=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).=[2] Green eyes of Bast.
*$2 (2½c) McBride

                                                                20–18256

  This story is of the unreal, and presupposes the existence of hybrid
  beings, half woman and half cat, born in Egypt in the month sacred to
  the goddess Bast. The fate of the individual or family upon which the
  enmity of such a being rests, may be imagined. The Coverly family in
  England is so marked, and one by one its members meet their deaths in
  various ghastly manners. To the police, who are naturally not in
  possession of the secret of the cat-woman, it is very mysterious.
  Altho they make many discoveries, what finally clears it all up is the
  confession of the Eurasian, Dr Damar Greefe, who had brought up the
  hybrid monstrosity in the interests of science. Though they are in
  league together, she finally masters him and the final tragedy is his
  death, for she eventually adds his murder to the already long list of
  fatalities of the story.

  “Persons of experience know that, in shockers as in life, it is not
  the goal but the road there that matters, and their gratitude to the
  author will suffer no diminution because the villain’s explanatory
  discourse reveals some weak points in the construction of the story.”

     + − =Ath= p275 Ag 27 ’20 150w

     + − =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 540w

  “Mr Rohmer devotes himself to the production of atmosphere with his
  old skill.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p538 Ag 19 ’20 130w

=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Liluli. il *$2 Boni & Liveright 842

                                                                20–11590

  “In ‘Liluli’ Romain Rolland has given to the world one of the most
  daring satires that have ever been written. Liluli is illusion, the
  ideal, the chimera, the eternal vamp of history. The time and place of
  the drama are fanciful. The stage is a ravine spanned by a footbridge.
  The human race is on the march—toward a mirage. There are peasants and
  intellectuals, diplomatists and socialists, satyrs and mountebanks,
  Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, Truth and Opinion, the Gallipoulets
  and the Hurluberloches (who are at war), shopkeepers, peddlers and
  fettered brains. And Polichinello. He is the laughing brain. He is the
  eternal mocker. He believes in nothing and smiles at all things. He is
  the wisdom of folly. In the general crash on the bridge of the world,
  when the human race goes into the abyss, Polichinello goes with it.
  Everything collapses on him—the fighting people, furniture, crockery,
  poultry, stones, earth and the grand chorus of idealists. On top of
  the mess sits Liluli, her legs crossed, smiling and showing the tip of
  her tongue, her fore-finger to her nose.”—N Y Times

         =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

  “The play is a farce and a savage satire all in one. It is
  Aristophanic in its conception and working out, now bitter, now
  blatant, now indecent, and at times blasphemous. It would have been
  entirely possible to satirize hypocrisy and venality as playing potent
  parts in the stirring up of war without insulting religion and its
  God.”

       − =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 170w

  “It is a strange and powerful book, this monstrous comedy of
  world-wide calamity. The logical necessity of the catastrophe, the
  inevitableness with which not only the vices, but even the virtues of
  her victims play into the hands of Liluli, make them susceptible to
  her lure, and hasten their doom, gives this weird farce the
  impressiveness of a Greek tragedy.” H. M. Evers

       + =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 620w

  “It is a pity that M. Rolland has chosen the now dominant symbolical
  forms for the embodiment of his fable. Never so much as today did art
  need to speak directly. ‘Liluli’ is beautiful and memorable. But its
  literary sophistication stands in the way of its broader
  effectiveness.” Ludwig Lewisohn

     + − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 370w

  “Probably Rolland had in mind to write somewhat after the manner of
  Aristophanes. Certainly he has the necessary verve and gusto and
  satiric sting. But the Greek stuck to themes that could be represented
  on the stage. The Frenchman has tried to sweep all humanity into the
  scene, and the result is that you, the reader, have to create a brain
  theater for the work in order to realize its true values. It would
  have been far more effective for most people in some other form.”

     + − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 550w

  “‘Liluli’ is a memorable book. It demolishes with great Rabelaisian
  and Aristophanic guffaws the ridiculous and anarchistic societies that
  we live in. The book is a bridge to a new world—still nebulous, not
  even yet a mirage.” B: de Casseres

       + =N Y Times= 25:2 Jl 11 ’20 860w

         =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 30w

  “‘Liluli’ is written in behalf of what is, or was or should be, a
  noble cause; it is written with an art and grace which should have
  fitted it to charm and to serve; yet its spirit and methods are such
  as to dispel that charm and to annul that service.”

     − + =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 950w

         =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 23 ’20 950w

  “Perhaps Romain Rolland is scarcely of the race and lineage of the
  master satirists, and his ‘Liluli’ may not be the ideal satire for
  this crazy age; but Rolland shows many of their great traits, and
  ‘Liluli’ is so far the one outstanding satire of its time.”

       + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:348 O ’20 410w

  “Here are all the arguments and experiences with which the pacifist is
  familiar incisively personified—not without a certain strong tang of a
  former literary age.”

       + =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w

=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. trappers. (U.S.
service ser.) il *$1.50 (2c) Lothrop 639

                                                                19–17885

  This unusually well illustrated volume follows the plan of the other
  books of the series in combining information with narrative. In
  telling the story of young Gavin Keary, from the time he is left alone
  to shift for himself till he is engaged as a trapper by the U.S.
  biological survey, the author manages to impart a great deal of
  information about the work of this branch of the government service,
  the conditions of modern trapping and the ways of wild animals.

  “The average reader will find it interesting and boys will find it
  even thrilling.”

       + =Booklist= 16:208 Mr ’20

  “It avoids the insipidity that goes with most boys’ books and is
  packed full of information about ranch life.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w

=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Great demonstration. *$2 (3c) Appleton

                                                                20–19435

  Roger Lessing and Terry Endicott are both in love with Lucretia Dale.
  She is in love with neither until on the eve of Terry’s departure for
  the war, she realizes that he has her heart. But report comes that he
  is dead, and half against her own will, she consents to marry though
  she cannot love Roger. Roger has always been a disciple of New
  thought, believing “What I desire, will come to me,” but even his
  desire for Lucretia’s love cannot bring it to him. Then Terry is
  miraculously returned to life from a German prison; and Roger’s desire
  for Lucretia’s love is intensified. From the creed of New thought he
  advances into more dangerous forms of eastern mysticism to gain his
  end until finally the power that he sought to use masters him, and he
  meets his death in his last effort to control Lucretia’s mind and
  love.

  “It cannot be said that the psychic element in this novel is either
  interesting or convincing. On the other hand, the sketches of daily
  existence in the ‘studio’ are amusing and the general atmosphere of
  the story is pleasing.”

     + − =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 430w

=ROOSEVELT, KERMIT.= Happy hunting-grounds. *$1.75 Scribner 799

                                                                20–19277

  “In the opening chapter, the author gives an intimate picture of his
  father, as he remembers him in the rôle of companion during numerous
  hunting expeditions. There are numerous personal incidents and
  reminiscences. Other chapters have to do with hunting in America,
  including trips into Mexico. ‘Book collecting in South America’
  recalls another purpose of a trip into a foreign land. At the end of
  the volume a sketch is given of Seth Bullock, his father’s friend,
  sometimes called the ‘last of the frontiersmen,’ a type celebrated and
  adored by Roosevelt.”—Springf’d Republican

         =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

       + =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 420w

  “The volume is interesting and well written throughout—Kermit
  Roosevelt has inherited his father’s knack of clear description and
  vigorous English.”

       + =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 130w

       + =R of Rs= 62:669 D 20 140w

  “Will be welcomed by the many admirers of the former president, those
  who admired him as a man, and not only as a political leader.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 190w

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p843 D 9 ’20 150w

=ROPER, WILLIAM W.= Winning football. il *$2 (4½c) Dodd 797

                                                                20–17071

  The author distinguishes between an old and a new way of playing
  football. The old way “was first and last a trial of speed and
  strength and weight and courage” in which cleverness was at a discount
  and mere pounds and inches at a premium. The new way is “thinking
  football,” for which the author claims every manly virtue and that it
  is “a splendid preparatory school for life.” Of this game the book
  proposes to set forth the underlying principles. Contents: Modern
  football a battle of wits; The spirit behind the team; The routine of
  early season practise; Every man in every play; A real quarter-back
  must have brains; Running the team; The kicking game; The schedule;
  The day of the big game; Illustrations.

       + =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

  “A readable unusually valuable book for any one who is coaching
  football.”

       + =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w

  “It is not only informational, but inspirational. The attitude
  throughout is that of the highminded amateur sportsman of the best
  type. For this reason, if for no other, it is a book that most men and
  all boys should read.”

       + =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 210w

       + =N Y Times= p25 Ja 30 ’21 160w

=ROSE, JOSHUA.= Complete practical machinist. il $3 Baird 621.9

                                                                 20–2274

  In the twentieth, greatly enlarged edition of this work, the reader is
  introduced “to the machine tools in which the cutting tools are used,
  whereas in the earlier editions the cutting tools only were treated
  upon.” (Preface) The present edition has 432 illustrations. The work
  originally appeared in 1894.

=ROSEBORO, VIOLA.= Storms of youth. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner

                                                                 20–8273

  Just before Perry Grantley left college, a faculty incident revealed
  to him in a flash what “a sporty thing” it would be to be a man. It
  clinched his decision to stay in the old home town and fight the
  political graft that had crept into the local government there. In the
  story we follow Perry’s crusade against the insidious corruption of
  the town and his personal vicissitudes in matters of the heart—how his
  unguarded marriage to a flower-like girl with an unborn soul resulted
  in early widowerhood and his final union with the playmate of his
  youth whom he had always loved. Incidentally a picture of small town
  life, its outstanding figures, with their normal, their sub- and
  super-normal qualities, unfolds itself, leaving the reader with the
  impression that life with its successes, its failures and its sorrows
  is all a part of “the beauty and wonder.”

  “There is a very vivid picture of the life of the town from the
  beginning of the book. One must admire the author’s skill in
  visualizing these varied elements.”

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 370w

  “The characters are well realized, the situations are poignant, and
  the method of narration becomes progressively more coherent and
  telling.”

       + =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 100w

         =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 180w

  “The book would be a better one if the end were reached a little
  sooner. The novel contains a good many characters, but the author
  keeps firm hold on each one of them, and their variety helps to give
  verisimilitude to this tale of love and politics in a small American
  town.”

       + =N Y Times= p29 Ag 15 ’20 700w

         =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

  “My feeling about the whole book is that it is too elaborate a
  mechanism, with a weakness at its vitals. Finally, we are reluctantly
  aware of the style as artful in its polish and saliency. We feel that
  the writer has labored well, but we feel that she has labored.” H. W.
  Boynton

     − + =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 280w

=ROSENFELD, PAUL.= Musical portraits. *$2.50 (3c) Harcourt 780

                                                                 20–8863

  In these “interpretations of twenty modern composers” (Sub-title) the
  author characterizes the music of each and shows how each composer
  reflected the age in which he lived either in its entirety or in
  certain phases and according to the musician’s temperament. The
  composers are: Wagner; Strauss; Moussorgsky; Liszt; Berlioz; Franck;
  Debussy; Ravel; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Rachmaninoff; Scriabine;
  Strawinsky; Mahler; Reger; Schoenberg; Sibelius; Loeffler; Ornstein;
  Bloch. The appendix consists of short biographical notes of each
  composer.

         =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

  “Mr Rosenfeld knows how to write. This fact alone would make him of
  the minority among those who write at and about music. His style is
  nervous, clear, ironical if not humorous, and he uses words with
  precision. A well-written, interesting, sincere, exasperating book. In
  other words, a book worth reading.” Deems Taylor

     + − =Dial= 69:313 S ’20 3150w

  “Each is a sort of snapshot of the essential personality of a
  musician, and all taken together make up a gallery of modern composers
  so penetrating, vivid and trenchant that no reader is likely to forget
  them. The method used is the impressionist. Inevitably, the special
  pitfall of a method like Mr Rosenfeld’s is over-subjectivity and
  sentimentalism, with its resultant turgidity and tendency to ‘fine
  writing.’ Mr Rosenfeld’s first book of essays at once establishes him
  as one of the few writers on music able really to illuminate their
  subject.” D. G. Mason

     + − =Freeman= 1:332 Je 16 ’20 1600w

       + =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w

  “Many of the fundamental ideas set forth have been voiced at one time
  or another by the more penetrating of European critics. Yet Mr
  Rosenfeld has displayed a marked faculty for reinvesting these ideas
  in fresh and striking habiliments, embroidering them with such
  originality and skill that they take a new aspect. The whole book, in
  fact, is an astounding exhibition of virtuoso writing.” Henrietta
  Straus

       + =Nation= 111:sup411 O 13 ’20 1550w

  “For its many good qualities, this book is deserving of unstinted
  praise. For one thing, it is, I believe, the first noteworthy attempt
  to take an accurate and full-size measurement of the music makers of
  our day, and for another, the critical yard stick is applied by a hand
  equally as artistic as it is dexterous. The only annoyance I
  experienced in reading the book was due to a feeling that, in parts,
  many of the pages were overwritten.” Max Endicoff

     + − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 260w

  “Mr Rosenfeld delights in vivid colors. At moments, to be sure, one
  sees a tendency to overdo this eloquence; to pass too suddenly from
  rhapsody to invective, and from praise to blame. But even with such
  faults—perhaps because of them—these ‘Twenty portraits’ are in their
  own field unique.” C: H: Meltzer

     + − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 950w

  “There is an abundance of subtlety, of ‘style,’ of smart theories that
  are more preoccupied with themselves and their inner consistency than
  with their subject-matter.”

       − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 31 ’20 380w

=ROSS, EDWARD ALSWORTH.= Principles of sociology. (Century social
science ser.) *$4 Century 301

                                                                 20–9364

  “This is not merely another textbook in sociology but the exposition
  of a system of sociology which is the result of seventeen years of
  work. The work begins with a brief treatment of social population.
  In a limited but strong treatment of Social forces, Ross contends
  that social laws are not physical but psychical, following Ward in
  the theory that the social forces are human desires. Part III, on
  Social processes, contains the bulk of the book—480 pages. This is
  subdivided into thirty-eight chapters, including such subjects as
  association, domination, exploitation, opposition, stimulation,
  personal competition, adaptation, cooperation, stratification,
  gradation, commercialization, expansion, ossification, estrangement,
  individualization, liberation, and transformation. Under Social
  products are treated uniformities, standards, groups and
  institutions. The book closes with four chapters on sociological
  principles—anticipation, simulation, individualization and
  balance.”—Survey

  “No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his
  particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book,
  or even only superficially acquainted with it. Henceforth the student
  of social science who has not assimilated it is undertrained. It is a
  luminous revelation of realities of the common life.” A. W. Small

       + =Am J Soc= 26:110 Jl ’20 1250w

       + =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

  “Mr Ross’s cardinal fault is lack of historical-mindedness. He accepts
  as absolute the standards found or conceived in his own social
  environment and seems generally incapable of a Kantian critique of
  their validity. Yet with all its defects ‘The principles of sociology’
  remains a work of real utility. Though the author’s resolute
  determination not to think anything through may deter the
  philosophical student, the vast scope of the book with its wealth of
  illustrative material may commend it to the teacher of sociology.” R.
  H. Lowie

     + − =Nation= 111:sup418 O 13 ’20 1450w

  “The tone of this book is generous and whole-souled and the reader is
  thereby predisposed from the outset. The style goes with the tone. It
  is generously expansive to the verge of breeziness. By reason of its
  qualities of tone, style, and the rest this book ought to be of use in
  colleges and to the general reader.” A. G. Keller

       + =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1100w

  “Few writers have the ability to present a subject in as interesting a
  manner as Ross. His style is pungent, clear and clean-cut.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 680w

  “It is not only the most important sociological work of the past few
  months but without question the most important since the appearance of
  Todd’s ‘Theories of social progress,’ and possibly since Ward’s ‘Pure
  sociology.’ The book is not only a masterpiece as a scientific work
  but it is intensely interesting.” G. S. Dow

       + =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 740w

         =Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 90w

=ROSS, SIR RONALD.=[2] Revels of Orsera. *$2.50 (2c) Dutton

                                                                  21–665

  This medieval romance purports to be based on some historical facts
  and on a manuscript by one Johannes Murinus, found in the library of
  the University at Bâle. The story is illustrative of the mystical
  conception that good and evil flow from the same source and are
  interchangeable and the result is a novel interpretation of dual
  personality. A proud mother of twins—one of whom is a deformed dwarf,
  albeit with a beautiful poetic spirit—thinks that by murdering him his
  spirit will enter into a corporeally beautiful demon, who obtrudes
  himself upon her in a dream, and thus make spirit and body one in
  beauty. She is correct in her first surmise but to her dismay, the
  body of the son also lives on with the spirit of the demon she has
  ousted. A second time she attempts to kill him in his new guise but
  only effects another exchange.

  “It is written with a swash-buckling air, which reproduces with
  curious effectiveness the mediæval period in which it is laid.”

       + =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 13 ’20 140w

  “Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness
  of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he
  lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the
  stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”

       + =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 600w

  “The author’s invention remains at a high level throughout the story,
  and it is not till near the end that the practised novel reader begins
  to suspect his secret, but his vocabulary every now and then becomes
  too modern for the atmosphere such a story imperatively demands.”

     + − =Sat R= 130:486 D 11 ’20 130w

  “‘The revels of Orsera’ would claim admiration on its merits quite
  apart from the antecedents of the author. When they are taken into
  account it moves the critic to something like amazement. Regarded
  merely as a story, ‘The revels of Orsera’ is continuously exciting,
  prodigal of surprises and often genuinely if grotesquely humorous.”

       + =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 480w

  “It is an extraordinary story, in which most of the principal
  characters come to a bad end, for which the reader cannot honestly be
  very sorry. But there is one thing that he will have noticed by that
  time, which is that the descriptions of Alpine scenery and atmosphere,
  which can only be due to personal observation, stand out with a far
  brighter vividness then all the medieval fineries.”

     − + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 850w

=ROSS, VICTOR.= Evolution of the oil industry. il *$1.50 (5c) Doubleday
665

                                                                20–19271

  Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in
  Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest
  historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively
  new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches
  man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the industry
  is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the present
  time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum in
  history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s petroleum
  industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum as a world
  industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well; Collecting and
  transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and manufacturing
  petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries; Petroleum on the
  seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s investment in
  petroleum; Petroleum in the future.

=ROTHERY, AGNES EDWARDS (MRS HARRY ROGERS PRATT) (AGNES EDWARDS,
pseud.).= Old coast road from Boston to Plymouth. il *$2.50 (6½c)
Houghton 974.4

                                                                20–26574

  Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a foreword,
  the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip along the
  earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast road,
  connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel comfortably
  “picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten history we
  most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a pleasure trip
  into history and old traditions, as the table of contents reveals:
  Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the Blue hills;
  Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth; Ecclesiastical
  Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate shore; Marshfield,
  the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes; Kingston and its
  manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and chapter vignettes are by
  Louis H. Ruyl.

       + =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20

  Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

       + =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w

       + =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 300w

  “A pleasant, friendly guide book. It is charmingly illustrated.”

       + =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 50w

  “If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to Plymouth,
  he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He will find
  each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 1000w

  “The pen-and-ink illustrations are unusually attractive.”

       + =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w

       + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 200w

=ROUTZAHN, MRS MARY BRAYTON (SWAIN).=[2] Traveling publicity campaigns.
il *$1.50 Russell Sage foundation 374

                                                                20–12390

  The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby
  M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried
  on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e.
  “the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other
  campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor
  trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a
  continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of
  traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning;
  Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization;
  The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train;
  Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.

         =Ann Am Acad= 93:226 Ja ’21 40w

  “Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will
  find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews

       + =J Home Econ= 13:89 F ’21 220w

=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

                                                                 20–1699

  The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry
  and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in
  the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang.
  He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas
  Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff
  although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their
  methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and
  killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he
  realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample
  restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s
  daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas
  becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil
  woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist,
  dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is
  really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.

  “Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an
  unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a
  singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting
  reading.”

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 300w

  “The tale is cheerfully improbable, swift-moving, and very
  entertaining.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 400w

       + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL.= Peddler. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

                                                                20–15959

  The somewhat erratic peddler of the title carried his miscellaneous
  stock of wares in and on an immense ex-army truck, so that his
  approach was invariably heralded by a clanging and banging of
  hardware. In this way he made his entry into the exclusive New England
  colony where the Kirkland family of four sons and a daughter was
  justly famous. To the same resort in less spectacular style came a
  small band of European crooks, who proceeded at once to work silently
  and effectively along their own original lines of robbery. Not until
  William Kirkland was accused of the thefts, did the peddler reveal the
  fact that he was there as a member of the secret police incognito. But
  when an attempt upon William’s life was made, the peddler was on hand
  to rescue him and to try to capture the criminals. Altho the result
  was not satisfactory to him, the others concerned seemed to be quite
  content, and the bonus which he claimed in the person of Diana
  Kirkland reconciled him to what he considered his failure. Some of the
  characters and some of the stolen jewelry figured previously in Mr
  Rowland’s novel “Duds.”

  “Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting.”

     + − =Booklist= 17:118 D ’20

  “It is a rattling tale, full of new complications and exciting
  incidents. The interest does not flag, the characters are sharply
  differentiated human beings, and not automata. It is an admirable
  mystery story.”

       + =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 200w

       + =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 120w

=ROYCE, JOSIAH.= Lectures on modern idealism. *$3 Yale univ. press 141

                                                                 20–7505

  “The ground covered by the book is largely the same as the substance
  of Royce’s ‘Spirit of modern philosophy,’ but the treatment is wholly
  different, being as professedly technical as the earlier book was not.
  And, whether wisely or unwisely, the author has avoided repeating what
  is contained in the ordinary histories of philosophy by emphasizing
  the neglected aspects of the thinkers whose systems he
  expounds.”—Springf’d Republican

  “Interesting as a pre-war study of German philosophy.”

       + =Booklist= 16:259 My ’20

  Reviewed by Hartley Alexander

         =Nation= 111:sup409 O 13 ’20 2600w

  “Throughout, Royce’s accurate scholarship and gift of sympathetic
  interpretation are at their best, but nowhere more so than in the
  three lectures on Hegel’s ‘Phaenomenology of spirit.’” R. F. A. H.

       + =New Repub= 25:325 F 9 ’21 900w

  “The initial presumption that we have a book here worthy of careful
  study is amply justified by the reading.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 1150w

=RUSH, THOMAS EDWARD.= Port of New York. il *$3.50 Doubleday 387

                                                                20–10357

  The purpose of this book, by the surveyor of customs of the port of
  New York, is to make it easier for business men, officials, teachers
  and students, to understand New York harbor, and to estimate its
  importance for the city, the country, and the world. It tells its
  history from the very beginning and points out five agencies as
  responsible for its improvements: the cities within the port areas;
  New York and New Jersey state governments; the federal government; the
  projected bi-state unified port control; and extra governmental
  agencies voicing the public’s demands and needs. Many drawbacks and
  inefficiencies are pointed out and the fact emphasized that New York
  is “first and foremost a port.” Among the contents are: Birth,
  christening, and youth; Piracy and privateering abolished; Eternal
  vigilance against smugglers; Giant growth in commerce; Government
  far-sightedness and short-sightedness; The port awakening of New
  Jersey; Forts and fortifications; New York, the nation’s first air
  harbor; Advertising New York port’s nautical school; Immigration’s
  gateway to America; Bibliography and illustrations.

         =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

  “The port of New York is deserving of a more comprehensive and more
  technical study of its processes than is provided by Thomas E. Rush.
  An adequate study of the port from the transportation or engineering
  point of view it emphatically is not.”

     − + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 450w

=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Bolshevism: practice and theory. *$2
Harcourt 335

                                                                20–20991

  A book containing the articles which appeared in the Nation together
  with new material. Bertrand Russell writes as a communist who finds
  much to criticize in the bolshevist method of putting communism into
  practice. He says: “A fundamental economic reconstruction, bringing
  with it very far-reaching changes in ways of thinking and feeling, in
  philosophy and art and private relations, seems absolutely necessary
  if industrialism is to become the servant of man instead of his
  master. In all this, I am at one with the Bolsheviks; politically, I
  criticize them only when their methods seem to involve a departure
  from their own ideals.” (Preface) The book is the outcome of a brief
  visit to Russia. Part 1, The present condition of Russia, has chapters
  on: What is hoped for Bolshevism; General characteristics; Lenin,
  Trotsky, and Gorky; Art and education (written by Mr Russell’s
  secretary, Miss D. W. Black); Daily life in Moscow; etc. Part 2,
  Bolshevik theory, is a criticism of the materialistic conception of
  history and other accepted doctrines, with chapters on: Why Russian
  communist has failed; and Conditions for the success of communism.

  “We have found the most interesting part of Mr Russell’s book to be,
  on the whole, his analysis of the theory of Bolshevism.” J. W. N. S.

     + − =Ath= p695 N 19 ’20 780w

       + =Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21

  “A clear and convincing critique of Bolshevism as a social theory.” E:
  E. Paramore, jr.

       + =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 700w

  “No such remarkable book as his ‘Bolshevism: practice and theory,’ has
  been published on this subject. Small as the volume is, only 192
  pages, it is amazing how much he says.”

       + =N Y Times= p10 D 26 ’20 1400w

  “Bertrand Russell is not a clear thinker. The chief value of this book
  lies in the fact that it is a condemnation of the spirit of Bolshevism
  by one whose prejudices for its avowed principles would naturally make
  him its apologist if not its defender.”

     − + =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 180w

         =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w

  “Mr Bertrand Russell’s book is likely to remain the most damning
  criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered
  as a faith or as a political institution. Although Mr Russell seems to
  us to be no more practical than a Russian Bolshevik, he is beyond
  doubt a brilliant philosopher, and often one cannot help finding
  fineness in his thought, even when he seems to us least to understand
  the ways of the ordinary man. Among the most interesting things in the
  book are the accounts of Mr Russell’s meetings with Lenin and
  Trotsky.”

     + − =Spec= 125:705 N 27 ’20 1900w

  “Not the least interesting chapters are those on ‘Revolution and
  dictatorship’ and ‘Mechanism and the individual,’ in which Mr Russell
  reveals his own views as to the future industrial system which is to
  replace the present. Mr Russell himself is sanguine as to a new
  economic order emerging from the present chaos. But his grounds of
  faith are unconvincing.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p747 N 18 ’20 1200w

=RUSSELL, CHARLES EDWARD.= Story of the Nonpartisan league; a chapter in
American evolution. il *$2 Harper 329

                                                                20–11024

  Altho covering practically the same ground as Herbert E. Gaston’s
  “Nonpartisan league” this book goes more fully into the conditions out
  of which the league movement developed, bringing together much
  illustrative material and documentary evidence to show the workings of
  the system under which the farmer was exploited. The author says in
  beginning, “I have no idea that in the succeeding pages I can remove
  the fixed belief of the dwellers in cities that the farmer of America
  is becoming clog-footed with wealth, but it has occurred to me that a
  plain record of the tragic struggles of a large body of American
  farmers for bare justice and a chance to live ... might have some
  interest as a human as well as a social and political document of
  facts.” The part devoted to the rise and present organization of the
  league is correspondingly less complete than Mr Gaston’s, but the main
  facts are sketched. The book has been carefully indexed.

  “Rather more interestingly and dramatically written than Gaston.”

       + =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

  “Admirable book.” W. H. C.

       + =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 480w

  “The book should be viewed as a clever piece of journalism, effective
  but inaccurate. It has the earmarks of being scientific; it cites
  references: it affects a certain restraint in statement. Yet the
  critical reader will find its ‘citations’ ex parte, fragmentary,
  undated for the most part. The book is a good example of skilled
  juggling with half-truths. In short this book is not what it pretends
  to be—the facts about the Nonpartisan league.” J. E. Boyle

       − =J Pol Econ= 28:705 O ’20 1400w

  “While this book is not to be compared with the more intimate and
  comprehensive work by Mr Gaston, it is none the less a valuable
  account of a movement that has been much misrepresented in the public
  press.”

       + =Nation= 111:162 Ag 7 ’20 240w

  “Mr Russell’s defense of the league’s attitude during the war is the
  best that can be put forward, and it is put forward by a sincere
  patriot who risked and suffered much for his loyalty. But the country
  has made up its mind on that point, and his defense, honest as it is,
  is unconvincing.”

     + − =N Y Times= 25:16 Jl 18 ’20 3950w

         =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w

         =Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 60w

=RUSSELL, MRS FRANCES THERESA (PEET).= Satire in the Victorian novel.
*$2.50 Macmillan 823

                                                                 20–2031

  “The author of this book is a professor at Leland Stanford junior
  university, and her interpretation of the satiric contributions to
  literature, offered by novelists of the Victorian epoch, has literary
  as well as scholastic value. Written primarily as a thesis, offered at
  Columbia university for the degree of doctor of philosophy, the
  author’s style bears necessarily unmistakable and potent signs of
  academic standards. The volume is divided into Premises, Methods,
  Objects and Conclusions. After giving to her readers the groundwork of
  her scheme, making certain that they understand the satiric motive,
  Professor Russell passes to the categorical stage in her exposition.
  She analyzes methods of satire, romantic, realistic, ironic. For this
  purpose she quotes from the writers of the period she is considering,
  writers such as Samuel Butler, Thomas Love Peacock, Meredith,
  Disraeli, Thackeray, Trollope and Dickens. She takes pains to show us
  how much ingenuity these men display in their methods of satiric
  attack and how their weapons vary, likewise their skill.”—Boston
  Transcript

  “A thoroughly competent and scholarly study.”

       + =Booklist= 17:22 O ’20

  “What will interest the un-academic mind particularly in this treatise
  is the author’s personal contribution. She offers, sometimes with a
  charming unconsciousness, her philosophy of living; and more than one
  of her reflections has a satiric thrust which makes us realize that
  the talent for touching on the weaknesses of humanity with a deftly
  humorous hand did not die with the Victorians!” D. F. G.

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 600w

         =Lit D= p126 Ap 17 ’20 950w

  “She has a better talent for the abstract than for the concrete; her
  analyses are better than her discussions of actual examples. The
  reader learns much from her pages by gleaning over wide territory, but
  he drives behind an inexorable chauffeur who whirls him past alluring
  byways and leafy vistas. Names and ideas spin by like telephone poles.
  The author has a nice ear for the turn of a sentence, but she cannot
  train sentences to speak together.”

     + − =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 250w

       + =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 50w

  “It is full of sustaining, gently amusing reading, and—most
  important—the reader will want to read it all. There is no waste.”

       + =Spec= 124:83 Jl 17 ’20 900w

  “A certain rehabilitation of the Victorians is the chief service that
  Prof. Russell seems to have performed, often, seemingly, in spite of
  herself.” G: B. Dutton

     + − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 1900w

         =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 200w

=RUSSELL, RUTH.= What’s the matter with Ireland? *$1.75 Devin-Adair
914.5

                                                                20–13138

  “Miss Russell has undertaken her theme objectively, in the best
  reportorial sense, and by sounding a number of disparate apostles—as
  widely dissimilar as De Valera, George Russell, Countess Markiewiecz
  and the Bishop of Killaloe—she manages to throw light upon all phases
  of the problem. The book opens with a chapter on statistics, which
  bring the present plight of the country into the foreground of the
  reader’s imagination, and with this accomplished, the author turns to
  the narration of incidents, and to the gleaning of opinions, which are
  set down with impartial emphasis.”—Freeman

  “She succeeds in rousing our sympathy for the poor working girls of
  Dublin, and the other unfortunate people of the city and the
  bog-field. But when she takes up the political, she seems unable to do
  justice to her subject. There is no doubt Miss Russell’s intentions
  are good, but it is doubtful if such books as this will help Ireland’s
  cause.”

     − + =Cath World= 112:396 D ’20 210w

  “She wisely refrains from any ex cathedra dogmatism on her own
  account.” L. B.

       + =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 140w

=RUSSELL, THOMAS.= Commercial advertising. (Studies in economics and
political science) *$2.50 Putnam 659

                                                                  20–297

  “Mr Russell is the president of the Incorporated society of
  advertisement consultants, and was sometime advertisement manager of
  the Times. He writes, therefore, with authority, and he deals fully
  with such themes as the economic justification of advertising, the
  functions and policy of advertising, the chief methods of advertising,
  and with advertising as a career.” (Ath) “The six lectures were
  delivered in the spring of this year at the London school of
  economics.” (Springf’d Republican)

  “The book should be useful and suggestive to commercial men and
  others.”

       + =Ath= p929 S 19 ’19 70w

         =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 400w

  “The six lectures are not only worthy of their academic auspices but
  might well serve as models of modern academic exposition. They have
  the breadth and insight that is properly called philosophic, whatever
  the subject-matter may be, and the concreteness that makes a
  philosophic treatment glow with interest.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p510 S 25 ’19 900w

=RUTZEBECK, HJALMAR.= Alaska man’s luck. *$2 Boni & Liveright

                                                                20–26890

  “The book is a unique autobiographical chronicle, told in the form of
  a diary, of the struggles of its author-hero to make a home for
  himself in the land of the snows. Hjalmar Rutzebeck, or Svend Norman,
  as he calls himself in his book, was born and raised in Denmark. He
  left school at the age of twelve and has had no further formal
  schooling since then. We first meet our twentieth century viking in
  Los Angeles, just after he had been honorably discharged from the
  United States army. With winning naïveté he tells us how he has fallen
  in love with Marian. When Svend learns that the northland is as dear
  to Marian as it is to him, he immediately sets out to make a stake
  there.... As Svend goes on from adventure to adventure he records them
  in his diary, and it is this diary, mailed to Marian piecemeal as he
  went along, that is reprinted in ‘Alaska man’s luck.’”—N Y Times

  “Interesting specially to men or older boys.”

       + =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

  “It must be confessed that the tale is fascinating, in spite of, or
  perhaps because of its naïveté.” Margaret Ashmun

       + =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 120w

  “An extraordinary story.”

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 330w

  “There is no self-consciousness in ‘Alaska man’s luck,’ nor is there
  any suggestion of a sophisticated striving to return to the simple and
  primitive.” L. M. R.

       + =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 110w

  “For his first novel, Hjalmar Rutzebeck has wisely chosen a hero of
  his own race and temperament. He attains a consistent realism by
  letting Svend Norman’s diaries and letters tell their own story.”

       + =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 220w

  “The simplicity and directness with which the author tells his
  blood-stirring story, even the occasional crudities in his English,
  serve to enhance rather than mar the epic quality of his narrative.”

       + =N Y Times= p14 N 14 ’20 2250w

=RYAN, AGNES.= Whisper of fire. *$1.25 Four seas co. 811

                                                                19–18255

  A series of poems arranged as: Wood, Kindling, Smoldering, Smoke,
  Blaze, Smoke again, Flame, Coals, Ashes. Altho they are loosely strung
  together the succession of verses tells the story of a woman’s love
  life.

       + =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

  “Several of the verses, notably ‘I wonder,’ are compact and vivid in
  imagery and spiritual message.”

       + =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 40w

         =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w

  “Each poem is a mere fragment in free verse, a chip off the old block
  of femininity. This will please readers of poetry of the hour. For the
  present vogue is fragmentary. Many of these poems are trivial and
  unimportant, but a few have the eloquence of reality.” Marguerite
  Wilkinson

     + − =N Y Times= 25:82 F 8 ’20 120w

=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Church and socialism; and other essays. (Social
justice bks.) *$1.50 University press, Brookland, Washington, D.C. 304

                                                                  20–221

  “A collection of papers that have appeared in various publications
  during the past ten years. Only the first paper relates intimately to
  the title of the book. Other topics discussed are: A living wage; The
  legal minimum wage; Moral aspects of the labor union; The moral
  aspects of speculation; Birth control; and Woman suffrage.”—Am Econ R

         =Am Econ R= 10:385 Je ’20 50w

  “The essay, ‘False and true conceptions of welfare,’ is to our mind
  the most practical of the entire series.”

       + =Cath World= 111:392 Je ’20 280w

  “They reveal a large acquaintance with economic and industrial
  problems. It would be beside the point to criticize these papers
  without remembering that they were written for Catholics. While we
  agree with many of Dr Ryan’s conclusions, we should find it difficult
  to subscribe to some of his premises and to submit to the intellectual
  limitations which follow.” R: Roberts

     + − =Nation= 110:266 F 28 ’20 280w

         =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 90w

=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Living wage; with an introd. by R: T. Ely. *$2
Macmillan 331.2

                                                                 20–1611

  “A revised and abridged edition of a work that has had much influence
  in bringing about the enactment of minimum-wage laws and the
  acceptance of the principle that the laborer has a moral claim to at
  least a decent living wage. The author is a priest of the Roman
  Catholic church and a professor in the Catholic university of
  America.”—R of Rs

  “It is agreeable to say that Dr Ryan argues the living wage question
  better than almost anybody else.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:267 My 23 ’20 550w

         =R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 60w

  “Ethically it is far in advance of the thought of a generation ago,
  and many even now will find themselves unable to keep pace with it.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 100w

=RYAN, WILLIAM PATRICK.= Irish labor movement. (Modern Ireland in the
making) *$2 Huebsch 331.09

                                                         (Eng ed 20–113)

  In reviewing the history of Irish labor in the seventeenth, eighteenth
  and nineteenth centuries the author points out how the genius of the
  Irish people was submerged and its spirit broken by the enforced
  assimilation of a foreign social system, a foreign speech and a
  foreign character. However cruel and inhuman English dominion has
  proved itself to be, the struggle for freedom has been mental and
  spiritual as well as economic. “The breaking of the chains, the
  unloading of the degrading burdens that we know, will inevitably lead
  to the resurrection and the flowering of the workers’ deeper natures,
  now blunted and buried. Then they may be artists and creators.”
  Contents: Labor and the Gael; Land workers’ ordeals and deeds; William
  Thompson, Robert Owen and Ralahine; Our early trade unionism; The
  guilds and the unions; Illusive emancipation; O’Connell and
  tragi-comedy; Weavers and “lock-ups”; Lalor and lean years; In
  Davitt’s days; Connolly in the schools of labor; Connolly’s
  teaching—industrial unionism; Larkin’s youth in the depths; The rise
  of “Larkinism”; Up from slavery in Ulster; The struggle of 1913; The
  ultimate sacrifice; Towards the commonwealth; Authorities and sources.

         =Ath= p412 My 30 ’19 70w

                                   S

=SACKVILLE, MARGARET, lady.= Selected poems. *$2.50 Dutton 821

  “Lady Margaret Sackville is a feminine version of the late Richard
  Middleton. Her themes are the themes of Middleton—the gay seasons,
  love and desire with their antithesis of crepuscular quiet, a selected
  Greek mythology, and the vaguely idealistic ‘dreams’ of the
  romantics.” (Ath) “She writes lyrics and short plays: her subjects are
  largely Greek, and, so far as effects of brightness and directness, of
  clear air and frank sunshine, are concerned, the atmosphere is Greek.”
  (Review)

  “Out of her materials she makes a bright, easy poetry, which it would
  be unfair to subject to the test of frequent reading. It is only at
  rare intervals that something of more permanent quality, as, for
  example, ‘Invitation au repos,’ rises above the level of pleasant
  facility.”

     + − =Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 110w

  “Lady Margaret Sackville is the possessor of charm. Original or
  powerful she may not be, but charm in itself is fortune.” O. W.
  Firkins

       + =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 330w

  “Lady Margaret Sackville has suffered by reason of being Lady
  Margaret. The paths were made too easy for her. She set out with the
  true throat of the bird at dawn, but somehow somewhere the music went
  wrong. It is wrong now.”

     − + =Sat R= 129:392 Ap 24 ’20 170w

  “Pieces that give the effect of having been written as technical
  exercises, but which are not without charm.”

     + − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 30w

=SADLER, MICHAEL.= Anchor. *$1.75 (2½c) McBride

  The interest of the story centers about Laddie Macallister, an
  over-sensitive, introspective young man whose self-questionings and
  doubtings make him feel hopelessly adrift and unstable for all his
  solid foundation of a clean and honest manhood. We meet him first as
  newspaper correspondent for an English paper in Paris; later as
  literary secretary for a radical London weekly. The anchor, the
  “something-firm-to-cling-to” which he craves he finds in Janet Tring,
  daughter of a country squire and a singularly well-poised,
  straightforward bit of young womanhood. It is the character-drawing
  rather than the plot that is significant in the story. Some of the
  other characters that stand out are Laddie’s father, the country
  parson, whose mellow wisdom and dependable love for his son are the
  latter’s safe armor; Dermot Gill, the very odd, very lovable and very
  radical Irishman, whose friendship Laddie picked up en route; Janet’s
  cousin, the militant suffragette, proud of her prison record; and the
  wily newspaper woman whose vindictive designs on Laddie rebound from
  Janet’s good sense.

  “The sentimentality of such fiction lies in its slavish worship of
  youngness—the mere state and act of being young, of muddling through
  youth.” H. W. Boynton

     + − =Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 900w

  “The story is lacking in form and consistency; the latter half, which
  tells the love story, has the greater driving force. The character of
  Laddie is, within limits, fairly clear and truthful. Mr Sadler’s
  method is psychological, but not unduly so, and the story of the
  partial love affairs which accompany his great love is done with some
  originality and insight.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 480w

=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON, A.= South Sea foam. *$2 (2c) Doran 919.6

                                                                20–18944

  In “the romantic adventures of a modern Don Quixote in the southern
  seas” (Sub-title) the author has attempted to capture and hold for all
  times, some of the earliest “poetic babblings” of the children of
  nature of the South Sea islands before, with the advent of the
  missionary, “island mythology and heathen legends were sponged off the
  map of existence.” He has attempted to see the mysteries of nature
  with the eyes of the primitive man and, in retelling the legends of
  some old Polynesian chiefs, to remain as faithful to primitive
  conceptions as is possible to a sophisticated mind. The contents give
  glimpses of the author’s own adventurous youth in following the call
  of the “true poetry of life” and some of his island reminiscences in:
  Fae Fae; The heathen’s garden of Eden; In old Fiji; Kasawayo and the
  serpent; O Le Langi the pagan poet; An old Marquesan queen; Charity
  organization of the South Seas.

         =Ath= p1395 D 26 ’19 500w

  “Not the least stimulating portions are those devoted to the sailing
  vessels in which the author has pursued his study of man and nature.”
  Margaret Ashmun

       + =Bookm= 52:343 D ’20 200w

       + =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 350w

         =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 70w

  “The jerky transitions, the Bowdlerized legends, the tantalizing
  sequels that the author ‘can’t tell,’ the dialect never heard on land
  or sea, the author’s occasional verse ... contrive to trip the reader
  up time after time just as the magic joy of life is beckoning him
  farther into fairyland.”

     − + =Nation= 111:786 D 29 ’20 260w

  “Here is a chronicle of vagabonding among the isles of the South seas
  that sets him who has lived amid the cities of civilization to
  wondering whether or not he has squandered his life.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 540w

  “Much of the same delicate charm of fantasy which belongs to so many
  of the Hindu stories told us by F. W. Bain distinguishes, also, these
  tales of the isles in the far seas.”

       + =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 380w

  “It makes one long for Stevenson, who could be frank and downright
  enough, but never wrote with a leer.” E. L. Pearson

       − =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 300w

  “Mr Safroni-Middleton gives us a glimpse of true natural poetry that
  should appeal to the lover of life and beauty.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 300w

         =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p709 D 4 ’19 320w

=ST JOHN, LARRY.= Practical fly fishing. (Outing handbooks) il *$1.25
Macmillan 799

                                                                 20–3413

  “As the title indicates, it is a treatise about luring the finny
  inhabitants of pond, lake or other watery area into human hands,
  through the medium of the ‘fly.’ There are numerous illustrations that
  will please and enlighten both the amateur and the ‘old-timer.’ There
  is a brief historical review of this form of fishing, while
  considerable space is given over to tackle, other chapters are given
  over to flies, reels, apparel, biological, preparatory and casting.
  The final chapter is entitled ‘strategy,’ and deals with methods of
  best making use of the tackle, reels, etc., previously
  described.”—Springf’d Republican

         =Booklist= 16:269 My ’20

         =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 80w

  “The descriptions are written in simple direct form, and are easily
  understood and applied.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 160w

=ST MARS, F.= Way of the wild (Eng title, Pinion and paw). il *$2 (2c)
Stokes 590.4

                                                                  20–100

  Epics of the wild would truly characterize these tales of thrilling
  adventures of wild things in their own haunts. They are not natural
  history but stories of animals befitting their characters as men
  conceive them. Thus in “Gulo the indomitable” we see the
  wolverine—most hated of all the animals among themselves, with a
  character “that came straight from the devil,” and with brains “that
  only man, and no beast, ought to be trusted with”—and his ghoulish
  escapades. The weak and the powerful, the four-footed and the winged
  tribes, even the legless viper, engage our human sympathies for their
  fears, their passions, their struggles and their wiles. Contents: Gulo
  the indomitable; Blackie and co.; Under the yellow flag; Nine points
  of the law; Pharaoh; The cripple; “Set a thief”; The where is it?
  Lawless little love; The king’s son; The highwayman of the marsh; The
  furtive feud; The storm pirate; When nights were cold; Fate and the
  fearful; The eagles of Loch Royal; Ratel, V. C.; The day;
  Illustrations.

  “Real art here, with the scientist’s passion for strict accuracy. It
  is a book for the whole family, a book to be kept and cherished and
  handed on to the children as they grow old enough to appreciate it.”
  Hildegarde Hawthorne

       + =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 150w

=SAINT-SAËNS, CAMILLE.= Musical memories; tr. by Edwin Gile Rich. il *$3
Small 780.4

                                                                19–15405

  “This book is virtually an autobiography, but the story of the
  author’s life is told briefly, so as to leave room for chapters on
  Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Viardot, Louis Gallet, Delsarte, Victor
  Hugo, which, however, are also more or less autobiographic, for these
  were among his friends. The English volume omits some of the chapters
  in the original French edition and changes the order of others.”
  (Bookm) “Contents: Memories of my childhood; The old conservatoire;
  Victor Hugo; The history of an opéra-comique; Louis Gallet; History
  and mythology in opera; Art for art’s sake; Popular science and art;
  Anarchy in music; The organ; Joseph Haydn and the ‘Seven words’; The
  Liszt centenary at Heidelberg (1912); Berlioz’s requiem; Pauline
  Viardot; Orphée; Delsarte; Seghers; Rossini; Jules Massenet;
  Meyerbeer; Jacques Offenbach; Their majesties; Musical painters.”
  (Pittsburgh)

       + =Booklist= 16:80 D ’19

  “It should be in every library.” H: T. Finck

       + =Bookm= 51:171 Ap ’20 250w

  “Camille Saint-Saens is not only one of France’s greatest living
  composers but a musician who can write excellent and witty prose, and
  an erudite scholar who knows how to impart information without being
  pedantic.” Henrietta Strauss

       + =Nation= 111:75 Jl 17 ’20 320w

         =Pittsburgh= 25:35 Ja ’20 70w

  Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

         =Yale R= n s 9:872 Jl ’20 1100w

=SAINTSBURY, GEORGE.= Notes on a cellar-book. *$3 Macmillan 663

  “Mr Saintsbury, it will be remembered, had proposed to write a history
  of wine; for sundry reasons he renounced his intention; and what he
  gives us in this small volume are ‘notes and reminiscences on the
  subject which may ... add a little to the literature of one of the
  three great joys of life.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The body of
  the work is occupied by a history of Mr Saintsbury’s experiences in
  keeping a wine cellar; literally, as the title has it, the record of a
  cellar-book.” (Review)

  “Here, then, is a book which few men, and no woman, could have
  written, full of knowledge that comes of experience, and is therefore,
  as a rule, useless to others—full of the ripe humour that
  characterizes all the best things of the world.” R. S.

       + =Ath= p301 S 3 ’20 800w

  “A quaint and delightful chronicle it is, and as we have a right to
  expect from such a pen, interspersed with many an apt literary hint
  and suggestion.” Michael Monahan

       + =Review= 3:559 D 8 ’20 2150w

  “Mr Saintsbury was prevented from carrying out his original intention
  of writing a history of wine, but he has done the next best thing in
  giving us this book.”

       + =Spec= 125:114 Jl 24 ’20 1900w

  “No man could be less of a pedant. His erudition does not obtrude
  itself; it merely supplies suitably evocative expressions; the bubbles
  wink, and so does he. There is the very spirit of wine in the genial
  ferocity with which he denounces those who would deprive him of that
  good gift.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p436 Jl 8 ’20 1000w

=SAMPSON, EMMA SPEED.= Mammy’s white folks. il *$1.50 (2c) Reilly & Lee

                                                                 20–4267

  Dr Andy Wallace is a shy young doctor with no use for women folks when
  a baby girl is left on his doorstep. His negro Mammy persuades him to
  keep the child and he brings her up as his own daughter. The story
  tells of the happiness she brings to him, and of the happiness that
  comes to her when she grows to womanhood. Mammy has a large part in
  the story and the widow Richards and her daughter Lucile, who try to
  steal Esther’s privileges, are also factors, as is Dr Jim Dudley, the
  doctor’s assistant.

  “A good wholesome story dominated by the motherly old negro’s
  philosophy.”

       + =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

=SAMPTER, JESSIE ETHEL=, ed. Guide to Zionism. il $1.50 Zionist
organization of Am. 296

                                                                 20–8649

  The book has grown out of an earlier publication, ‘A course in
  Zionism,’ now out of print. The present volume is more than twice the
  size of the first and presents as many more problems and facts
  concerning the Zionist movement. Its purpose is to serve not only for
  individual perusal but as a text-book for groups of students. Of its
  thirty-three chapters the first ten deal with Zionist theory, history
  and organization, the next ten with more specialized phases of the
  movement, and the last thirteen with Palestine. Each chapter is
  followed by a short bibliography and there are important appendices, a
  general bibliography, an index and illustrations.

=SANBORN, MARY FARLEY (MRS FRED C. SANBORN).= First valley. *$1.75 (2½c)
Four seas co.

                                                                 20–8860

  A story of life after death. Tina, a pleasure-loving girl, killed in
  an automobile accident, is speeded to the other world in the swift car
  of Death, not knowing what is happening to her. She finds herself in
  the first valley of the life to come and valiantly sets herself to
  learn its ways. She makes friends with the Spade Man, who teaches her
  to cultivate her garden, and with Odo, the childlike poet, and she
  lends a helping hand to those who follow her to this new world, to St
  Leon, the university professor who bemoans his lost career, and to
  Helene, the beautiful woman whose worldly ideals have not been
  abandoned. The story ends with her passage to the second valley.

  “A curiously interesting book.”

       + =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 20w

  “It is a little book conceived in a spirit of singular purity and
  reverence, and almost faultlessly executed; without cant or
  sentimentalism or any forcing of the risky note.” H. W. Boynton

       + =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 250w

=SANCHEZ, MRS NELLIE (VAN DE GRIFT).= Life of Mrs Robert Louis
Stevenson. il *$2.25 (2½c) Scribner

                                                                 20–3787

  “Whoever reads this book from cover to cover will surely agree that no
  woman ever had a life of more varied experiences nor went through them
  all with a stauncher courage.” So writes Mrs Sanchez in the preface to
  this biography of her sister Fanny, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.
  There are thirteen chapters: Ancestors; Early days in Indiana; On the
  Pacific slope; France, and the meeting at Grez; In California with
  Robert Louis Stevenson; Europe and the British Isles; Away to sunnier
  lands; The happy years in Samoa; The lonely days of widowhood; Back to
  California; Travels in Mexico and Europe; The last days at Santa
  Barbara. There are a number of portraits and other illustrations.
  Letters from Henry James and others are quoted and the book closes
  with an account of the services at Vailima in 1915 when the ashes of
  Mrs Stevenson were carried to her husband’s resting place on the
  summit of Mount Vaea.

       + =Ath= p650 N 12 ’20 580w

  “Well worth while, not only as an addition to Stevensoniana, but also
  as a picture of a very interesting woman.”

       + =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20

  “To the Stevensonian, this book is a mine of delight. It sets down
  what has never before been sufficiently made clear, that Mrs Stevenson
  was, in her own way, as remarkable and as gifted as her husband.”
  Christopher Morley

       + =Bookm= 51:356 My ’20 850w

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 2650w

       + =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w

  “So interesting that one could wish it more extended. We are inclined
  to think the book better worth while than anything that has been
  printed about Stevenson since the Letters.’”

       + =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 150w

  “This concise and vivid narrative reveals Mrs Stevenson clearly as the
  splendid woman she was, but it also reveals her, first and last, as
  the reason why the literary world today possesses some of the most
  highly valued of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 3 ’20 600w

  “One might venture to say she has written a manly book. She has
  drawn the character of a frank and courageous woman with a
  straightforwardness that would surely have pleased its possessor.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 O 28 ’20 2000w

=SANDBURG, CARL.= Chicago race riots, July, 1919. pa 60c Harcourt 326

                                                                19–19136

  “Reprinted from articles contributed at the time to a Chicago
  newspaper, Mr Sandburg’s description tallies with other authentic
  accounts of the origin and progress of the race riots. Though he acted
  merely as a reporter, the author evidently formed strong opinions of
  his own as to the most promising line of action to prevent the
  recurrence of this outrageous happening. Better housing, more and
  better industrial opportunities, and—immediately—a thorough federal
  investigation of the unsatisfactory race relationships that lead to
  race conflicts seem part of such a program.”—Survey

  “A serious and intelligent investigation into conditions which made
  the race riots possible. A contribution to the solving of the negro
  problem in any section of the country.”

       + =Booklist= 16:154 F ’20

  “The pamphlet is naturally less constructed, less pondered than Mr
  Seligmann’s careful thesis. But it has the advantage of its
  journalistic method, for by personal narrative and comment it makes
  vivid its statistics and analysis, and brings the general problem down
  to more specific terms.” M. E. Bailey

       + =Bookm= 52:303 Ja ’21 170w

  “Everyone in this country who is interested in our sharpest national
  disgrace—our treatment of negro citizens ought to read this collection
  of articles. Especially every Chicagoan ought to read it.” E. F. Wyatt

       + =New Repub= 22:98 Mr 17 ’20 1750w

       + =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 700w

       + =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 100w

=SANDBURG, CARL.= Smoke and steel. *$2 Harcourt 811

                                                                20–17899

  The sections of this new book of poems are called Smoke nights, People
  who must, Broken-face gargoyles, Playthings of the wind, Mist forms,
  Accomplished facts, Passports, Circles of doors, Haze, Panels. Some of
  the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the New Republic, Liberator, and
  other periodicals.

       + =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

  “‘Smoke and steel’ is both an epic of modern industrialism and a
  mighty pæan to modern beauty.” L: Untermeyer

       + =Bookm= 52:362 Ja ’21 360w

  “Mr Sandburg has no sense of the past, no vision of the future, and so
  his reality is a little huddled bunch of dried-up aspects out of which
  have escaped the aspects of life about which he is so passionately
  concerned. This is a great pity, because I believe there is no poet in
  the country who has by nature the qualities of spirit which, if fused
  and blended in the proper alembic, would not make some of the
  loveliest and most convincing poems of our day.” W: S. Braithwaite

* + -|=Boston Transcript= p7 O 16 ’20 2050w

  “Sandburg has lost (at least temporarily) the one and only thing which
  makes him great—the ability to determine when he has written something
  good. He now apparently believes that everything he writes is a poem.
  He imitates Gary, and turns his product out on a quantity basis.”
  Arthur Wilson

       − =Dial= 70:80 Ja ’21 680w

  “‘Smoke and steel’ is longer than either of the earlier volumes, and
  not so uniformly good. Over many pages, it must be admitted, Mr
  Sandburg has rather obviously repeated himself, has put himself
  through motions that were more profitable once than they are now. But
  the book as a whole has great fascination and pull. Technically, Mr
  Sandburg is as interesting as any poet alive.”

       + =Nation= 111:621 D 1 ’21 750w

  “This new collection establishes what ‘Chicago poems’ only promised
  and ‘Cornhuskers’ plainly intimated. It proves that these states can
  now claim two living major poets: Sandburg and Frost.” L: Untermeyer

       + =New Repub= 25:86 D 15 ’20 1450w

  “He is misty, rather than descriptive or truly evocative; he is the
  whole antithesis of the imagist demand for a sharply evoked image, if
  this is their demand; and, sometimes at least, it should be. We see
  the smoke, and miss the steel.” Clement Wood

     − + =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 600w

  Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

       + =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1150w

  “Reading these poems gives me more of a patriotic emotion than ever
  ‘The star-spangled banner’ has been able to do. This is America, and
  Mr Sandburg loves her so much that suddenly we realize how much we
  love her, too. Either this is a very remarkable poet or he is nothing,
  for with the minors he clearly has no place. He has greatly dared, and
  I personally believe that posterity with its pruning hand will mount
  him high on the ladder of poetic achievement.” Amy Lowell

     + − =N Y Times= p7 O 24 ’20 2500w

  “Mr Sandburg has introduced themes which have seldom, perhaps never,
  been treated before. There is an impressive display of energy in
  ‘Smoke and steel.’ His poems are true to a certain kind of life, they
  are undoubtedly American. They do succeed, then, in doing what they
  set out to do, but whether this in itself constitutes a high and right
  art is another question.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p816 D 9 ’20 1700w

=SANDERS, LLOYD CHARLES.= Patron and place-hunter; a study of George
Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. il *$5 Lane

                                                                 20–5659

  George Bubb Dodington was a prominent political and social figure in
  the reigns of George I and George II on whom Lord Chesterfield
  bestowed the sobriquet of “blest coxcomb,” on account of his supreme
  conceit and ostentation, but who nevertheless had some compensating
  qualities of sincerity, capacity for friendship, and courage. His
  notorious diary has made him a historical figure and the present
  account of his life is a picture of the England of his day. Contents:
  Dodington’s ancestry; The youth of George Bubb; George Bubb,
  plenipotentiary; The seizure of Sardinia; Dodington and Walpole;
  Eastbury; A prince and a duke; From Walpole to Pelham; Frederick,
  Prince of Wales; La Trappe; Henry Pelham; The duke of Newcastle;
  Chaos; The end of the reign; Dodington’s last years. There are
  illustrations.

  “Mr Lloyd Sanders puts with ease what the usual maker of research
  states heavily, and the confusions of politics for forty years up to
  1762 become almost agreeable in his animated narrative.”

       + =Ath= p1285 D 5 ’19 1400w

  “Casual references to Dodington abound in the political histories and
  studies of social life of the eighteenth century. It must have been a
  source of regret to those who study this period that no intimate
  material regarding Dodington has been procurable. Mr Sanders’s volume
  fulfills this want. Besides, a man that Robert Browning parlayed with
  for more than 300 lines is well worth attention.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:241 My 9 ’20 1350w

  “If it be easier, as Mr Lytton Strachy assures us, to live a good life
  than to write one, Mr Lloyd Sanders deserves not only praise but
  gratitude for presenting us with his admirable monograph on Bubb
  Dodington. If we have a complaint to make of Mr Sanders it is that he
  repeats the common saying that Bubb was a wit, but gives us no
  specimens.”

       + =Sat R= 128:487 N 22 ’19 1150w

  “A good biography of a second-rate man often throws more light on the
  period in which he lived than a biography of a great man, who is
  necessarily exceptional and abnormal. We should recommend any one
  interested in the early Georgian era to read Mr Lloyd Sanders’s witty
  and scholarly memoir of George Bubb Dodington, who was a typical
  eighteenth-century politician.”

       + =Spec= 123:660 N 15 ’19 1500w

     + − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 24 ’20 150w (Reprinted from The
           Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p632 N 6 ’19 80w

  “Bubb’s biographer is not biassed in his favour. He makes a cold,
  exhaustive investigation of the career of a place-hunter when Walpole
  ruled the roost and every man had his price, and he is successful in
  every respect save one. He cannot make a picturesque ill-doer of his
  hero. His story constitutes not so much a page of eccentric biography
  as a quaint footlight to the rather squalid politics of George the
  Second.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 2150w

=SANDES, EDWARD WARREN CAULFEILD.=[2] In Kut and captivity with the
Sixth Indian division. il *$10 Dutton (*24s Murray) 940.472

                                                         (Eng ed 20–656)

  “Major Sandes has written an interesting book on the earlier phase of
  the war in Mesopotamia. Major Sandes was attached to the Sixth Indian
  division, under General Townshend, which formed the main portion of
  Sir John Nixon’s expeditionary force. He was in charge of the bridging
  train which followed the army up the Tigris. He describes the capture
  of Kurna, the rapid advance up to Amarah, the battle of Es Sin, where
  the Turks offered a strenuous resistance, the occupation of Kut, and
  the fatal advance upon Baghdad which ended at Ctesiphon. He gives a
  full narrative of the retreat, which was most skilfully conducted, and
  relates the history of the five months’ siege of Kut. After the
  surrender in April, 1916, he was taken to Asia Minor, and remained at
  Yozgad till Turkey capitulated a year ago.”—Spec

  “It is likely to remain for some time a classic on the heroic stand of
  the Kut garrison and the awful sufferings they subsequently endured.”
  R. C. T.

       + =Ath= p912 S 19 ’19 1050w

  “Depressing as it must needs be, the undauntable spirit which it
  shows, the endurance, simplicity, modesty, lift this book into the
  class of great siege narratives and give it high place among the
  first-hand records of great military disasters. And so, for all its
  unconscious concreteness and scattered masses of detail, it gives in
  the end that purging of the spirit which Aristotle assigned to high
  tragedy.”

       + =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 800w

  “Major Sandes is rigidly objective; he sets down plain facts and
  leaves his readers to rely on their own imaginations. We are not sure,
  all the same, that his story of Kut is not rendered more remarkable by
  his resolute avoidance of fine writing.”

       + =Sat R= 128:343 O 11 ’19 950w

  “The story of the siege of Kut is well told by Major Sandes.”

       + =Spec= 122:544 O 25 ’19 1400w

=SANDWICH, EDWARD GEORGE HENRY MONTAGUE=, 8th earl of. Memoirs of
Edward, Earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916. il *$7 Dutton

                                                         (Eng ed 20–442)

  “The ‘Memoirs of Edward, eighth earl of Sandwich, 1839–1916,’ have
  been edited by Mrs Steuart Erskine from the material which Lord
  Sandwich himself collected from old diaries with the object of
  publishing his autobiography. Besides the intimate pictures provided
  of society at home and abroad, of state visits to Berlin and St
  Petersburg, of missions to Fez, and travels in many lands, the story
  is told of his experiences in spiritual healing and other psychical
  phenomena which became his dominant interest towards the end of his
  life.”—Boston Transcript

         =Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 170w

         =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 12 ’19 80w

  “Such material as is found in these selections from the diary not only
  furnish valuable matter for the historian, but it reveals the
  personality of the diarist, and thus makes very interesting and
  enjoyable reading for those who delight in following the movements,
  personal and social, of human beings.” F. W. C.

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 850w

         =Brooklyn= 12:133 My ’20 40w

  “So varied a life clearly presented opportunities for an interesting
  book. We cannot say, however, that Mrs Steuart Erskine has been
  altogether fortunate in her materials. Lord Sandwich’s wit in
  conversation vanishes when he tries to commit it to paper. He intended
  to write his biography, but here we only get it in the raw, so to
  speak.”

