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Behold the man alive in me,Behold the man in you!If there is God—am I not he?—Shall I myself undo?I have been awaiting long enoughImpossible gods, goodby!I wait no more ... The way is rough—But the god who climbs is I.

Behold the man alive in me,Behold the man in you!If there is God—am I not he?—Shall I myself undo?I have been awaiting long enoughImpossible gods, goodby!I wait no more ... The way is rough—But the god who climbs is I.

Behold the man alive in me,Behold the man in you!If there is God—am I not he?—Shall I myself undo?

Behold the man alive in me,

Behold the man in you!

If there is God—am I not he?—

Shall I myself undo?

I have been awaiting long enoughImpossible gods, goodby!I wait no more ... The way is rough—But the god who climbs is I.

I have been awaiting long enough

Impossible gods, goodby!

I wait no more ... The way is rough—

But the god who climbs is I.

This last line is humanity’s motto today; and its author is one of the leading interpreters of the climbing.” Clement Wood

“Though he has failed in his main purpose, however, it is to be remarked that scattered here and there throughout the book are many charming lyrics quite in his usual satisfying manner. Of these, ‘Mercy,’ ‘An old elegy,’ and ‘The heart of gold’ are particularly fine.”

“He has not, to be sure, the depth of background of Edwin Arlington Robinson and some others. But he now proves himself a genuine poet of beauty”

BYRNE, LAWRENCE, pseud.American ambassador.*$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-13818

The publishers say that the author of this novel is an American diplomatist who prefers to write under a pseudonym. The story is told in the first person by a young man who has just been engaged as private secretary to a newly appointed ambassador to one of the European courts. He begins his duties by falling promptly in love with the ambassador’s daughter. Kate Colborne, like her father, is wholesomely frank and American, but Mrs Colborne, her step-mother, is one of those Americans who crave social prestige and bow down before a title. An important cablegram from the State department at Washington is stolen from the ambassador’s desk. To save her father from possible ruin, Kate engages herself to Comte de Stanlau, the man who seems to hold his fate in his hands. The mystery of the lost cablegram is explained; the ambassador wins a triumph for himself and his country, and Kate’s affairs are settled happily for the young man who is telling the story. The background of the story is necessarily indefinite, as the European country concerned is not named.

“There is a love story running through the book which increases the excitement of its episodes and helps round out the plot. It is well written, and the fine picture it presents of an American diplomat should come at an opportune moment.” D. L. M.

“‘You rarely see an American man who looks as if he had ancestors. We usually appear to have been made in a hurry.’ Thus Mr Lawrence Byrne sums up, unconsciously, the fault of his novel.”

“Comes down to a Zenda story with realistic touches. ... The American ambassador is the plain, blunt hustler from ‘back home,’ who drags at each remove a lengthening chain of ignorances and complacencies.”

“We venture to assert that the writer who signs himself ‘Lawrence Byrne’ is personally familiar with the ways of embassies. ‘The American ambassador’ is written with a seemingly unconsidered mastery of small detail that gives the book background, charmingly.”

CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.Cream of the jest; a comedy of evasions.*$1.35 (3c) McBride 17-24970

Mr Cabell’s story will provide a new sensation for the satiated novel reader. The reader, however, must not be the matter-of-fact sort who has lost faith in human dreams. The pendulum of the story swings leisurely between the two existences of Felix Kennaston. In one, as Kennaston, with two motors and money in four banks, he lives a life that “his body is shuffling thru aimlessly.” While in this atmosphere of action and the commonplace, he bores himself and others, including a rather worldly minded, otherwise estimable wife. But as Horvendile, the hero of his own book, the dreamer, “he lives among such gallant circumstances as he had always hoped his real life might provide to-morrow.” As a part of his mental diversions, he abandons himself to “delicious and perilous frolics” with Etarre, the heroine of his book, who symbolizes the ageless, deathless ideal of woman. The delicacy of touch and the classic atmosphere of the dream episodes give charm and distinction to the tale.

