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“A record of high endeavour and strange adventure; from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.” In the book so described in the sub-title the life stories of many famous men and women are given. The “Heroes of reality” include: Buddha; Julius Cæsar; Saint Patrick; King Arthur of Britain; Mohammed; Alfred the Great; Robin Hood; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Dante; Robert Bruce; Jeanne d’Arc; Christopher Columbus; William the Silent; Queen Elizabeth of England; Sir Francis Drake; Henry Hudson; Peter the Great; George Washington; John Paul Jones; Molly Pitcher; Napoleon Bonaparte; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Grace Darling; Florence Nightingale; Father Damien; Catherine Breshkovsky; Theodore Roosevelt; Edith Cavell; King Albert of Belgium; Maria Botchkareva. Four heroes of fiction are included: William Tell; Don Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; and Rip Van Winkle. There are illustrations in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.

“The stories are brief, but they are by no means mere sketches; nor are they ‘written down’ in a way that children dislike. It is a good book and a useful one.”

“The big book is interesting and well done, full of information that reads like wild romance.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.[2]Belgium old and new. il *$10 Penn 914.93

20–21326

“The illustrations, numbering forty-one, are full-page and are mostly in color. These reproduce ancient or famous buildings, towers, sections of historic structures and open spaces in Antwerp, Brussels and other cities and towns of the several provinces in the kingdom. Much of the text is historical in character. In the first chapter, Mr Edwards touches upon the natural resources of the little country and its condition at the close of the war, concluding with an optimistic forecast of its quick recovery and future well-being. He then proceeds, in separate chapters, with historical sketches of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai, Couillet, Liège and Mons. This done, the author returns to the present and discusses Belgium’s colonies, characteristics of the country and people and the constitution. The work concludes with chapters devoted to Cardinal Mercier and the king and queen.”—Springf’d Republican

“The text of the book is eminently satisfactory, but chiefly so because it puts us in precisely the right attitude of mind and spirit for enjoying to the full the charm of the book’s generous wealth of illustration.” F: T. Cooper

EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).Tales of enchantment from Spain. il *$2 (6c) Harcourt

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The author has brought out two earlier collections of South American tales and her studies in this field have led her to an examination of the folk lore of Spain, from which many of the Spanish-American tales are derived. Among the titles of the fifteen stories are: The white parrot; The carnation youth; The wood cutter’s son and the two turtles; The luck fairies; The bird which laid diamonds; The enchanted castle in the sea; The princess who was dumb. The pictures are by Maud and Miska Petersham.

EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, and KENNEDY, JOHN JAMES BRIGHT.Knights of Columbus in peace and war. 2v il *$5.25 Encyclopedia press 267

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“The first of these two handsome illustrated volumes is devoted to the origin, growth, and constitution of this celebrated Anglican Roman Catholic friendly society, founded by the Rev. M. J. McGivney in Connecticut in 1882; its work in peace time of protecting homes, promoting higher education, allaying religious prejudice, opposing bolshevism, etc.; and its war work during the fighting in France, with the navy, and after the armistice. The Canadian Knights’ war work has a special chapter. The second volume is chiefly taken up with the roll of honour of the Knights.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

EGGLESTON, MRS MARGARET W.Use of the story in religious education. *$1.50 Doran 268

20–4125

“In this book the author has brought together some of the recommendations on story-telling that have been current in secular education for some time and has applied these to problems directly connected with the Sunday school.”—El School J

“Will interest all storytellers.”

“The book will be suggestive to Sunday school teachers and will lead to an improvement in the story-telling which is an important part of the Sunday school’s work.”

EINSTEIN, ALBERT.Relativity: the special and general theory. il *$3 Holt 530.1

20–17742

“The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.” (Preface) The translation is by Professor Robert W. Lawson who has added a biographical note of the author. The contents are in three parts: The special theory of relativity; The general theory of relativity; Considerations on the universe as a whole. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.

“Although Professor Einstein’s own exposition is as clear and simple as could be expected, the book is of exceptional interest, not as a popular exposition, but as an indication of the mental processes of its author.”

“An excellent translation of Einstein’s book.”