     + − =Sat R= 128:367 O 18 ’19 750w

  “The value of these memoirs lies in the picture they afford of a
  typical representative of a long-established order now apparently in
  the throes of dissolution.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 O 2 ’19 1050w

=SANGER, MARGARET H.=[2] Woman and the new race. *$2 (4½c) Brentano’s
176

                                                                20–15159

  In his preface to this book Havelock Ellis says that its contents are
  already as familiar as A B C to the few who think, but to the millions
  and to the handful of superior persons whom the millions elect to rule
  them, they are not familiar, yet it is a matter of vital importance to
  the race that they should be. The reason why is clearly set forth in
  the book which is a plea for a free and voluntary motherhood. The
  chapters are: Woman’s error and her debt; Woman’s struggle for
  freedom; The material of the new race; Two classes of women; The
  wickedness of creating large families; Cries of despair; When should a
  woman avoid having children? Birth control—a parents’ problem or
  woman’s? Continence—is it practicable or desirable? Contraceptives or
  abortion? Are preventive means certain? Will birth control help the
  cause of labor? Battalions of unwanted babies the cause of war; Woman
  and the new morality; Legislating woman’s morals; Why not birth
  control clinics in America? Progress we have made; The goal.

         =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 440w

  “Calm, temperate, informed, sound, and winning book.”

       + =Nation= 111:597 N 24 ’20 400w

  “While Mrs Sanger’s book contains nothing new to students of the
  subject, it is an excellent summary of the arguments for voluntary
  motherhood. In several instances, however, she overstates her case.”
  B. L.

     + − =Survey= 45:706 F 12 ’21 260w

=SANGER, WILLIAM CARY, jr.= Verse. *$1.50 Putnam 811

                                                                20–10004

  The poems of this volume are arranged under the headings Tides of
  commerce (Verse of the railroad); The city of toil and dreams;
  Miscellaneous poems; With the armies of France; Additional war poems,
  1918: In the land of the harvest. Most of the poems are reprinted from
  earlier volumes by the author and the original prefaces to these
  volumes appear in an appendix.

  Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

         =Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 730w

=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.=[2] Character and opinion in the United States; with
reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and academic life in
America. *$3.50 Scribner 304

                                                                20–26993

  “Mr Santayana, who was professor of philosophy at Harvard, has now
  come to live in Europe. In this book he looks back with intimate
  knowledge and complete detachment at the intellectual life which he
  has left. He is, he says, an American only by long association.” (The
  Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book is a keen, kindly analysis of
  American life, particularly of the more subtle mental attitudes. It
  seems to centralize around a conception of the American character as
  vigorous, hopeful, good, somewhat childish; hampered intellectually by
  conventional prohibitions and compulsions; and devoted to a liberty
  based on cooperation and the spirit of live and let live.” (Booklist)

       + =Ath= p724 N 26 ’20 1350w

       + =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

  “In ‘Character and opinion in the United States,’ Professor Santayana
  has written what one is inclined to believe will become the classic
  essays on William James and Josiah Royce.... What must he think of
  America? On the whole, his answer to this question is an
  extraordinarily kindly one. When he is most perceptive, he gives his
  generalizations amiably rather than scornfully.” Harold Stearns

       + =Freeman= 2:378 D 29 ’20 3450w

  Reviewed by Alvin Johnson

         =New Repub= 24:221 O 27 ’20 1600w

  “A compelling, stimulating, and essentially a significant book. The
  book itself is a unique essay in interpretation, an attempt to
  evaluate American character under the play of the ideas which it has
  projected and by which, in turn, it has been influenced.” L. R. Morris

       + =Outlook= 126:729 D 22 ’20 2450w

  “On the whole he is eminently fair, if not more than fair, in his
  judgments. It is another question whether there is much profit in such
  an attempt as he has made to analyze the temper of a people.”

     + − =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 400w

  “Professor Santayana has written one of the most fascinating books
  imaginable.”

       + =Spec= 126:19 Ja 1 ’21 1500w

  “The book is a very original one; indeed, the two chapters on William
  James and Josiah Royce belong to a new genre of literature. They are
  character-studies of philosophers, studies of the reaction between
  character and philosophy, which ought to be dull but are as amusing as
  if he were talking scandal about the manners and habits of fashionable
  ladies. His book is one of the best he has written.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1850w

=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Little essays, drawn from the writings of the
author by Logan Pearsall Smith, with the collaboration of the author.
*$3 Scribner 814

                                                                20–26891

  “Mr Pearsall Smith explains in his preface that this book owes its
  genesis to his habit of copying out such passages as particularly
  interested him in the writings of Santayana. He came to see, however,
  that these extracts ‘were bound up with, and dependent upon, a
  definite philosophy, a rational conception of the world and man’s
  allotted place in it, which gave them a unity of interest and an
  importance far beyond that of any mere utterances of miscellaneous
  appreciation—any mere “adventures of the soul.”’ He therefore
  persuaded Mr Santayana to arrange these extracts in such a way as to
  preserve their original connection as far as possible.”—Ath

  “We confess that we are agreeably surprised at the result. The
  masterful and inclusive vision of the author of the ‘Life of reason’
  appears here broken and disconnected, but not betrayed.” J. W. N. S.

       + =Ath= p143 Jl 30 ’19 1500w

  “Contains a vast amount of interesting material distilled from
  profound scholarship and meditation.”

       + =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20

         =Bookm= 52:368 Ja ’21 130w

  “Any one who has a taste for short essays will find a good feast
  provided for him. While the essays can well hold their own as detached
  disquisitions on special subjects, they form a catena of thought which
  hangs logically together, exposing a rational philosophy. Indeed it
  has been said that George Santayana has imperiled the recognition of
  his philosophy by the fine robes in which he has consistently
  presented it.” Robert Bridges

       + =Dial= 69:534 N ’20 5000w

         =Nation= 111:221 Ag 21 ’20 1300w

  “A new immortal book.” P. L.

       + =New Repub= 25:321 F 9 ’21 2650w

  “I believe that this publication will accomplish two things: it will
  establish Mr Santayana’s reputation as one of the foremost masters of
  English prose now living, and it will persuade many readers to buy the
  complete works from which these essays are drawn.” W: L. Phelps

       + =N Y Times= p8 Ag 22 ’20 3050w

  “It is a notable book. Professor Santayana possesses charm of style;
  that merit must be accorded to him by his worst enemy, if enemy he
  has. His culture is broad, and his mind is discursive, touching in its
  range many points of metaphysics and art and literature and morals.”

       + =Review= 3:346 O 20 ’20 1350w

  “Short though the pieces may be, they are, as a rule, brief only
  through extreme compression, and the great beauty of the style in
  which they are written links them together rather than divides them.
  Hidden in the book there lurks the exposition of a theory of life.”

       + =Spec= 124:239 Ag 21 ’20 800w

  “Even if his philosophy does not satisfy us, we must enjoy his art. If
  we cannot believe that he tells us the truth about the nature of the
  universe, he tells us many incidental truths about the nature of man.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 S 9 ’20 2500w

=SARETT, LEW R.= Many many moons; a book of wilderness poems. *$1.50
Holt 811

                                                                 20–6453

  Of these poems on Indian themes the author says that they “are in
  no sense literal translations of original utterances of aboriginal
  song and council-talk; they are, rather, very free, broad
  interpretations ... in the light of Indian symbolism and
  mysticism, of the mythology and superstition involved, and of the
  attendant ceremonies.” (Preface) This is especially true of Parts
  I and III of the poems, and an appendix of expository comments has
  been added to make them clearer to the reader. Part II consists of
  nature poems giving the atmosphere of the Indian’s environment.
  The book has an introduction by Carl Sandburg and the three parts
  are: Flying moccasins; Lone fires; Chippewa monologues.

  “A book of beautiful, rugged verse.”

       + =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

  “Mr Sarett makes one understand the Indian. We understand the Indian
  in relation to his thoughts, moods, his customs, his legends, his
  symbolism, his natural mysticism. With the poet’s full equipment, he
  has psychologically become an Indian and thus his interpreter to the
  outside world. ‘Many many moons’ is a remarkable book!” W: S.
  Braithwaite

       + =Boston Transcript= p8 My 8 ’20 2300w

       + =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 50w

  “Noise clearly is his forte; heap big Indian talk is his best line.
  The pale-face stanzas which attempt quieter and tenderer sorts of
  interpretation are vacant and over-facile in their faith.” M. V. D.

     − + =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 120w

  “He does not prettify the wilderness. Especially good are ‘The granite
  mountain’ and ‘God is at the anvil’ and ‘Of these four things I cannot
  write.’”

       + =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 120w

  “When Mr Sarett writes of nature he is writing with genuine feeling of
  something he really knows. He has been in the wilderness.” M.
  Wilkinson

       + =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 290w

=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= Europe and the league of nations. *$2.50 Macmillan
341.1

  “This book by Professor Sarolea of the University of Edinburgh is, as
  its title implies, devoted principally to the league of nations,
  although there are chapters of interest on other subjects. The author
  warmly supports the league as a panacea for the ailing world.” (N Y
  Times Mr 14) “He takes up a number of problems growing out of the
  treaty of peace and out of the league covenant such as The status of
  small nations within the covenant, America within the league, The
  trial of the kaiser, The future of Poland, Germany’s political
  reconstruction. The author expresses great dissatisfaction with the
  economic terms of the treaty.” (N Y Times Ap 18)

         =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 600w

         =N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 120w

  “Dr Sarolea’s book is excellent in temper and spirit, but its
  sentimental idealism is unrestrained by the realities of present-day
  politics.”

     + − =Sat R= 129:252 Mr 13 ’20 1300w

  “‘Europe and the league of nations’ cannot be described as a weighty
  book, but it is fluently and brightly written.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 300w

=SASSOON, SIEGFRIED.= Picture-show. *$1.50 Dutton 821

                                                                 20–3705

  “The contents of the volume, in spite of its suggestive title, are not
  wholly given over to the sidelights, fevers and fantasms of modern
  warfare. Almost one third of the book is a record of those passages of
  love which verge from the physical to the metaphysical; reflections of
  an emotion that is half-celebrated, half-stifled.”—New Repub

       + =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

  “Every last utterance of Siegfried Sassoon’s makes a farce out of the
  deeds of the romantic soldier-poet the world has worshipped during the
  last five years.” W. S. B.

       + =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 24 ’20 1550w

  Reviewed by Malcolm Cowley

         =Dial= 68:621 My ’20 1600w

  “He knows the secret of the clean pentameter, he is distinct and
  clever and casual; yet there exists no feelable personality behind his
  lines. It is not required that he have intellectual drive or spiritual
  mounting-power: it merely is required that he show some sort of
  intellectual edge and awareness. He does that nowhere in ‘Picture
  show.’” M. V. D.

     − + =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

  “Now we have ‘Picture show,’ a vigorous answer to those who feared
  that Sassoon had ‘written himself out’ or had begun to burn away in
  his own fire. The same outrage and loathing of war is in the new poems
  but a darker restraint is here; an emotion remembered not so much in
  tranquility as in irony. One of the most rousing of his recent poems.
  Aftermath, might well be the title of this volume, so firmly does it
  balance and round off his trilogy.” L: Untermeyer

       + =New Repub= 22:37 Mr 3 ’20 950w

  “There is a mass of the verse that is heavy and halting—far too large
  a mass for so small a book. More careful pruning hereafter will lift
  the worth of his collections amazingly.” Clement Wood

     + − =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 250w

  “In this book Mr Sassoon describes warfare just as he did in his two
  earlier books. But the last lyric in ‘Picture-show,’ [Every one sang,]
  is, perhaps, the very loveliest of all the songs written to welcome
  peace.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 140w

  “Mr Sassoon sometimes is as shaken in his expressions as in his
  emotion, and then he is apt to write as though art could not contain
  him. But every poet must learn that no man feels too deeply or too
  quickly to write well.... At its best here is a proud, tender poetry,
  indignant often but magnanimous always, the creation of a loving and
  aristocratic art.” J: Drinkwater

     + − =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 1550w

  “When it comes to sheer poetry, I find in Mr Sassoon but two
  outstanding merits, a feeling for phrase and a sense of the occult,
  both present in the degree which redeems verse from insignificance
  without lifting it to distinction.” O. W. Firkins

     + − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 220w

=SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS.= Useful wild plants of the United States and
Canada. il *$3 McBride 581.6

                                                                20–26546

  The purpose of the book is to call attention to certain useful wild
  plants, growing in the woods, waters and open country of the United
  States, that have in the past formed an important element in the diet
  of the aborigines and that could be both interesting and useful to
  dwellers in rural districts, to campers, vacationists and nature
  students. It is copiously illustrated by photographs and line drawings
  and the contents are: Wild plants with edible tubers, bulbs or roots;
  Wild seeds of food value and how they have been utilized; The acorn as
  human food and some other wild nuts; Some little regarded wild fruits
  and berries; Wild plants with edible stems and leaves; Beverage plants
  of field and wood; Vegetable substitutes for soap; Some medicinal
  wildings worth knowing; Miscellaneous uses of wild plants; A
  cautionary chapter on certain poisonous plants; Regional index and
  general index.

       + =Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20

=SAUNDERS, MARSHALL.= Bonnie Prince Fetlar. *$2 (2½c) Doran

                                                                20–18408

  The hero of this new story by the author of “Beautiful Joe” is a
  Shetland pony, and there are many other characters, both animal and
  human. The scene is a Canadian farm to which the pony and his master,
  a delicate boy with over-strung nerves, are sent. Neither likes the
  strange, wild country at first but in time both come to love it, the
  young master’s health is restored, he makes new friends with a family
  of six lively Canadian children and in the end the mother he had
  believed dead returns to him. All this story is told in the words of
  the pony.

