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The book heralds the birth of a new industry: the extracting of oil from oil shale, which, in the face of our growing demand for oil, the diminishing supply of underground oil, and the almost inexhaustible supply of raw material in the form of oil shale, promises to be one of paramount importance. Contents: The dawn of a new industry; Nature, origin, and distribution of oil shale; The history of oil shale; Mining oil shale; Retorting and reduction; Experimental and research work; Economic factors; Summary; Opinions; The future; Bibliography, index and illustrations.

“Not a finished work as far as statistics are concerned, but a good survey of a comparatively new industry.”

“For a scientific work it is too uncritical and in such remarks as ‘mountains of shale’ it is reminiscent of a promoter’s prospectus. In fact, the whole book is written with too much apparent intention to see all the favorable points and to disregard the at present unfavorable ones.”

ALDON, ADAIR.At the sign of the Two Heroes. il *$1.75 (3½c) Century

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The scene of this story for boys is laid on South Hero island, one of the two islands in Lake Champlain that are named for Ethan and Ira Allen. The old Frenchman, Pierre Lebeau, suggests to the three boy campers, Christopher, Andrew and Howard, that they spend a night in the deserted old inn that commands a view of the bay and surrounding islands. He is under the stress of emotion and obviously has a purpose in making the suggestion. Their curiosity aroused, they take his advice and what they see and hear convinces them that smuggling on a large scale is going on. They also learn the cause of old Pierre’s emotion, for his scapegrace grandson is one of the smugglers. The story tells how the three boys, animated by the spirit of Ethan Allen, put an end to the law breaking.

“Keeps the interest and is not too improbable.”

“The background is well laid in and the story is full of ‘thrills’ having some really dramatic situations. A good tale of its type.”

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

ALDRICH, LILIAN (WOODMAN) (MRS THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH).Crowding memories. il *$5 Houghton

20–19664

These reminiscences of the wife of a poet center about her celebrated husband but are rich in pictures of other great personages that she has intimately known, notably Edwin Booth, William Dean Howells, Samuel L. Clemens, Robert Browning, James McNeill Whistler, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Dickens. The book is well illustrated and has an index.

“Mrs Aldrich’s memories are of superlative interest because of both their subject matter and the great intimacy of their manner.” E. F. Edgett

“The author’s stilted phrasing, trite similes, and thinly veiled snobbery offer a melancholy contrast to the easy-flowing naturalness and genial democracy of her gifted husband. Nevertheless, ‘Crowding memories’ is a valuable book because of the deep and abiding interest of many of the figures who appear in it.” A. R. H.

“She has not produced a quite independent volume, for she quotes from Mr Greenslet’s book at considerable length and uses excerpts from Aldrich’s semi-autobiographical writings to complete the structure of her narrative. Nor has she the special gift of the great memoir writer, that easy command of detail which gives its solid reward in social documentations. But as a casual record of certain trivialities ‘Crowding memories’ is something of a social document.” C. M. Rourke

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

“Even in unskillful hands the result would have been useful, and Mrs Aldrich has handled the rich material with good judgment and much insight, making a total that is always interesting, and often enlightening, entitling it to a definite place in our literary chronicles.”

ALEICHEM, SHALOM.Jewish children; authorized tr. from the Yiddish by Hannah Berman. *$2 Knopf

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“Nineteen stories by one of the best known of contemporary Hebrew novelists and journalists, the Russian Shalom Rabinowitz (‘Shalom Aleichem’): picturing with a vividness and intimacy which has gained him the name of ‘the Yiddish Dickens’ the life of Jewish children in the villages and small towns of the Russian pale.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup F 26 ’20

“They are written with a terse, beautiful simplicity. An especial appeal for those who recognize the truth of the picture.”

“Undoubted power of camera-like observation, the God-given genius for interpretation of the sorrows and sadness of life so surely a heritage of Jew, Irish or Russian, help make this little volume a delight.”

“Studies at once tentative and precocious, executed with a rare economy and a vivid understanding. Moods are evoked as if by the striking of a chord; the effect is instantaneous and sharp, yet softened with queer overtones of feeling.”

“‘Shalom Aleichem,’ speaking generally is a humorist, and often broadly so. Instances could be cited in which a verbal audacity, almost a horseplay in phrasing, stands out as his most striking characteristic.” C. K. Scott

“Perhaps the best quality of these stories is their humor, and such characters as Isshur the Beadle and Boaz the Teacher do, indeed, allowing for less breadth and vigor, justify the comparison of Rabinowitz with Dickens that has been made.”

