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Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock. He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for what has happened before the war.

“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”

“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of hers which we have previously read.”

“The story is readable but unconventional.”

“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in for atmosphere.”

CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud.Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c) Century

20–17409

Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent. In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a reasonable doubt.

“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”

“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut and ingenious plot-weavings.”

“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”

CRADDOCK, ERNEST A.Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3

“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it. Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject, ‘The school republic.’”—School R

“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits and defects of the scheme proposed.”

“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so interesting.”

CRAM, MILDRED.Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–10732

A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl, daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie technique in telling her story.

“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”

“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”

“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will entertain the reader admirably.”

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones, Marshall 252

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“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American Church Monthly.”—Booklist

“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider than the small groups for which they were written.”

CRANE, AARON MARTIN.[2]Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248

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A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in 1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving, Prayer and healing.

CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE.In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3 (4c) Little 974.4

20–9735

The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”; Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony; Appendix, index and illustrations.

“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation, causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”

“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of today.”

“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”

CREEL, GEORGE.How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373

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“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.” The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section; Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and other documents, including a list of the publications of the committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated with portraits and is indexed.

“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet, the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by a man who knows the art.”

Reviewed by F: Moore

CREEL, GEORGE.War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373

20–11585

A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”; “The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great American tradition.

“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove all the reason on one side.”

“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly overstated.”

“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”

“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and rhetorical.”

“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”

CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).At random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814

20–18957

The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays, impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are: Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline; Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids; The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms; The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.

“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be entertained with these random papers.”

CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN.Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50 Brentano’s 947

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“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs

“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English. He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”

“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”

“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as well as with interest.”

“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal observation, he describes the organization and government of the Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS.Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c) Stokes 134

20–19174

The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world. Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and materializations, all through non-professional means. Long conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are: Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”; Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation extraordinary.

“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the case.”

“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on either side of the veil.”

Reviewed by Booth Tarkington

“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the next phase of life.”

CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–22156

This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts. So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.

“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible, and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not even make a moderately good story.”

“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon the Catholic church.”

“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with optimism for the world’s future.”

“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”

CROMWELL, GLADYS.Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811

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“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests, was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times

“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had herself thought and felt.”

“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin

“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson, with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer

“The work of a finely thoughtful woman whom the spectacle of sheer, naked cleverness and successfulness hurt, it represents feminine introspection almost at its best.” M. V. D.

“It is the cumulative effect of the collection that is most remarkable. As one reads on, the book develops a unity that is more than a unity of texture or of inspiration. It achieves an eloquence,—superseding the poet’s earlier constraint—that seems almost to deepen the lyric sequence to the additional significance of a monodrama.” O. R.

“The poems are sincere, but sometimes stumbling. The winds of time will blow from the tree of poetry some of the leaves as heavy as these and as slightly affixed.”

“If Miss Cromwell had lived she would never have been a popular poet, but it is quite likely that she would have written rare lyrics for the pleasure of poets and others to whom poetry is no amusement, but, in a deep and real sense, the sharing of life.”

“Her poetical work throughout is the self-revelation, made with a blunt direct sincerity, of a fine spirit and a thoughtful mind.”

CROSLEY, MRS PAULINE S.[2]Intimate letters from Petrograd. *$3 Dutton 947

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“Pauline S. Crosley’s book is a collection of letters written to members of her family, principally from Petrograd, where her husband was American naval attaché from the spring of 1917 until the flight of the foreign legations and embassies through Finland in the following February.”—N Y Times

“The book is remarkable for its unbiased opinions and its clear estimate of the political situations, as well as for its realistic account of the chaotic conditions of Russia in the first days of its downfall.”

CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD.Dame school of experience, and other papers. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–22103

In the opening paper the author reports an interview he had with the “withered dame” who teaches the school of experience. He found the schoolhouse an ancient building and the equipment primitive. The dame treated his inquiry into her methods as a prehistoric joke and made it plain that she did not go in for the fancy branches of ethics. Her parting advice was to treat experience not as a noun but as a verb and to mind the adverbs. The other papers are: The teacher’s dilemma; Every man’s natural desire to be somebody else; The perils of the literate; Natural enemies and how to make the best of them; The spiritual adviser of efficiency experts; The Pilgrims and their contemporaries; Education in pursuit of Henry Adams; The hibernation of genius; The unpreparedness of liberalism; On the evening of the new day.

“This volume of a dozen essays is bound to be one of the most popular books of the season throughout the country, and while it appeals primarily to the man and woman of literary culture, its wisdom as well as its wit will draw many others to whom common sense clothed in humor appeals particularly.”

CROWDER, ENOCH HERBERT.Spirit of selective service. *$2 (2c) Century 353

20–5259

In part one of this book the author tells how the draft act was put into operation. Its success was made possible, he says, thru the cooperation of the men and women, nearly two hundred thousand strong, who made up the backbone of the selective service system. This body, composing the draft boards, “espoused the administration of an unpopular law, and not only achieved success in its execution, but popularized it as well.” In part two the author considers plans for bringing the same spirit of cooperation to bear on the present confusion. The chapters of part one are: America elects; Feeding the god of war; The volunteer system in America; Pride of tradition versus common-sense patriotism; Universal service in America; Selective service in America; How England achieved selective service; The spirit of the draft; Part two: The tasks that lie ahead; The permanency of the selective service idea; The preservation of Americanism; A plan of action; The old guard. An appendix gives General Crowder’s report as provost marshal general to the secretary of war on the demobilization of his department.