“Written in an unpretentious, straightforward style. The trend of his exposition can be followed in the main by any attentive reader who is not scared by algebraic formulae.” E. E. Slosson

“The book is ‘intended to give an exact insight into the theory to those who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.’ In the opinion of the reviewer, in this attempt he has been eminently successful, that is, if an essentially mathematical notion can be made intelligible without algebraic symbols.” A. G. Webster

ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.Abraham Lincoln. (Heroes of all time) il *$1.50 Stokes

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This story of Lincoln for young people is in seven sections: Years of inexperience; Years of development; Years of self-expression and experience; Years of public recognition; Years of leadership; Years of supremacy; Triumph and death. Each section is prefaced by an extract from Lincoln’s speeches. There are nine illustrations, a list of presidents of the United States up to Abraham Lincoln and a chart showing method of government in the United States.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.Periwinkle’s island. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott

An English story for children, all about the surprising adventures of Meg, Peg and Topkins, who go to the country with their mother, the queen, Fuzzy Wuzz, their nurse, and Tut-Tut, their tutor. Only good children are allowed to land on Periwinkle’s island and at first attempt Meg, Peg and Topkins can not pass the test, but they improve and after the second trial go ashore to take part in the great chase after the Creepingo, aided by the Top Twins, the Elastic Dog and other queer folk. The pictures in color are by Molly Benatar.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM.Road to unity among the Christian churches. *$1 (8½c) Am. Unitar. 280

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This little volume contains the first lecture delivered under the Arthur Emmons Pearson foundation, established in 1918 with the object of promoting “the advancement of mutual understanding and helpfulness between the people of all denominations and creeds.” Dr Eliot points out the factors that have promoted division in the past and then enumerates the present forces that are encouraging unification. He says, “To the United States the world is indebted for the demonstration that on the principle of federation a strong, stable, and just government can be constructed.... The same principle applied to the divided Christian churches will produce analogous good results; but as in a group of federated states federation will not be fusion.”

ELIOT, SAMUEL ATKINS, ed. Little theater classics, v 2 il *$1.50 Little 808.2

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This is volume two of “Little theater classics” adapted and edited by Samuel Atkins Eliot, jr. Each one of the four plays has an introduction giving its origin and history, and staging suggestions. The plays are: Patelin, from “Maître Pierre Pathelin” by Guillaume Alécis; Abraham and Isaac, from the Book of Brome and the Chester cycle of miracles; The loathed lover, from “The changeling” of Middleton and Rowley; Sganarelle, or, Imaginary horns, from Molière. Three of the plays have already been produced by little theaters and are illustrated with photographs from the production.

“Sganarelle is a charming little antique. Abraham and Isaac is a beautiful piece of work.”

“There are some intrepidities in Mr Eliot which rather stagger me, though whether the protest comes from real disapprobation or simply from that unusedness which whimpers at the approach of novelty it is hard for me to say. For instance, I stand agape, if not aghast, at Mr Eliot’s consolidation of the Chester play and the Brome play on Abraham and Isaac into one drama.” O. W. Firkins

“On the whole, this second volume measures up to the high standard set by the first. The work has been done with fine taste and intelligence and forms a valuable contribution to the dramatic literature available to little theatres.”

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.Poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811

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Mr Eliot is a poet of American birth who lives in London. “He published ‘Prufrock’ in 1917 and ‘Poems’ in 1919—this volume assembles the contents of the two, together with a number of other poems, and is the first volume to be published in America, where heretofore it has been exceedingly difficult to obtain his poems.” (Publisher’s announcement) Some of the poems have appeared in Poetry, Others, the Little Review, and other periodicals.

“Mr Eliot is always quite consciously ‘trying for’ something, and something which has grown out of and developed beyond all the poems of all the dead poets. Poetry to him seems to be not so much an art as a science.”

“The ‘Poems’—ironically so-called—of T. S. Eliot, if not heavy and pedantic parodies of the ‘new poetry,’ are documents that would find sympathetic readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium. As a parodist, Mr Eliot is lacking in good taste, invention, and wit.” R. M. Weaver

“Reading these poems (?) is like being in a closed room full of foul air; not a room in an empty house that is sanctified with mould and dust, but a room in which the stale perfume of exotics is poisoned with the memory of lusts.” W. S. B.

Reviewed by E. E. Cummings

“At least two-thirds of Eliot’s sixty-three pages attain no higher eminence than extraordinarily clever—and eminently uncomfortable—verse. The exaltation which is the very breath of poetry—that combination of tenderness and toughness—is scarcely ever present in Eliot’s lines. Scarcely ever, I reiterate, for a certain perverse exultation takes its place; an unearthly light without warmth which has the sparkle if not the strength of fire. It flickers mockingly through certain of the unrhymed pictures and shines with a bright pallor out of the two major poems.” L: Untermeyer

“He is the most proficient satirist now writing in verse, the uncanniest clown, the devoutest monkey, the most picturesque ironist; and aesthetically considered, he is one of the profoundest symbolists.” M. V. D.