“People who have a great respect for gas and none at all for moonshine, for whom half-shades are non-existent and dreams mere nonsense, will do well to pass it by.”

“Both for its originality and literary value the book is notable.”

CABLE, BOYD, pseud.Grapes of wrath.il*$1.50 (3c) Dutton 17-13446

Altho Mr Cable’s story is based on the battle of the Somme, he warns the reader that it is not to be taken as an authentic historical account. He says, “My ambition was the much lesser one of describing as well as I could what a Big Push is like from the point of view of an ordinary average infantry private. ... I have tried to put into words merely the sort of story that might and could be told by thousands of our men to-day.” Four men, fellow soldiers and close friends, are the heroes of the tale. Three of them are Englishmen, drawn from different social ranks. One is an American.

“The story is told in a vigorous, straightforward way without false sentiment or pretentious effort. That no one who starts it will be likely to set it down unfinished is sufficient comment on its worth.” R. W.

“As big as its theme and as moving.”

“So does the great American hymn give title and summing up to this picture of the army of one of our allies, a picture etched with steel in lines of fire and blood and heroism unsurpassed. ‘Grapes of wrath’ is indeed a memorable book.”

“One who wishes to learn about war as it is fought will do well to read it, for no other among the host of war books explains this phase of it so well or even seeks to.”

CADE, COULSON T.Dandelions.*$1.50 (1½c) Knopf 17-19507

“‘Dandelions’ is a first novel. A story of heredity, its thesis seems to be that education, no matter how excellent or how careful, is of little influence when opposed to the force of inherited qualities. The two principal characters in the book are a father and son; the father, Sir Harold Carne, makes idle love to the pretty daughter of the village innkeeper. Later he marries and has a legitimate son, whom we leave as, at about eighteen, he is taking his first step along the road trodden by his father.”—N Y Times

“It is a very singular story, with no trace of the characteristics of contemporary fiction. It might have been written in the days of Fielding, although fortunately it is of a reasonable length. The average reader of ‘best sellers’ and ‘glad’ books may turn from ‘Dandelions’ with signs of ennui. But its publisher as well as its author are to be sincerely congratulated. It has distinguished literary merit.”

“There is charm and to spare in the pictures of English country life that are presented in dissolving succession. But the machinery of Mr Cade’s narrative rumbles and groans too audibly at too frequent intervals; the plot is superficial, even flimsy, and the characterization shallow.”

“A story of odd and vaguely reminiscent flavor—Peacockian, if we were to give it a name. Its quaint style, its sly humor, recall the author of ‘Headlong hall’ and ‘Gryll grange.’ It is all mildly amusing, and a trifle wicked, ending on a note of what on the whole deserves to be called malice rather than irony.”

“The descriptions of the English countryside are very much the best part of the book—far better than the dialogue, which is often ‘bookish’ rather than natural, or the story, which is not particularly interesting. This new writer is not without gifts, but he should learn to restrain his tendency to verbiage.”

“The one thing lacking in Mr Cade’s novel is a point of view. ... We are offered neither a moral idea nor a wholly consistent tale. Otherwise this is a well-written and amusing book. ... Mr Cade’s work will be worth watching. He can put colour into it without letting it get loud; he likes a dash of oddity, but keeps his people human.”

CADY, MRS BERTHA LOUISE (CHAPMAN), and CADY, VERNON MOSHER.Way life begins. (Serial pub. no. 85) il $1 Am. social hygiene assn. 570 17-4856

This introduction to sex education, intended for parents and teachers, regards nature study as the logical means of approach to the subject. Dr William Freeman Snow in his foreword, says that the book has been prepared to meet the demand for “a simple, scientifically accurate book on the subject of the way plant, animal, and human life begins, written in an interesting, non-technical way, and with adequate illustration.” The arrangement of material is shown by the table of contents: The deeper meaning of nature study; The lily; The moth; The fish; The frog; The chick; The rabbit; The child; Nature study and the personal problems of life. The book is illustrated with nine plates and other figures in the text.