“It is difficult to determine whether without the species of prestige conferred by unfamiliarity of subject and idiom, the spice of strangeness imparted by the mere fact of translation, the book would arouse much more than curiosity. It is a collection of incidents in the lives of Russian Jewish children, told with perhaps too unrestrained a fluency, as the matter is usually of the slightest, but with a pervading kindness, an unshakable good humour, a pleasant if not inspired drollery, that enlist one’s sympathy.”

ALEXANDER, HARTLEY BURR.[2]Latin American [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) il *$7 Jones, Marshall 299

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“The present volume follows the general plan [of the series]. The author has aimed at a descriptive treatment following regional divisions, directed to essential conceptions rather than exhaustive classification.” (Booklist) “The book includes the Antilles, Mexico, Yucatan, Central America, the Andes (North and South), the tropical forests, the Orinoco and Guiana, the Amazon and Brazil, and finally, the pampas to the Land of fire. The notes and bibliography comprise almost a fifth of the volume. More than forty illustrations add to the interest of a text that really illustrates itself.” (Bookm)

“The book is more than a succinct history. It embodies the poetry of ancient days and the cruelty and the splendor of ancient ways, without abandoning the calm attitude that wards the scientist from hasty or sentimental judgments.” I: Goldberg

ALLEN, ARTHUR WATTS.[2]Handbook of ore dressing, equipment and practice. il *$3 McGraw 622.7

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“The book aims to supply a handy and practical vade mecum for millmen and engineers, covering in condensed form the various stages in the mechanical handling and preparation of ore for metallurgical treatment. Good drawings and half-tone illustrations. Bibliography of 86 references.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

ALLEN, FREDERICK JAMES.Advertising as a vocation. *$2 Macmillan 659

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“This book by Mr Allen of the Bureau of vocational guidance of Harvard university is intended to place the subject of advertising as a vocation especially before that part of the public concerned with the choosing of a vocation. It is an extensive exposition of the field of advertising, the emoluments, the qualities needed for it as a vocation, and a thorough investigation of the various fields. It considers advertising as a business rather than as a profession, since in the main it is connected with the trades, and it aims to show the future of advertising as an important element in the choosing of a life work.”—Boston Transcript

“Sets a high standard. Excellent bibliography.”

ALLEN, NELLIE BURNHAM.New Europe. (Geographical and industrial studies) il $1 Ginn 914

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This volume is a revision of the book issued in 1913 with the title “Europe.” It has been revised and partly rewritten to conform to changes growing out of the war. New chapters have been added on: Ireland and the linen industry; The brave little country of Belgium; Finland and Lapland; The country of Poland, and The countries of the Balkan peninsula.

ALLEN, STEPHEN HALEY.International relations. *$5 Princeton univ. press 327

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“The reader will find here in outline the ancient and modern conceptions of a nation, and especially a clear statement of what has been done to regulate international intercourse by conventions, efforts to prevent war by arbitration and mediation and to mitigate the barbarities of war when it does come. Included in the volume are the documents representing the important general conventions that were in force at the outbreak of the great war, and in conclusion the peace treaty itself and the constitution of the League of nations are presented.”—R of Rs

ALLISON, WILLIAM.My kingdom for a horse! *$8 Dutton

“The recollections of one who has had so varied a career as Mr William Allison cannot fail to be interesting. His pages cover a great variety of ground, life in Yorkshire in the middle of the last century, Rugby in the ‘sixties, Balliol in the ‘seventies, the bar, horse racing, and the selling of blood stock, breeding of fox terriers, political and society journalism, editorship, and special commissionership in the Sportsman—a multitude of memories, in fine, with fluctuations of fortune to give a savour to the whole.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Well charged with readable gossip.”

“The ordinary reader will wish that his own interest had been a little more consulted by omitting many of these equine records. He will wish, too, that Mr Allison had not been so generous in quoting from his voluminous correspondence. Barring this overplus, we think the author too modest in describing his memoirs as a ‘farrago of insignificant events.’”

“His book shows quite exceptional familiarity with the thoroughbred, set forth in English free—though split infinitives are to be counted against him—from the distressing phraseology common to most men who write about racing.”

