+ N Y Evening Post p4 D 4 ’20 700w
STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.). Present day Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4
20–15940
“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional guide book features are omitted. There is no index.
“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 N 5 ’20 540w
STRATON, JOHN ROACH. Menace of immorality in church and state; messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176
20–6996
A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city, all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time, and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are: Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze; God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath observance as social sanity.