Chapter 43

(Eng ed 20–6758)

This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last century.

“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”

Reviewed by J: P. Wisser

“The little book will, we think, make its readers anxious to read the originals from which it is compiled.”

FOCH, FERDINAND.Principles of war. *$7.50 Holt 355

These pages were written for young officers, says the author in his preface. “The reader must not look to find in them a complete, a methodical, still less an academic account of the art of war, but rather a mere discussion of certain fundamental points in the conduct of troops, and above all the direction which the mind must be given so that it may in every circumstance conceive a manœuvre at least rational.” (Preface) The translation is by Hilaire Belloc and the contents are: On the teaching of war; Primal characteristics of modern war; Economy of forces; Intellectual discipline—freedom of action as a function of obedience; The service of security; The advance guard; The advance guard at Nachod; Strategical surprise; Strategical security; The battle: decisive attack; Battle: an historical instance; Modern battle. There are twenty-three maps and diagrams.

“The entire work is convincing in its reasoning and its deductions, the language is clear (the translation is remarkably true to the original and expressed in excellent English), and the maps are adequate.” J: P. Wisser

FOERSTER, ROBERT FRANZ.Italian emigration of our times. (Harvard economic studies) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 325

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“A most thorough survey of the greatest migratory movement of our time. The causes of emigration are analyzed by a consideration of conditions in Italy, and the emigrants are followed into the countries of their settlement in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States, the last of which is treated in detail. Their fortunes, economic and cultural contributions in their new homes are weighed carefully.—Booklist

“It may be said that Dr Foerster’s work is the most authoritative as it is the most comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of Italian immigration yet published in the United States, and is indispensable to all who care to know intimately its characteristic features and main purport.” W. E. Davenport

“The study is in all ways a very acceptable one, and may well serve as a model for similar studies of other nationalistic groups.” A. E. Jenks

“Especially valuable are the four chapters (97 pages) dealing with the Italian immigrants in the Argentine and Brazil. But the especial importance of Professor Foerster’s work is the careful analysis of the causes of emigration, of the effect of this movement on the Italian nation, and of its probable future.” Edith Abbott

“Very readable.”

“The main text holds its interest for the general reader from beginning to end, while the footnotes and bibliographical citations will rejoice the heart of scholars who may wish to follow the argument to the very source.” J. E. Le Rossignol

“It is a scholarly and timely book. It is a prophetic book, for it tells us our faults, fully, faithfully and fearlessly, and points to a better way. It is a scientific book, for it promotes a better understanding and, consequently, a better feeling. It is a lonely book, for no one has ever before done for the Italian or any other foreign language group what this book does.” F. O. Beck

FOLKS, HOMER.Human costs of the war. il *$2.25 (2c) Harper 940.318

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While in charge of the American Red cross relief work in France, the author was impressed with the infinitesimal fraction of reality which found its way into print in the American papers. Towards the end of the war he was requested to make a survey of the needs of southern and southeastern Europe and to ascertain the net results of the war on human welfare. The book records his findings. It is not a constructive program he says, “simply a contribution toward a diagnosis which might make it possible to outline a well-considered course of treatment.” “Chapter I tells the origin of the survey ... and gives an account of the itinerary of the trips. Chapters II to VII, inclusive, deal respectively with Serbia, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece. Chapters VIII to X endeavor to sum up the war’s results in all these countries, in the three vital aspects of childhood, home, and health. Chapter XI tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface) There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.

“Although mostly estimates, the data are perhaps as accurate as any we shall ever get. The survey is somewhat defective, however, because confined chiefly to the five lands named, and would have been more valuable had all the belligerent countries been included.” N. L. Sims

“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”

“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs, Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts themselves.” D: S. Jordan

“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained temper.”

“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up their hidden story of misery or hope.”

“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”

“Like Gibbs’ ‘Now it can be told’ and Keynes’s ‘Economic consequences of the peace,’ this is a book to be owned and read—and like them it is readable. Mr Folks’ subject is as important as theirs, and his competence is unquestionable. This is not to say that it is the last word on the subject. Quite the contrary. One might wish, for instance, that there were more frequent indications that the Allies have not had all of the human costs to bear. Another obvious defect is the omission of maps.” E. T. D.

FOOTNER, HULBERT.Fur bringers. $1.90 McCann

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“A tale of the Northwest. The trading posts, Indians, half-breeds, adventurers and beautiful heroines of the ordinary story are here anew in a plot in which the young trader afflicted with ‘June fever’ is obliged to take an open stand against the heroine’s father, known to all but the daughter as a slave-driver and profiteer.”—Booklist

“Very well written.”

“The story has plenty of incident, it moves quickly, and is told with a good deal of spirit.”

FORBES, GEORGE.Adventures in southern seas: a tale of the sixteenth century. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–16854

A romance of the days of discovery based on the voyages of Dirk Hartog, Dutch navigator. The story is told by Peter Ecoores Van Bu who sailed on his first voyage with Hartog in 1616. They were bound for the South seas in search of treasure for the Amsterdam merchants who were sending them out. But the islands they reach are poor in treasure, if rich in adventure, and it is only after the lucky discovery of pearls that Hartog is willing to return. Several other voyages follow, on which the hero experiences ship wreck, capture by savages and numerous other adventures. At the end of his second voyage he marries his Dutch sweetheart and gives up the sea, but following her death he again listens to its call.

