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“The surface of life has been broken by the war, says Mr Cannan; there is no longer any structure in social existence: ‘For the artist there is metaphysic or nothing.’ And in this highly metaphysical, mystical essay he attempts to convey a programme for the immediate future of society and especially for the artist. We are told that the book was written during Mr Cannan’s recent visit in America, in a period of intense creative inspiration. As a record of mystical experience, as an endeavor to express the ineffable, it expects from the reader a coöperation more sympathetic than that of the intelligence. Stripped of its mysticism, the argument is a tolerably familiar one; it is a fusion of certain beliefs almost universally held now by the younger writers and artists, beliefs regarding the industrial régime, bourgeois democracy, intellectualism, the instinct of workmanship, the release of the creative impulses.”—N Y Evening Post

“Mr Cannan’s new book is, indeed, unusual. The words God, soul, life, occur with extraordinary frequency but the variety of their syntactical connections throws no light on their meanings. Since we are neither provided with, nor enabled to deduce, definitions of Mr Cannan’s chief terms, we find his book unintelligible.”

“The tone of the book is rhapsodical; its sentences are so desultory; and even the illustrations drawn here and there from history, art and literature are so loose, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to decide at times what he exactly does mean.”

“There is little art in his exposition and less evidence of work. And it takes more religion of a charitable nature than Mr Cannan preaches to restrain one from saying that the author of this work has released his soul so very successfully that it has disappeared.”

“Flashes of fine thought are not incompatible with loose thinking. A book may be very stimulating and suggestive in its details and yet as a whole leave behind an impression of hopeless confusion. This is just the kind of book Mr Cannan has produced.” Edwin Bjorkman

“It is not unlikely that many, perhaps most, of the people who read Mr Cannan’s new book will wonder what he is driving at. A little of this bewilderment will be due to Mr Cannan himself; for when he passes over from the dramatic to the discursive a certain elusiveness invades his speech. The book is one of those which must be read two or three times over before its whole significance becomes clear; but it is abundantly worth that trouble.” R: Roberts

“His book is a curious, largely incomprehensible and thoroughly dull rhapsody upon God and nature, life, love and the soul.” S. C. C.

“The charm of the book is to be found in some of the brief ecstatic meditations in which from time to time the pages flower.” Van Wyck Brooks

“Mr Cannan has flung a light bridge from mysticism to internationalism over which it is quite conceivable that an exposition so airy, chary, and fleeting as his own may pass in safety. But the plain man, the logician, and the investigator can not be urged to trust his weight to the inadequacies of the trembling fabric.”

“It is an embarrassing book to read. One feels like an intruder upon a privacy, for really Mr Cannan appears to have suffered considerably. Either so ‘private and confidential’ a book ought not to have been written, or we should not be reading it.”

“Obviously what Mr Cannan says is largely platonic doctrine, to many incomprehensible; but spiritual emphasis at this time is so needed that the book is justified in spite of its frequent cloudy and chaotic passages.”

“Mr Cannan, weary of criticism and all negative activities, has turned to mysticism; and this book is the result. It is sincere, passionate and interesting, but it lacks structure, and so is a little difficult to read.”

CANNAN, GILBERT.Time and eternity; a tale of three exiles. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–7059

London is the abode of these three exiles. One of them is an Englishman, Stephen Lawrie, at odds with the world about him and with the war, living in voluntary seclusion in the London slums, trying to solve the riddle of the universe in silence and inactivity. The other, Perekatov, is a Ukrainian Jew eking out a precarious existence in London as a correspondent for a Russian paper. He obtrudes himself on Stephen with whose face, seen at a public meeting, he had been impressed. There is much spasmodic, intangible talk between them and their intercourse ripens into friendship of a sort. Valerie du Toit, the third exile, is a South African of French Huguenot extraction, who has come to England athirst for the eternal verities. With elemental force the spirits of Stephen and Valerie meet and melt into each other. This kindles insane jealousy in Howard Ducie who acts the Othello to Valerie’s Desdemona, smothers her in her sleep and has himself run over by a train. Stephen accepts the tragedy as a happening in time which can not interfere with the eternity of his love.

“Mr Gilbert Cannan’s novels are important novels, but they are not good novels. They are the illustrative material of his essays and they do not illustrate them in any creative fashion. The theories shine through too glaringly, as in ‘Time and eternity.’ Mr Cannan started out with a naive creative impulse, but the events of the past six years have aroused in him, as in many of us, so much impassioned thinking about life that the material of creation itself slips from his grasp.”

“Though the book frequently reveals creative strokes, though its general plan is majestically conceived, yet it conveys the sense of being a preliminary work. ‘Time and eternity’ suggests the need for a future work which will see the thing through. The sculptor is still groping.” J. C. L.

“‘Time and eternity’ is the result of a serious lack in its author, the lack of a sense of humor. The piece has untold burlesque possibilities, and they have been wasted. ‘Time and eternity’ may be ascribed only to a rapidly advancing senility.” Henrietta Malkiel

“We have all long known the phrase ‘a welter of words,’ but to read Gilbert Cannan’s new book ‘Time and eternity’ is to realize just exactly what it implies. The reader’s strongest feeling after he has at last toiled his weary way through this extremely dull book is a desire for plenty of soap and water and good fresh air.”

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“Mr Cannan writes too quickly and too often. He writes with a sort of hungry rage, because he despises something, though he does not know what, and desires something equally unknown to him. His work is as restless and as inconclusive as a conversation between adolescents teased with growing pains.”

“In ‘Time and eternity’ Mr Cannan presents a piece of tedious writing and speculation about slinking individuals who are out of harmony with the ages.”

“Mr Cannan has not yet, in this method, passed the experimental stage. Moreover, he has not enough to say about the souls of his three exiles, to each of whom by name is allotted one-third of this short book, to engage unflagging attention. They are queer if not tiresome, but vaguer than people speaking uninspired lines from behind a curtain. They do nothing very much; they appear to want nothing very special; they certainly are nothing very intensely.”

CANNAN, GILBERT.Windmills; a book of fables. *$1.60 (3c) Huebsch

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A volume of satires. The first two, Samways island and Ultimus, altho written before 1914 have to do with a series of wars between Fatland (England) and Fatterland (Germany) and, except in matters of mechanical detail, they indicate remarkable foresight. Of the two that follow, Gynecologia describes the women governed world that succeeded the great wars, and Out of work is a social satire involving Jah, the devil, and a certain Nicholas Bly, a labor agitator. The author writes a preface to the American edition. The book was published in England in 1915.

“Mr Cannan’s satire is not as keen and cutting when bare and exposed in these sketches as it is in some of his other books where it half hides behind a veil of romance. ‘Windmills’ is brilliant in places, but not as a whole.”

“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is ineffective.”

“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.” Ludwig Lewisohn

“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”

“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.

CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT).Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947

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“Many who have followed the Russian articles in the Saturday Evening Post of Princess Cantacuzène will no doubt greet with pleasure their appearance in book form under the title ‘Russian people: revolutionary recollections.’ Similar to Princess Cantacuzène’s earlier book, ‘Revolutionary days,’ these pictures of Russian life are seen through the eyes of a member of the upper classes, residents for years in the country. It is the simple folk outside the city, exemplified by the peasant of the Cantacuzène estate, Bouromka, about whom the stories center. In addition to the pictures of Bouromka before and after the ‘red’ outbreaks, there are chapters dealing with the efforts in various parts of the old empire to re-establish a stable government. Crimea, where the Cantacuzène villa is situated, was one such center. ‘Daughters of Russia’ is the title of the final chapter, these ranging from Catherine the Great to Catherine Breshkovsky and Maria Botshkarova.”—Springf’d Republican

“The author knows the peasants and tenantry outside of the large cities and writes of them intimately and interestingly. Her account of the revolution and of political affairs is, however, second hand and lacks clarifying detail.”

“They present readable and accurate impressions of events on which full information is still hard to get.”

“It would be a mistake to regard her story as seriously contributing to our understanding of the revolution, if for no other reason than that her materials are obtained at secondhand and to a great extent from rumor. Painting in simple black-and-white is not her only limitation.”

“Princess Cantacuzène’s book is certainly a striking case of a good opportunity missed. If only she had stuck more to what she saw herself during those days when her adopted country was going to pieces before her eyes!”

