− Nation 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w R of Rs 61:447 Ap ’20 80w Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w + Springf’d Republican p10 O 15 ’20 270w
“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty
+ − Survey 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w The Times [London] Lit Sup p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w
TOMLINSON, H. M. Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910
(Eng ed 19–15918)
This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K. Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.
“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M. Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life, but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.
+ Ath p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w + Booklist 16:235 Ap ’20
“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker