Chapter 68

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Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s unfaithfulness.

“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief characters are very real.”

“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that ‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent craftsmanship.”

“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality. Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”

“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy) husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so attractive a feature in some American novels.”

KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543

The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.” (Preface to the second edition)

“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to every industrial chemist.”

KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94

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As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to “re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.

“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C. J. Bushnell

“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg

“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of individuals.” C. L. King

“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination. In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and domination.”

“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to widely differing political factions.”

“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip

“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle

“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may understand.” W: C. Bullitt

“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral indignation.” H. J. Laski

“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are yet hanging.” A. A. Young

“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve. Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league of nations.” P. D. Cravath

“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet, and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the ‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen

“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”

“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages of this book.”

Reviewed by Arthur Gleason

“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last, ‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves attention.”

“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”

“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he appears to have little interest or understanding.”

“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires. Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual treatment than he himself proposes.”

“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour

KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer; with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s

20–10008

“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July 30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston Transcript

“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay, and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of these memories.”

KIMBALL, EVERETT.National government of the United States. *$3.60 (1½c) Ginn 342.7

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The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical origins and the development of our national political institutions and the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered, authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution; Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance; Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United States and there is an index.

“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the essential principles of our national political system which will give him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.” Ralston Hayden

“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is no new interpretation of our national system, but there is compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson

“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly, discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a reasonable degree of readability.”

“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science. Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that even a layman without any training in political science can understand.” J: E: Oster

KING, BASIL.Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper

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A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it, returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will open up to him.

“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”

“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit; only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to be an error.”

“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King, and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.

“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally fastidious reader.”

“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers, the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”

KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van Nostrand 540.3

(Eng ed 20–10609)

A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.

“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.

“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”

KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811

20–10006

Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity, Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and birds in sonnet and short lyric form.

“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W. S. B.

KIPLING, RUDYARD.Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910

20–9990

In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between 1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889 published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in 1913.

“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the greater the obstruction.” V. W.

“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”

“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly over-stimulated nervous system.”

“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight of Monadnock.’”

“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic, not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews

“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow, these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”

“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.

“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us see things and understand things.”

“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as inevitably out of date.”

“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”

KIRBY, ELIZABETH.Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran

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Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness. First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius, held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy prince at last.

“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”

“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she compels the reader to share.”

KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.[2]Wealth: its production and distribution. *$2.25 Dutton 330

“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land, labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican

KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.View vertical, and other essays. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814

20–17902

Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman; Gift-books and book-gifts.

“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”

“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip suits a cat.”

“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”

“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen perception of just what her own position ought to be.”

“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”

KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15

20–8868

“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, ‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes. Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining, stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training. Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic, geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School R

“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to all students of educational psychology.”

“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K. Gordon

KLAPPER, PAUL, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3

20–5826

A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S. P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E. Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2 covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany a number of the papers and there is an index.

“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual and prospective college teachers.”

KLEIN, DARYL.With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.48

20–6740

The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple, jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The book is illustrated.

“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the crop of war books.”

“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these ‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating, free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”

“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial humanity.”

“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”

KLEIN, HERMAN.Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century

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