CAPABLANCA, JOSÉ RAÚL.My chess career. il *$2.50 Macmillan 794

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The author, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1888, began to play chess at the age of five. At eleven he was matched against the Cuban champion, J. Corzo. In his introductory chapter he says: “The object of this little book is to give to the reader some idea of the many stages through which I have passed before reaching my present strength.... As I go along narrating my chess career, I will stop at those points which I consider most important, giving examples of my games with my own notes written at the time the games were played, or when not, expressing the ideas I had while the game was in progress.” This plan is followed thruout the book, beginning with the match with Corzo and continuing to the Hastings victory congress in 1919. The conclusion gives points for beginners.

“There is not a trace of boastfulness in the book. Capablanca’s passion is for exact scientific truth. The general spirit is one of detached and critical self-observation. Altogether, a book of great psychological interest.” R. O. M.

“This refreshing little book probably contains more real information on the science of chess than a dozen of the more weighty tomes put together. Capablanca’s comments on his own and his adversary’s play throughout the book are of a most original and illuminating sort.” Moreby Adlom

“It is in many ways the most egotistical, and incidentally subjective book we have ever come across; the note of satisfaction sounds like a loud gong throughout, nor does the voice of self-praise die away. The book, in fact, has been written in a mood of positively aboriginal conceit. All this, however, should not obscure the fact that Senor Capablanca’s chess-games are very brilliant, and his notes full of interest.”

“His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious.”

“The interest is immensely enhanced by being annotated by Capablanca himself.”

CAPEK, THOMAS.Cechs (Bohemians) in America. il *$3 (5½c) Houghton 325.7

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The author, after a residence of thirty-nine years in Cech America, is thoroughly conversant with the history and the status of his countrymen here. The volume aims “to throw light, not only on the economic condition of the Cech immigrant, but on his national, historic, religious, cultural, and social state as well.” (Introd.) It describes the American Cech as being not an adventurer but a bona-fide settler, an idealist and an upholder of modern democracy. Biographical sketches are given of all the prominent and intellectual Cechs who have exerted an influence on their countrymen in America and the book is abundantly illustrated. Successive chapters are devoted to the immigration in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to the Cech’s economic status. Other chapters are: New Bohemia in America; Rationalism: a transition from the old to the new; Socialism and radicalism; Journalism and literature; Musicians, artists, visitors from abroad; The churches; The part the American Cechs took in the war of liberation. There is an appendix and an index.

“‘The Cechs in America’ is a comprehensive, carefully arranged manual of all information about this section of our immigration. To anyone wishing, or needing, to be authoritatively and thoroughly informed on this subject, his book is indispensable.”

“Interesting and informing.”

“His picture leaves no detail obscure so long as he writes without religious or political preconceptions. The copious bibliography in this volume deserves special complimentary mention.”

“His own sturdy love of America, mixed with his identification with the Czech in America makes the book a delightful though unintentioned combination of the subjective and the objective. None of the other national groups have produced anything quite like it.” H. A. Miller

CAPES, BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH.Skeleton key. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

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This detective story is prefaced by an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. The action takes place at Wildshott, the country home of the Kennetts, where Vivian Bickerdike, who tells part of the story in his own words, and Baron Le Sage are guests. Shortly after their arrival, a pretty housemaid is murdered in a secluded path not far from the house. The usual steps are taken, an inquest is held and a detective called in. Several arrests are made but finally guilt seems to fasten itself pretty conclusively upon Hugo Kennett, the young son of the family, whose choice seemed to be marry or murder. But Baron Le Sage is not satisfied that he is guilty, and uncovers a deep laid and unsuspected plot of which Hugo was to have been the victim, and the perpetrator was to go scot free. Fortunately the scheme was foiled in time.

“Will please the more critical reader.”

“Above the average detective story.”

“‘The skeleton key’ is a detective story of singular ingenuity and power. Yet it is much more than that, in that the air of delicate romance dispels much of the sordidity that, in the very nature of the work, is always striving to rear its head and dominate the narrative.”

“The late Bernard Capes was one of the few writers of mystery and detective stories who make an honorable effort to combine plot with literary workmanship. This posthumous tale is one of his best. It has a decidedly original dénouement which will puzzle even practical mystery solvers.”