“Clearly written and very interesting historically.”

“While ‘The spirit of selective service’ contains more detail, description, and theory of the draft and its aftermath than it does ‘spirit,’ it is none the less a well written and valuable contribution to the already large collection of semi-technical post-war literature.” C. K. M.

“It may be that some of its propositions are more ingenious than practicable, though it would not be easy to point them out. It may be that the writer is over-hopeful of the success of some of his plans, though he maintains generally an admirable tone of moderation. It is certain that he has, in a broad and patriotic spirit, presented most lucidly what he esteems to be the lesson of one of the greatest administrative achievements in the history of our government.”

CROWELL, JOSHUA FREEMAN.Outdoors and in. *$1.50 Four seas co. 811

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Nature themes predominate in this volume of poems and not the least attractive of them are those inspired by the cultivated garden flowers. There are a few poems of social interest, including those which touch on the war. An occasional vein of satire is also disclosed. The verses are grouped under the following heads: Through the year; Along the way; Above the clouds; From sea and shore; By wood and stream; Of field and town; To tone and tune; Garden wise; An interlude; Dream wise.

“Skilled though he be in verse forms, Mr Crowell is nevertheless far from being a poet, and no discriminating reader will ever suspect him of it.”

“The verses are pleasant and often graceful. The book is enjoyable reading, though hardly belonging to the heights of poetry.”

CROWTHER, SAMUEL.Common sense and labour. *$2 (3½c) Doubleday 331

20–7435

In attempting to put his finger on the something wrong in the industrial world of today, in the relations between employer and employee, the writer does not find any intrinsic antagonism between capital and labor. On the contrary he believes that “there is a growing conception that capital and labor are complementary, that it is perfectly possible to effect a bargain and sale with a reasonable profit to both sides and without more than a natural amount of bickering.” He has little use for any of the revolutionary changes involved in “profit-sharing,” the “democratization of industry” and the like, but thinks that constructive results can be achieved when “capital and labor meet not as partners but as persons anxious to make all that they can out of the same general opportunity.” Contents: The fundamental causes of labour unrest; The relation between the employer and the employed; The worker and his wage; Wages and profit-sharing delusions; The fetish of industrial democracy; When they get together; The economic truths of work; The man and the machine; The methods and policies of British labour.

“The many cases cited give it a lively interest for the average, concerned business man or worker.”

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

“His book makes for sanity on both sides.”

“Distinguished by rare good sense and lack of partisanship.”

“He is not always judicious in his strictures and his indulgence in cutting epigram is sometimes rather annoying, but there is much of stimulating information and suggestion in his essay.”

“His initial chapter Mr Crowther entitles The fundamental causes of labor unrest and in it he indicates clearly his own lack of understanding of those causes.”

CROWTHER, SAMUEL.Why men strike. *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday 331.1

20–8812

The author’s contention is that men are now no longer striking for higher wages or shorter hours, as formerly, but are striking against work, i.e. against what they think is an unjust system of society. He has no fault to find with capital, as such, but thinks its present mode of distribution could be improved upon. To that end he advocates a new kind of thrift, that is not based primarily on self-denial but rather on wise spending. By affording opportunities for investment of savings, thus returning them to production, he would give the workers a stake in society, create a nation of capitalists and appease social unrest.

“It is a genial and smoothly written but ill-informed piece of work.” G: Soule

“He is involved in assumptions which are hardly tenable, and in conclusions which are of negligible social value.” Ordway Tead

CROY, HOMER.Turkey Bowman. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper

20–16795

Like the author’s novel “Boone Stop” this is a story of boy life in the West. But it pictures a somewhat earlier period when the Indians were not yet subdued and when Indian uprisings were to be feared. The young hero, Turkey Bowman, jilted by the girl he has fallen in love with, runs away from home in company with a somewhat older vagabond who shares his opinion of the sex. Slim too has a broken heart and the two are drawn together in misery. They have various wandering adventures and settle down for a time on a cattle ranch. Slim eventually changes his attitude toward women and Turkey carries news of a proposed Indian raid to the army post and returns home a hero.

“Turkey is always amusing, and he is a very human boy.”

“There is real humor crammed into the pages, the juvenile principals are real boys and described true to nature, while there is no taint of artificial coloring in description or action.”

CROZIER, WILLIAM.Ordnance and the world war. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 940.373

20–8902

A book subtitled “a contribution to the history of American preparedness.” The author’s purpose is to describe the ordnance department and to trace the various steps in equipping the army for France, leaving the reader to judge to what extent the department met its responsibilities. Contents: Ordnance department; Embarrassments; Overhead organization; Criticisms; Rifles; Machine guns; Field artillery; Smokeless powder; Responsibility; Conclusion. The author states that since he is no longer a member of the war department he speaks “without official authority, and with something of the freedom of any other citizen.”

“So far as the book is an apology for the Ordnance department, it is well done and is successful. So far as it is an apology for the writer himself, it had better have been left undone. It doth protest too much; it leaves the reader not quite convinced; worse, far worse, it leaves him bored.” H: W. Bunn

“Altogether the book has a larger field than its mere name implies. It may be said to be an authoritative and comprehensive history of an achievement characteristically American in dealing with new and extraordinary problems.” F. B. C. Bradlee

CRUICKSHANK, ALFRED HAMILTON.Philip Massinger. il *$4.50 Stokes 822

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