Chapter 42

GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.Our part in the great war.il*$1.35 (2c) Stokes 940.91 17-13604

This book is made up of four sections. Section 1, Americans who helped, consists of accounts of relief work in France, based on the author’s experience with an ambulance corps. Section 2, Why some Americans are neutral, has chapters on: Neutrality: an interpretation of the Middle West; Social workers and the war; Forgetting the American tradition, etc. Section 3, The Germans that rose from the dead, is based largely on gleanings from German war diaries. Section 4, The peasants, is a series of sketches, drawn from the author’s experience in Belgium and France. In addition there are two letters in an appendix addressed To the reader and To neutral critics.

“So rapidly have events moved that Mr Gleason’s book has become, in ways, somewhat out of date even by the day of its publication. And that is a pity, for it contains so much valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war and is written in a spirit so earnest and, in the best sense, so patriotic that the reading of it ought still to have a tonic effect.”

GLOVER, TERROT REAVELEY.Jesus of history; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury.*$1 (1c) Assn. press 232 17-9479

This work was prepared for the British Student Christian movement and published in Great Britain by that organization. It is based, however, on lectures given in India in the winter of 1915-16 by the author, who is fellow of St John’s college, Cambridge, and university lecturer in ancient history. The aim of the book, the author says “is, after all, not to achieve a final presentment of the historical Jesus, but to suggest lines of study that will deepen our interest in him and our love of him.”Contents: The study of the gospels; Childhood and youth; The man and his mind; The teacher and the disciples; The teaching of Jesus upon God; Jesus and man; Jesus’ teaching upon sin; The choice of the cross; The Christian church in the Roman empire; Jesus in Christian thought.

“Will appeal to those who find experience and life a guide to the understanding of the gospels rather than technical theology.” James Moffatt

“The prolix and involved presentation, however, make the argument difficult to follow; and one lays down the work with a sigh of disappointment, at the little this eminent scholar has contributed to our knowledge or understanding of Jesus.”

Reviewed by M. K. Reely

“In the foreword which the Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to this book he speaks of its author’s ‘rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.’ In saying that he expresses what every one will feel to be the chief distinction of the book.”

“Dr Glover’s gifts of vivid description and graphic exposition have enabled him to provide a study of the central figure of the synoptic gospels which must evoke and retain the interest of even the least sympathetic readers. ... It is certainly unconventional and sometimes daring in its interpretations, but it is always reverent and full of the force of a man who has a strong personal grasp of what he believes to be ‘the fact of Christ.’”

GODFREY, THOMAS.Prince of Parthia.il*$2.50 Little 812 17-14983

This book is a reprint of “the first tragedy ever composed by a native American and produced on the professional stage in the United States.” (R of Rs) It has heretofore been available only in the original edition of 1765, and “is now published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its production [in Philadelphia], without variation from the original, and accompanied by a biography and historical and critical introduction by Archibald Henderson.” (R of Rs) Only 550 copies were printed for sale.

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

“Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not even a poet of great promise; but he was remarkable for the number and the variety of the English masters whom he was able, at the age of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed appreciation if not originality. ... Many known facts go to show that his real importance in the history of eighteenth-century American literature has not been adequately recognized.”

“The tragedy has many passages of great beauty. ... This is the first adequate account of Thomas Godfrey, and one that presents a picture drawn from historical data, of the literary and cultural conditions of American society in Philadelphia and Wilmington 1750-67.”

GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH.Inspector-general; a comedy in five acts; tr. from the Russian by T: Seltzer. (Borzoi plays)*$1 Knopf 891.7 17-78

“In this satire (written in the third decade of the last century) Gogol takes you to a little town of provincial Russia and introduces you to conditions there. Great excitement prevails in the town; for news of the coming of a government inspector has reached the town officials, and they tremble at the prospect of an investigation. ... In their panic fear they take the first man who arrives in town for the dreaded ‘Revizor.’ He happens to be a penniless adventurer from Petrograd, and to him each of the local officials, from the governor down, comes to reveal the venality of the others. ... The play is an unsparing castigation of ‘official’ incompetence, dishonesty and baseness.”—N Y Call

“It is theatrical, it is obvious. ... But it is irresistible fun.” O. M. Sayler

Reviewed by L. S. Friedland

“A Russian critic writes: ‘Russia possesses only one comedy, “The inspector general.”’ This volume is a new and complete version of Gogol’s four-act play written in 1835, which, by holding up to ridicule the officials of a typical municipality, struck a definite blow at the tyrannous bureaucracy of the Russian government.”