“The last chapter on ‘Nature study and the personal problems of life’ is a sane summing up of the attitude the parent or teacher ought to take toward this important subject.”

“The tone is sweet and constructive—spiritual, in the finest sense of the word. One is pretty well justified in saying that while it is not the only useful and commendable book in its field, it is beyond any question the best.” J: P. Gavit

CAFFIN, CHARLES HENRY.How to study architecture. il*$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 720.9 17-24868

This book is an attempt, by an art critic, “to trace the evolution of architecture as the product and expression of successive phases of civilisation.” (Sub-title) Each chapter, or group of chapters, on the architecture of a period, is preceded by a chapter on the civilization of which it was a product. Book 1 is introductory; the remaining six books deal respectively with the pre-classic, classic, post-classic, Gothic, renaissance, and post-renaissance periods of architecture. There is a two-page bibliography, which follows the glossary and index. The book is illustrated with numerous plates.

“Each type is well illustrated.”

“A good handbook is a valuable and welcome addition to the understanding of a given art, and Mr Caffin’s work in this case is well done and has the virtue of being readable and not a bore. He is, from long practice, an essayist on this and similar themes who knows how to write and so spares us the ennui which is immemorially associated with works of reference. In his statement as to what has been done and is doing of late years in the United States, it would seem as if the treatment were a little sketchy, because it is centered in New York city.” R: Burton

“The field covered is so wide ... that a certain congestion of statement was, perhaps, inevitable. ... By its inclusiveness and the abundance of its modern material it fills an empty place in the literature of its subject.”

“To teachers and students the cohesion shown between art principles and their historical manifestations has particular value, and to readers generally the subject and its treatment provides the appeal of romance as well as instruction and an opportunity to develop critical appreciation.”

CAHAN, ABRAHAM.Rise of David Levinsky.*$1.60 (1c) Harper 17-23760

In this novel, a Russian Jew who came to America in 1885, at the age of twenty, tells his own story. About eighty pages deal with ghetto life in Russia, the rest of the action passes in America. Though he has been educated in a Talmudic seminary, David tries first to earn a living in New York as a peddler. Failing in this, he becomes an operator in a clothing factory, with the idea of earning enough money to put himself through the City college. An accident changes his dream and he starts out as a manufacturer in the business he has now learned. He steals designs, cheats the union and indulges in other dishonest business practices; but he makes his pile. The story of his relations with various women is given, and especially with the three he loved: Matilda, his first love; Dora, the wife of his friend, Max Margolis, and Anna Tevkin, socialist daughter of a Hebrew poet. David does not marry, and we leave him at the end of the story sensitive, sensual, desperately lonely, finding business “good sport,” but confessing that there is one thing which he craves and “which money cannot buy—happiness.” The story is marred by occasional vulgarities. The author is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward and is the author of “Yekl, a tale of the New York ghetto” and other works.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“As he approaches sixty, Mr Cahan gives us this solid, mature novel, into which are compacted the reflections of a lifetime. The vanity of great riches was never set forth with more searching sincerity. ... As a matter of biography, he is a child of Russian literature. And that is why his novel, written in faultless English, is a singular and solitary performance in American fiction.” J: Macy

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“One of the most impressive novels produced in America in many a day.” R. B.

“The tale of Levinsky is, incidentally, the tale of the cloak industry in this country; of the methods by which a dominating personality achieves his financial success. But its revelations in this regard are as far from mere muckraking as are Cahan’s pictures of the cloak makers from mere propaganda. ... It is written with a clarity that is French, a chaste realism that is Russo-Yiddish, and a deep human insight that render it universal.” Isaac Goldberg

“No phase of modern life betrays the cheapness and shams of capitalistic culture more strikingly than does the literature of today. Happily, however, there are some few exceptions, and Cahan is one of these. His ‘Rise of David Levinsky’ is not a commodity, but a piece of art, full of life’s unvarnished truths.”

