+ N Y Times p20 D 5 ’20 740w
YOUNG, GEOFFREY WINTHROP, ed.[[2]] Mountain craft. il *$7.50 Scribner 796
“This book comprises 609 pages in all; about 394 pages are occupied by Mr Young in person in a discussion of what he justly calls ‘Mountain craft.’ Of the remainder, sixty-three are occupied by Mr Arnold Lunn with a section on Mountaineering on ski, which leaves 162 pages for eleven other contributors and the index.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Boston Transcript p3 D 4 ’20 280w
“In the result the book is disproportioned and ill-arranged; it affords some compensations. Mr Lunn’s article is a very valuable treatise on a subject which deserves more attention. Captain Farrar finds it possible in a small space to say all that is necessary about equipment and outfit, writing, as he always does, with complete mastery of detail and admirable conciseness. Mr Spenser on photography is helpful and adequate.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p754 N 18 ’20 2300w
YOUNG, GEORGE. New Germany. *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt 943
(Eng ed 20–4808)
There is a note of optimism for Germany in this book—the Germany that has learned “to lift up its eyes to the hills” in all its misery—and a grave note of warning for the Entente. “The mistake we are all making about Germany ... is that we can’t realize what Germany today is like.... Germany has given up. It carried on until it collapsed, and now lies semi-comatose; and we, still absorbed in our quarrel, keep pestering it with solicitors and foreclosures instead of patching it up with doctors and food.” The author is, since the armistice, a special correspondent of the London Daily News in Germany. Contents: The revolution; The reaction; The council republics; Ruin and reconstruction; Council government; The treaty of Versailles; The constitution. The appendix contains a copy of the constitution with notes, and there is an index.