 9 ’20 100w + Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 240w
RIDGE, LOLA.[[2]] Sun-up; and other poems. *$1.50 Huebsch 811
These are free verse, imagiste poems. In the group “Sun-up,” the poet sees the world through a child’s eyes and gives us glimpses of a child’s soul. All the poems express modernity, a free spirit and a turbulent world. They are grouped under the headings: Sun-up; Monologues; Windows; Secrets; Portraits; Sons of Belial; Reveille—the last group containing lines to Alexander Berkman, to Emma Goldman and to Larkin.
“No adult knows what little girls think about, but one is willing to believe that it is approximately what he finds here, where Freud rather than Plato is read back into the infant mind.” D. M.
+ Nation 112:sup244 F 9 ’21 340w
“The series of poems from which the book takes its name are vividly poignant renderings of the child-mind, intimate in their apperception and flaring forth in arresting magic and color at times. Her method is free verse, but it is a distinct free verse. It is the sudden throwing of vivid phrases before one that conjure up limitless thoughts.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p11 Ja 9 ’21 520w
RIDSDALE, KNOWLES. Gate of fulfillment. *$1.50 (4c) Putnam
20–6634
A story told in letters. Margaret Bevington, a very charming and brilliant widow, answers an unusual advertisement calling for a secretary for an invalid. The invalid, who is also a misogynist, sends her a caustic reply declining her services, but a correspondence develops out of the incident. Later, learning that the secretary he had preferred to her had proved incompetent, she applies in person under an assumed name and is engaged. She then leads a double life, as staid, prim Martha Pratt and as witty Margaret Bevington, and the misogynist finds himself falling in love with two women. The tonic good sense of one and the mental stimulus of the other do their work. He is restored to health to learn that the two characters who have meant so much to him combine into one person.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − Bookm 51:586 Jl ’20 200w
“This is a very commodious, even lazy, way of writing a book; and, unless the letters are uncommonly brilliant, the result is generally disappointing. In this case, however, Mr Ridsdale has turned out a worthwhile correspondence in developing an ingenious though rather slender plot. ‘The gate of fulfillment’ will be read with interest.”
+ N Y Times 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 160w
“It is a piquant situation, and some of its possibilities are well realized. But it wants a light, tactful, restrained treatment of which the author knows nothing. The letters of every one concerned are as fulsome, as precious, and as humourless as they can possibly be; and their prolix affectations become painfully tiresome long before the end is reached.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p458 Jl 15 ’20 150w
RIHANI, AMEEN F. Descent of bolshevism. $1 (9c) Stratford co. 335
20–6355
A small book written to prove that bolshevism is of oriental origin. The author goes back to fifth century Persia and has chapters on: Mazdak and Mazdakism; The Khawarij; The Karmathians; The Assassins; The Illuminati.
“Mr Rihani’s little book ends suddenly and without a satisfactory conclusion. His statements must be read with great caution.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p10 My 15 ’20 560w
“He tells his stories roundly and underlines his morals blackly; but his essential facts are sound.”
+ Review 2:682 Je 30 ’20 200w
RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.[[2]] Hidden treasure of Rasmola. il *$1.75 (5½c) Houghton
20–19674
This story of the digging for a treasure is a true story and a personal experience of the author’s. The scenes portrayed are real phases of the life of the common people of Syria and the people participating in the enterprise were real. The psychology, beliefs and mode of life of the people concerned are also depicted and the thrilling part of the story is that the treasure too, to all probabilities was real although it eluded the grasp of the diggers thru the machinations of a clever rogue.
RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART). Affinities. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–9275
A volume of short stories. The first is the story of a group of married people who decide on an affinity picnic, with husbands and wives left at home. The affair comes to grief and when the parties concerned learn that the other set of wives and husbands have been carrying out a similar idea there are mutual recriminations and forgivenesses. The other stories are in like vein. Contents: Affinities; The family friend; Clara’s little escapade; The borrowed house; Sauce for the gander. The stories were copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company and date from 1909 to 1915.
“Entertaining, but several readers say not up to her usual standard.”
+ − Booklist 17:36 O ’20 + − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ’20 300w
“Delightful tales each with a snap at the end.”
+ Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 60w
“Mrs Rinehart always writes entertainingly and she tempers humor with rare human sympathy and common sense. These stories are just the thing for hammock reading on a lazy afternoon.”
+ Ind 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 80w
“Each one as unexpected and as amusing as the others, stories that keep you laughing and interested, stories full of the little absurdities of human nature and the queer tricks of fate.”
+ Lit D p97 S 4 ’20 3050w
“If laughter really does promote health, Mrs Rinehart should take her place among the great physicians of the age.”
+ N Y Times 25:295 Je 6 ’20 480w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 420w
“The studies of English life and manners would strike most English readers as imaginative, and it is hard to believe that life in America exactly tallies with the authoress’s description, though it may really be like this. Anyhow it makes cheerful reading.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p538 Ag 19 ’20 120w
RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART). Poor wise man. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–17961
The time of the story is immediately after the war and the circumstances social unrest, strikes, plots, political campaigns, mobs, riots, bombs, wise vigilance on the part of the Department of justice and timely interferences of the American Legion. The romance is supplied by Lily Cardew, granddaughter of the richest man in town, just back from her war-work and much changed, and Willy Cameron, a poor drug clerk who had been Lily’s pal in camp and is one of nature’s noblemen. Soon after her return Lily is ensnared by the wiles of an arch anarchist and all-round fiend. She even marries him but at that very crisis is rescued by Willy. Many are the adventures and hairbreadth escapes of both before their final reward.
+ Bookm 52:252 N ’20 360w
“The story is well told, but our hearts are not touched by the romance of the impossible hero and heroine.”
+ − Cath World 112:554 Ja ’21 150w
“Mrs Rinehart gives us a very thrilling story, and a sense of disappointment with her method need not obscure the good points and readable character of this ‘novel with a purpose.’”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 200w
“The novel is alive and vigorous.”
+ Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is exceedingly timely. It states the problem between labor and capital fairly and proves the futility of mob violence. And it states it in the lives of very actual people.” Katharine Oliver
+ Pub W 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w
“A story well worth reading.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p801 D 2 ’20 120w
RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).[[2]] Truce of God. il *$1.50 Doran
20–21966
In the days of chivalry and when the church had decreed a “truce of God,” from Thursday of every week until Monday morning, during which time all fighting must cease, a young French overlord had put away his wife because she had borne him no son and because, heirless, upon his death his estates would fall to his cousin and arch enemy, Philip of the Black Beard. That the lady took refuge with this same Philip, enraged Charles still more. But it came to pass on a Christmas day that the truce of God entered the heart of Charles when he came to the castle of Philip in search of his runaway little daughter, Clotilde. As he goes to the bedside of his wife to ask her forgiveness he finds that a son has indeed this day been born to him.
“The story is told interestingly and with effective simplicity, and successfully reproduces the mediæval atmosphere; but the author leaves the impression of having put an undue strain upon plausibility in order to reach a desired conclusion.”
+ N Y Evening Post p18 D 4 ’20 220w + N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 370w
RIPLEY, GEORGE SHERMAN. Games for boys. il *$1.60 Holt 790
20–21483
A collection of games for players of the adolescent and post adolescent age. The compiler says: “Properly played games develop courage, initiative, generosity, cooperation, cheerfulness, loyalty, obedience, alertness and sense of honor,” and in selecting the games he has based his choice on these qualities. Contents: Circle games; Opposed line games; Tag games; Quiet games; Miscellaneous games; Relay and other races; Stalking and scouting games; Camp stunts and water sports; Mimetic setting-up exercises; Contest and exhibition events; Camping notes.
+ Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p8a D 5 ’20 80w
RISING, LAWRENCE. She who was Helena Cass. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–17649
Jay Sefton, a rising young novelist, acted a novel when he constituted himself a secret detective to find Helena Cass, dead or alive. Three years previous, her mysterious disappearance had set two continents agog with rumors and surmises. Jay Sefton had once met her socially, been greatly impressed by her personality and now the fever of the search had entered his blood. In disconnected accounts the story pieces itself together, and clue follows upon clue, revealing the rich possibilities of an undisciplined impulsive young girl; her tragic side-step from the conventional path; her all but murder in a Spanish inn; her refuge in a convent; temporary return to a world that had known her; her second escape to the convent; her motherhood and her final discovery in a secluded rural retreat in Spain by Jay Sefton and his wooing of her.
“It’s well told, too, with a slightly French touch and an intriguing style.” S. M. R.
+ Bookm 52:370 D ’20 200w
“From the standpoint of style the book is decidedly jerky. It possesses many faults, many inconsistencies, but we are obliged to remember that the author has subordinated everything to the weaving and unraveling of his mystery. The first is ably done, and the second is accomplished with commendable ingenuity.” D. L. M.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 D 4 ’20 270w
“The novel is full of Latin color, some of the descriptive bits being powerfully photographic. All the characters are real and intensely individualized. The development of Helena Cass from a self-centred, selfish girl to a fine, broad, lovable character is a fine bit of psychological analysis.”