“Means very much more to the Russian than even ‘The school for scandal’ or ‘She stoops to conquer’ does to the English-speaking world. ... Also known by its more literal title of ‘The revizor.’”

GOLDMAN, MAYER C.Public defender; a necessary factor in the administration of justice.*$1 (7c) Putnam 343 17-7209

The author bases his plea for the establishment of the office of public defender on two principles: “(1) That it is as much the function of the state to shield the innocent as to convict the guilty; (2) That the ‘presumption of innocence’ requires the state to defend as well as to prosecute accused persons.” He discusses the subject in eight chapters: The public defender idea; The injustice of the “assigned counsel” system; Public prosecution and prosecutors; Analysis of the public defender; The ancient conception of crime; Specific objections considered; Other remedies inadequate; The march of the movement. The author is a member of the New York bar and the book has a foreword by Justice Wesley O. Howard of the Appellate division, New York Supreme court.

“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’”

“A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.”

“The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”

“The public defender idea has met opposition from bar associations, judges, newspapers and others who have believed that accused persons are sufficiently protected in our courts under existing safeguards. Meanwhile, it has won increasing attention from the public generally.” W. D. Lane

GOLDSMITH, ROBERT.League to enforce peace; with a special introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell.*$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 341.1 17-6558

The “League to enforce peace,” organized in June, 1915, with ex-President Taft, A. Lawrence Lowell, and others as its promoters, is one of the associations that are trying to work out a practical program for the insurance of peace. A discussion of this program is the substance of the present work. It is divided into three parts. In part 1, the author considers The forces that failed, examining some of the agencies that broke down in 1914. Part 2 is devoted to an exposition of the principles and platform of the League to enforce peace. Part 3 is an examination of The creed of militarism, with a refutation of the militarist arguments. Endorsements of the League, etc., are given in an appendix. There is a bibliography and an index.

“The author of this comprehensive discussion of the subject is a working member of the League and his book has had the examination and approval of several of its officials.” F. F. Kelly

“An unusually thin mess of intellectual porridge. ... The book slides along from easy platitude to easy platitude, without any genuine criticism or even analysis of the idea it professes to expound.” Randolph Bourne

“The book, tho rather diffuse in thought and arrangement, is nevertheless sound in principle, comprehensive, and well written. It should do much, especially in schools and colleges, to spread the idea that the coöperation of nations and not the competition of nations will alone insure eternal peace when the war ends.”

“An excellent bibliography of books on the war and reconstruction is appended to a volume which does its admirable ‘bit’ towards making an old idea fresh and alive.”

“Throughout the book, both in his exposition of the league’s proposals and in his discussion of conditions out of which it has grown and of opinions concerning those conditions, Mr Goldsmith never loses sight either of the ideal that is aimed at nor of the practical steps by which it can be attained.”

“A ‘League to enforce peace’ ought to do much toward keeping us in intellectual equilibrium, not so much perhaps because of the startling or unusual in its pages as for the simplicity with which oft-expressed ideas are set forth.”

GOLTZ, HORST VON DER.My adventures as a German secret agent. il*$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-29598

Chance slipped the young von der Goltz into the hands of the Prussian intelligence bureau and after years of shaping he was turned out a finished secret diplomatic agent. His adventures as secret agent in Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and England came to an abrupt end when England caught him and put him in prison. In this autobiographical volume he betrays Germany and divulges the entire structure and workings of her efficient spy system as it has been operative among the Allies. Of the United States he says: “Let me repeat again that Germany has installed in this country thousands of men, whose nationality and habits are such as to protect them from suspicion, who work silently and alone, because they know that their very lives depend upon their silence, and who are in communication with no central spy organization, for the very simple reason that no such organization exists. ... Eternal vigilance, here as elsewhere, is the price of security.”

“He makes an exciting tale, though it may be hard to believe everything he says, and most of the intrigues have already been exposed in the papers.”