“‘The rise of David Levinsky’ is not a pleasant book, nor is David himself an especially likeable or appealing individual. His very soul is stripped bare before us; we know him intimately, but it cannot be said that to know him is to love him. Yet he often excites our pity. ... The dominant quality in this novel is the effect it gives of being altogether real. Whether the scene be laid in the Russian ghetto or the big expensive hotel in the Catskills where rich Jews congregated, whether it is in the Division street factory or David’s fine place on Fifth avenue, this sense of reality is always present. ... In this story of ‘The rise’ of one individual is pictured the development of an entire class, as well as of what has become one of the great industries of the country.”

“As a story for the story’s sake the novel is much less important than as a study of a people whose qualities and experiences are to be increasingly important in American life.”

“Had the book been published anonymously, we might have taken it for a cruel caricature of a hated race by some anti-Semite. It will be taken by an already critical outer world as a picture of Jewish life in general. It really is not.” K. H. Claghorn

CALHOUN, ARTHUR WALLACE.Social history of the American family from colonial times to the present. 3v v 1 $5 Clark, A. H. 392.3 17-23329

“The first volume of ‘A social history of the American family’ devotes a chapter to sexual codes and customs in the European countries which furnished colonists to the new world and then traces their modification and development in the thirteen English colonies down to revolutionary times.” (Ind) “Three volumes are contemplated, the second bringing the history through the Civil war period; the third focussing its attention on the present generation.” (Cath World)

“In addition to the value of this material as social history, all of it makes the most interesting reading, and some of it is unsurpassed as the richest kind of humor.” F. W. C.

“Dr Calhoun, despite his avowed intention not to exaggerate in this direction, does, we think, lay too much stress at times on the ‘economic interpretation’ of life. ... But onthe whole, Dr Calhoun is clear-sighted and open-minded. He has, for instance, the courage to show what dire fruits the reformation and the loose moral teaching of Luther have borne to the world.”

“The volume shows evidence of great research and contains a full bibliography.”

“The publishers have given an excellent page on attractive and substantial paper in a serviceable cover.”

“American history is being rewritten by the scientific historians, and this volume is a valuable addition to the rich contributions that have been made in recent years.” James Oneal

CALHOUN, DOROTHY DONNELL.Princess of Let’s Pretend. il*$1.50 Dutton 16-25148

“The first story is called ‘The story of the enchanted leg’; it tells how a fairy came to Gert van Vent and took charge of his wooden leg, thus bringing happiness to his daughter. ‘Damon and Pythias’ relates the old legend in terms of childhood. ‘The merry monarch’ makes a cobbler king for the day to the great amusement of the court. ... ‘The princess of Let’s Pretend’ contains several other stories, touching on a variety of subjects. Even a baseball story adorns the volume.”—N Y Times

“The illustrations are novel, being photographs chosen from moving picture films; but their realism will disappoint the childish imagination, which can far more aptly picture its own fairy world.”

“A delightful collection of stories. They are simply told and sure of entertaining the little folk.”

“Obviously intended for children from eight to ten or twelve.”

CALKINS, GARY NATHAN.Biology. 2d ed rev and enl il $1.80 Holt 570 17-25304

“In the present edition, although there is no change in the method by which the subject of biology is developed, there are many changes in the text, some parts being condensed, others elaborated, in the interest of clearness. Apart from verbal improvements throughout the book, the most important alterations and additions have been made in connection with the subjects of fermentation and enzyme activities; the significance of conjugation; plants, the food of animals; photosynthesis; circulation in the earthworm; and immunity. Three figures in the first edition (numbers 6, 21, and 39) have been replaced by more instructive illustrations, and in all cases where necessary, the legends have been amplified. The glossary, which was introduced with the second printing of the first edition, is considerably enlarged, and a bibliography added.” (Preface to the second edition)

CALVERT, MRS AMELIA CATHERINE (SMITH), and CALVERT, PHILIP POWELL.Year of Costa Rican natural history. il*$3 Macmillan 508.728 17-6345

“The primary concern of the authors in visiting Costa Rica was a study of dragon flies with reference to their seasonal distribution. The book has little to say on that subject, however, because their investigations along that line are not completed. It is devoted mainly to the little republic itself. Describing the daily life in town and country, the authors always have a quick eye for its trees, plants, and animal and insect life.”—N Y Times

“It is abundantly illustrated and will interest tourists and students of general and commercial conditions. Bibliography (30p.).”