“In such poems as ‘Gerontion,’ the ‘Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ ‘Portrait of a lady,’ ‘Cooking egg,’ we get a glimpse of the visions and tragedies that are in the soul—it does not matter that the soul in these situations has to look out on restaurants instead of on temples.” Padraic Colum

“His is a book to gaze upon worshipfully and humbly. We shall always cherish it, for its shrieking modernity—though we are one of the Philistines who still ask for poetry and sanity in lines presented as poetry.” Clement Wood

“Mr Eliot, like Browning, likes to display out-of-the-way learning, he likes to surprise you by every trick he can think of. He has forgotten his emotions, his values, his sense of beauty, even his common-sense, in that one desire to surprise, to get farther away from the obvious than any writer on record.”

ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.Modern science and materialism. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 146

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“The philosophy expounded by Hugh Elliot in ‘Modern science and materialism’ is the complete materialism which not only makes mind dependent upon matter but identifies mind with matter. The world is thus conceived as consisting of one substance. Not all of those who agree with the materialistic hypothesis will accept this extreme simplification of it. To many Mr Elliot’s view will seem as metaphysical as the opposite view which regards matter as a form of mind. Mr Elliot’s book, however, is not merely an argument against the commonly accepted dualism in the conception of matter and mind. It is also a survey of the creation of man and the universe, as interpreted by a method which reduces all processes to the working of blind, but immutable, laws. In all respects, Mr Elliot’s view of the universe is rigidly mechanistic.”—Springf’d Republican

“It is difficult not to be unjust to ‘Modern science and materialism.’ Its science is above reproach and occupies the center of the author’s interest and the bulk of the book. But it is impossible to say more of the author’s ‘materialism’ than that it is what physical science always is when it attempts to substitute itself for life.” C. E. Ayres

“A good bird’s-eye view, not unduly technical, for the interested layman or student.”

“Mr Elliot is one of the most intolerant of materialists, but those who read his book are likely to see that he frequently falls into the sin he castigates, that of accepting ideas as true which are merely speculative. Mr Elliot also falls into the familiar error of claiming to be an agnostic and, from this negative doctrine, he immediately and cheerfully builds up a most positive philosophy.”

“Mr Elliot writes with refreshing clearness and vigour; he is always entertaining, and he never leaves his readers in doubt about his meaning. But while admiring Mr Elliot’s gifts of exposition and assertion, we would urge upon him, with some diffidence, the advantages of a larger share in his own writing of that agnosticism whose value he so strenuously upholds.”

“Unquestionably able book. Mr Elliot states his stern ideas with the utmost simplicity and clarity.”

ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.[2]Black gold. *$2.25 Macmillan

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“The ‘black gold’ which gives its title to L. E. Elliott’s novel is rubber. Though it opens in England, the greater part of the scene is laid in Brazil. The heroine is an English girl, Margarita Channing, whose elder sister, Francina, is the wife of a musician, Salvatore. Both Margarita and her sister sing nicely, and with the help of some rich Brazilians Salvatore organizes an opera company and takes it up the Amazon as far as Manaos. The voyage and the people they meet on board the steamer afford opportunities for the discussion of Brazilian affairs, of which the author makes full use. Presently they reach Manaos, are taken to see all its sights and especially the operations of the rubber industry, and have some experiences with South American politics. Of course there is a love story for Margarita, with a young Englishman, an inventor and the owner of a rubber plantation, as its hero.”—N Y Times

“I have felt nowhere else so keenly the spell of South America, the power of the golden blood of the ‘rio das Amazonas,’ and the power of the forest.” D. L. M.

“The novel is neither good nor bad; merely mediocre. Those who enjoy swift moving tales will find it slow. Those who like style, characterization, will find it uninteresting. As it is, it exemplifies the immortal (and overworked) ‘words, words, words.’”

“It is in this descriptive portion of the volume that the author has done her best work, for, though her style is usually good, she lacks dramatic and character sense, and is essentially an article rather than a fiction writer.”

“Not only the physical beauty of Brazilian scenes, but the industries, social conditions and political upheavals are set forth interestingly.”