+ N Y Evening Post p20 O 23 ’20 180w
“The book is full of Spanish color, and some of the descriptive passages are striking.”
+ N Y Times p19 N 28 ’20 140w
“The story is original, but its literary quality is not particularly good.”
+ − Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 110w
Reviewed by L. M. Robinson
Pub W 98:1196 O 16 ’20 320w
RITCHIE, ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) lady (MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE). From friend to friend. *$2.50 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–8889)
“‘From friend to friend,’ a little volume of recollections by Thackeray’s daughter, Lady Ritchie, edited by her sister-in-law, Emily Ritchie, has just been published. Lady Ritchie met many of the most interesting people in England in the course of her long life, which covered the period from 1838 to 1919, and in this little book she has ranged far back into the past and given glimpses of her father, of Tennyson and his wife, of Mr and Mrs Browning, of Adelaide Kemble and many others. There are anecdotes of Thackeray in his younger days, when he was beginning to write and wishing rather to paint, and later on when he was in the full tide of literary production.”—Springf’d Republican
Ath p126 Ja 23 ’20 40w
“If at times, in spite of its delicate artistry, the narrative grows a little prim, there is usually a twinkle of humour to light it up again before many lines are past. Our old-world hostess is too skilful to let us get dull.”
+ Ath p303 Mr 5 ’20 420w N Y Times p15 S 12 ’20 60w
“This little volume is slight but pleasing.”
+ Outlook 125:125 My 19 ’20 80w
“It is more enjoyable than many books of reminiscence. Lady Ritchie abounds in good-humor.”
+ Review 2:522 My 15 ’20 200w
“Lady Ritchie interests and amuses us without falling either into the distortions of malice, or the sentimentally which dwells on the ‘dear old days,’ and leaves us as cold as if we were listening to a canting preacher.”
+ Sat R 129:189 F 21 ’20 750w
“Charming little book.”
+ Spec 124:54 Ja 10 ’20 140w Springf’d Republican p8 My 1 ’20 120w
“Lady Ritchie knew what was interesting and what was not; she lived intensely in her memories, and she can take her readers to live in them with her.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p19 Ja 8 ’20 1100w
RITCHIE, ROBERT WELLES. Trails to Two Moons. il *$1.75 (3½c) Little
20–17007
The story is of the Wyoming cattle country at the time when the struggle for existence was on between the cattle rangers and the sheep-raising homesteaders. Little by little the latter were encroaching upon the former’s grazing lands. Three figures stand out in the tale, Zang Whistler, the cattle-thieving outlaw, Original Bill Blunt, inspector for the Stockman’s alliance, and Hilma Ring, a sheepherder’s daughter, a dazzling but heartless beauty. A lonely life of hardship and struggle had cut her off from all femininity and hardened her heart. It is the taming of this shrew that tempts both Zang and Original. Amid killings and rough horse-play, during which Hilma has her fill of terror, loneliness and despair, nursing her hatred for Original, the latter’s character and power finally subdue and awaken the woman in her. Even Zang, whose wild career is but an offshoot of his inherent integrity, receives Hilma’s recognition of his loyalty and devotion.
“The story possesses a sort of crude strength besides exciting incidents; its characters are fairly well individualized; its descriptions are vivid, and its fights colorful. However, we cannot say that the conversion of the heroine’s hate for the hero to love for him is convincing. The strings that pull the character hither and thither at this point of the story are altogether too evident.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p21 O 23 ’20 110w
“The story is ultra-romantic and the characters not essentially of flesh and blood—mere types and caricatures. But the setting in which the story occurs is painted so very vividly that it lends the air of reality to ‘Trails to Two Moons’ which the characters themselves and their vigorous actions lack.”
+ − N Y Times p25 D 26 ’20 320w
ROBBINS, CLARENCE AARON (TOD ROBBINS). Silent, white and beautiful; and other stories. *$1.90 (3c) Boni & Liveright
Short stories by an author who makes a specialty of the gruesome. Contents: Silent, white and beautiful; Who wants a green bottle? Wild Wullie, the waster; For art’s sake. There is a preface by Robert H. Davis.
“If these grotesque and morbid tales were just a bit better, they might even be great! But failing of greatness, they are so horrible as to be occasionally funny.”
− + Bookm 52:550 F ’21 100w
“The horror of the truth in daily life is greater than the horror Mr Robbins seeks in his imaginative and improbable wanderings among murderers and spirits.” R. D. W.
− Boston Transcript p8 Ja 29 ’21 350w
“Genuine horror requires a certain inner logic, a subtle plausibility not discoverable in these stories.” L. B.
− Freeman 2:358 D 22 ’20 170w
“There is no doubt that he has an eerie fancy, great fertility of invention, and not a little psychological insight. But he is unequal to the point of eccentricity. Two of his four narratives, ‘Wild Wullie, the waster,’ and ‘Who wants a green bottle,’ are simply inept. ‘Silent, white and beautiful,’ on the other hand, has an original and strangely vivid central idea.”
+ − Nation 111:596 N 24 ’20 230w
“Frankly tales of terror, built upon most improbable foundations, they would be revolting in the hands of a lesser artist.”
+ N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 100w
“The author has dipped his pen in blood while steeping his literary ego in diablerie, and the outcome is a feast of melodrama and morbidity that leads logically to nightmare.”
− + N Y Times p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
ROBERTS, CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON. Poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821
20–1006
This collection of poems falls into three parts: Poems; The dark years; and Other poems. John Masefield writes a preface to the collection and says of the author: “When I think of the poems, I feel that he must be young; not young enough perhaps to have been carried away, or destroyed, by the recent great events, but young enough to see them clearly, to respond to them, and to realize that the tragedy of them has been the tragedy of the young, the blasting of the young, for the benefit and at the bidding of the old.... That, in the main, is the tragedy of Mr Roberts’ latest and best poems, in the volume here printed.” In another place he says of the poet: “He has a quick eye for characters, a lively sense of rhythm, and a fondness for people, which should make his future work as remarkable as his present promise.”
“Will be liked by those who enjoy conventional poetry touching on a note of sadness.”
+ Booklist 16:235 Ap ’20
“These labored verses move us not at all. The book is full of echoes and infelicitous imitations. The book, in short, is full of clichés of thought and phrase.” H: A. Lappin
− Bookm 51:213 Ap ’20 100w
“The experience which has made Mr Roberts ‘old’ to his friends, has by a curious paradox kept him gloriously young in his dreams and visions. These poems, even embedding such grim interludes as is represented by the ‘Charing cross’ poems, are the poems of youth; but of a youth who has been trebly stored with the ancient wisdom and ways of the world.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 24 ’20 2150w
“Delightful poems chiefly on Arcadian themes.”
+ |Cleveland p52 My ’20 60w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w
“It is not enough to be high-spirited, and warm-hearted, and quick-witted, and brave and sensitive—and this poet is all these. To feel splendidly is one thing, to shape the feeling another. Mr Roberts at present is apt to throw off his feeling into rhyme without due concentration, as though assuring us of his exuberance and bidding us be content with that.” J: Drinkwater
+ − N Y Times 25:240 My 9 ’20 380w
“The many lyric poems are a flower-garden in which the reader can spend a long time, and to which he will want to return. Mr Roberts writes gracefully and melodiously, and is never elaborate or artificial.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a Ap 4 ’20 700w
ROBERTS, RICHARD. Unfinished program of democracy. *$2 Huebsch 321.8
(Eng ed 20–6572)
“‘The unfinished programme of democracy.’ by Dr Richard Roberts, readily divides itself into two parts: the first three chapters in which the author sets forth what he considers to be the causes of the present crisis in democracy, and the rest of the book in which he specifies in detail and supports with argument the measures and changes that would, in his view, fulfil the democratic ideal.” (Freeman). “The main lines of practical doctrine on which the discussion is conducted are—a national minimum and a secure standard of life universally enforced and provided for; the limitation of profits; the elimination of the ‘social parasite’; the economic independence of women; the abandonment of the dogma of ‘State sovereignty’ and the recognition in the organization of government of the geographical and the vocational unit; the growth of the spirit and practice of social fellowship; a democratic world knit by a federation of democratic nations.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“Mr Roberts’s work is one to be read and inwardly digested.”
+ Ath p1048 O 17 ’19 130w Booklist 17:142 Ja ’21 Brooklyn 12:125 My ’20 30w
“It is only the first part of the book, in which Dr Roberts states his social theory, that in the view of the writer of this note exposes itself to criticism.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant
+ − Freeman 1:428 Jl 14 ’20 1100w Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
“The book is both refreshing and heartening and deserves a wide reading, not only for the soundness of its ideas but for the distinction and charm of its temper, and the vividness of its style.”