“Here lies the drawback of the book; although so full of information, there are but few chapters to be enjoyed by the general reader, who, taking the detail, much of which is unavoidably technical, for granted, would relish some more comprehensive generalised descriptions as characteristic of the country.”

“The result of their observations is set forth with a skill and all-embracing perception only possible to writers who are able to catalogue definitely in their minds what has come under their notice. It is all told in an impressive volume of 577 pages.”

“The style in which this almost inexhaustible store of material has been presented renders the book readable throughout.”

Cambridge history of American literature. 3v v 1*$3.50 (3c) Putnam 810.9 (17-30257)

v 1Colonial and revolutionary literature; Early national literature: Part 1.

The Cambridge history of American literature, edited by William Peterfield Trent, of Columbia, John Erskine, of Columbia, Stuart P. Sherman, of the University of Illinois, and Carl Van Doren, headmaster of the Brearley school, will be complete in three volumes. Volume 1 covers Colonial and revolutionary literature and Early national literature, part 1, ending with a study of Emerson. The distinctive features of the work as a whole are enumerated by the editors: “(1) It is on a larger scale than any of its predecessors ...; (2) It is the first history of American literature composed with the collaboration of a numerous body of scholars from every section of the United States and from Canada; (3) It will provide for the first time an extensive bibliography for all periods and subjects treated; (4) It will be a survey of the life of the American people as expressed in their writings rather than a history ofbelles-lettresalone.” (Preface) As in the “Cambridge history of English literature,” the bibliographies, arranged at the close, are extensive.

“A chapter on transcendentalism by Professor Goddard, of Swarthmore college, is one of the best pieces of work in the volume. ... Now that the foundations of the history are laid, perhaps the superstructure will exhibit a lighter and more attractive aspect. One would welcome a smaller measure of compilation and a larger manifestation of the critical and the appreciatory.”

“Tho the chapters on Franklin and Emerson are very well done, perhaps the most delightful chapter in the whole volume is that on Washington Irving, by Major George Haven Putnam.”

“A valuable, comprehensive, and from beginning to end a most interesting book. Emphasis must be laid upon the care and detail which the authors and editors have devoted to the early literature of our land. ‘The Cambridge History of American literature’ is a book of the utmost importance.”

“The editors have plainly worked in harmony, and, what is more, they have plainly tried to harmonize the work of their contributors. In one or two of the chapters there is excessive individualism in the interpretation; and even a few foolish statements can be found. But, in the main, the contributors have worked upon a basis of facts and have sought to study the relations between facts. It is to be regrettedwhere so much space is devoted to bibliographies, that they are less exhaustive than cooperative scholarship might make them.”

Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W: Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v v 13-14 ea*$2.75 (1½c) Putnam 820.9 (7-40854)

v 13-14Nineteenth century.

The thirteenth volume continues the history of the nineteenth century, begun in volume 12. Among the studies contributed to the volume are: Carlyle, by J. G. Robertson; The Tennysons, by Herbert J. C. Grierson; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Sir Henry Jones; The prosody of the nineteenth century, by George Saintsbury; Nineteenth-century drama, by Harold Child; Thackeray, by A. Hamilton Thompson; Dickens, by George Saintsbury; The Brontës, by A. A. Jack. Volume 14 completes the trilogy of the nineteenth century and brings the work as a whole to a close. It has chapters on: Philosophers; Historians, biographers and political orators; The growth of journalism; The literature of science; Anglo-Irish literature, etc. There is also a chapter by W. Murison on Changes in the language since Shakespeare’s time.

“Volume 14 has especially noteworthy articles on the growth of journalism and on literature in the English colonies.”