ELLIS, JULIAN.Fame and failure. il *$3.75 Lippincott 920

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“Short biographies of a number of famous people who ended as failures. Amongst the characters discussed are Edwin James the lawyer, Wainewright the murderer, Lady Hamilton, King Ludwig of Bavaria and Beau Brummel. In all there are eighteen biographies.”—Ath

“A better selection to illustrate his thesis that fame and success are not alway marriageable ideas could not have been made.” B: de Casseres

“Notwithstanding his rather absurd classification, Mr Julian Ellis has written a very amusing book. His style is clear and lively; and he doesn’t bore us with footnotes or authorities, which so often spoil the pleasure of reading biographies.”

“If we must decline to take Mr Ellis too seriously as a biographer, this need not prevent us from wiling away some pleasant time in his company. If he has the faults of the journalist, he has also no small measure of his virtues.”

ELLIS, STEWART MARSH.George Meredith. il $6 Dodd

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“This book follows the lines of articles which Mr Ellis contributed to the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. His primary object was to use his information about the early life of Meredith, who was his father’s first cousin, and to reconsider in connexion with it the inner history of some of the novels, particularly ‘Evan Harrington,’ ‘Beauchamp’s career,’ ‘Vittoria,’ and ‘Diana of the crossways.’ There are numerous portraits and other illustrations.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Ellis makes an absorbingly interesting volume out of his revelations.”

“All the details in this volume are of surpassing interest, and it contains not a little acute criticism of Meredith’s novels. The work as a whole is an exceptional pen portraiture of a literary personality who was as great and influential as he was interesting.” E. F. E.

“Written without any distinction of style, Mr Ellis’s contribution belongs to that class of biographical work which owes its existence to the fact that some one or other has known, or been connected with, a famous man and is able to satisfy, by the composition of a book of this kind, the promptings of his own personal egotism.” Llewelyn Powys

“That Meredith, in Evan Harrington, misinterpreted and, as the biographer holds, maligned the character of Mr Ellis’s grandparents may, or may not, have been a contributing cause of the publication of this rather shallow and rather malicious book. Certain it is that George Meredith was on no very friendly terms with his Ellis cousins, and the reader must be warned of the evident animus on the part of the biographer.” S. C. C.

“Mr Ellis’s book on Meredith is to be welcomed, though it appears to be in no sense an ‘official’ biography and though it is not written in a manner which could have pleased Meredith himself. It is neither an ‘inspired’ exposition of his career nor a book which could be counted excellent on its own independent merits. But it is the only biography in existence.”

“What should have been a great portrait is only a rather ordinary photograph. He is painstaking and accurate enough. Any one who is interested in Meredith can gather from this book much which he will be glad to know. But he will seek in vain and with growing exasperation for the things which are really needful.” W. H. Durham

“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne

ELWELL, AMBROSE.At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small

19–19053

“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest, teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home. At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican

“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”

EMERSON, GUY.New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304

20–12285

A series of papers on Americanism. The new frontier is the present social and industrial situation and the author’s plea is that it be faced with the spirit that conquered the old geographical frontier of the expanding west. This spirit is for him typified by Theodore Roosevelt. The introduction says, “In this book two main points are emphasized; first, that the spirit of that portion of our people which has actually shaped the destinies of America has been liberal, rather than radical or conservative.... Second, it is claimed that our national spirit has taken its essential liberal flavor from the frontier, from the generations of tireless, self-reliant effort which won this continent for the men and women of our own day and which stamped them with its indelible character.” Contents: The frontier of American character; The leadership that made America; What is a liberal? The politics of the middle of the road; Public opinion and the industrial problem; The need for fifty million capitalists; An American federation of brains; Human resources; The weapons of truth; The American spirit in world affairs; The new frontier. There is a bibliographical appendix, also an index.

“Written by a layman for laymen, with a limited and somewhat uneven bibliography appended for the use of readers not especially familiar with the development of the United States, the book is interesting and valuable as an illustration of one type of thought which has to be taken into consideration by the student of forces making American history today.” L. B. Shippee

“Excellent book. He sees clearly and writes as clearly, giving no handy panaceas as such, on a topic where the temptation is great.” R. D. W.

“Mr Emerson knows his American history thoroughly. He is also a student of American psychology, as is shown by his success in directing the publicity of the Liberty loan drives. These two characteristics probably account for much of his ability to strike out a new path in the already overcrowded field of ‘Americanization.’ For that there is novelty and freshness in his attack on an old problem, no one can deny. Nor should it be held against him that he has achieved this novelty through a distinctly original and forceful use of another man’s idea. He has developed Professor Turner’s profound conception of the influence of the frontier in a new field; for the purpose of his argument he has made it his own.” Lincoln MacVeagh

“The best chapter, we think, is the one on ‘The industrial problem,’ but the whole book is vital and invigorating.” C. F. L.