+ Nation 111:330 S 18 ’20 620w
“He writes with force and charm; and he gives evidence of wide reading and of serious reflection. But when he comes to chapter VII, ‘The organization of government,’ his hand fails him.” W. J. Ghent
+ − Review 3:316 O 13 ’20 300w + Springf’d Republican p8 F 7 ’20 60w
“It is a scholarly book by a man of vision.” A. J. Lien
+ Survey 45:73 O 9 ’20 180w
“One of the ablest of the ministers of the English Presbyterian church here discusses the social problem in a comprehensive and practical way, with a full appreciation of new conditions and new trends of thought.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p550 O 9 ’19 180w Wis Lib Bul 16:107 Je ’20 60w
ROBEY, GEORGE. My rest cure. il *$1.40 (4c) Stokes 827
19–13978
The author informs his readers that he is tired of being funny, that he has had a collapse and needs a complete rest, and he is going to tell about his holiday in the country in his natural serious and solemn manner. By the skin of his teeth he succeeds in escaping from home without his wife and the entire family. His haven of rest is the Sunrise Arms of Little Slocum. The dream and the reality of Little Slocum are not quite the same. He almost succumbs to the ministrations of the sewing-bee of Little Slocum mothers, but after a ten mile flight in pajamas and mackintosh and rubber boots he catches a train that takes him back to the city. The illustrations by John Hassall add to the solemnity of the book.
+ Booklist 16:246 Ap ’20
“It may be that Mr Robey converses too much about nothing in particular, it may be that his humor is not that of America; but various episodes in his book are excruciatingly funny.”
+ Boston Transcript Mr 13 ’20 350w
“We cannot say that we have been vastly exhilarated by ‘My rest cure.’”
− Sat R 128:160 Ag 16 ’19 340w
ROBINSON, ALBERT GARDNER. Old New England houses. il *$5 Scribner 728
20–16280
“‘Old New England houses’ has about one hundred sumptuously printed views, mostly of the type of plain, unpretentious small country houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which we roughly classify as ‘colonial,’ though quite a few of the more pretentious mansion type of house, such as were built by the wealthier merchants and shipmasters in the larger coast towns, are included. The subjects are selected from an artistic rather than an architectural or antiquarian viewpoint. The first few pages are given to an untechnical talk on the varied types and styles of houses and where one may hunt for them with reasonable chance of success, but the greater part of the book is devoted to the pictures of the houses themselves, an entire page being usually given to each print.”—Boston Transcript
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 280w
“The text of this book is slight, not wholly unsuggestive perhaps, but disappointing. The illustrations, however, are of positive interest.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 520w
Reviewed by W. B. Chase
+ N Y Times p2 S 12 ’20 2450w + Outlook 126:202 S 29 ’20 70w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
“Like most books of the sort, ‘Old New England houses’ is more to be valued for its pictures than for its text. Here the text, however, is entirely adequate as a brief introduction to upward of a hundred photographs.”
+ Review 3:479 N 17 ’20 180w
“‘Old New England houses’ will be interesting and useful.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 260w
ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Lancelot. *$1.75 Seltzer 811
20–12049
“In ‘Lancelot’ Mr Robinson has continued the study of Camelot which he began three years ago in ‘Merlin.’” (Nation) “We open at the period in the Arthurian triangle when Lancelot, who has seen the grail, has determined to leave Camelot and Guinevere forever, and follow the lonely marsh-light that the knights hailed as the true gleam. Guinevere tempts him out of this. Arthur and his knights return, and find what the purblind king has shut his eyes to so long. Lancelot flees, and Guinevere is to be burnt at the stake. The greatest of the knights returns and rescues her, taking her to his castle of Joyous Gard; from which he later surrenders her. But the poison of the situation has raised up enemies in the king’s own household, especially his illegitimate son, Modred, and Lancelot, persuaded too late to go to the king’s aid, arrives after the battle in the north, in which king and bastard alike receive their death-wounds. He pays one final visit to Guinevere, habited as a nun, but still enough of her own self to listen to Lancelot’s belated plea that she rejoin him, and now enough of her new self to refuse it. Then the passion-wrecked knight rides away after that will-o-the-wisp whose presence men still vainly seek without themselves.” (N Y Call)
+ Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“Any modern treatment of the Arthur material challenges comparison at once with some of the illustrious names in English literature: Tennyson, Swinburne, Arnold, and Morris, to mention only the best known. Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is no misbegotten changeling in this notable company. The analysis is subtle, unsentimental, and contagiously sympathetic.” R. M. Weaver
+ Bookm 51:457 Je ’20 520w
“In this narrative Mr Robinson not only proves by reason of thought and substance his position as the greatest of all living American poets, but also by the supreme consciousness and evocation of beauty.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p9 Je 12 ’20 1350w + Cleveland p86 O ’20 80w
“The verse moves with dignity and attains at times even a detachable beauty, and yet the memorable lines are comparatively few—for this author.”
+ − Dial 69:103 Jl ’20 120w
“It has no pictorial exuberance. Scarcely a line could be quoted for self-sufficient imagery. For the rest, the beauty of the poem is a low-keyed, intense but quiet beauty of cadence and rhythm. Its matter speaks with restraint and with completion. Its power lies in the immanence of its people and their struggle with their fate.” C. M. Rourke
+ Freeman 2:164 O 27 ’20 550w
“The verse of ‘Lancelot’ is as athletic and spare as an Indian runner, though it walks not runs. At the same time, he varies his verse in admirable accord with situation and character. Since Browning there has been no finer dramatic dialogue in verse than that spoken by Lancelot and Guinevere and no apter characterization than the ironical talk of Gawaine. One must go out of verse, to George Meredith and Henry James, to find its match. But Mr Robinson has the advantage of verse.” C. V. D.
+ Nation 110:622 My 8 ’20 650w
“Edwin Arlington Robinson can say more in two lines than most poets can in several verses. His vision is somber; it is marked by an uncompromising consistency in the handling of eternal values.” H. S. Gorman
+ New Repub 23:259 Jl 28 ’20 1150w
“‘Lancelot’ is life, albeit a gray and grim vision of it. It is a great tale, greatly told. American poetry is richer for the aching disillusionment of Mr Robinson’s art.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p11 My 16 ’20 750w
“It has been well thought out, well felt and well made. This is not to say that it is a great poem, however, or that no important criticism can be brought against it. When he draws personality the lines are firm and flawless. But can he show us the color and texture of life, and make us feel the heat of it in those old days of myth and magic?” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − N Y Times 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 1050w
“Its supreme beauty lies in its analysis of character and motive.”
+ Outlook 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 780w
“Mr Robinson’s ‘Lancelot’ is a finer achievement than his ‘Merlin.’ Splendidly imagined and unerringly wrought, this book reaffirms the conviction that Mr Robinson is today the most significant figure in American verse.” E: B. Reed
+ Yale R n s 10:205 O ’20 280w
ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Three taverns. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
20–15484
“Edwin Arlington Robinson’s new volume of miscellaneous poems, ‘The three taverns’ is likely to earn him—if he has not already earned—a reputation as the Henry James among poets. His fondness for portraying the complex facets of character in an oblique light and by means of inscrutable hints and sinuous innuendoes has led him to further workings of the vein of dramatic lyric opened four years ago by his famous ‘Ben Johnson entertains a man from Stratford.’ The present collection contains seven long poems of this sort, revealing in monolog or dialog a moment in the life of St Paul, Lazarus, Brown of Harper’s ferry, Hamilton, and real or imagined people of lesser note.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Booklist 17:106 D ’20
“‘The man against the sky’ indicated very clearly the place of the poet, it was very high—how high we had not the standards by which to measure. ‘The three taverns’ brings us much nearer to him, closer within the embrace of his sympathies, and, by the same law, lifts him much farther above us.” S: Roth
+ Bookm 52:361 D ’20 500w
“The substance of the longer poems in this book is more profoundly grounded in Mr Robinson’s philosophy of human nature and experience than in any of his other poems. Even in the shorter poems we find this power distilled until almost achingly the meanings break through a speech that is simplified to a bareness of figure or illusion. Take the poem ‘The mill’ and say if a tragedy could be so mercilessly told with the economy of speech by any other living poet.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p9 S 11 ’20 1850w
“Here is a great virtue that belongs peculiarly to Mr Robinson among American poets. His work is always packed with thought. ‘The three taverns’ is a big book and it grows with each reading. It is the work of lonely hours, of unfailing meditation, and of authentic genius, if such a thing may be admitted to exist in these troublous times.” H. S. Gorman
+ Freeman 2:186 N 3 ’20 1150w
“It is a sombre book, ‘The three taverns,’ sombre and polished to a high dark sheen, and the bitter tang of it remains in the memory after reading.” C. F. G.
+ Grinnell R 16:332 Ja ’21 340w
“Separate enough in themselves, they yet stand with respect to each other in a sort of pattern, like the monoliths of a Druid circle.... What holds them in the pattern is that tone of mingled wisdom and irony, that color of dignity touched with colloquial flexibility, that clear, hard, tender blank verse and those unforgettable eight-line stanzas and dramatic sonnets which go to make up one of the most scrupulous and valuable of living poets.” C. V. D.