“Interesting as is Baron von der Goltz’s exposure of German character, it yet fails in the appeal to our sympathies that its author evidently intended. Like every German he supposes that the average human mind works as the German mind works. He builds the whole structure of his book about his ridiculous slander against the late Empress Frederick. The American is accordingly prepared to believe nothing. Nevertheless, the rest of the narrative rings true.”

“The volume is interesting, however the reader may regard it. If it is considered as fiction, it has its merits; and equally so if it is considered as fact.” Joshua Wanhope

GOODMAN, PAUL, and LEWIS, ARTHUR D., eds. Zionism; problems and views.*$1.50 Bloch 296 17-4978

“This book consists of twenty-three papers by as many Anglo-Jewish contributors, with an introduction by Dr Max Nordau, the present leader of the movement of Zionism. ... What the capacities of the Jews are for national life, what they have done in Palestine already, may be read in this book. It is a study of the Jews, full of information little known to the Gentile, which appeals at least to intellectual curiosity, and very considerably to the sympathies of all educated readers.”—Sat R

GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.Appeal of the nation.*75c (4½c) Pilgrim press 172 17-13744

Five patriotic addresses by the minister of Old South church, Boston. Contents: American freedom; The foreign-born American citizen; Christian and citizen; American loyalty; The nation and humanity.

“These lecture-sermons are as Christian as they are patriotic.”

“Of the five stirring addresses that make Dr George A. Gordon’s ‘Appeal of the nation,’ all are worth reading, but that on our foreign-born citizens preaches an understanding sympathy that it were well if all native Americans could feel.”

GORDON, JAN.Balkan freebooter. il*$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-9486)

“‘A Balkan freebooter’ is a picturesque account, for whose truth the author vouches, of a Servian outlaw and comitaj whose career, still unfinished, is a compound of those of Robin Hood and Raffles. His name is Petko Moritch, and his biographer has had his story from Petko’s own lips, altering only the names of the principals, including Petko’s.”—Springf’d Republican

“The story of his eventful life rings with the romance that only truth, that strangest thing in the universe, is able to supply. It shows the fighting character of the modern Serb, who, like Petko, has tramped the plain of Kossovo, fleeing mountainwards, and by some miracle of survival, by some quality of superhuman strength, is winning his way back into freedom. Mr Gordon’s narrative is particularly timely and interesting.” R. M.

“A fascinating book.”

GORDON, KATE.Educational psychology. il*$1.35 (2c) Holt 370.1 17-25490

“The course of study which this book presents is designed for students of pedagogy in colleges and normal schools. It presupposes an elementary knowledge of psychology. In the earlier chapters ... a certain amount of child psychology has been included. ... In later chapters, as on memory and reasoning, the procedure of certain class experiments has been reported in some detail. ... The last three chapters take up some of the concrete questions of teaching in three quite dissimilar school subjects. They are intended to illustrate the way in which psychological applications can be made.” (Preface) The three subjects referred to are Language teaching, Drawing and Arithmetic. An eight-page list of references and an index complete the work. The author is assistant professor of psychology in the Carnegie institute of technology.

“While the book does present a rather useful collection of experimental facts with reference to certain phases of psychology as related to education, it is defective as a text in educational psychology because of its too great emphasis upon the psychological aspect of the subject, because of its style, which is unsuited to relatively immature students, and because of its uneven emphasis upon different topics.” F. N. Freeman

GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.In the night.*$1.25 (3c) Longmans 17-29538

This detective story was planned by Lord Gorell in a base-hospital in France, and written during recovery at home. The author who has been irritated by writers of detective stories that do not take the reader into their confidence, states that in his tale, “every essential fact is related as it is discovered and readers are, as far as possible, given the eyes of the investigators and equal opportunities with them of arriving at the truth.” Sir Roger Penterton is found by his secretary, in the middle of the night, lying dead in the hall of his country home. The house is occupied by the dead man’s wife, their daughter, another young woman, the daughter’s most intimate friend, Sir Roger’s secretary, and the servants. Miss Temple, the friend, working on lines of her own, is able to give some assistance to Inspector Humblethorne. Various theories are developed to account for the crime, all of which prove wrong in the end when the mystery is finally solved.