“A grim and militant provincialism is the presiding spirit of the volumes. Only so can one explain the fact that Newman is mentioned only in scattered references and nowhere treated as the great master of prose that he was, that Meredith’s ‘Modern love’ is slurred over as unimportant, and that the treatment of Patmore’s later verse (’The toys,’ ‘Magna est veritas,’ etc.), of Henley, and of Pater is brief and grudging.” Ludwig Lewisohn

“Mr Robertson treats in too cursory and perfunctory a fashion the question of the historical value of Carlyle’s historical works, nor does the bibliography supply this lacuna. ... In any general survey of the progress of historical studies in England during the nineteenth century there are two facts which ought to be clearly stated and adequately emphasized, viz. the opening of the national archives to historians and the revival of the study of history in the universities. They are suggested and referred to, but not given sufficient importance. ... Instances might be noted in which the selection of one writer rather than another seems difficult to explain, but carping criticism of details is an ungrateful task, where in the main there is agreement.” L.

“The bibliographies in themselves form probably the most valuable book-record of the subject in print.”

“With such names as Robertson, Grierson, Saintsbury, and Jack, it can be assumed that the present volume reaches the high level normal to this authoritative series.”

“But there is much more in the volume that will interest men of science than the single chapter which is specifically devoted to the literature of science. The whole volume is full of interest. A chapter on the changes in the language since the time of Shakespeare, by Mr W. Murison, may be commended to all those who are interested, as all of us ought to be, in the literary exposition of scientific work.”

“The editors have chosen for their collaborators writers who know how to be scholarly without being pedantic; and they have allowed a fair modicum of personal equation to pass the editorial pencil unchallenged. Nevertheless, one feels, more in some chapters than in others, a sense of restraint, as tho the critic had checked himself on the verge of giving expression to his full thought.” F: T. Cooper

“It is a miscellany of both brilliant and careless workmanship, and its value will depend largely upon the individual reader’s interpretation of what is meant by history.”

“The chapters devoted to the literature of the Dominions from the freshness of their matter and their treatment, are among the most enthralling in the book.”

“Most of the contributors have taken pains to be accurate in their statements of fact even if their criticisms often provoke dissent. The very lengthy bibliographies add much to the value of the work for purposes of reference.”

“If the volume fails to make a unified impression, one is glad to take it for what it is—a collection of interesting and sometimes important papers by men well qualified to speak of their respective subjects. But the drawback of the method is not to be overlooked.”

“A newspaper man will relish the chapter on ‘The growth of journalism,’ by J. S. R. Phillips, editor of the Yorkshire Post, a model of condensation and good judgment. But the public as a whole may be more interested in the well-written and well-reasoned chapter on English-Canadian literature by Pelham Edgar, professor of English literature in Victoria college, University of Toronto.”

“In conclusion we must regretfully congratulate Professor Robertson, Mr Hamilton Thompson, and Sir Adolphus Ward on being the only authors in this volume with a right sense of the historian’s responsibility; they alone have completed their own bibliographies. ‘G. A. B.,’ who is wholly or partly responsible for the rest, cannot be said to have attained a satisfactory level in the more difficult subjects.”

CAMMAERTS, ÉMILE.Through the iron bars (Two years of German occupation in Belgium).il*75c (3½c) Lane (Eng ed 6d) 940.91 17-22575

“It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule. ... The German occupation of Belgium may be roughly divided into two periods: Before the fall of Antwerp, when the German policy, in spite of its frightfulness, had not yet assumed its most ruthless and systematic character; and, after the fall of the great fortress, when the yoke of the conqueror weighed more heavily on the vanquished shoulders, and when the Belgian population, grim and resolute, began to struggle to preserve its honour and loyalty and to resist the ever increasing pressure of the enemy to bring it into complete submission and to use it as a tool against its own army and its own king. I am only concerned here with the second period. ... My heroes risk their lives, but they are not soldiers, merely prosaic ‘bourgeois’ and workmen. They have no weapon, they cannot fight. ... They can only oppose a stout heart, a loyal spirit, and an ironic smile to thepersecutions to which they are subjected.” (Chapter 1) Seven cartoons by Louis Raemaekers are reproduced.