+ Nation 111:453 O 20 ’20 1300w
“‘The three taverns’ is a finished product. It is a book such as only a master, touched with the authentic fire of genius, could make possible. Within its 120 pages is crystallized the best of modern American poetry. No European could find better introduction to American achievement in letters than through the poems that are contained in ‘Three taverns.’” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p18 Ja 16 ’21 1250w
“Little of his old magic of intonation and rhythm is lacking from ‘The three taverns,’ even though the intellectual appeal overmasters at times the poetic.”
+ Outlook 127:67 Ja 12 ’21 680w
“Mr Robinson’s verse, as always, flows with limpid purity, but his quaintly compounded vocabulary and his intellectual penetration compel the closest attention to his pages. Readers who have the patience or the agility to follow Mr Robinson are not meanly rewarded.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 O 7 ’20 450w
ROBINSON, EDWIN MEADE (TED ROBINSON, pseud.). Piping and panning. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–16520
The author conducts a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and this is a volume of his humorous newspaper verse. Among the titles are: To a lady; The lecture; The story of Ug; Things I despise; Things I like; Some Anglicisms; The drawbacks of humor; Love lyrics; We Olympians; The critic’s apology; In various keys; The typewriter’s song; Rural delights; Butter and eggs; The average man.
“Of its kind, Edwin Meade Robinson’s ‘Piping and panning’ is of a pleasant quality. No man may trifle with the muse day after day with impunity, but Mr Robinson has been able to command her support in a fair average of instances. His book discloses a nimble fancy, a facile dominion of vocabulary and verse forms, and a ready wit.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:190 N 3 ’20 160w
“Many of the verses, it is true, are occasional and uninspired; but the book is a wholly satisfactory one for the good things it has in abundance.” Clement Wood
+ − N Y Call p8 Ja 9 ’21 180w
ROBINSON, ELIOT HARLOW. Maid of Mirabelle. il *$1.75 (2c) Page
20–12599
A story of the last days of the war and the period immediately following. The scene is laid in a village of Lorraine. Here Daniel Steele, an American Friend who has come to France to do relief and reconstruction work, falls under the spell of Joan le Jeune, the maid of Mirabelle. When Daniel had left home he had taken with him the promise of his foster-sister Faith to be his wife on his return. But for a little time Joan makes him forget Faith, and Joan, to whom he brings the romance of strange lands, almost forgets her own soldier lover Jean. But when Jean is under suspicion she turns to him, and Daniel, too, recovering from a wound, finds his thoughts bound up in Faith and is ready to return to his own country leaving Joan to her happiness.
“Somewhat too sentimental in execution, but simple and pretty.”
+ − Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 20w
ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS. Uneasy street. il *$1.75 (2c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–2645
He was an impecunious clerk before the war, but won a commission and was swept into New York gilt-edged society by his millionaire chum after their discharge. He goes the pace and one night of it finds him in debt and in love and temptation staring him in the face in the form of a trunkful of money under his hotel bed. He falls for it, takes what he needs with intentions to refund, but is found out before that happy event can take place. Then his manhood reasserts itself, he returns the stolen money and makes a clean confession of his guilt to his employer, his chum’s father. He is forgiven and is reinstated in the good graces of his fiancée, his chum and gilt-edged society.
“In construction the present story is by far the best he has written.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 120w
“That the story is devoid of all plausibility will not detract from its interest to such readers as enjoy this sort of a book.”
+ − N Y Times 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
Pub W 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 260w
ROCHECHOUART, LOUIS VICTOR LÉON, comte de.[[2]] Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart; auth. tr. by Frances Jackson. *$5 Dutton
20–17881
“These memoirs are a first-class historical document of the period before and after the Napoleonic wars. The Count de Rochechouart was only a lad when the revolution broke out, and practically without money he made his way across Europe and took service with the Emperor of Russia, whom he served until 1814, when he was appointed to a military post under the restored Bourbons in Paris, and took a prominent part in the refounding of royalist France.”—Sat R
“His narrative is of absorbing interest, in itself: material enough for a dozen historical romances, told with vivacity, a wealth of illuminative anecdote. The version is faithful and admirably written, a valuable contribution to French and European history in our language.”
+ N Y Evening Post p18 O 23 ’20 360w
“The Rochechouart memoirs become thin and unsatisfactory after the peace, and give few details of the new French society which Balzac was afterwards to describe so brilliantly; and with the count’s retirement into the country in 1822, they practically cease. But as they stand, they are a valuable contribution to a period of which we can never have too much information.”
+ − Sat R 130:340 O 23 ’20 630w The Times [London] Lit Sup p648 O 7 ’20 950w
ROE, A. S. Chance and change in China. il *$3 (3c) Doran 915.1
20–11512
A book devoted not to political affairs but to the little alterations in custom that indicate social change and the influence of the outside world. Among the chapters are: The seductive city; The city of the river orchid; The black smoke [opium]; The dragon house; The gem-hill city; The serpent month; On the “river of broad sincerity”; The city of western peace; The pepper month; The contemptible one [woman]; A painted cake. The title given to this last chapter signifies “a thing that has come to nothing,” and refers to the republic, altho the author says, “Though to many the republic has become a ‘painted cake,’ some at least of the seeds scattered here and there in the days of its first youth have taken root.” There are many illustrations and an index.
“The accounts of travel and life in New China are fascinating, and Miss Roe’s book both promises and provides some rare hours of entertainment.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 400w Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 70w
“A varied and entertaining account of modern life in the Far East. It is by no means a serious book. Rather it appears to be a collection of more or less coherent reminiscences carried away by the author after traveling through parts of the country.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 13 ’20 280w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 100w
“Her book does not lend itself to continuous reading, for it is both discursive and disjointed. Too retiring to weave a connecting thread out of the accidents that befell herself, too logical to put forward a reconciliation of contradictions that defy it, too honest to suggest a whole where she had seen but a small part, she leaves on the mind an idea of confusion—and that, perhaps, is the truest impression she could give of China at this period of chance and change.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p180 Mr 18 ’20 950w
ROGET, FRANÇOIS ROGET. Altitude and health. (Chadwick lib.) *$5 Dutton 612.27
(Eng ed SG20–68)
“Professor Roget, of Geneva, was invited by the Chadwick trustees to form one of their panel of lectures. The subject which he treats in the three lectures which he delivered for the Trust in 1914, and which are contained in this volume, has become, since the development of aviation, one of increasing importance; but the professor, though he does not ignore aviation, explores with great care and fullness the effect of altitude upon health and physique mainly from the point of view of the Alpine pedestrian climber and resident.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The information contained in this book regarding climate appears on the whole to be accurate and reasonably complete. So much cannot be said regarding matters physiological. Whether on account of war prejudice or other cause a large mass of valuable German work is passed over almost in silence and even in the selections from English and American investigators the most important modern contribution is merely mentioned.” Yandell Henderson
+ − N Y Evening Post p8 O 30 ’20 1000w
“If, as undoubtedly is the case, there are still many people who dread the effects of unmitigated fresh air, and especially that of mountain resorts, these lectures should help to convert them to saner views.”
+ Spec 124:587 My 1 ’20 900w The Times [London] Lit Sup p755 D 11 ’19 90w
ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD). Golden scorpion. *$1.75 (2c) McBride
20–7137
Mystery, magic and an element of indefinable horror enter into this story by the author of the Fu Manchu tales. Gaston Max, a famous Parisian detective, Inspector Dunbar of Scotland Yard, and Dr Keppel Stuart, an obscure London practitioner with an unusual knowledge of poisons, are all concerned in the case of the golden scorpion. For a time no one of them knows who or what the scorpion may be, altho this symbol is known in some way to be associated with a series of mysterious deaths in both London and Paris. Dr Stuart is drawn into the case when the beautiful and alluring Mlle Dorian comes to him as a patient. As in the author’s other stories there is a strong tinge of the oriental.
“A good mystery story.”
+ Booklist 17:75 N ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 51:582 Jl ’20 130w + N Y Times 25:22 Je 27 ’20 530w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ Pub W 97:1291 Ap 17 ’20 360w Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 220w
“It is a relief to have mystery and magic mixed up with good detective work after so great a glut of German espionage, and the reader will find the golden scorpion in a pleasing variety of unusual and unexpected situations.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p633 N 6 ’19 300w
ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).[[2]] Green eyes of Bast. *$2 (2½c) McBride
20–18256
This story is of the unreal, and presupposes the existence of hybrid beings, half woman and half cat, born in Egypt in the month sacred to the goddess Bast. The fate of the individual or family upon which the enmity of such a being rests, may be imagined. The Coverly family in England is so marked, and one by one its members meet their deaths in various ghastly manners. To the police, who are naturally not in possession of the secret of the cat-woman, it is very mysterious. Altho they make many discoveries, what finally clears it all up is the confession of the Eurasian, Dr Damar Greefe, who had brought up the hybrid monstrosity in the interests of science. Though they are in league together, she finally masters him and the final tragedy is his death, for she eventually adds his murder to the already long list of fatalities of the story.