Reviewed by G: Soule

“A book of timely consequence, whose pages deserve wide and careful reading.”

“An interpretation of America which is thoughtful and scholarly, which is simply and forcibly written, and which is well worth anybody’s reading.”

ENGLAND, GEORGE ALLAN.Flying legion. *$1.90 McClurg

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“In a lofty tower at the summit of the palisades of the Hudson is the eyrie of the master where he dwells with his Arabian servants. Mysteriously he summons a company of thirty veterans of the war, all longing for excitement, a battalion is formed and a new, giant aeroplane, just ready for service on the Jersey shore is seized and the party take to flight for the Arabian desert. Mysteriously they went away, mysteriously they returned after scores of adventures.” (Boston Transcript) “One of the thirty with the master had been an uninvited member—a ‘Captain Alden,’ who is a mysterious personage altogether and whose identity, ultimately discovered, furnishes the story’s principal romantic interest.” (N Y Times)

“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by thrills. The style is awkward.”

“Well-told tale.”

“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”

ENOCK, C. REGINALD.Spanish America: its romance, reality and future. 2v il *$8 Scribner 918

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“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“He has prepared what might quite accurately be called a primer of Latin America. It contains much valuable information, of course, but so does an ordinary primer. He expects practically nothing of his readers.” D. J. M.

“Such comprehensive, birdseye-view books as Mr Enock’s are of value as a starting point for more detailed study.”

“In spite of an occasional tendency to slipshod writing Mr Enock has given us a readable and informing work.”

EQUIPMENTof the workers. $4 Sunwise turn (*10s 6d Allen & Unwin) 331.8

“There have already been exhaustive surveys of the physical and economic condition of the workers; and the findings of Booth and Rowntree have almost become classical. It was plainly necessary, however, to have these surveys supplemented by an inquiry far more inward and intimate into the mind and the outlook of the workers. What are they thinking? What are they living for? Do they read? If so, what? ‘The equipment of the workers’ gives us the answer to these and the like questions. The inquiry was planned and carried out by a group of workers at a Y. M. C. A. settlement in Sheffield; and it deals exclusively with Sheffield conditions. The finding of the group is that 25 per cent of the workers are well equipped, 60 per cent inadequately equipped, and 15 per cent ill equipped. The body of the book consists of a detailed record of the results of the inquiry in 408 typical cases.”—Nation

“An extraordinarily interesting inquiry. The results are very illuminating and important.”

“In the main the tests applied and the judgment passed upon the reaction of the investigated persons to the tests seem sound. We have in this volume an important datum for our thought upon reconstruction and the problems of the new world.”

“This book combines the exactness of scientific inquiry with the vivid appeal of art. A picture such as this of American life would be one of the most revealing documents in our time.” H. J. L.

“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable study of certain elements in the standard of living about which there is too little trustworthy information.” L. B.

“A close and systematic investigation, with abundant particulars of individual cases.”

ERSKINE, JOHN.Democracy and ideals: a definition. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 304

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The author’s preface states: “These chapters, with the exception of the first and the last, were written while I was serving as chairman of the Army education commission with the American forces in France in 1918 and 1919, and as educational director of the American expeditionary force university at Beaune, 1919.... I have tried to express here from several angles a central conviction that we in the United States are detached from the past, and that this detachment is the striking fact in all our problems; that if in the future we are to become and to remain a nation, we must collaborate for common ends.” The six essays are: Democracy and ideals; American character; French ideals and American; Society as a university; Universal training for national service; University leadership. The author is professor of English in Columbia university.

“A pleasing clarification of ideas not particularly new or startling.”

“Among the best of the recent books dealing with the problems of citizenship and Americanization. It is written in a style so simple that anyone with but an elementary knowledge of English can enjoy it.” A. Yezierska

“Scattered here and there through the volume are observations showing a thoughtful understanding of American problems, but the generalizations suitable to public addresses seem somewhat commonplace in their published form, when the inspiration of the occasion is past.”

“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start them thinking.” R: Roberts

“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific educational program.”

“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a document.”

“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very illuminating.”

“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky

ERSKINE, JOHN.Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield 808.1

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