“In these pages we have vivid, searching descriptions of and protests against the unwarrantable vandalism of the Teuton soldiery. It is a sad document, illumined by fires of devoted heroism.”

“The evident restraint of passion is not its least virtue.”

“M. Cammaerts describes very clearly the successive phases of Belgium’s martyrdom under the rule of an enemy who has by turns attempted to cajole and to intimidate her. He says that the German pro-Flemish agitation has been a complete failure, as the Flemish-speaking Belgians saw through the enemy’s intrigue.”

CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.Abandoned room.il*$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-29177

This story of two mysterious murders is by the author of the “House of fear.” These murders take place at “The Cedars” in a bedroom where many Blackburns have died reluctantly and which has been unused for a number of years. Who murdered Silas Blackburn and the detective, Howells? Was it Katherine Perrine, who lived with her uncle? Or Bobby Blackburn, that “damned waster,” his grandson? Or Carlos Paredes, Bobby’s Panamanian friend, who was always harping on the supernatural? The secret is well kept, and the solution of the mystery a most unexpected one.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“The author succeeds to an unusual degree in inducing in the reader that peculiar creepy feeling associated with deeds of darkness and the supernatural. Nevertheless, the characters are very human, present-day people and the romance of Bobby and Katherine lends a welcome touch of tenderness.”

“Mr Camp’s new mystery story is one of those tales which keep the reader on the alert, leading him on from one apparently inexplicable occurrence to another, and leave him in the end with a feeling of mingled disappointment and annoyance.”

“Mr Camp makes such effective use of the supernatural manifestations that the reader has frequent attacks of goose flesh. The story is rather superior to the general run of its type, but the type is not distinguished.”

CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.War’s dark frame. il*$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 17-15964

These impressions of life in France, Flanders, and England in wartime picture the home conditions of the man at the front as well as his life in the trenches. The author is a war correspondent whose tour apparently took place during the winter of 1916-17, and who was many times under shell fire.

“One notices the changed attitude in this book from the journalistic flippancy that used to be encountered in the earlier war-books. The continued strain is beginning to tell not only upon officers and men, but in the literature of the war. It is a serious business, which nevertheless has its virtues and its lighter sides. All are reflected with great fairness and sincerity by this thoroughly competent correspondent and author.”

“An account of the darker side of the war told with an economy of words which makes it singularly moving.”

“His conversational way of mingling fact and fancy makes a decidedly readable, though light, book.”

“It is intimate touches that make the book unique, and which will probably cause it to become more popular than many another much more pretentious volume. The fourteen illustrations, all from photographs, have the added value of showing people as well as places.”

CAMPBELL, FRANCES (WEED) (MRS GEORGE CAMPBELL).Book of home nursing. il*$1.25 Dutton 610.7 17-21895

“A practical guide for the treatment of sickness in the home. ... While the subject matter is in the main such as would be found in any practical book dealing with the problems of sickness and nursing, there are included many original ideas in the care of patients that have been used with great success by Mrs Campbell.” (N Y Call) “The author is a trained nurse who writes out of the knowledge gained in actual experiences. One very useful chapter is called: How to keep well.” (R of Rs)

“If you are intending to work in the war hospitals, this book will prove invaluable and serve as a solid foundation for specialized training.”

“Writing in an easily readable style with now and then a little flash of humor, Mrs Campbell has brought together simple every day facts that should be of great value to one who, unused to the profession of nursing, is suddenly forced to think and plan for the comfort of an invalid.” J. E. Hitchcock

CAMPBELL, JAMES MANN.New thought Christianized.*$1 (3½c) Crowell 131 17-13828

This book discusses “the law of suggestion, fear and its antidotes, the folly of worry, repose and how to get it, health and religion, true optimism, the power of initiative, self-control versus divine control, the higher environment, etc.”—R of Rs

“These cults lack an essential element of Christianity. They affirm man’s self-sufficiency apart from God, of whom, man’s indispensable source of sufficiency, they affirm little or nothing.”