“Persons of experience know that, in shockers as in life, it is not the goal but the road there that matters, and their gratitude to the author will suffer no diminution because the villain’s explanatory discourse reveals some weak points in the construction of the story.”
+ − Ath p275 Ag 27 ’20 150w + − N Y Times p25 O 24 ’20 540w
“Mr Rohmer devotes himself to the production of atmosphere with his old skill.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p538 Ag 19 ’20 130w
ROLLAND, ROMAIN. Liluli. il *$2 Boni & Liveright 842
20–11590
“In ‘Liluli’ Romain Rolland has given to the world one of the most daring satires that have ever been written. Liluli is illusion, the ideal, the chimera, the eternal vamp of history. The time and place of the drama are fanciful. The stage is a ravine spanned by a footbridge. The human race is on the march—toward a mirage. There are peasants and intellectuals, diplomatists and socialists, satyrs and mountebanks, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Truth and Opinion, the Gallipoulets and the Hurluberloches (who are at war), shopkeepers, peddlers and fettered brains. And Polichinello. He is the laughing brain. He is the eternal mocker. He believes in nothing and smiles at all things. He is the wisdom of folly. In the general crash on the bridge of the world, when the human race goes into the abyss, Polichinello goes with it. Everything collapses on him—the fighting people, furniture, crockery, poultry, stones, earth and the grand chorus of idealists. On top of the mess sits Liluli, her legs crossed, smiling and showing the tip of her tongue, her fore-finger to her nose.”—N Y Times
Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“The play is a farce and a savage satire all in one. It is Aristophanic in its conception and working out, now bitter, now blatant, now indecent, and at times blasphemous. It would have been entirely possible to satirize hypocrisy and venality as playing potent parts in the stirring up of war without insulting religion and its God.”
− Cath World 112:408 D ’20 170w
“It is a strange and powerful book, this monstrous comedy of world-wide calamity. The logical necessity of the catastrophe, the inevitableness with which not only the vices, but even the virtues of her victims play into the hands of Liluli, make them susceptible to her lure, and hasten their doom, gives this weird farce the impressiveness of a Greek tragedy.” H. M. Evers
+ Grinnell R 15:258 O ’20 620w
“It is a pity that M. Rolland has chosen the now dominant symbolical forms for the embodiment of his fable. Never so much as today did art need to speak directly. ‘Liluli’ is beautiful and memorable. But its literary sophistication stands in the way of its broader effectiveness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 370w
“Probably Rolland had in mind to write somewhat after the manner of Aristophanes. Certainly he has the necessary verve and gusto and satiric sting. But the Greek stuck to themes that could be represented on the stage. The Frenchman has tried to sweep all humanity into the scene, and the result is that you, the reader, have to create a brain theater for the work in order to realize its true values. It would have been far more effective for most people in some other form.”
+ − N Y Call p10 Jl 25 ’20 550w
“‘Liluli’ is a memorable book. It demolishes with great Rabelaisian and Aristophanic guffaws the ridiculous and anarchistic societies that we live in. The book is a bridge to a new world—still nebulous, not even yet a mirage.” B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times 25:2 Jl 11 ’20 860w Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 30w
“‘Liluli’ is written in behalf of what is, or was or should be, a noble cause; it is written with an art and grace which should have fitted it to charm and to serve; yet its spirit and methods are such as to dispel that charm and to annul that service.”
− + Review 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 950w Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 23 ’20 950w
“Perhaps Romain Rolland is scarcely of the race and lineage of the master satirists, and his ‘Liluli’ may not be the ideal satire for this crazy age; but Rolland shows many of their great traits, and ‘Liluli’ is so far the one outstanding satire of its time.”
+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:348 O ’20 410w
“Here are all the arguments and experiences with which the pacifist is familiar incisively personified—not without a certain strong tang of a former literary age.”
+ World Tomorrow 3:351 N ’20 130w
ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM. Boy with the U.S. trappers. (U.S. service ser.) il *$1.50 (2c) Lothrop 639
19–17885
This unusually well illustrated volume follows the plan of the other books of the series in combining information with narrative. In telling the story of young Gavin Keary, from the time he is left alone to shift for himself till he is engaged as a trapper by the U.S. biological survey, the author manages to impart a great deal of information about the work of this branch of the government service, the conditions of modern trapping and the ways of wild animals.
“The average reader will find it interesting and boys will find it even thrilling.”
+ Booklist 16:208 Mr ’20
“It avoids the insipidity that goes with most boys’ books and is packed full of information about ranch life.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 20 ’19 100w
ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.[[2]] Great demonstration. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–19435
Roger Lessing and Terry Endicott are both in love with Lucretia Dale. She is in love with neither until on the eve of Terry’s departure for the war, she realizes that he has her heart. But report comes that he is dead, and half against her own will, she consents to marry though she cannot love Roger. Roger has always been a disciple of New thought, believing “What I desire, will come to me,” but even his desire for Lucretia’s love cannot bring it to him. Then Terry is miraculously returned to life from a German prison; and Roger’s desire for Lucretia’s love is intensified. From the creed of New thought he advances into more dangerous forms of eastern mysticism to gain his end until finally the power that he sought to use masters him, and he meets his death in his last effort to control Lucretia’s mind and love.
“It cannot be said that the psychic element in this novel is either interesting or convincing. On the other hand, the sketches of daily existence in the ‘studio’ are amusing and the general atmosphere of the story is pleasing.”
+ − N Y Times p24 Ja 16 ’21 430w
ROOSEVELT, KERMIT. Happy hunting-grounds. *$1.75 Scribner 799
20–19277
“In the opening chapter, the author gives an intimate picture of his father, as he remembers him in the rôle of companion during numerous hunting expeditions. There are numerous personal incidents and reminiscences. Other chapters have to do with hunting in America, including trips into Mexico. ‘Book collecting in South America’ recalls another purpose of a trip into a foreign land. At the end of the volume a sketch is given of Seth Bullock, his father’s friend, sometimes called the ‘last of the frontiersmen,’ a type celebrated and adored by Roosevelt.”—Springf’d Republican
Booklist 17:145 Ja ’21 + Boston Transcript p7 O 30 ’20 420w
“The volume is interesting and well written throughout—Kermit Roosevelt has inherited his father’s knack of clear description and vigorous English.”
+ N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 130w + R of Rs 62:669 D 20 140w
“Will be welcomed by the many admirers of the former president, those who admired him as a man, and not only as a political leader.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 O 19 ’20 190w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p843 D 9 ’20 150w
ROPER, WILLIAM W. Winning football. il *$2 (4½c) Dodd 797
20–17071
The author distinguishes between an old and a new way of playing football. The old way “was first and last a trial of speed and strength and weight and courage” in which cleverness was at a discount and mere pounds and inches at a premium. The new way is “thinking football,” for which the author claims every manly virtue and that it is “a splendid preparatory school for life.” Of this game the book proposes to set forth the underlying principles. Contents: Modern football a battle of wits; The spirit behind the team; The routine of early season practise; Every man in every play; A real quarter-back must have brains; Running the team; The kicking game; The schedule; The day of the big game; Illustrations.
+ Booklist 17:145 Ja ’21
“A readable unusually valuable book for any one who is coaching football.”
+ Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w
“It is not only informational, but inspirational. The attitude throughout is that of the highminded amateur sportsman of the best type. For this reason, if for no other, it is a book that most men and all boys should read.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 6 ’20 210w + N Y Times p25 Ja 30 ’21 160w
ROSE, JOSHUA. Complete practical machinist. il $3 Baird 621.9
20–2274
In the twentieth, greatly enlarged edition of this work, the reader is introduced “to the machine tools in which the cutting tools are used, whereas in the earlier editions the cutting tools only were treated upon.” (Preface) The present edition has 432 illustrations. The work originally appeared in 1894.
ROSEBORO, VIOLA. Storms of youth. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8273
Just before Perry Grantley left college, a faculty incident revealed to him in a flash what “a sporty thing” it would be to be a man. It clinched his decision to stay in the old home town and fight the political graft that had crept into the local government there. In the story we follow Perry’s crusade against the insidious corruption of the town and his personal vicissitudes in matters of the heart—how his unguarded marriage to a flower-like girl with an unborn soul resulted in early widowerhood and his final union with the playmate of his youth whom he had always loved. Incidentally a picture of small town life, its outstanding figures, with their normal, their sub- and super-normal qualities, unfolds itself, leaving the reader with the impression that life with its successes, its failures and its sorrows is all a part of “the beauty and wonder.”
“There is a very vivid picture of the life of the town from the beginning of the book. One must admire the author’s skill in visualizing these varied elements.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ’20 370w
“The characters are well realized, the situations are poignant, and the method of narration becomes progressively more coherent and telling.”
