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“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post

“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner, quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”

“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are anything but that.”

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

Reviewed by D. W. Webster

“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty of entertainment in the story as a whole.”

TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century

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David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town, his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.

“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in atmosphere.” L. B.

“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it. Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”

“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book he has written.”

TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.[2]Animal husbandry. il $1.40 Am. bk. 636

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“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y Evening Post

“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the intelligent student of modern farming.”

“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise. Occasionally important information is left out.”

TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea *$7 (*12s) Longmans 354

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“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest to the death of Richard II.”—Ath

“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin

“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence. And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of England.’” F. M. P.

“This is the most important contribution to the study of English history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski

“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”

“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again, in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”

TOWARDSreunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280

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“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World

“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a general contribution to the problem.”

“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of very disputable assertions.”

TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8

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An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups, etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves. Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and “pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C. Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.

“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and vigorous than the first.”

“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress, its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the ground of bias.”

“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic, alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the remedy is.”

TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.My campaign (Eng title, My campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42

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“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him, but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath

“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific warfare.”

“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with considerable skill.”

“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual detail.”

TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

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The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations. Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.

“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility who peeps into its pages.”

“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”

“A quite negligible tale.”

TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.Measure your mind; the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136

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This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades, from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental development and to young men and young women striving for self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents: Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests; What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests; The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices, charts and diagrams.

“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading. The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content are meritorious.” C: L. Stone

“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one has the advantage of simplicity.”

“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique feature.”

“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood

“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general education of the public.”

TRACY, LOUIS.Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.

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This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater” Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the majority tell of the various problems that the English government meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.

“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or characterization.”

“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

TRACY, LOUIS.Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.

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“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’ Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’ and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an extremely important share in the development of events which was to bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y Times

“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”

“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”

“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.” Joseph Mosher

TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner

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“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them; and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the law itself.”—N Y Times

“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”

“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”

TRAVELstories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8

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Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five illustrations.

“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”

“An entertaining, informative volume.”

TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

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All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father. Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.

“The tale is clever and readable.”

“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary grace.”

“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”

“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he knew her more intimately.”

TRENCH, HERBERT.Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822

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“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason. The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the story of his failure and death.”—Ath

“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather Browning-like blank verse.”

“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined; there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.

“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren

“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy. It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of production.”

“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless rehabilitation.”

TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS, eds. Colonial prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8

The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a transplanted race.” (Introd.)

TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans

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“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act. Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs, radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever displayed.”—Spec

“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer

“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who knows little of English political history will find it interesting on account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A. G. Porritt

“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.

“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt

“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England. This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.

“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch, so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is well worth waiting for.”

“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”

“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”

“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a sober historian and states the facts fairly.”

“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher

“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which only incidentally come within its scope.”

TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).Short history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945

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The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions (395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183); Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy (1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are twenty-four illustrations and six maps.

“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced, well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it widely read.” L. C.-M.

“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the presentation of the material, satisfactory.”

“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the fifty years since 1870.” W. M.

“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by individuals and extract from that story not what was merely entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter Littlefield

“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art, literature, science, and religion.”

“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”

“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject. Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”

“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh, lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”

TRIDON, ANDRÉ.Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 130

A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books, pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an index.

“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”

“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays, as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases analyzed.” C. M. S.

“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature, this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the subject.” W: J. Fielding

“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K. Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins

“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of Freud and his followers.”

“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions, which are not impressive.”

“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”

TRIDON, ANDRÉ.Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130

This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.” Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical notes follow the chapters.

“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung, Adler, and Kempf.”

“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins

TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE), comp. Dreams and voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08

It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.

“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same character.”

“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”

TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes 811

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