(Eng ed 20–16192)
In introducing this book of poems Frank Swinnerton refers to originality and candour as their outstanding qualities. Of the author he says, “Whatever technical faults her verses may have they remain altogether unspoilt by literary sophistication.” Some of the titles are: Underground; Withholding; Then and now; Alone; Piccadilly, 1917; America, 1917; London in war; The betrayal; Adjustment; Garden song; Trying to sleep; The traveller; In the dark.
+ Booklist 17:105 D ’20 Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 300w
“Many of these pieces are happy little efforts in lyrical poems of love or regret, and the whiffs of verse in vers libre are felicitous.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup Je 3 ’20 110w
SWISHER, WALTER SAMUEL. Religion and the new psychology. *$2 Jones, Marshall 201
20–12542
“A psycho-analytic study of religion,” with chapters devoted to: The nature of the religious problem; The nature of the unconscious and its influence on the religious life; The motivation of human life; Determinism and free-will; Mysticism and neurotic states; The problem of evil; Pathological religious types; The occult in modern religious systems; Conversion and attendant phenomena; The changing basis and objective of religion; Methods of mental and religious healing; The religious problem in education. Two appendices are devoted to: Dreams and dream mechanisms and Birth dreams. There is a brief bibliography and an index. The author goes rather fully into the principles of psycho-analysis and the book may serve as an introduction to those who have not read widely on the subject.