+ Dial 69:210 Ag ’20 100w N Y Times 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 180w
“The book would be a better one if the end were reached a little sooner. The novel contains a good many characters, but the author keeps firm hold on each one of them, and their variety helps to give verisimilitude to this tale of love and politics in a small American town.”
+ N Y Times p29 Ag 15 ’20 700w Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“My feeling about the whole book is that it is too elaborate a mechanism, with a weakness at its vitals. Finally, we are reluctantly aware of the style as artful in its polish and saliency. We feel that the writer has labored well, but we feel that she has labored.” H. W. Boynton
− + Review 3:272 S 29 ’20 280w
ROSENFELD, PAUL. Musical portraits. *$2.50 (3c) Harcourt 780
20–8863
In these “interpretations of twenty modern composers” (Sub-title) the author characterizes the music of each and shows how each composer reflected the age in which he lived either in its entirety or in certain phases and according to the musician’s temperament. The composers are: Wagner; Strauss; Moussorgsky; Liszt; Berlioz; Franck; Debussy; Ravel; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Rachmaninoff; Scriabine; Strawinsky; Mahler; Reger; Schoenberg; Sibelius; Loeffler; Ornstein; Bloch. The appendix consists of short biographical notes of each composer.
Booklist 16:304 Je ’20
“Mr Rosenfeld knows how to write. This fact alone would make him of the minority among those who write at and about music. His style is nervous, clear, ironical if not humorous, and he uses words with precision. A well-written, interesting, sincere, exasperating book. In other words, a book worth reading.” Deems Taylor
+ − Dial 69:313 S ’20 3150w
“Each is a sort of snapshot of the essential personality of a musician, and all taken together make up a gallery of modern composers so penetrating, vivid and trenchant that no reader is likely to forget them. The method used is the impressionist. Inevitably, the special pitfall of a method like Mr Rosenfeld’s is over-subjectivity and sentimentalism, with its resultant turgidity and tendency to ‘fine writing.’ Mr Rosenfeld’s first book of essays at once establishes him as one of the few writers on music able really to illuminate their subject.” D. G. Mason
+ − Freeman 1:332 Je 16 ’20 1600w + Ind 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w
“Many of the fundamental ideas set forth have been voiced at one time or another by the more penetrating of European critics. Yet Mr Rosenfeld has displayed a marked faculty for reinvesting these ideas in fresh and striking habiliments, embroidering them with such originality and skill that they take a new aspect. The whole book, in fact, is an astounding exhibition of virtuoso writing.” Henrietta Straus
+ Nation 111:sup411 O 13 ’20 1550w
“For its many good qualities, this book is deserving of unstinted praise. For one thing, it is, I believe, the first noteworthy attempt to take an accurate and full-size measurement of the music makers of our day, and for another, the critical yard stick is applied by a hand equally as artistic as it is dexterous. The only annoyance I experienced in reading the book was due to a feeling that, in parts, many of the pages were overwritten.” Max Endicoff
+ − N Y Call p10 Jl 18 ’20 260w
“Mr Rosenfeld delights in vivid colors. At moments, to be sure, one sees a tendency to overdo this eloquence; to pass too suddenly from rhapsody to invective, and from praise to blame. But even with such faults—perhaps because of them—these ‘Twenty portraits’ are in their own field unique.” C: H: Meltzer
+ − Review 3:456 N 10 ’20 950w
“There is an abundance of subtlety, of ‘style,’ of smart theories that are more preoccupied with themselves and their inner consistency than with their subject-matter.”
− Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 31 ’20 380w
ROSS, EDWARD ALSWORTH. Principles of sociology. (Century social science ser.) *$4 Century 301
20–9364
“This is not merely another textbook in sociology but the exposition of a system of sociology which is the result of seventeen years of work. The work begins with a brief treatment of social population. In a limited but strong treatment of Social forces, Ross contends that social laws are not physical but psychical, following Ward in the theory that the social forces are human desires. Part III, on Social processes, contains the bulk of the book—480 pages. This is subdivided into thirty-eight chapters, including such subjects as association, domination, exploitation, opposition, stimulation, personal competition, adaptation, cooperation, stratification, gradation, commercialization, expansion, ossification, estrangement, individualization, liberation, and transformation. Under Social products are treated uniformities, standards, groups and institutions. The book closes with four chapters on sociological principles—anticipation, simulation, individualization and balance.”—Survey
“No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book, or even only superficially acquainted with it. Henceforth the student of social science who has not assimilated it is undertrained. It is a luminous revelation of realities of the common life.” A. W. Small
+ Am J Soc 26:110 Jl ’20 1250w + Booklist 17:15 O ’20
“Mr Ross’s cardinal fault is lack of historical-mindedness. He accepts as absolute the standards found or conceived in his own social environment and seems generally incapable of a Kantian critique of their validity. Yet with all its defects ‘The principles of sociology’ remains a work of real utility. Though the author’s resolute determination not to think anything through may deter the philosophical student, the vast scope of the book with its wealth of illustrative material may commend it to the teacher of sociology.” R. H. Lowie
+ − Nation 111:sup418 O 13 ’20 1450w
“The tone of this book is generous and whole-souled and the reader is thereby predisposed from the outset. The style goes with the tone. It is generously expansive to the verge of breeziness. By reason of its qualities of tone, style, and the rest this book ought to be of use in colleges and to the general reader.” A. G. Keller
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 23 ’20 1100w
“Few writers have the ability to present a subject in as interesting a manner as Ross. His style is pungent, clear and clean-cut.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 25 ’20 680w
“It is not only the most important sociological work of the past few months but without question the most important since the appearance of Todd’s ‘Theories of social progress,’ and possibly since Ward’s ‘Pure sociology.’ The book is not only a masterpiece as a scientific work but it is intensely interesting.” G. S. Dow
+ Survey 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 740w Wis Lib Bul 16:107 Je ’20 90w
ROSS, SIR RONALD.[[2]] Revels of Orsera. *$2.50 (2c) Dutton
21–665
This medieval romance purports to be based on some historical facts and on a manuscript by one Johannes Murinus, found in the library of the University at Bâle. The story is illustrative of the mystical conception that good and evil flow from the same source and are interchangeable and the result is a novel interpretation of dual personality. A proud mother of twins—one of whom is a deformed dwarf, albeit with a beautiful poetic spirit—thinks that by murdering him his spirit will enter into a corporeally beautiful demon, who obtrudes himself upon her in a dream, and thus make spirit and body one in beauty. She is correct in her first surmise but to her dismay, the body of the son also lives on with the spirit of the demon she has ousted. A second time she attempts to kill him in his new guise but only effects another exchange.
“It is written with a swash-buckling air, which reproduces with curious effectiveness the mediæval period in which it is laid.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 13 ’20 140w
“Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 28 ’20 600w
“The author’s invention remains at a high level throughout the story, and it is not till near the end that the practised novel reader begins to suspect his secret, but his vocabulary every now and then becomes too modern for the atmosphere such a story imperatively demands.”
+ − Sat R 130:486 D 11 ’20 130w
“‘The revels of Orsera’ would claim admiration on its merits quite apart from the antecedents of the author. When they are taken into account it moves the critic to something like amazement. Regarded merely as a story, ‘The revels of Orsera’ is continuously exciting, prodigal of surprises and often genuinely if grotesquely humorous.”
+ Spec 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 480w
“It is an extraordinary story, in which most of the principal characters come to a bad end, for which the reader cannot honestly be very sorry. But there is one thing that he will have noticed by that time, which is that the descriptions of Alpine scenery and atmosphere, which can only be due to personal observation, stand out with a far brighter vividness then all the medieval fineries.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p383 Je 17 ’20 850w
ROSS, VICTOR. Evolution of the oil industry. il *$1.50 (5c) Doubleday 665
20–19271
Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the industry is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the present time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum in history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s petroleum industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum as a world industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well; Collecting and transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and manufacturing petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries; Petroleum on the seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s investment in petroleum; Petroleum in the future.
ROTHERY, AGNES EDWARDS (MRS HARRY ROGERS PRATT) (AGNES EDWARDS, pseud.). Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. il *$2.50 (6½c) Houghton 974.4
20–26574
Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a foreword, the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip along the earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast road, connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel comfortably “picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten history we most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a pleasure trip into history and old traditions, as the table of contents reveals: Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the Blue hills; Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth; Ecclesiastical Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate shore; Marshfield, the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes; Kingston and its manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and chapter vignettes are by Louis H. Ruyl.
+ Booklist 16:342 Jl ’20
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
+ Bookm 52:126 O ’20 60w + Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 300w
“A pleasant, friendly guide book. It is charmingly illustrated.”
+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 50w
“If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to Plymouth, he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He will find each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”
+ N Y Times 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 1000w
“The pen-and-ink illustrations are unusually attractive.”
+ Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w + Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 13 ’20 200w
ROUTZAHN, MRS MARY BRAYTON (SWAIN).[[2]] Traveling publicity campaigns. il *$1.50 Russell Sage foundation 374
20–12390
The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e. “the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning; Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization; The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train; Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.
Ann Am Acad 93:226 Ja ’21 40w
“Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews
+ J Home Econ 13:89 F ’21 220w
ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL. Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–1699
The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang. He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist, dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.
“Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting reading.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 25 ’20 300w
“The tale is cheerfully improbable, swift-moving, and very entertaining.”
+ N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 400w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL. Peddler. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15959
The somewhat erratic peddler of the title carried his miscellaneous stock of wares in and on an immense ex-army truck, so that his approach was invariably heralded by a clanging and banging of hardware. In this way he made his entry into the exclusive New England colony where the Kirkland family of four sons and a daughter was justly famous. To the same resort in less spectacular style came a small band of European crooks, who proceeded at once to work silently and effectively along their own original lines of robbery. Not until William Kirkland was accused of the thefts, did the peddler reveal the fact that he was there as a member of the secret police incognito. But when an attempt upon William’s life was made, the peddler was on hand to rescue him and to try to capture the criminals. Altho the result was not satisfactory to him, the others concerned seemed to be quite content, and the bonus which he claimed in the person of Diana Kirkland reconciled him to what he considered his failure. Some of the characters and some of the stolen jewelry figured previously in Mr Rowland’s novel “Duds.”
“Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting.”
+ − Booklist 17:118 D ’20
“It is a rattling tale, full of new complications and exciting incidents. The interest does not flag, the characters are sharply differentiated human beings, and not automata. It is an admirable mystery story.”
+ N Y Times p29 Ja 2 ’21 200w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 120w
ROYCE, JOSIAH. Lectures on modern idealism. *$3 Yale univ. press 141
20–7505
“The ground covered by the book is largely the same as the substance of Royce’s ‘Spirit of modern philosophy,’ but the treatment is wholly different, being as professedly technical as the earlier book was not. And, whether wisely or unwisely, the author has avoided repeating what is contained in the ordinary histories of philosophy by emphasizing the neglected aspects of the thinkers whose systems he expounds.”—Springf’d Republican
“Interesting as a pre-war study of German philosophy.”
+ Booklist 16:259 My ’20
Reviewed by Hartley Alexander
Nation 111:sup409 O 13 ’20 2600w
“Throughout, Royce’s accurate scholarship and gift of sympathetic interpretation are at their best, but nowhere more so than in the three lectures on Hegel’s ‘Phaenomenology of spirit.’” R. F. A. H.
+ New Repub 25:325 F 9 ’21 900w
“The initial presumption that we have a book here worthy of careful study is amply justified by the reading.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 18 ’20 1150w
RUSH, THOMAS EDWARD. Port of New York. il *$3.50 Doubleday 387
20–10357
The purpose of this book, by the surveyor of customs of the port of New York, is to make it easier for business men, officials, teachers and students, to understand New York harbor, and to estimate its importance for the city, the country, and the world. It tells its history from the very beginning and points out five agencies as responsible for its improvements: the cities within the port areas; New York and New Jersey state governments; the federal government; the projected bi-state unified port control; and extra governmental agencies voicing the public’s demands and needs. Many drawbacks and inefficiencies are pointed out and the fact emphasized that New York is “first and foremost a port.” Among the contents are: Birth, christening, and youth; Piracy and privateering abolished; Eternal vigilance against smugglers; Giant growth in commerce; Government far-sightedness and short-sightedness; The port awakening of New Jersey; Forts and fortifications; New York, the nation’s first air harbor; Advertising New York port’s nautical school; Immigration’s gateway to America; Bibliography and illustrations.
Booklist 17:15 O ’20
“The port of New York is deserving of a more comprehensive and more technical study of its processes than is provided by Thomas E. Rush. An adequate study of the port from the transportation or engineering point of view it emphatically is not.”
− + Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 450w
RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM. Bolshevism: practice and theory. *$2 Harcourt 335
20–20991
A book containing the articles which appeared in the Nation together with new material. Bertrand Russell writes as a communist who finds much to criticize in the bolshevist method of putting communism into practice. He says: “A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure from their own ideals.” (Preface) The book is the outcome of a brief visit to Russia. Part 1, The present condition of Russia, has chapters on: What is hoped for Bolshevism; General characteristics; Lenin, Trotsky, and Gorky; Art and education (written by Mr Russell’s secretary, Miss D. W. Black); Daily life in Moscow; etc. Part 2, Bolshevik theory, is a criticism of the materialistic conception of history and other accepted doctrines, with chapters on: Why Russian communist has failed; and Conditions for the success of communism.
“We have found the most interesting part of Mr Russell’s book to be, on the whole, his analysis of the theory of Bolshevism.” J. W. N. S.
+ − Ath p695 N 19 ’20 780w + Booklist 17:142 Ja ’21
“A clear and convincing critique of Bolshevism as a social theory.” E: E. Paramore, jr.
+ N Y Evening Post p4 D 31 ’20 700w
“No such remarkable book as his ‘Bolshevism: practice and theory,’ has been published on this subject. Small as the volume is, only 192 pages, it is amazing how much he says.”
+ N Y Times p10 D 26 ’20 1400w
“Bertrand Russell is not a clear thinker. The chief value of this book lies in the fact that it is a condemnation of the spirit of Bolshevism by one whose prejudices for its avowed principles would naturally make him its apologist if not its defender.”
− + Outlook 126:767 D 29 ’20 180w Socialist R 10:30 Ja ’21 120w
“Mr Bertrand Russell’s book is likely to remain the most damning criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered as a faith or as a political institution. Although Mr Russell seems to us to be no more practical than a Russian Bolshevik, he is beyond doubt a brilliant philosopher, and often one cannot help finding fineness in his thought, even when he seems to us least to understand the ways of the ordinary man. Among the most interesting things in the book are the accounts of Mr Russell’s meetings with Lenin and Trotsky.”
+ − Spec 125:705 N 27 ’20 1900w
“Not the least interesting chapters are those on ‘Revolution and dictatorship’ and ‘Mechanism and the individual,’ in which Mr Russell reveals his own views as to the future industrial system which is to replace the present. Mr Russell himself is sanguine as to a new economic order emerging from the present chaos. But his grounds of faith are unconvincing.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p747 N 18 ’20 1200w
RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD. Story of the Nonpartisan league; a chapter in American evolution. il *$2 Harper 329
20–11024
Altho covering practically the same ground as Herbert E. Gaston’s “Nonpartisan league” this book goes more fully into the conditions out of which the league movement developed, bringing together much illustrative material and documentary evidence to show the workings of the system under which the farmer was exploited. The author says in beginning, “I have no idea that in the succeeding pages I can remove the fixed belief of the dwellers in cities that the farmer of America is becoming clog-footed with wealth, but it has occurred to me that a plain record of the tragic struggles of a large body of American farmers for bare justice and a chance to live ... might have some interest as a human as well as a social and political document of facts.” The part devoted to the rise and present organization of the league is correspondingly less complete than Mr Gaston’s, but the main facts are sketched. The book has been carefully indexed.
“Rather more interestingly and dramatically written than Gaston.”
+ Booklist 17:15 O ’20
“Admirable book.” W. H. C.
+ Freeman 2:282 D 29 ’20 480w
“The book should be viewed as a clever piece of journalism, effective but inaccurate. It has the earmarks of being scientific; it cites references: it affects a certain restraint in statement. Yet the critical reader will find its ‘citations’ ex parte, fragmentary, undated for the most part. The book is a good example of skilled juggling with half-truths. In short this book is not what it pretends to be—the facts about the Nonpartisan league.” J. E. Boyle
− J Pol Econ 28:705 O ’20 1400w
“While this book is not to be compared with the more intimate and comprehensive work by Mr Gaston, it is none the less a valuable account of a movement that has been much misrepresented in the public press.”
+ Nation 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 240w
“Mr Russell’s defense of the league’s attitude during the war is the best that can be put forward, and it is put forward by a sincere patriot who risked and suffered much for his loyalty. But the country has made up its mind on that point, and his defense, honest as it is, is unconvincing.”
+ − N Y Times 25:16 Jl 18 ’20 3950w Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w Wis Lib Bul 16:233 D ’20 60w
RUSSELL, MRS FRANCES THERESA (PEET). Satire in the Victorian novel. *$2.50 Macmillan 823
20–2031
“The author of this book is a professor at Leland Stanford junior university, and her interpretation of the satiric contributions to literature, offered by novelists of the Victorian epoch, has literary as well as scholastic value. Written primarily as a thesis, offered at Columbia university for the degree of doctor of philosophy, the author’s style bears necessarily unmistakable and potent signs of academic standards. The volume is divided into Premises, Methods, Objects and Conclusions. After giving to her readers the groundwork of her scheme, making certain that they understand the satiric motive, Professor Russell passes to the categorical stage in her exposition. She analyzes methods of satire, romantic, realistic, ironic. For this purpose she quotes from the writers of the period she is considering, writers such as Samuel Butler, Thomas Love Peacock, Meredith, Disraeli, Thackeray, Trollope and Dickens. She takes pains to show us how much ingenuity these men display in their methods of satiric attack and how their weapons vary, likewise their skill.”—Boston Transcript
“A thoroughly competent and scholarly study.”