CAREY, AGNES.Empress Eugénie in exile. il *$4 Century

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These reminiscences from Empress Eugénie’s own lips are culled from letters and diaries kept by the author while a member of the Empress’s household at Farnborough. The book contains many illustrations from photographs and the contents are: Farnborough Hill, an empress’s home; Daily events: further extracts from diary and letters; The Empress visits Queen Victoria; Later events at Farnborough Hill; Reminiscences of Empress Eugénie: her characteristics and idiosyncracies.

“Mrs Carey incorporates, especially in the last half of the book, a great deal about the daily life at Farnborough which can be of interest only to persons who make a hobby of Eugénie, if any such there be. But this fault must be overlooked, for the book has the extraordinary merit of telling Eugénie’s own story or stories told by Eugénie, within an hour or so after they had dropped from her lips.”

CAREY, WILLIAM, and others.Garo jungle book; or, The mission to the Garos of Assam. il *$2 (2½c) Am. Bapt. 266

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After describing the Garos topographically, the author calls their mountain abode “a den of wild beasts and of still wilder men.” “Within, the fiercest passions held sway, and gruesome superstitions, such as made the blood of the Bengalis run cold to think of, wrapped them in an atmosphere of ghostly fear.” It was when the British government was faced by the only remaining alternative “extermination of the Garos” that the missionaries began to demonstrate the possibility of another way. The book is the history of the struggle and an account of what has been accomplished. It contains abundant illustrations, two maps, and appendices consisting of a glossary, a list of Garo books, of churches and schools and a service chart.

CARLETON, WILLIAM.Stories of Irish life; with an introd. by Darnell Figgis. *$1.75 Stokes

A20–891

“Himself a peasant, William Carleton writes of the Irish people, the Irish scene and the Irish life out of the book of his own experience. He was the youngest of the fourteen children of a small farmer in Tyrone, and was brought up in a household that knew the ancient Irish tongue as well as the English language. His real literary career began in 1828, when, at the age of thirtyfour, he settled permanently in Dublin and became a contributor to the Christian Examiner. For this paper, Carleton during the following six years wrote his ‘Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry’ upon which is based his reputation as a delineator of Irish life and character. As one of the recently issued volumes in a new Library of Irish literature, eight stories and sketches are selected to represent Carleton’s contribution, among them being: Neal Malone; Phelim O’Toole’s courtship; The party fight and funeral; The midnight mass; and Denis O’Shaughnessy going to Maynooth.”—Boston Transcript

“Carleton belongs by right to the Irish classics. His tales are vigorous and brimful of humour. His character-drawing was extremely vivid, and some of his heroes are like creations of flesh and blood. He had also a gift of impressive description.”

“His temperament and his experience combined to produce a picture of the peasantry which is unrivalled as an historical document, and fascinating as a work of art. Protestant though he became, Carleton writes always as one oppressed, of those suffering from similar oppression, and for that very reason appeals with undying power to the generous ethic of fair play which has always characterized the Anglo-Saxon elsewhere. What he wrote for his own generation has lost nothing of its force today.” R. B. J.

“No matter what varying amount of interest they may have found in Carleton’s tales, readers and critics have vied with each other in emphasizing their appealing and truthful Irish quality.... In many ways, however, Carleton followed stereotyped formulas both in his plots and his character portrayals.” E. F. E.

CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.Elementary economics. *$1.10 (2c) Macmillan 330

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The author of this “introduction to the study of economics and sociology” realizes that economics is not a science in which the problems discussed can be proved mathematically; that it fairly bristles with controverted points; that the student is apt to approach it with preconceptions and class or interest bias. The object of the book is to help the student to look upon both sides of a question and to come to independent conclusions on such problems of everyday life as prices and markets, taxation, banking, tariff, wages, rent, transportation, and ownership of property. The book falls into three parts: Outline of industrial and social evolution; Fundamental economic concepts; Economic problems. Some of the more specific subjects discussed are: Getting a living under various conditions; Wants and value; Direction of the world’s workers; Wealth and income; Competition and monopoly; Money and banking; Railway transportation; Labor organizations; Labor legislation; Agricultural economics; Taxation; Industrial unrest; Social and industrial betterment. There is an index.

“The simplicity and clarity of treatment together with thought-stimulating topics for discussion make this a good textbook for the beginner in economics in junior or senior high school.”

“The style of the book is simple enough to justify its introduction into the upper years of the elementary school. The material is of so vital a type that it deserves recognition in all schools. Where the special problem is that of preparing children for trades this book will serve to give a broader view of the individual’s place in industry.”

“The author of this book has done more than simply produce another book on elementary economics for use in high schools. He has in reality broken away from the traditional discussion of consumption, production, exchange, and distribution, and organized his discussion in quite a different manner from that followed by traditional texts in the field. There are no lists of reference books. This seems unfortunate since the book itself does not contain enough material for even a half-year course in the subject.”

“A text that is sure to find ready reception for courses in economics, especially in secondary schools. As a basis for fruitful class discussion it should prove very effective in the hands of a competent instructor.” E. R. Burton

CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.Organized labor in American history. *$2.50 (4c) Appleton 331.87

20–7434

In tracing the influence of the wage earner in American history the writer points out the intimate relations between industrial evolution and social progress. So long as there were still open frontiers towards the west, the economic life of America can be said to have been abnormal. Now that the frontier is a thing of the past the wage earner’s influence may be expected to increase in importance as the years go by. To examine the cause and effect of organized labor as a social phenomenon and a social institution is the object of the book. Contents: Introduction; Epochs in the history of organized labor; Adoption and interpretation of the constitution; The free school and the wage earner; Land reform and the wage earner; Labor legislation and the wage earner; Other reform movements and the wage earner; Labor parties, socialism, direct action, and the progressive movement; The ideals of the wage earner; Recent pre-war tendencies; The war and after; Index.

“One of its chief merits is that it is based on an accurate knowledge of the ideals and policies of organized labor.” G: M. Janes

“The author has accomplished his modest purpose of helping to bring American history into a truer perspective by showing the influence of the wage-earner on the course of events.” Mary Beard

Reviewed by G: Soule

“His interpretation of this history shows keen insight into the play of economic forces that have made for the development of classes, the rise of the labor movement and the evolution of industrial society. On the interpretive side we think that it is more informative than the more laborious work of Professor Commons and associates.” James Oneal

“I do not see why a book designed to give understanding of the present should deal with Shay’s rebellion and fail to do more than mention either the interesting development among the garment workers of the equally significant changes in the organizations of railroad workers. I have no desire to quarrel with Professor Carlton’s selection, for his temper is tolerant and his mood understanding, qualities to be prized highly among men whose minds are directed to the description of events in the field of labor.”

“Will serve as a useful introduction to a close study of modern American labour problems.”

“It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters. Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable.” W: E. Walling

CARNEGIE, ANDREW.Autobiography. il *$5 (4c) Houghton

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The volume is edited by John C. Van Dyke and has a preface by Mrs Carnegie. Besides the facts of the author’s life and career the book contains much matter of general interest and reminiscences of notable personages. There are chapters on: Civil war period; The age of steel; Mills and the men; The homestead strike; Problems of labor; The “gospel of wealth”; Educational and pension funds; Washington diplomacy. The book is well illustrated and has a bibliography and an index.

“The historian will regret that it confines itself more to portraiture than to documentation, that it throws little new light upon partly known facts, and that it has none of the elaborate accuracy likely to be found in the biography of a man who seeks to justify himself. The reader of the book retains a friendly feeling towards a simple yet astute personality.” F: L. Paxson

“Although scrappy and gossipy in parts the interest is sustained.”

“The result, for those who knew Mr Carnegie intimately, is most satisfactory and charming. The style is simple and unaffected. The joyous enthusiasm, which filled him from youth to old age, shines forth in these pages.” W: J. Holland

Reviewed by R. M. Lovett

“The volume is as entertaining as it is inspiring. It will undoubtedly rank high among the world’s lasting autobiographies.”

“Carnegie unfolds himself, and nowhere does he attempt to make it appear that he has virtues which he has not—modesty, for instance. Sometimes he talked with real eloquence and sometimes with bathos, but he sets both down with unfailing fidelity.”

Reviewed by R. R. Bowker

“The general reader will find this the best American autobiography since 1885, when General Grant’s ‘Memoirs’ were published.”