  “The author of ‘Beautiful Joe’ has written a horse story which friends
  of Beautiful Joe will be disappointed in. But after all, comparisons
  are unnecessary—and ‘Bonnie Prince Fetlar,’ left to itself, is an
  attractive book, full of incident and interest.”

     + − =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w

         =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 60w

  “It is hardly necessary to say that here is an offering which any
  healthy boy or girl must enjoy, but to this it may be added that also
  it makes a strong appeal to grown-ups.”

       + =N Y Times= p23 D 12 ’20 270w

=SAVI, ETHEL WINIFRED.= When the blood burns. *$2 (1½c) Putnam

                                                                20–22037

  Marcelle was a typist in a London office. Her beauty attracted her
  employer and his charming personality easily persuaded the
  inexperienced girl that she loved him; also—since he was married to a
  much older woman who would not hear of divorce—that it was right for
  her to go away with him to India. The monotony of the life there soon
  palled on David and he is glad, eventually, of the summons back to
  England. Marcelle, left behind, suffers untold miseries and
  excruciating experiences, and is finally rescued by the one friend who
  has stood by her from the first and who takes her home as his wife.
  The interesting feature of the story is its description of life in
  India.

         =Ath= p698 N 19 ’20 150w

  “It is a very old situation upon which E. W. Savi bases her story. She
  gives it no new twist, but she infuses into it so vital a sense of
  reality that it draws us and holds us keenly interested in its
  developments. She possesses the story-telling art in a very marked
  degree, and her story is full of both the beauty and strangeness of
  genuine romance.” D. L. M.

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2000w

  “The author hero has been content to tell a plain, somewhat sordid,
  tale of illicit love, with its inevitable penalties, which has little
  more color than can be found in the records of the average divorce
  suit. None of the characters commands much sympathy. As a whole, the
  offering may be called just a passable novel.”

     − + =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 500w

  “The scenes which pass in India are much the most interesting.”

       + =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w

  “The story has a certain sympathetic charm with a moral that cannot be
  missed.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 220w

  “Despite a great deal of burning talk about love and passion, the
  story leaves one quite cold.”

       − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 120w

=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Leerie. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

                                                                20–13146

  “Leerie” was what the patients at the “San” lovingly called their
  nurse Sheila O’Leary, and like Stevenson’s “Leerie,” she brought light
  into the lives of her charges as no other nurse could. Especially to
  Peter Brooks, she brought light which they both felt could never die
  out. Then just on the very eve of her marriage to him, she felt the
  call to go to France, and went. But she did not leave him behind for
  he too found his place over there. There, after her period of service
  which offered experiences both bitter and sweet, they were reunited,
  “glad they had both paid their utmost for the love and happiness that
  she knew was theirs now for all time.”

  “Somewhat sentimentalized and improbable, but women and girls will
  like it.”

       + =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

  “The book contains the correct philosophy of life throughout, showing
  that happiness comes from making others happy, from giving freely.”

       + =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 210w

  “A vivacious story, with plenty of sentimental appeal and written with
  a good deal of cleverness and ingenuity, Ruth Sawyer’s new novel
  springs lightly out of the conventional lines of fiction and goes its
  own gait.”

       + =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 400w

         =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w

=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russia white or red. il *$2.50 Little 947

                                                                19–18648

  For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

       + =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20

  “The author took with him his best gifts as critic—a quick eye, ready
  critical discernment, and an easy pen. He added to these gifts
  something of the historian’s grasp of the unity of events. The result
  is a quite unusual freshness and lucidity in the view we get of the
  Russian theatre.” T: H. Dickinson

       + =Bookm= 51:492 Je ’20 850w

  “The value of his account is in its freedom from political interest.
  Without prejudice toward either white or red but with sympathy for the
  struggles and sufferings of both sides, he simply relates what he
  observed of the surface and common movement of things.”

       + =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 200w

  “‘Russia white or red’ is free of any taint of propaganda, and among a
  torrent of writings full of distorted pictures of revolutionary
  Russia, it stands out as a truthful and honest if by no means profound
  contribution.” M. J. Olgin

       + =New Repub= 22:426 My 26 ’20 2000w

  “Altogether, the book reveals a sympathetic understanding of the
  Russian masses, and an appreciation of their yearnings for freedom and
  peace. It does not pretend, however, to be a serious treatise on the
  fundamental changes which have come about since the revolution.”
  Alexander Trachtenberg

       + =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 320w

  “It is neither a complete record nor an interpretation of events, and
  will appeal primarily to those who may still be interested in getting
  the background of revolutionary events and vivid glimpses of daily
  living during the first months of the Bolshevist régime.” Reed Lewis

     + − =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 100w

=SAYLER, OLIVER M.= Russian theatre under the revolution. il *$2.50
(3½c) Little 792

                                                                  20–692

  The author chose the winter of 1917–1918, while the Bolshevik
  revolution was in progress, for a study of the Russian theatre. It was
  a time when the theatre had not significantly survived either in
  England or France or even in neutral New York and war had revealed it
  as being only too clearly a luxury, a pastime and an industry. But the
  Russian theatre is one of profound introspection and inspiration. “Out
  of their sorrows the Russians have builded all their art. And in the
  days of their profoundest gloom, they return to it for the consolation
  which nothing else affords.” In Moscow and Petrograd, the author
  testifies, the modern theatre has been carried to its finest
  achievement. Among the contents are: Plays within a play; The world’s
  first theatre; The plays of Tchehoff at the Art theatre; From
  Turgenieff to Gorky at the Art theatre; The Russian ballet in its own
  home; The deeper roots of the Russian theatre; The Kamerny, a theatre
  of revolt; Meyerhold and the theatre theatrical; Yevreynoff and
  monodrama; Russian theories of the theatre. There are numerous
  illustrations and an index.

         =Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20

  “Interesting and remarkable book. It is a valuable contribution to the
  literature of the theatre.” N. H. D.

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 800w

         =Cleveland= p32 Mr ’20 170w

  “A book so eager, so cordial, so intelligent, so frankly the
  expression of a personal appetite that one would like to think of it
  as typical of a new dispensation.”

       + =Freeman= 1:70 Mr 31 ’20 280w

     + − =Nation= 110:596 My 1 ’20 1250w

  “He seems overstimulated by the shock of strangeness and the pervading
  atmosphere of idealism and experiment so different from the atmosphere
  of Broadway. Nevertheless, his book is tonic for the knowledge it
  brings us of theatrical theories, experiments and striking
  achievements in a land which is far ahead of ours so far as the
  theater is concerned.” W. P. Eaton

     + − =N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 420w

  “The author presents his material in such a way that not only will
  those interested in the theatre be attracted to it, but also those who
  are drawn to the puzzling topic of the Russian revolution.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:303 Je 6 ’20 500w

       + =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

  “His sincerity is unquestionable but his temper runs to hyperbole. In
  spite of all doubts and deductions, Mr Sayler’s book should be read by
  all students of contemporary drama. If it is not a striking history,
  it is a spirited and curious novel.”

     + − =Review= 2:259 Mr 13 ’20 420w

  “A comprehensive and graphic account.” Reed Lewis

       + =Survey= 44:53 Ap 3 ’20 80w

  “It cannot be recommended too highly when considered merely as a
  source of knowledge and inspiration to those who are organizing our
  theatre guilds, Greenwich Village theatres, arts and crafts
  playhouses, and other steps toward a native art theatre. The casual
  reader will find the chapters absorbing with a human appeal quite
  lacking in most books about the theatre; but the same reader will meet
  something of a jolt when he reaches the last chapter—for here are
  gathered in concentrated form (and often in darkly philosophical
  terms) the most recent of revolutionary theories of the stage. A
  handful of Americans will find these few chapters worth more than all
  the rest of the book together—worth more, too, than scores of the
  usual superficial books of criticism.”

       + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:173 Ap ’20 700w

=SCHAEFER, CLEMENS T.= Motor truck design and construction. il *$2.50
Van Nostrand 629.2

                                                                  20–991

  “This volume has been written to fill a pressing want; to give a
  practical discussion of the gasoline propelled commercial car of the
  present type, and to present this subject in the plainest possible
  manner by the use of numerous illustrations.” (Preface) A chapter on
  the general layout of the chassis is followed by chapters devoted to
  the various details, engine, cooling system, carburetion, ignition
  systems, etc. The illustrations number 292, consisting largely of
  figures in the text. There is an index.

         =Booklist= 16:229 Ap ’20 (Reprinted from Pratt p21 Ja ’20)

         =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p33 Ap ’20 100w

         =Pratt= p21 Ja ’20 50w (Same as Quar List New Tech Bks O ’19)

         =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ’19 50w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.= Fiddler’s luck. *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton

                                                                 20–9475

  Being “the gay adventures of a musical amateur.” (Sub-title) The young
  son of a family in which the flute was hereditary finds a cello in the
  garret and sets about to teach himself. He is sent to a musical cousin
  for his education and returning, as a fairly well equipped fiddler,
  has a falling out with his puppy love, Priscilla, because her progress
  on the piano has not kept pace with his, and she plays an
  ear-splitting fortissimo for his accompaniment. After many musical
  vicissitudes in the army he comes unexpectedly on Priscilla in Paris.
  She no longer strums but is a finished pianist and the harmony is now
  complete.

       + =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w

  “One of the most thoroly enjoyable books—whether you are a musician or
  not—that you have read in a long, long while.”

       + =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 170w

         =Lit D= p94 S 18 ’20 2750w

  “‘Fiddler’s luck’ is full of love, laughter, music and good drink. It
  is worth a ton of best sellers and ‘serious studies’ in these
  melancholy days that are upon us.” B. De C.

       + =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 800w

  “‘Fiddler’s luck’ is a charming series of war sketches that Mr
  Schauffler tries to make impersonal, but his own engaging personality
  sparkles through the sketches.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 170w

  “A cheerful vein of optimism is in evidence continually, and its
  influence on the reader will be anything but depressing.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 220w

         =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 120w

=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN.=[2] White comrade; and other poems. *$1.50
Houghton 811

                                                                20–19672

  Poetry in many forms and in many moods is represented in this volume:
  the ballad, the ode, the lyric, the sonnet, thoughts of this life and
  of the beyond, of the country, of love and of war. They fall into four
  groups: Between two shores; Magic casements; Conflict; and Other
  poems.

  “Out of all the book—and it contains much which repays reading and
  re-reading—there is nothing which more fully satisfies the high poetic
  mood than does the little poem called ‘Worship,’ as lovely and
  distinguished a bit of verse as Mr Schauffler has ever given us.” D.
  L. M.

       + =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 520w

=SCHEM, LIDA CLARA (MARGARET BLAKE, pseud.).= Hyphen. 2v *$6 Dutton

                                                                20–17964

  “The book is really a pamphlet masquerading as a novel, and it offers
  an analysis of the state of mind and fundamental character of the
  large German element in the United States, and also a vision of the
  ideal of American democracy as it appears to a thoroughly un-English
  observer. Her hero is presented as a personification of acquired
  Americanism. The son of a Prussian-American father and a Nihilist
  Russian princess, he is conceived as a synthesis. Brought up in a
  wholly German environment (Hoboken is thinly disguised as Anasquoit),
  the boy aspires to become a ‘real American.’ Curiously enough, and yet
  convincingly, he gets the strongest stimulus toward Americanism from a
  young Englishman. The war disillusions him as to German kultur, and he
  concludes that the only way out for those of German blood who truly
  aspire to Americanism is to ‘go and fight Germany.’”—Review

  “The story is very rich in material, a novel to be read slowly and
  thoughtfully for it contains a wealth of contemporary opinion and
  criticism. It is a colossal work and yet it is human.” D. L. Mann

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 1200w

  “Excellent in parts, it is dismally unsatisfactory as a whole; rich in
  promise, it is a triumph of frustration. The author, apparently, drew
  the plans for an imposing work of fiction, but as the business of
  construction proceeded she became so engrossed in ornamental details
  and features of dubious importance that she mislaid her drawings.” B.
  R. Redman

     − + =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 520w

  “Complicated, and presenting many divergent points of view, the book
  is nevertheless full of repetitions. It impresses one as a kind of
  storehouse in which the author has stowed away a number of opinions on
  a number of subjects; the story merely provides a sort of makeshift
  for these opinions. There is no artistry shown in its construction.”

     + − =N Y Times= p22 O 31 ’20 1150w

  “It is especially interesting to those who are concerned about the
  Americanization of immigrants, because it shows so clearly what the
  reactions of the newcomers are to the influences which begin to
  surround them almost as soon as they set foot in their new country.”

       + =N Y Times= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w

  “Regarded merely as fiction, ‘The hyphen’ would be of small moment.
  The book’s chief interest lies in its minute portrayal of many and
  variant types of German-Americans both before and during the war.”

