20–15954
A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover, written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy; The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.
“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p8 D 12 ’20 70w
“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’; but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w
GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM. Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6
(Eng ed 20–23038)
“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’ set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the ‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published, is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post