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION.American foreign policy; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray Butler. Carnegie endowment for international peace 327

20–7870

“This collection of documents is intended by the editor to comprise ‘those official statements by successive presidents and secretaries of state which, having been formally or tacitly accepted by the American people, do in effect constitute the foundation of American foreign policy.... They are the classic declarations of policy which, taken together, present a record of which the American people may well be proud.’ Naturally the selection begins with Washington’s farewell address and includes Jefferson’s statement as to entangling alliances. Then follow the various messages relating to the Monroe doctrine: Monroe’s, Polk’s, Buchanan’s, Grant’s, Cleveland’s, and Roosevelt’s. Blaine, Hay, and Root contribute their ideas as to the Monroe doctrine, that of the last named being in no sense official, as it is the well-known address as president of the American Society of international law for 1914. The instructions to and reports from the American delegates to the Hague conferences are properly included.”—Am Hist R

“Readers who do not wish their history predigested for them, but on the other hand do not resent a prescribed diet, will find this little volume much to their liking.” E. S. Corwin

CARPENTER, EDWARD.Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning. *$3 (3c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 290

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The author holds that the process of the evolution of religious rites and ceremonies has in its main outlines been the same all over the world and that it has proceeded in orderly phases of spontaneous growth. The object of the book is to trace the instigating cause of this great phenomenon along psychological lines. In its first inception, he claims, it was stimulated by fear and has run along three main lines: the movements of the sun and planets; the changes of the seasons; and the procreative forces. Contents: Solar myths and Christian festivals; The symbolism of the Zodiac; Totem-sacraments and eucharists; Food and vegetation magic; Magicians, kings and gods; Rites of expiation and redemption; Pagan initiations and the second birth; Myth of the golden age; The saviour-god and the virgin-mother; Ritual dancing; The sex-taboo; The genesis of Christianity; The meaning of it all; The ancient mysteries; The exodus of Christianity; Conclusion. The appendix on the teachings of the Upanishads contains two essays: Rest and The nature of the self. There is an index.

“Mr Edward Carpenter has wide reading and as far as one can judge, no lack of the critical faculty; so that, presumably, he could play the man of science if he chose. But his interest is less in theory than in practice. He looks forward to a new age, and, preoccupied with his vision of the future, searches the present and the past for such promise as they may hold of the fulfilment of his hope.” R. R. M.

“To everyone acquainted with ... any of Mr Carpenter’s books, the present volume on religious origins and developments will come as a warrant of profound thought and beautiful illumination of expression.” W. S. B.

“His treatment is throughout as sympathetic and as fair as his purpose to demonstrate his thesis allows him to be; and it is only right to admit that he makes a very good case for the vast generalization that he lays down. But he is greater as prophet than as critic; and that is why this book does not measure up to ‘Towards democracy.’” R: Roberts

“Some of the researches of Frazer and Lang and Tylor and other scholars are vulgarized by him, and conclusions drawn from their premises from which any of them would recoil.” Preserved Smith

“Mr Carpenter’s book is written for those who have not read much of anthropological research, and such readers will find in it an exceedingly clear and lucid summary of a vast body of specialist work. And the book is filled with that humane and glowing hope for humanity which has made Mr Carpenter’s writings an inspiration to countless readers. It can be confidently recommended to all who are not specialists in the subjects with which it deals.” B. R.

“Mr Carpenter is never clear, although he writes clearly. He disappears in a vacuum at the end of all his books and poems. He lacks the thunder and the sureness, the passion and the vision of the real prophet. He possesses clarity without light. He expounds, but does not see.” B: de Casseres

CARPENTER, RHYS.[2]Plainsman, and other poems. *$2 Oxford 821

“Rhys Carpenter is a poet enamored of classic themes. Thus in his new book, ‘The plainsman,’ we find such titles as For Zeus’ grove at Dodona, The charioteer of Elis, Birds of Stymphalus, Heracles sails westward and Pegasos at Hippokrene. He also loves nature and swinging lilting songs. His method of singing is that of former days, but to it he brings his own active personality.”—N Y Times

“There is not one of Rhys Carpenter’s verses that does not possess in its degree magic and power. The poet’s thought is beautifully instinctive and confident: his expression is beautifully artistic and considered.”

“There is many a gracefully turned poem in this book, the kind of poetry that almost runs into music. Mr Carpenter is a master of the shades of sound, he is dexterous in his meters and the delicate finish and completeness of his efforts set them in a distinctive place among contemporary efforts.” H. S. Gorman

CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).Boy’s book of magic. il *$2 Dodd 793

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