Chapter 70

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The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C. Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for school children.

LAKE, KIRSOPP.Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3 Macmillan 270.1

“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus. The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican

“There is no mistaking the keenness of Prof. Lake’s thought or the brilliant cogency of his style.”

“On many matters we must strongly dissent from him; but his work will be useful to every student of early Christianity, if only because it compels its readers to re-examine the presuppositions of their religious thought and to test their theories of the church’s development. If we say that the author of this work raises far more questions than he answers, he might be expected to reply that this precisely was his purpose.”

LAMB, HAROLD.Marching sands. *$1.75 (2½c) Appleton

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The American exploration society sends Captain Gray to the Desert of Gobi to find the lost tribe of the Wusun, supposed to be the remnant of an Aryan race, the original inhabitants of China. At the same time an English rival expedition starts on the same quest. The expeditions are facing the dangers not only of the desert but of the hostile Chinese Buddhist priests and of the leper colony with which Wusun is surrounded. By the time the desert is reached the American expedition consists of only one member, Captain Gray, and a Kirghiz guide. He comes upon the English expedition under Sir Lionel Hastings and his niece Mary. Being rivals they part company, each bent on reaching Wusun first. Sir Lionel is killed after he had set foot on its environs. Mary is taken captive by the Chinese and placed in charge of the Wusun. By sheer pluck Gray penetrates into the stronghold and puts up a gallant fight for Mary and the reader takes leave of them free but alone in the “infinity of Asia.”

“Mr Lamb has written a gripping tale abounding in thrills and mystery, adventure and danger, bravery and love; and the narrative of this search for a hidden city presents a unique and exciting plot.”

“While rather slow in getting into action, this tale is thrilling in the extreme after it once gets its American explorer into the Gobi desert.”

LAMBUTH, WALTER RUSSELL.[2]Medical missions: the twofold task. il $1 S. V. M. 266

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“The growth of medical work in Christian missions is a romantic chapter in the record of the extension of the kingdom of God on earth. The writer draws from a wide range of material and experience and presents the great work of medical missions in a most attractive form. The book furnishes a mighty appeal to the young man or woman who is looking forward to the practice of medicine and surgery as a life-work. One is forced to face the need of the world and to decide whether it is right to remain in one’s own land struggling for a practice, or whether it is far better to go where the need is desperate and invest life there.”—Bib World

“The pictures are well chosen; the specific examples of effective missionary service are stimulating; the field of study is wide and is surveyed with discrimination. An excellent book for private reading or class study.”

“Unfortunately the book is propaganda and the references to the adventures of the medical missionary are drowned in a misrepresentation of heathendom. Although he, Bishop Lambuth, does voice the cry for service in an antiquated religious idiom, he is really bigger than his creed and values humanity more than proselyting.”

LAMOTTE, ELLEN N.Opium monopoly. *$1 Macmillan 178.8

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“‘The opium monopoly,’ by Ellen N. LaMotte, the author of ‘The backwash of war,’ ‘Peking dust,’ ‘Civilization,’ etc., is a remarkable monograph on the ‘opium question,’ based upon government blue book reports, statistical extracts and official data. In this work, the author discusses the problems of opium monopoly and consumption in India, the Malaya peninsula, Siam, Hongkong, Srawak, Turkey, Persia, Mauretius, British Borneo and British Guiana, and gives a brief outline of the history of the opium trade in China and of Great Britain’s opium monopoly.”—N Y Call

“National pharisaism and a strong anti-English feeling are a conspicuous part of the writer’s equipment, but the facts which she adduces must give us to think.”

“Well documented.”

“One of the best arguments yet advanced against the mandatory system pieced together at Paris.”

Reviewed by C: R. Hargrove

“Miss LaMotte, in spite of her rather obvious desire to have her fling at Britain, is at the same time evidently actuated by a desire to reveal a grievous state of affairs. Having exposed the outstanding features of the cultivation and sale of opium by the British, it is obviously Miss LaMotte’s duty to continue her interesting investigations in this country.”