     + − =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 540w

=SCHINZ, ALBERT.= French literature of the great war. *$3 (2c) Appleton
840.9

                                                                 20–8608

  The author distinguishes three periods in the war literature of France
  between 1914 and 1918. “The first was one of spontaneous, sudden and
  strongly emotional reaction, following immediately the first
  bewildering shock; the second, one of documentation on the causes of
  the war and on the war itself; and the third, a period of calm
  philosophical consideration of all that was involved in the gigantic
  struggle.” (Introd.) Although the lyric and satirical note
  predominated in the first period, memoir literature in the second, and
  philosophical essays and treatises in the third, no period can be said
  to have produced one type of literature to the exclusion of all
  others. The contents of the book fall into two parts, part 1
  discussing in successive chapters the three periods and part 2
  containing: Poetry of the war; The stage and the war; War-time
  fiction; Epilogue. The appendices contain a bibliography; documents
  relative to the war; and a catalogue, in alphabetical order, of some
  of the best war diaries and recollections. There is an index.

       + =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

  “The French literature of the late war is very adequately discussed by
  Professor Schinz. The chief defect of his treatise is a tinge of
  partisan feeling, somewhat out of place in work of this kind, and his
  attack of Romain Rolland is hardly just.” C. K. H.

     + − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 300w

  “A very interesting and scholarly account.”

       + =Cath World= 112:267 N ’20 280w

  “The scholarly orderliness and completeness of Mr Albert Schinz’s
  ‘French literature in the great war’ contrast glaringly with its
  temper. He prefers polemics to poetry. Instead of writing the history
  of a literary movement which is memorable even if not great, he still
  is battering the Teutonic hordes with the familiar accumulation of
  civilian energy unspent on any other field.”

     + − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 280w

  “We consider the work, as a whole, timely and important. It must have
  been the labor of love, for no other motive could have produced a
  result so eminently satisfactory.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:13 Jl 18 ’20 950w

       + =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 400w

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 12 ’20 650w

  “He is quite prodigiously well read in French war literature. But
  unhappily there is hardly any criticism in the book, nothing profound,
  nothing illuminating, nothing very thoughtful even—except for a few
  passages—and none of those fortunate phrases by which the real critic
  ‘gets at’ the significance, the vitals, so to speak, of the work he is
  discussing.”

     − + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p686 O 21 ’20 580w

=SCHLEITER, FREDERICK.= Religion and culture. *$2 Columbia univ. press
201

                                                                 19–9320

  For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

  “Dr Schleiter has given us a critique of method which not only
  challenges modern methods and theories but deliberately drives them
  all from the field, some more gently than others.... As a preparation
  for a methodology—a destruction of methods to make way for method—Dr
  Schleiter’s work deserves the serious attention of all workers in the
  field of origins, social and religious, and may well be the most
  significant work of recent years.” A. E. Haydon

       + =Am J Theol= 24:293 Ap ’20 850w

  “On page after page the false assumptions, the blundering reasoning,
  and the erroneous conclusions that have hitherto characterized
  comparative religion are laid bare with a detachment of judgment and a
  wealth of erudition that make the book a model of criticism. Dr
  Schleiter has put out of action a good many of the heavy guns that
  were to batter the walls of the citadel of religion.”

       + =Cath World= 111:393 Je ’20 400w

  “Dr Schleiter, though an acute critic, is not a lucid writer, and his
  work is critical rather than constructive.”

     + − =Nature= 105:451 Je 10 ’20 260w

  “He deserves special credit for rescuing from obscurity the principle
  of convergence, i.e., the doctrine that like cultural results may
  evolve from unlike antecedents. However, it is the more original
  treatment of casuality that not only arrests attention but makes one
  hunger for more.” R. H. L.

     + − =New Repub= 21:364 F 18 ’20 600w

  “The book is a signal illustration of two characteristic features of
  American thought—the tendency to concentrate on what authorities have
  written about a subject rather than on the subject itself, and the
  neglect to cultivate any grace or clarity of literary style.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 100w

=SCHMAUK, THEODORE EMANUEL.= How to teach in Sunday-school.
(Teacher-training handbook) $1.50 (2c) United Lutheran publication house
268

                                                                 20–3582

  A book devoted to the art, the method, the material and the act of
  Sunday-school teaching. The author suggests that for a short and
  effective teacher-training course chapters 20–22 (comprising the
  discussion of the act of teaching) be used. For a more comprehensive
  course the sections devoted to method and material are suggested. The
  author is professor of pedagogy in the Theological seminary at
  Philadelphia and has had “twenty-five years’ experience in
  Sunday-school reconstruction.”

=SCHOFF, WILFRED HARVEY.=[2] Ship Tyre. il *$2 Longmans 224

                                                                20–18184

  The dooms of the ship “Tyre” and of the “King of Tyre” as pronounced
  in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth chapters of the book of the
  prophet Ezekiel are here shown to be entirely symbolic and the
  material things mentioned to refer not to any real commerce but to
  matters of a political and religious significance. According to the
  sub-title, the ship “Tyre” is “a symbol of the fate of conquerors, as
  prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh,
  Babylon and Rome.” Contents: Introduction; The tabernacle; Division of
  spoil; The temple and palace; Ophir voyages: Profanation and pillage;
  Captivity; The ship “Tyre”; The prince of Tyre; The king of Tyre;
  Notes to the allegory; The second temple; The great city “Babylon”;
  The Holy City; The pomp and the trappings; Precious stones; The
  specifications compared; Date of the tradition; Appendix; Index.

       + =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 420w

       + =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 240w

=SCHOFIELD, ALFRED TAYLOR.= Modern spiritism. pa *$1.25 Blakiston 134

  “Dr Schofield, a student for over thirty years of psychological
  problems, and a rather copious writer upon them, especially from the
  medical point of view, gives an instructive review of the history of
  spiritism, and of its modern developments, and discusses, with many
  examples from his own experience and with an open mind, the strange
  phenomena of ‘possession,’ ‘second sight,’ etc. His own position is
  that, while the facts of spiritism cannot all be explained by purely
  human agencies, communications with ‘spirits’ are certainly not with
  the disembodied spirits of the dead. He regards spiritism as practised
  today to be full of the gravest dangers, mental and spiritual, and to
  be definitely anti-Christian.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

         =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 60w

  Reviewed by B: de Casseres

         =N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 180w

       + =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 80w (Reprinted from The
           Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19)

  “The author’s argument is trenchantly expressed and is supported by
  evidence. But the fact that he has a religious belief of his own to
  uphold against the beliefs of the spiritists somewhat weakens his
  argument.”

     + − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 750w

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 120w

=SCHOFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY.= Mythical bards, and The life of William
Wallace. (Harvard studies in comparative literature) *$3 Harvard univ.
press 821.09

                                                                 20–9501

  “This is primarily a discussion of the authorship of the metrical
  fifteenth century life of the Scottish patriot (d. 1305), which is
  ascribed to ‘Blind Harry.’ Mr Schofield contends that ‘Blind Harry’ is
  a pseudonym, and that the biographer was no quiet scholar or amiable
  ecclesiastic like Barbour, but ‘a vigorous propagandist, a ferocious
  realpolitiker without principle when it was a question of Scotland’s
  place in the sun.’ The writer diverges from this problem to chapters
  on ‘Blind Harry and blind Homer,’ and on Conceptions of poesy which
  occupy the last two chapters.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

  “It is all readable enough and often not uninteresting: whether it
  proves anything must be left to the reader to decide.”

     + − =Ath= p761 D 3 ’20 450w

  “Every page of it betrays the author’s enjoyment of an opportunity to
  build a huge structure of learning around—a soap bubble.”

       − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 950w

  “In general, ‘Mythical bards’ is marked by the broad scholarship and
  the keen vision of literary problems which have always been the chief
  characteristics of the author’s work.” T. P. Cross

       + =Mod Philol= 18:53 Ag ’20 1200w

  “Like most of Prof. Schofield’s books this shows originality as well
  as the result of deep research, with an undoubted power of holding the
  attention of the reader.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 120w

         =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w

=SCHOLEFIELD, GUY HARDY.= Pacific, its past and future, and the policy
of the great powers from the eighteenth century. il *$5.50 Scribner 990

                                                        (Eng ed 19–8578)

  “Mr Scholefield, a New Zealander, adds materially to our knowledge.
  There is a growing tendency, on wholly right and sound lines, to treat
  of the vast Pacific ocean as a single unit. ‘The Pacific: its past and
  future’ is a short political history of the Pacific from the first
  days of European exploration and intrusion, excluding in the main the
  history of Australia and New Zealand, but by no means excluding their
  Pacific aspirations and policy. The appendices contain selections of
  the principal treaties and conventions relating to the Pacific, and a
  chronological table. The maps are adequate, the last being a map of
  the whole ocean.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

  “His book is illuminative and opportune.”

       + =Ath= p351 My 16 ’19 300w

       + =Booklist= 16:238 Ap ’20

  “There are numerous books on the subject of the Pacific and its
  problems, but in none will be found so careful and discriminating an
  account of the past history as is here given. It is based mainly on
  the British parliamentary papers, and, though the author has strong
  views, he shows himself commendably free from exaggeration or
  prejudice.” H. E. E.

       + =Eng Hist R= 35:157 Ja ’20 240w

         =Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 400w

  “Mr Scholefield’s narrative is well arranged and most interesting.”

       + =Spec= 123:219 Ag 16 ’19 180w

  “Mr Scholefield has spared no pains in consulting the best sources of
  information, and gives chapter and verse for his authorities. In a
  book of 311 pages, excluding appendices, he has produced a clear,
  well-arranged, temperate and accurate account, which was wanted and
  will be used and valued.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p331 Je 19 ’19 1400w

=SCHOLL, FRANK B.= Automobile owner’s guide. il *$2.50 Appleton 629.2

                                                                20–14778

  “The purpose of this book is to serve as a practical guide for those
  who own, operate, or contemplate purchasing an automobile. The
  contents cover the entire field that would be of value to the owner or
  chauffeur in making his own repairs.... Technical terms, tables and
  scales have been entirely eliminated.... Since there are many
  different makes of cars, motors, and equipment, the functional action
  of all is practically the same, therefore we use for illustration only
  those which are used by the majority of manufacturers.” (Preface) An
  introductory chapter gives the history of the gasoline engine and of
  early automobile construction. The parts of the automobile are then
  taken up chapter by chapter and a Ford supplement of sixty pages
  occupies an appendix. There are 154 illustrations and an index.

         =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p61 Jl ’20 50w

       + =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 60w

=SCOTT, ARTHUR PEARSON.= Introduction to the peace treaties. *$2 (2½c)
Univ. of Chicago press 940.314

                                                                 20–7755

  The book is an attempt at an altogether impartial statement of the
  causes leading to the war, and the treaties and peace conference
  resulting from it. The author states that he has no inside knowledge
  of what went on in Paris or of any unpublished documentary material,
  that he has relied largely on newspaper and magazine material,
  unsatisfactory as that may be, and that his object is to give his
  readers a clearer idea of what is going on in the world. “A
  considerable part of the book is taken up with a detailed summary of
  the treaty with Germany, including more or less extensive explanatory
  comments on many of its clauses,” (Preface) and an attempt has been
  made to summarize as fairly as possible the arguments on both sides.
  Contents: War causes and war aims; Peace plans and negotiations during
  the war; The peace conference; The framing of the treaty of
  Versailles; The supplementary treaties; The Austrian settlement; The
  Bulgarian settlement; Hungary; Elements of the Near-eastern
  settlement; Italy, the South Slavs, and the Adriatic; Public opinion
  and the settlement; References for additional reading; Index.

  “Mr Scott’s book is an excellent illustration of the value of
  perspective combined with careful study of documents, as opposed to
  the impressions of first-hand observation. It seems to the reviewer
  that he has succeeded admirably in a difficult task.” C: Seymour

       + =Am Hist R= 26:137 O ’20 320w

  “The author’s comments are discriminating, unbiassed, and always
  helpful.”

       + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 100w

  “A useful aid to the reader or voter who wishes to form intelligent
  opinions.”

       + =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

       + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 100w

  “Though the author escapes the criticism of partisanship to which
  Keynes, Dillon, Baker, and other commentators on the peace have been
  subjected, his book lacks the interest and color of theirs. A good
  many of the author’s comments upon treaty clauses might be
  questioned.” Quincy Wright

     + − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:165 S ’20 480w

  “A volume which may be especially commended to students and teachers.”
  W: MacDonald

       + =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 100w

  “Professor Scott’s ‘Introduction to the peace treaties’ should prove
  an invaluable volume to students of the great settlement. Not all of
  Mr Scott’s conclusions can be passed without challenge. For the most
  part, however, Mr Scott has done his work extremely well and it was
  work worth doing.” E. S. Corwin

     + − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 280w

  “If the question of treaty ratification is to be one of the leading