“Dr Campbell is in agreement with Dr Dresser in fundamentals. ... This is an excellent book for the orthodox Christian who wants to come over into the New thought camp without the loss of one jot of his Christianity.”

CAMPBELL, MAURICE VIELE.Rapid training of recruits.*$1 Stokes 355 17-29354

“A practical scheme for quick results in training the national army, based on the definite record of what has been actually accomplished in England. The aim is to give the recruit instructor in America cantonments a thoroughly tested plan for whipping his men into shape speedily. A typical day’s work is minutely outlined, lectures are suggested, in fact every detail necessary to an intensive program is fully treated. The book is as useful to the recruit himself as to his instructor.”—Publishers’ note

CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL; PIERCE, FREDERICK ERASTUS, and DURHAM, WILLARD HIGLEY.Facts, thought, and imagination.*$1.30 (1c) Macmillan 808 17-19155

A book on writing, prepared for the use of second year college students. It is assumed that the students have been taught “all they can absorb of unity, coherence and emphasis” and are now ready to write. Part one of the book consists of theoretical discussion and is made up of three chapters on writing: Facts, by Frederick Erastus Pierce; Thought, by Henry Seidel Canby; and Imagination in the service of thought, by Willard Higley Durham. “These essays,” the authors say, “not only give instructions for writing, but also, directly or by implication, suggest an abundance of subjects.” The remainder of the book is given up to selections, arranged in three groups to accompany the three chapters, and chosen from the work of modern writers. The authors are members of the department of English, of Sheffield scientific school, Yale university.

CANNAN, GILBERT.Mendel; a story of youth.*$1.50 (1c) Doran 16-23586

Mendel Kühler is a young Austrian Jew who grows up in the East End of London. He is the youngest child of his parents and the best loved, and his early leanings toward art are fostered, altho humble Jacob and Golda, intent only on getting on in the world, cannot understand them. The story is concerned with Mendel’s progress in art, his life in London’s Bohemia, his association with his artist friends and his love for Greta Morrison. He is a child of the city and he loves it, its squalor and filth and noise. As an artist he paints it, coming in time to adopt the new modern methods of treatment. Greta Morrison belongs to the country. Her delights are in deep woods and wet meadows. Their love is a conflict, but while the book leaves their story unfinished, it gives the impression that their need for one another must conquer all differences.

“Gilbert Cannan, in his new book, has hardly maintained the high standard that he has set for himself in some of his earlier work. There is too much of the flavor of George Moore, particularly of ‘Lewis Seymour,’ in it, and a good deal of Jean Christophe, and dish-water. ... It must be said, however, that the character drawing is fearless and generally consistent.”

“There is a good deal of dinginess in the chronicle, the dinginess of egotism, of drink, and of sex.” H. W. Boynton

“Mr Cannan’s is so expert a hand at hard realism that we again and again regret his frequent excursions into the field of grotesque fantasy and violent eroticism. ... It must be obvious by this time to anyone who has followed Mr Cannan’s work as a novelist that he is obsessed by the idea that sex and nothing but sex should form the background of a novel. ... His entire atmosphere reeks with eroticism. ... And intermingled is a persistent jargon about art which gives us little knowledge of the subject and that fails to convince us of Mendel’s genius.” E. F. E.

“The book is unreserved, but the naturalism is subordinated to the fine characterization of a Jew and an artist, and therein Cannan does for his genius what Theodore Dreiser fails to do for his; that is, he gets above the merely material plane and shows how lower values are transmuted into higher.”

Reviewed by John Macy

“In long dissertations on art between Mendel, and Logan, and other art-students, we cannot forget that they were only callow youths with more enthusiasm than brains. In his ups and downs we get quite an insight into the ‘new art’ of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. ... The author is overstocked with material. ... He is too diffuse.”

“It is an exceedingly candid picture of life, and a remarkable portrayal of an interesting and significant character—the realest person that I have met in fiction for years. ... There is something new happening in fiction; and this is it.” F. D.

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