“The very spirit of high adventure—the manifold dangers and hardships of ancient seekers after treasure—blows through the pages of the book.”

FORBES, JAMES.Famous Mrs Fair, and other plays. *$2 Doran 812

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The other two plays in this collection are: The chorus lady; and The show shop. Of these plays, Walter Prichard Eaton, in his introduction to the book, comparing their literary qualities, says, that “The chorus lady” can least endure the scrutiny print affords although enormously successful on the stage, while “The show shop” “stands up four square under the test of print” and is a most pungent and amusing satire of American stage life. “The famous Mrs Fair” is a more serious production with reasoned reflections on life and human motives. Its heroine, the wife of a wealthy business man, has become famous as a war worker in France. Coming home she is lionized, can no longer adjust herself to her domesticity and dreams of a career. Not until the family is nearly disrupted with tragic results does she, in the nick of time, wake up to her former responsibilities.

“What first strikes the attentive reader of Mr Forbes’s handsome volume is the poverty of observation. Two of the three plays deal with the little theatrical world in which he has been busy for twenty years. Yet he has not seen that world directly at all. The superficial bits of verisimilitude are pure veneer. Nature is hard to reach even for those who see her. To Mr Forbes her face, like that of the idol of Sais, is veiled.” Ludwig Lewisohn

FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.Character-training of children. 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 173

19–13817

These books by Dr Forbush, author of “Child study and child training” and “The boy problem in the home,” are issued in the Literary Digest parents’ league series. Volume one is devoted to: Problems of government, with the subject matter divided as follows: Problems to be solved by means of the child’s own responsiveness; Problems to be solved largely through suggestion; Problems to be solved largely by substitution; Problems to be solved largely through cooperation. Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes up Problems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care of children which are reprints of earlier works.

“These volumes, written in the clearest language of technical terms, well illustrated and interestingly arranged, should be a helpful and invaluable guide for those who have children to bring up or children’s problems to consider.”

FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.Home-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 372

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The first of these two volumes is devoted to the first six years of a child’s life and consists of two parts: Teaching a baby, and Teaching a little child. Volume 2 is devoted to: Teaching a school child (from six to twelve or fourteen); and The teaching of youth (from fourteen upward). Volume 1 has a list of story-and-picture books to use with the littlest children, also a list of books to help the mother in telling stories, and in volume 2 there is a chapter on Books in the home, with suggestions for reading.

FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.Sex-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 612.6

19–13816

“This book differs from others in the abundant literature that is being produced upon this topic, chiefly in the fact that it endeavors to present, with the least possible waste of space, all the material that parents of a growing family of children of both sexes need for their use at every stage of other children’s development. The unique feature, perhaps, is a section devoted to concrete answers to the embarrassing questions that children are likely to ask.” (Introd.) Contents: Why we have to do this; How to educate the little child; How to educate the schoolboy; How to educate the schoolgirl; How to educate the coming man; How to educate our coming women; List of books for further reading; Index.

FORD, HENRY JONES.Alexander Hamilton. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner

20–7498

“This book is a biography which aims to present the life of Hamilton as completely as possible from the evidence obtainable. It gives most attention to his political ideals and career and it also describes his character and personal life.”—Booklist

“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.

“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow of imagination, however.” L. B.

“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently inspires in the writer of biography.”

Reviewed by J: C. Rose

FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS.Foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd. by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382

20–11960

“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the ‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston Transcript

FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS.Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and work. il *$4.50 Harcourt

20–23005

Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer, based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.

“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J. Dent

“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”

FORMAN, HENRY JAMES.Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–3795

This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother, enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting for him on the Beacon.

“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character are what they were.”

“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the sharply drawn characterization.”

“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while. The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr

“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”

FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.[2]American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353

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“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes

“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.

FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD).Dangerous Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–18931

Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher, after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice. Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera, and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies. Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly turns over their value to the starving children of the old world, feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.

“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”

“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is crude and obvious in many spots.”

FORSEY, MAUDE S.Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott

A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real childhood.

FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN.Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf

20–3675

An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent Gino.

“An odd and delightful piece of work.”

“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.” H. W. Boynton

“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people, it is ‘human.’”

“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming book.”

“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to the end.”

FORT, CHARLES.Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504

20–1375

The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is one of the hypotheses suggested.

“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”

“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith

Reviewed by Eugene Wood

“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”

FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN.Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans

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“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting, but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”

“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good humour and frankness.”

47 WORKSHOP.Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08

29–11241

“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the university during the year. Of the four plays of this series, ‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican

“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton

“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing types of dramatic work.”

“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in English.”

FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE.American police systems. (Publications of the Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2

20–20105

This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000, and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The development of American police control; The present state of police control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime; Conclusion.

“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”

“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”

“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal government.”

Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge

“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only by police administrators but by the general public upon whose intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their solution.” E. D. Graper

FOSTER, JOHN.Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

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Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.

“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”

“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”

FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton

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Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.

“A very good story it is.”

“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are not made to seem plausible by clever development.”

FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON.Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75 Huebsch 331.89

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