− + N Y Times 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Incidentally the novel gives a realistic picture of the war privations and provocations in remote English villages. The story is built on unusual lines and its originality makes it decidedly readable.”
+ Outlook 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 160w
GAMBLE, WILLIAM. Photography and its applications. il $1 Pitman 770
20–16270
The book is one of the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series. It is not intended as a guide or text-book for those desiring to practice the art of photography, but as a popular outline of the subject for general information on “How it’s done.” Contents: The discovery of photography; The camera and lens; Dark room and its equipment; The sensitive plates: wet collodion process, and collodion emulsion and dry plates; Making the exposure; Development and after-treatment of the plate; Printing processes: carbon and other methods; Enlarging, copying, and lantern-slide making; Colour processes; Scientific applications of photography; Cinema-photography; Photomechanical processes; Industrial applications of photography; Photography in warfare; Illustrations and index.
GANACHILLY, ALFRED. Whispering dead. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90 (3c) Knopf
20–8519
Some years before the war, according to this story, there was a fire at the German embassy at Santiago, Chile, which completely destroyed the building. In the ruins were found the charred remains of a human body, and the mystery of the story is the identity of the man who so perished. Beckert, the German chancellor, was thought to be the unfortunate victim, but Rojas, the Chilean detective, has another theory which takes him on a wild chase in the Andes, resulting in the capture of the man who was responsible for the fire, and the murderer of the unknown person who perished in it. Stress is laid on the ruthlessness characteristic of the German nature even before the war.