“His digressions are rather bewildering and his arguments not all strictly convincing. When Mr Allison gives himself, as he rarely does, the time to describe something with enthusiasm, William Hickey himself could do no better.”

ALLISON, WILLIAM.Secret of the sea. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

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The story has evidently been suggested by Poe’s “The murders in the rue Morgue.” An American millionaire’s pleasure yacht, touring on the Mediterranean, encounters a derelict yacht, fitted up most luxuriously with every evidence of recent occupancy but not a soul on board. Here’s mystery, and Peter Knight, the millionaire’s secretary and lover of his daughter, Betty, sets himself to unravel it. His rôle as detective proves full of danger but brings to light much past history and romance. An Italian duke of fabulous wealth is discovered to have been the owner of the yacht, and Peter Knight’s father—and thereby hangs a tale of dark plots and poison cups worthy of the middle ages. The outcome of this tale would have been a different one had not a baboon, one of the yacht’s inmates, taken a hand in it to do some of the murdering on his own account. Peter himself barely escapes with his own life, but in doing so is enabled to rescue his beloved Betty who has in the meanwhile fallen into the clutches of the same criminal family.

“A mystery yarn, fantastic and impossible, but quite readable.”

“A well-conceived and engaging mystery tale.”

ALLISON, WILLIAM.Turnstile of night. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

This tale of mystery begins in India where three white men combine in a successful attempt to gain possession of some priceless diamonds worn as the “breastplate of the seven stars” by an idol in a temple of Buddha. Then the scene shifts to England; two of the treasure seekers are dead, by fair means or foul, and the third is trying to keep for himself the whole treasure, part of which belongs in reality to Honour Brooke, daughter of the one, and Ronald Charteris, nephew of the other adventurer. Loris St Leger, the villain, aided by his wicked old uncle, and using his beautiful cousin as his tool, stops at nothing, and as Honour and Ronald are entirely ignorant of his game or his reasons for playing it, he soon has them completely in his power. But there are some influences at work that he has no knowledge of, which are acting against him, and in the end his evil purposes are defeated, after many harrowing experiences for Honour and Ronald.

“Unfortunately the bright promise of the earlier chapters is not fulfilled. There are thrills and mystery a-plenty, but the author takes too long in expounding them and by the time they are cleared up they have ceased to thrill.”

“In spite of the story being such a jumble, the writing evidently is that of a trained hand, for the sentences are neatly put together and the author is not devoid of descriptive power. Readers who enjoy hurrying along from one disconnected incident to another and who like a long story will probably find this one to their taste.”

AMERICANlabor year book, 1919–1920; ed. by Alexander Trachtenberg. (v 3) *$2 Rand school of social science 331

“Part I of this book deals with labor in the war, with the organization of many governmental boards of adjustment and policy-making, and with the actual administration of those laws which were drawn to curb ‘seditious activities.’ Part II is a record of organized labor, with historical reviews of different trade union ventures (including such interesting experiments as the work of the United labor education committee) and with records of strikes and lockouts during the last two years. The third section of the book contains a digest of new labor legislation, of court decisions affecting labor, and of the progress of plans for health insurance, pensions and the minimum wage. Part IV is a more general discussion of social and economic conditions. It deals with the cost of living, profiteering, unemployment, woman suffrage, plans for public ownership of the railways, and the history of the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota. Part V is a short record of the recent activities of cooperative, labor and socialist movements in some thirty different countries. And the final section of the book is devoted to the socialist movement in America.”—New Repub

“While the volume bears the imprint of the Socialist, it manifests much less of class or partisan bias than do many articles and volumes prepared and circulated by ultra-conservative organizations.” F. T. Carlton

“Unfortunately it is rather an incoherent volume. Though the arrangement could be better and the statistical tables less partial, still the year book contains useful material, much of which is nowhere else easily accessible.” H. J. Laski

“The editor should be especially commended for his broad and tolerant attitude towards all phases of the social problem and for his good judgment in collecting within the covers of one volume so many significant documents and statistical tables. The volume is indispensable to teachers, writers, lecturers, and every one else who has an intelligent interest in the facts and problems of the labor movement.” L: Levine

“There is evidence of a purpose to stick to facts. If allowance needs to be made it is for omissions of facts unfavorable to the cause rather than for inclusion of direct propaganda.”

“‘The American labor year book’ preserves much that otherwise is hard to obtain and at the same time offers the best available compendium of current information in its field.”