“The author has worked out his theme ingeniously, developing various theories to account for the crime and find the guilty person, and finally, when he nears the end, providing a double climax of surprises before the mystery is finally solved.”

“It is an exciting tale. It seems to be straightening itself out, and all of a sudden it is in a tangle again. During the short hour or two that the reading of it takes, the size of a shoe becomes of more importance than the Hindenburg line. We come back, blinking, to a world which we are grateful to the author for helping us to forget.”

GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF).In the world.*$2 (1½c) Century 17-21677

“A year after ‘My childhood’ comes ‘In the world,’ a record of Gorky’s experiences whose closing pages find him still a boy. It purports to relate the true story of his early life, and it does narrate with an extraordinary particularity the scenes he saw, the people he encountered and the events of which he was a part during a few of his boyhood years. He drifts hither and thither through Russia, inevitably returning again and again to the wonderful old grandmother with whom he first made us acquainted in ‘My childhood.’ He is a veritable jack-at-all-trades, becoming at intervals a shoe-store boy, an assistant in an ikon shop, an architect’s helper and a cook’s assistant on a Volga steamboat. And during the greater part of this period he read many books, and began to make attempts at the writing of prose and verse.” (Boston Transcript) The translation is by Mrs Gertrude M. Foakes.

“The book contains many sayings embodying a deep-rooted philosophy of common life.”

“He wrote fiction as if it were autobiography; he writes autobiography as if it were fiction. ... The result is essentially a novel, with himself as its hero.” E. F. E.

“Everywhere in this, the second, volume of his life, one finds the shining virtues of brevity, concreteness, vigor—always unfailing vigor. That there is also a moving sincerity goes without saying, since Gorky is in the great Russian tradition. ... The volume gives us two or three years only of his life in the world. ... Thus it is still almost a child’s world in which we are moving—a world seen with that fascinating mixture of sophistication and simplicity which his genius made possible.” G: B. Donlin

“It is difficult to understand wherein lies any fascination in these pages, which chronicle cruelty, brutality, and a life of coarse and often loathsome surroundings, but fascinating they are, grippingly interesting, brutally frank, and full of a faith in the Russian race.”

“Out of the rubble of human existence his genius is building up one of the great life-stories in literature.” R. B.

“There is much in the book that is terrible; there is no little beauty, too; and there is a vast amount of fascinating portraiture. Gorky’s grandmother is here again, with her strength, her idealism, her superstitions, her sympathy. ... The book is crowded with people, each sharply individualized, hauntingly alive, fascinating.”

“It is a wonderfully penetrating piece of self-analysis. It displays every great literary quality except charm. But charm is lacking. One feels very sorry for the ugly duckling of the steppes whose mental fumblings are so elaborately portrayed; but one is never drawn to like him, and one never gets away from the painful impression of a world full of people whom it would be very unpleasant to associate with.”

GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF); ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH; and SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV), eds.The shield; with a foreword by W: English Walling; tr. from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky.*$1.25 (4c) Knopf 296 17-14798

The original work from which the selections translated for this volume are taken was published last year in Petrograd. It consists of studies, essays, stories and poems bearing on the Jewish problem in Russia. The editor of the English edition says, “In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicisticarticles of the original collection. [It] contains practically all the various important studies and essays of the Russian ‘Shield,’ while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book.” Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, writing of Russia and the Jews; Leonid Andreyev, The first step; Paul Milyukov, The Jewish question in Russia; M. Bernatzky, The Jews and Russian economic life; Prince Paul Dolgorukov, The war and the status of the Jew; Fyodor Sologub, The fatherland for all. William English Walling in commending the book says that the rebirth in Russia cannot be understood apart from the Jewish problem.

“A truly remarkable revelation of the spirit and purpose of the best elements of that New Russia which is now in the making.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

“The work is not a defense of the Jews,—praise be! ‘The shield’ has the historic interest of a great and noble document, not only because of the prominence of the contributors to the volume, but also because it is a voluntary and free recognition of human rights, a sort of Magna charta to all those who are downtrodden and humiliated.” L: S. Friedland

“The viewpoint of the Russian educated class is nowhere so clearly presented as in ‘The shield,’ a volume published in Russia by the Society for the study of Jewish life (in which no Jews are allowed membership) and now offered in an English translation. ‘The shield’ is significant in that fifteen men of letters, publicists, and scientists unite in demanding the abrogation of Jewish disabilities in Russia.”