+ Booklist 17:22 O ’20
“What will interest the un-academic mind particularly in this treatise is the author’s personal contribution. She offers, sometimes with a charming unconsciousness, her philosophy of living; and more than one of her reflections has a satiric thrust which makes us realize that the talent for touching on the weaknesses of humanity with a deftly humorous hand did not die with the Victorians!” D. F. G.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Mr 17 ’20 600w Lit D p126 Ap 17 ’20 950w
“She has a better talent for the abstract than for the concrete; her analyses are better than her discussions of actual examples. The reader learns much from her pages by gleaning over wide territory, but he drives behind an inexorable chauffeur who whirls him past alluring byways and leafy vistas. Names and ideas spin by like telephone poles. The author has a nice ear for the turn of a sentence, but she cannot train sentences to speak together.”
+ − Nation 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 250w + N Y Times p26 Ag 15 ’20 50w
“It is full of sustaining, gently amusing reading, and—most important—the reader will want to read it all. There is no waste.”
+ Spec 124:83 Jl 17 ’20 900w
“A certain rehabilitation of the Victorians is the chief service that Prof. Russell seems to have performed, often, seemingly, in spite of herself.” G: B. Dutton
+ − Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 1900w The Times [London] Lit Sup p242 Ap 15 ’20 200w
RUSSELL, RUTH. What’s the matter with Ireland? *$1.75 Devin-Adair 914.5
20–13138
“Miss Russell has undertaken her theme objectively, in the best reportorial sense, and by sounding a number of disparate apostles—as widely dissimilar as De Valera, George Russell, Countess Markiewiecz and the Bishop of Killaloe—she manages to throw light upon all phases of the problem. The book opens with a chapter on statistics, which bring the present plight of the country into the foreground of the reader’s imagination, and with this accomplished, the author turns to the narration of incidents, and to the gleaning of opinions, which are set down with impartial emphasis.”—Freeman
“She succeeds in rousing our sympathy for the poor working girls of Dublin, and the other unfortunate people of the city and the bog-field. But when she takes up the political, she seems unable to do justice to her subject. There is no doubt Miss Russell’s intentions are good, but it is doubtful if such books as this will help Ireland’s cause.”
− + Cath World 112:396 D ’20 210w
“She wisely refrains from any ex cathedra dogmatism on her own account.” L. B.
+ Freeman 2:214 N 10 ’20 140w
RUSSELL, THOMAS. Commercial advertising. (Studies in economics and political science) *$2.50 Putnam 659
20–297
“Mr Russell is the president of the Incorporated society of advertisement consultants, and was sometime advertisement manager of the Times. He writes, therefore, with authority, and he deals fully with such themes as the economic justification of advertising, the functions and policy of advertising, the chief methods of advertising, and with advertising as a career.” (Ath) “The six lectures were delivered in the spring of this year at the London school of economics.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The book should be useful and suggestive to commercial men and others.”
+ Ath p929 S 19 ’19 70w Springf’d Republican p8 F 7 ’20 400w
“The six lectures are not only worthy of their academic auspices but might well serve as models of modern academic exposition. They have the breadth and insight that is properly called philosophic, whatever the subject-matter may be, and the concreteness that makes a philosophic treatment glow with interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p510 S 25 ’19 900w
RUTZEBECK, HJALMAR. Alaska man’s luck. *$2 Boni & Liveright
20–26890
“The book is a unique autobiographical chronicle, told in the form of a diary, of the struggles of its author-hero to make a home for himself in the land of the snows. Hjalmar Rutzebeck, or Svend Norman, as he calls himself in his book, was born and raised in Denmark. He left school at the age of twelve and has had no further formal schooling since then. We first meet our twentieth century viking in Los Angeles, just after he had been honorably discharged from the United States army. With winning naïveté he tells us how he has fallen in love with Marian. When Svend learns that the northland is as dear to Marian as it is to him, he immediately sets out to make a stake there.... As Svend goes on from adventure to adventure he records them in his diary, and it is this diary, mailed to Marian piecemeal as he went along, that is reprinted in ‘Alaska man’s luck.’”—N Y Times
“Interesting specially to men or older boys.”
+ Booklist 17:74 N ’20
“It must be confessed that the tale is fascinating, in spite of, or perhaps because of its naïveté.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:344 D ’20 120w
“An extraordinary story.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 19 ’21 330w
“There is no self-consciousness in ‘Alaska man’s luck,’ nor is there any suggestion of a sophisticated striving to return to the simple and primitive.” L. M. R.
+ Freeman 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 110w
“For his first novel, Hjalmar Rutzebeck has wisely chosen a hero of his own race and temperament. He attains a consistent realism by letting Svend Norman’s diaries and letters tell their own story.”
+ N Y Evening Post p20 O 23 ’20 220w
“The simplicity and directness with which the author tells his blood-stirring story, even the occasional crudities in his English, serve to enhance rather than mar the epic quality of his narrative.”
+ N Y Times p14 N 14 ’20 2250w
RYAN, AGNES. Whisper of fire. *$1.25 Four seas co. 811
19–18255
A series of poems arranged as: Wood, Kindling, Smoldering, Smoke, Blaze, Smoke again, Flame, Coals, Ashes. Altho they are loosely strung together the succession of verses tells the story of a woman’s love life.
+ Booklist 16:272 My ’20
“Several of the verses, notably ‘I wonder,’ are compact and vivid in imagery and spiritual message.”
+ Cath World 110:844 Mr ’20 40w Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Each poem is a mere fragment in free verse, a chip off the old block of femininity. This will please readers of poetry of the hour. For the present vogue is fragmentary. Many of these poems are trivial and unimportant, but a few have the eloquence of reality.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − N Y Times 25:82 F 8 ’20 120w
RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE. Church and socialism; and other essays. (Social justice bks.) *$1.50 University press, Brookland, Washington, D.C. 304
20–221
“A collection of papers that have appeared in various publications during the past ten years. Only the first paper relates intimately to the title of the book. Other topics discussed are: A living wage; The legal minimum wage; Moral aspects of the labor union; The moral aspects of speculation; Birth control; and Woman suffrage.”—Am Econ R
Am Econ R 10:385 Je ’20 50w
“The essay, ‘False and true conceptions of welfare,’ is to our mind the most practical of the entire series.”
+ Cath World 111:392 Je ’20 280w
“They reveal a large acquaintance with economic and industrial problems. It would be beside the point to criticize these papers without remembering that they were written for Catholics. While we agree with many of Dr Ryan’s conclusions, we should find it difficult to subscribe to some of his premises and to submit to the intellectual limitations which follow.” R: Roberts
+ − Nation 110:266 F 28 ’20 280w Springf’d Republican p8 D 13 ’19 90w
RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE. Living wage; with an introd. by R: T. Ely. *$2 Macmillan 331.2
20–1611
“A revised and abridged edition of a work that has had much influence in bringing about the enactment of minimum-wage laws and the acceptance of the principle that the laborer has a moral claim to at least a decent living wage. The author is a priest of the Roman Catholic church and a professor in the Catholic university of America.”—R of Rs
“It is agreeable to say that Dr Ryan argues the living wage question better than almost anybody else.”
+ N Y Times 25:267 My 23 ’20 550w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 60w
“Ethically it is far in advance of the thought of a generation ago, and many even now will find themselves unable to keep pace with it.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Je 22 ’20 100w
RYAN, WILLIAM PATRICK. Irish labor movement. (Modern Ireland in the making) *$2 Huebsch 331.09
(Eng ed 20–113)
In reviewing the history of Irish labor in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the author points out how the genius of the Irish people was submerged and its spirit broken by the enforced assimilation of a foreign social system, a foreign speech and a foreign character. However cruel and inhuman English dominion has proved itself to be, the struggle for freedom has been mental and spiritual as well as economic. “The breaking of the chains, the unloading of the degrading burdens that we know, will inevitably lead to the resurrection and the flowering of the workers’ deeper natures, now blunted and buried. Then they may be artists and creators.” Contents: Labor and the Gael; Land workers’ ordeals and deeds; William Thompson, Robert Owen and Ralahine; Our early trade unionism; The guilds and the unions; Illusive emancipation; O’Connell and tragi-comedy; Weavers and “lock-ups”; Lalor and lean years; In Davitt’s days; Connolly in the schools of labor; Connolly’s teaching—industrial unionism; Larkin’s youth in the depths; The rise of “Larkinism”; Up from slavery in Ulster; The struggle of 1913; The ultimate sacrifice; Towards the commonwealth; Authorities and sources.
Ath p412 My 30 ’19 70w