AMOS, FLORA ROSS.Early theories of translation. (Columbia university studies in English and comparative literature) *$2 Columbia univ. press 808

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The history of the theory of translation, the author holds, is by no means a record of easily distinguishable, orderly progression. It shows a lack of continuity and is of a tentative quality. “Translation fills too large a place, is too closely connected with the whole course of literary development, to be disposed of easily. As each succeeding period has revealed new fashions in literature, new avenues of approach to the reader, there have been new translations and the theorist has had to reverse or revise the opinions bequeathed to him from a previous period. The theory of translation cannot be reduced to a rule of thumb; it must again and again be modified to include new facts.” (Preface) Contents: The medieval period; The translation of the Bible; The sixteenth century; From Cowley to Pope; Index.

“The greater one’s knowledge of the literature dealt with, the more likely one is to approve the care and reading which she displays.” G: Saintsbury

ANANDA ACHĀRYA.Snow-birds. *$3 Macmillan 891.4

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“This volume contains prose-poems or rhapsodies in free verse on nature, Indian mythology, sentimental or ideal themes, in a style analogous to that of Sir Rabindranath Tagore.”—Ath

“Mr Achārya is not as inspired by any means and he does not get the atmosphere and charm into his lines that Tagore did. But he is interesting, for he presents the thought of the East.”

“The poems contained in this volume can scarcely be said to uphold his title convincingly as either artist or metaphysician. His vision is neither profound nor vital enough to awake the pulse of verse, nor has it the mentality that makes the muscle of decisive prose.”

ANDERSON, BENJAMIN MCALESTER.Effects of the war on money, credit and banking in France and the United States. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 332

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A volume brought out by the Carnegie endowment for international peace as one of the preliminary economic studies of the war. An introduction sketches in broad outline the effects of the war on money, credit and banking in the countries of Europe and the United States. The author then takes up in detail the various problems involved in the case of France, with a briefer treatment of the United States. Tables, charts, etc., are given in an appendix and there is an index.

“That the work is well documented, well proportioned, and highly wrought, even brilliantly done, is not to be gainsaid.” C. A. Phillips

“Readers with an interest in finance will appreciate this clear, detailed account.”

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

ANDERSON, ISABEL WELD (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).Presidents and pies; life in Washington, 1897–1919. il *$3 (5c) Houghton 975.3

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This is a book of inside gossip about social Washington, where “there is always something new under the sun.” The author has met and listened to the “‘senators, honorables, judges, generals, commodores, governors, and the ex’s of all these, as thick as pickpockets at a horse-race, ... ambassadors, plenipotentiaries, lords, counts, barons, chevaliers, and the great and small fry of legations’ who make the life here so varied and fascinating. Some politics, a touch of history, a dash of description, with a flavor of social affairs—such are the ingredients of my ‘pie,’ which, whatever its faults, I hope may not sit heavily on the reader’s digestion.” (Chapter 1) The book is well illustrated and the contents are: Looking back; “A red torch flared above his head”; Rough Rider and buccaneer; Parties and politics; Enter Mr Taft; Sundry visitings and visitations; Cruising and campaigning; Divers democrats; Allied missions; Pies; A topsy-turvy capital; Royalties arrive.

“It is regrettable that, owing to the lack of a sufficient background, she has not given us a definitive book on the city of Washington and its society; but, nevertheless, ‘Presidents and pies’ is a pleasant and sometimes a brilliant book. At least, it is easy reading, although its illustrations hardly add to its value.” M. F. Egan

“A delightful narrative. The style is chatty without being flippant, and there is always a touch of humor.”

ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.Leader of men. *$1 (7c) Putnam

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A tribute of love and devotion to Theodore Roosevelt, opening with a poem by the author reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine. In conclusion Mr Anderson writes: “Theodore Roosevelt was a brave warrior of the body, he was the mightier warrior of the soul. His life was a chord of many notes, blending in noble harmony.... Its music is not mute. It still echoes round the world, sounding the forward march for the souls of men to that nobler warfare—to victory—to peace.”

“The author has avoided equally the danger of sentimentalism and that of over-analysis; his fine sanity of tone gives to his little book the qualities of lasting excellence.” Margaret Ashmun

“The author tells nothing very new about Roosevelt, but he relates in a charming manner what he knew of him.” J. S. B.