“Apart from the foreword, the book deserves recognition as a striking indication of the fact that before the revolution the leading Russian writers were overwhelmingly in favour of the total abolition of the shocking disabilities to which the Jews had long been subject in Russia. Unfortunately neither Mr Walling nor any one of the distinguished Russian editors has thought of informing us when the various articles that make up this little book were written. The book gives us no word as to the actual position today.”

GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. il*$3.50 Macmillan 17-12487

The only memoir of Swinburne that had been published before the appearance of this volume was the sketch contributed by Mr Gosse to the “Dictionary of national biography” in 1912. This sketch has been used as the basis for this more complete work. Much new material has come to the author’s hands however, and he says, “My narrative is therefore not merely much fuller than it would have been in 1912, but in various respects more accurate.” Contents: Childhood—Eton (1837-1853); Oxford (1853-1859); Early life in London (1859-1865); “Atalanta in Calydon,” “Chastelard”; “Poems and ballads” (1866); Songs of the republic (1867-1870); The middle years (1870-1879); Putney (1879-1909); Personal characteristics. Additional letters are given in appendixes. The illustrations are worthy of special note.

“Mr Gosse has written a discriminating and worthy biography of a great poet, and has created a strikingly vivid picture of one who might truthfully be described, without irreverence, as an illustrious oddity. ... The book is biography, not criticism; but we are given particulars relating to ‘Atalanta in Calydon,’ ‘Chastelard,’ ‘Poems and ballads,’ ‘Songs before sunrise,’ ‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ and much of Swinburne’s other work, which will be read with interest by every admirer of the poet.”

“Excellent as is his very careful and most interesting account of Swinburne’s life and character and work, there are in it here and there such evidences of personal bias and even of bitterness as are, at least, surprising. This is the more deplorable since there was no one so well equipped as Mr Gosse for the writing of a full and authoritative biography of Swinburne.” G. I. Colbron

“The reader will receive from Mr Gosse’s biography a clear series of impressions of both Swinburne and his work. But it leaves so much unsaid, it refers so vaguely to so many significant episodes in Swinburne’s career, that the real and complete biography of him remains to be written.” E. F. E.

“Will probably remain the standard life of Swinburne.”

“An extraordinarily vivid and many-sided characterization, with some tantalizing reticences and many features of unique interest, such as the chapters on Swinburne as a parodist and as a poet of children.”

“Mr Gosse’s volume is chronological and anecdotal, there is hardly a page that is not enriched by some delightful incident or jest concerning Swinburne’s time and associates. ... The work speaks from the atmosphere of intimacy, and in that position one can sympathetically understand the instinctive ‘reticence, tact and diplomacy’ for which the English reviewers are so heartily praising him. But as an ‘authentication’ of the sacred legend the volume is not wholly successful. For, in spite of biographer and reviewers, Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first series of ‘Poems and ballads.’” B. I. Kinne

“The biographer has succeeded in presenting a substantially truthful as well as a vivid picture. He succeeds in conveying the right impression, that is to say, the impression which seems to have been formed by nearly every one who knew Swinburne intimately, that he was a sort of ‘lusus naturæ.’ ... The record of his life which has now been given to us does not seem likely to be superseded.”

“One of the most interesting volumes of biography to come from the presses in a long time. ... Mr Gosse’s attitude toward Theodore Watts-Dunton, with whom Swinburne spent the last thirty years of his life, seems unfair, at the very least.”

“Mr Gosse’s ‘Life of Swinburne’ is a brilliant affair in which the results of long and careful study come out as easily as if he had been at no pains to delve here and there to clear up the difficulties which usually attend the careers of men of letters, and to put casual misconceptions straight. ... He has not found room to supply an estimate of Swinburne’s comparative place in literature, and particularly in the history of poetry, but his comments on the various poems as they pass under review are usually sound and always neat. The volume includes some excellent portraits.”

“As a friend of thirty years’ standing, a poet, and an accomplished critic and man of letters, Mr Edmund Gosse comes to his difficult task with an equipment which raises high expectations, largely fulfilled by the result. He has given us an extremely interesting and skilful memoir of an extraordinary man, and though the limitations necessarily imposed on him prevent it from being a complete picture, it is notlikely to be superseded for a good many years to come. These limitations are due to a regard for the living as well as the dead.”