ANDERSON, ROBERT GORDON.Seven o’clock stories. il *$3.50 (9½c) Putnam

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A story in short chapters suitable for bedtime reading. It is a book about three happy children, Jehosophat, Marmaduke, and little Hepzebiah. They live on a farm, and children who read the book will learn all about their three dogs, the other farm animals, the scarecrow and their friend the Toyman. The pictures are by E. Boyd Smith.

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.Poor white. *$2 (1c) Huebsch

20–27471

In this novel, as in his Winesburg stories, Mr Anderson tells the story of an Ohio town. It is a story of the transition period of the eighties and nineties between an agricultural and an industrial civilization. There was a time in that period, says Mr Anderson, when art and beauty should have awakened. Instead, the giant, Industry, awoke. The hero of the book, however, is not an Ohioan. He is a poor white who wanders up from Missouri, an indolent, dreaming boy, shaken out of his lethargy by a New England woman who tries to train his mind to definite channels. The result is the development of an inventive strain which the awakening giant, Industry, takes and uses to its own ends. The author’s treatment of Hugh is pathologic. He is attracted to women but is afraid of them. On his wedding night he is seized with panic and runs away, to be brought back by his father-in-law the next day. And never, except for fleeting moments, does he find satisfaction, either in his marriage or his work.

“Will undoubtedly be criticised by many readers for its sordidness of detail and its emphasis upon sex, but will be read by those who do not object to this with admiration for the frank truth of portrayal of a certain section of life.”

Reviewed by R. C. Benchley

“Structurally the story is chaotic and badly put together, being obviously the work of an ambitious young writer who has been emboldened to do something imaginatively big, but who has no control of the superabundance of material at his disposal. His ‘Poor white’ is in its way a remarkable piece of work, but it is not the first novel that has been written about the life it depicts or the last word in American fiction.” E. F. Edgett

“He has made his story a ‘Pilgrim’s’ progress,’ peopled with characters as actual and as full of meaning as those of the immortal allegory.” R. M. Lovett

“While as a novel the design, rhythms, texture and synthesis are about as bad as can be, as a book of miracles it is beautiful. The unexpected marvels of understanding, the terrible flashes of accuracy, the strange pity and enfolding passion are all incidental and personal: the epic he sought to write is cumbersome and dead, but the souls born from his soul live and suffer before us.” C. K. Scott

“In veracity and intellectual honesty Mr Anderson’s book is incomparably superior to most of our novels. But compared to ‘Main street’ it lacks fire and edge, lucidity and fulness.”

“To deny that ‘Poor white’ is a creation, an organism, with a life of its own, would be to sin against the light: but it is only fair to say that Mr Anderson’s limitations make ‘Poor white’ an incomplete, a maimed, organism.” F. H.

“‘Poor white’ remains a poetic novel in half a dozen broad senses. It has the clarity and concentration as well as some of the music of poetry. In its hold upon certain large pulsations of American life it is close to Whitman. It certainly belongs with Whitman rather than with Howells.” C. M. Rourke

“The book is a careful, conscientious study of certain phases of the industrial development of America, and especially of the Middle West.”

“Important American novel.” Eric Gershom

“The totality of the book gives the effect of a wood carving done with a hatchet by a man who could do well if he had a knife. But its faults are made up for by the dominant fact that Mr Anderson has a story to tell. The book is not great, but it has the seeds of greatness. It is worth while, and its author is worth watching.”

ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASHLEY.South of Suez. il *$3 (6½c) McBride 916

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The book contains sketches of the author’s wanderings in East Africa during the war. They are not a consecutive series, but they are full of local coloring and echoes of the European war. Three of them give an account of the apostasy of the Abyssinian ruler, Lidj Yassou, from Christianity to don the turban, and the following uprising, of which the author was an eye-witness. The contents, with many illustrations, are: A coin is spun; Soldiers, sand, and sentiment; Aden of Araby; Cross and scimitar in Abyssinia; Es-Sawahil; Zanzibar—the spicy isle; The wilderness patrol; Kwa Heri.

“Delightful reading.”

“His tales of peoples so like us in their passions and ambitions, so different from us in habits and environment, assuredly make for edification as well as pleasure, and we could stand more of them.” C. F. Lavell

“The impressions do not always ‘get across,’ good as the author’s material is.”

“His experiences do not form a well-connected story. His impressions are patchy, with much left for inference. But as it is, the interest is absorbing and some passages one will read over and over again.”

ANDERTON, DAISY.[2]Cousin Sadie. *$1.75 (3c) Stratford co.

20–13144

The scene is a college town in Ohio to which the heroine, Sara Dickinson, descendant of a long line of Calvinistic forebears, returns after a long absence. She thinks she has shaken off the teachings of her childhood, but in a crucial situation, involving love between herself and the husband of a young cousin, the sharp sense of distinction between right and wrong reasserts itself.

“The atmosphere of an Ohio college town is well done.”

ANDREA, MRS A. LOUISE.Dehydrating foods. il *$1.75 Cornhill co. 641.4

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“‘Dehydrating foods’ tells of a method recently perfected, which will effect a revolution in the means and methods of food preservation. As distinguished from drying, it reduces the bulk of foods without destroying the flavoring, coloring or nutritive properties. The process used in America is far superior to the European methods. All this and much more of lively interest may be gleaned from this volume by Mrs Andrea, lecturer on food, cookery and canning at the Panama-Pacific exposition, San Francisco, and the New York International exposition. The book contains detailed instructions for home dehydration as well as numerous recipes.”—Cath World

ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.Satan’s diary; authorized tr. *$2.25 (4c) Boni & Liveright

Satan has assumed human form in the person of a Chicago billionaire, Henry Wondergood and gives an account of his mundane exploits in the form of a diary. He finds that, with the body of Wondergood, he has also acquired some of his human qualities and is no longer proof against human emotions. Thus, when in Rome he meets one Magnus and his daughter Maria, a madonna-like woman, he falls in love with her and allows Magnus to out-satan him to the extent of robbing him of all his money and finally to blow him up in his palace after revealing to him that Maria the madonna, is not his daughter but his mistress. The story is a bitter satire on human life. In a long preface Herman Bernstein gives a brief sketch of Andreieff’s life.

“This is not only caustic comment on the conditions and problems of today on this world, it is a denunciation of all life, a renunciation of illusions and hopes. Without a doubt this latest and last work of Andreyev is for the time the last word in iconoclastic criticism.” W. T. R.

“Many of the ideas are brought out in long, rambling conversations dealing in the characteristic Russian manner with the purely abstract phases of life, and tending to mystify rather than clarify. At other times the satire is quick and amusing in its unexpected turns of keen humour. Sometimes Andreyev shows a gentler side, one might almost say a romantic strain.” L. R. Sayler

“A theme, this, to tempt one of the ‘masters of free irony and laughter,’ a Voltaire, an Anatole France. Its development in Andreyev’s hands is disappointing. We have too great a respect for the Satan of Job and of Milton to believe that he could have been so easily gulled. But the source of disappointment in the handling of the theme lies deeper. In this book, as in most of his other writings, Andreyev shrinks back appalled before the torturing riddle of human destiny. He hurls his vain questions against the blank wall.” Dorothy Brewster

“Marie Corelli is so far below Andreyev that it may excite derision to compare them, and yet in one of her bombastic novels, ‘The sorrows of Satan,’ she actually succeeded in making a more probable Satan than this one of the great Russian’s. This book is too savage either for satire or burlesque—and too inconsistent. Besides, even a good fairy tale should be plausible. Nevertheless, as a story the book is interesting.”

ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.When the king loses his head, and other stories. (Russian authors’ lib.) $2 International bk.

“The half-dozen ‘other stories’ intimated in the title of this volume are ‘Judas Iscariot,’ ‘Lazarus,’ ‘Life of Father Vassily,’ ‘Ben-Tobith,’ ‘The Marseillaise’ and ‘Dies irae.’ The last two are poems in prose. The title-story is a high-strung imaginative picture of the French revolution; ‘Judas Iscariot’ might be interpreted as an attempt to corporealize an arch-fiend compelled to bring about the final tragedy of Jesus’ life in order that prophecy might be fulfilled.”—Boston Transcript

“It is to be hoped that out of Russia’s chaos, when once more life becomes normal, there will be an end to such masterpieces of outrageous dissection. They may represent an epoch, but they are unwholesome and smack of the deadly amanita. Mr Wolfe’s translation has some good passages, but there are many infelicities.”

“This art has passion and humanity and a strange fervor. But to many its glow will seem the glow of phosphorescence and decay.”

ANNESLEY, CHARLES, pseud. (CHARLES TITTMANN and ANNA TITTMANN).Standard operaglass. *$3 Brentano’s 782

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