“A concrete, well-balanced portrait, the more entertaining for the judiciously selected anecdotes and incidents, and the more valuable for the authentic glimpses of contacts with other very interesting people.”

“You cannot glance at this book without reading it through; and having read it you will wish to read the poems again. ... There is in his book that real reverence which does not fear to tell the affectionate truth.”

“Mr Gosse has condensed the last thirty years of the poet’s life into a single chapter, and has devoted the bulk of his volume to the years before 1879. He has made his hero a vital if not a very admirable figure. He has given us clear sight, though not always full sympathy. This vitality of portraiture is likely to be the abiding value of Mr Gosse’s book. Faults it has: it is quite too fragmentary to be a definite biography; it leaves too much unsaid; there are many passages in the life of the poet which are obviously glossed over.” C. B. Tinker

GOUDGE, HENRY LEIGHTON, and others. Place of women in the church. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice)*$1.15 Young ch. 396 A17-1510

The American edition of a volume which was brought out in England and to which eight men and women have contributed chapters strongly opposing the right of women to exercise any official ministry in the churches. Contents: The teaching of St Paul as to the position of women; Ministrations of women in church; The ministry of women and the tradition of the church; The claim of the priesthood for women; The ordination of women; The medical ministry of women; The religious life for women; Younger women and the church.

“The longest and most important is from the pen of Canon Goudge, who deals with ‘The teaching of St Paul on the position of women.’ It is an instructive exposition of the Apostle’s teaching, but it scarcely does justice to the plea of those who urge that the Apostle’s arguments and directions deal with circumstances altogether different from those of the twentieth century. This volume will be welcomed by those who desire to know how it is proposed to meet the arguments of Canon Streeter and Miss Picton-Turberville and Mr Allworthy in which they plead for some extension, under proper safeguards, of the ministry of women in the church.”

GOUDIE, WILLIAM JOHN.Steam turbines. il*$4 Longmans 621.1 17-14113

“A text-book for engineering students [which] describes clearly the various types of land and marine types now on the market (including the Ljungström); expounds the theory underlying design and action; gives calculations on consumption, efficiency, and the various sources of loss; and the design of typical turbines of the various classes, including a set of marine turbines of 18,000 shaft horse-power. The allied subjects of condensers and condensing plants, however, are not included. Clearly illustrated, also well supplied with mathematical and steam tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“‘Altogether this is an excellent treatise, well gotten up, and published at a very reasonable price, and although it is described as a text-book for engineering students, it should prove of great value to the marine engineer, to whom a knowledge of the steam turbine is becoming of increasing importance. We can recommend it with the utmost confidence.’”

GOUGH, GEORGE W.Yeoman adventurer.il*$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-26322

A tale of adventure in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Master Oliver Wheatman is a young Staffordshire farmer who, in spite of bookish tastes, yearns for a life of action. The fate that keeps him tied down to his ancestral acres, while his chum Jack Dobson goes off to fight for the king, seems most unkindly. Then the adventure for which he longs is brought into his life most unexpectedly with the advent of Mistress Margaret Waynflete, and he finds himself enlisted in the Jacobite cause. Exciting incidents follow thick and fast and Master Oliver, the yeoman turned soldier, has no longer cause to complain of inactivity, and when at the end, he returns to his home, he does not come alone.

“The characters are all delightfully modern, both in speech and in action; consequently they are thoroughly lifelike, the bad as well as the good, instead of being mere puppets dressed in the costumes of 1745.”

“The author has been unusually fortunate in the way in which he has succeeded in making the period real to his readers.”

“Told with an unflagging zest.”

“A rather commonplace tale in which youth and beauty play the leading parts. ... As a narrative it is neither better nor worse than most of its sort.”

“A costume story, if you like, an affair of pleasant superficial illusion, but of illusion which, one feels, the author himself cheerfully and spontaneously shares.”

“An unusually good specimen of the old-fashioned semi-historical romance.”

“As this is a first novel and is of remarkable promise, we may perhaps be allowed to advise the author to avoid making use of ‘types’ in his characters, and to describe rather ‘hungering, thirsting men.’”

“Mr Gough is so intent on his tale that he has little time to spare for much artistry, but he keeps Oliver’s view-point steadily before him and merits a big share of the praise due to his hero’s robust and tireless efforts.”

GOURVITCH, PAUL PENSAC.How Germany does business.*$1 (4½c) Huebsch 382 17-31429

An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits; Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc. The author writes with particular reference to the business relations of Germany and Russia. The book has a preface by Dr B. E. Shatsky, of Petrograd.

“It is written with a manifest prejudice against Germany, and hence cannot be taken as an entirely reliable survey of German businessmethods in foreign trade. ... This book should be of interest to American exporters. However much we may disagree with Germany’s motives in trade development and with certain of her export practices we acknowledge that she built up a remarkable foreign trade and we may profit by the adoption of many of the principles here briefly set forth.” H. T. Collings

“Outside of trifles which we dare say will be corrected in future editions, the work is on the whole well written, and both interesting and instructive.” J. W.

“The author of ‘How Germany does business’ appears sometimes to be disingenuous—or, at least, if he is not that, he is either lacking in information (which seems improbable) or takes the complaisant view that whatever succeeds is right. ... Especially blind, ethically, is the opening chapter on the general question of Germany’s commercial expansion in recent years.”

GRABO, CARL HENRY.Amateur philosopher.*$1.50 (2c) Scribner 204 17-7480

“As introduction to his book the author says: ‘Because I believe the construction of a philosophy to be the chief end of man, I have made bold to write the following pages.’ ... ‘The amateur philosopher’ is the personal record of one man’s search for a philosophy of life in this present complex day. Dr Grabo was born and brought up in a middle western town, conservative, comfortable, orthodox. He was educated at an American college. He is now a professor in an American university. It is highly probable that thousands of Americans, reading his book, will chuckle or sigh over moments of what amounts to pure reminiscence from their own lives. ... The writer is old enough, too, to possess both perspective and tolerance, while he is essentially young in the sense of being, not an eager youth who thinks the world can be set right by the wish for upheaval, but an active, forward-thinking worker, ‘in the prime of life,’ in the world of today.”—N Y Times

“It has been criticized as being ‘destructive in tone, without the substitution of anything better.’”

“Most of the deep emotional experiences of life were unknown to him. And so the value of the book is in the author’s account of the way he found a place for the spiritual realities in his scheme of things.”

“His critique of the college is forceful and true. ... In these first chapters full of charm, Mr Grabo details his universal experience. Then suddenly, as if stung with modesty, he slips into an impersonal outline of his matured philosophy. The result is not happy.” R. B.

“It is in response to the average American’s need that his book is unique and valuable. ... In all the fourteen chapters of ‘The amateur philosopher’ there is not a word of dogmatism, intolerance, arrogance of thought or faith. The book is written with a freshness, a sanity, a sympathetic understanding of human need that give it a well-nigh universal quality.”

Reviewed by Robert Lynd

“Mr Grabo is a trifle disappointing in that he fails to live up to his interesting title. Still for one unfamiliar with the terminology of philosophers, Mr Grabo’s book will be very welcome. His style is simple and clear.”

GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.William Penn. il*$2.50 Stokes

“The present work, by the principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester, is adapted for the English reader; and no ‘Life’ in the usual sense has, so Mr Graham states, ever been written by an English Friend.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book comprises extracts from Penn’s voluminous writings, controversial and other; an interesting description of the trial of Penn and Mead at the Old Bailey, where the accused gloriously defended and asserted the liberties of Englishmen; an account of the foundation of Pennsylvania; a sketch of the enlightened system of government established in the province, and of Penn’s delightfully humane relations with the Indians; and many details of the anxieties, trials, and misfortunes which beset the founder in his later years.” (Ath) “It is not a book which represents original research, but it is a well-written, sympathetic biography, and one of moderate scope; with bibliography and many illustrations, notes about which are given in an appendix.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“Having access to all available material and possessing a strong biographical sense, the author has presented interestingly and concisely one of the best stories of the Quaker colonizer extant.” F. P. H.

“In style the book is a trifle disconcerting, but it offers an ample reward to the reader that approaches it with an open mind.”

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