“Miss LaMotte’s little book might be taken more seriously if she were not at such pains to paint Great Britain black. It is idle to draw fine moral distinctions between the British government which sells opium to the Japanese and the Japanese who smuggle it into China. The whole trade is bad enough in all conscience, however, and to have attacked it is to have done something useful.”

“Miss LaMotte did a great service to the cause of human justice when she wrote her admirable work. It will prove a valuable asset in rousing the conscience of the civilized people of the world against this gigantic international crime of drugging nations. Let us hope that the book will soon be translated into various languages of the civilized nations and the truth spread broadcast to remedy the wrongs of the helpless millions.” Taraknath Das

“Miss LaMotte’s book is intended as a severe indictment of Great Britain’s policy with regard to opium. Her account would, however, be a fairer one if consideration were given to the British side of the case as presented, for example, by Sir John Strachey in his ‘India: its administration and progress.’”

“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan

“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks

“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first, the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese especially; second, the danger that the United States will take China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain

LAMPREY, LOUISE.Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes

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Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal; Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828

(Eng ed 20–16302)

“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself, and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications, an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R

“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who, liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life, and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us continually aloft.”

“Charming little book.”

“To glance through an admirable volume of selections from Landor, such as that edited by John Bailey is to be filled with delight and regret. What writer of the second rank has more to yield to the discoverer than he? What prose more squarely can support the weight of the exactest scrutiny than his?”

“As, however, Mr Bailey implies by making a day-book of his selections, Landor not only constantly said beautiful things beautifully, but as constantly things that stand the wear and tear of daily life. No doubt the blank page at the end of this charming little book is provided to hold a good resolution—namely, whatever else may happen in nineteen twenty-one, to read Landor through.”

LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).[2]Life in the circles. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

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This book is a continuation of the volume entitled “To walk with God,” and contains “further lessons received through automatic writing.” (Sub-title) There are lessons on will, knowledge, joy, truth, understanding, sympathy, and love.

“The level of intelligence of the sending spirits is not very high—a grade or two above the kindergarten.”

LANE, MRS ANNE (WINTERMUTE), and BEALE, MRS HARRIET STANWOOD (BLAINE).[2]To walk with God. (Deeper issues ser.) *$1.25 Dodd 134

20–6367

A series of “lessons” which the authors received in the form of automatic writings. An introduction gives the circumstances under which the messages were received and the lessons have to do with the power of love, helpfulness, kindness and the need for spiritual guidance. The authors say: “We realise that it will be said that there is nothing new in the teaching, and we admit that there is repetition to what seems an unnecessary degree, but we pledge our word that we have put nothing of our own into the text.” (Introd.)

“The fact that the wife of the Secretary of the interior and the daughter of James G. Blaine are the recipients of these messages will make a certain demand for the book.”

LANE, MRS ROSE (WILDER).Making of Herbert Hoover. *$3.50 (4½c) Century

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Herbert Hoover represents America, says the author, and his is the spirit of five generations of American pioneers. His life began at the end of one pioneer age and the beginning of the other. His ancestors had been sturdy pioneers of Quaker stock—his father a blacksmith. They had conquered the soil, he conquered the world of finance. Much of the material of the book has been collected by Charles Kellogg Field, classmate and friend of Hoover.

“Written with the interest in really delightful settings and small circumstances of life such as a novelist employs to characterize a hero. Children will like this book.”

“It is a story of a wonderful career, written with a brightness and a dash that captivates and enthralls.”

“The book is readable for its vivid presentation of an active and adventurous career.”

LANG, EDITH, and WEST, GEORGE.Musical accompaniment of moving pictures. il pa *$1.25 Boston music co.; Schirmer 780

20–4471

“A practical manual for pianists and organists and an exposition of the principles underlying the musical interpretation of moving pictures.” (Sub-title) There are three parts: Equipment; Musical interpretation; The theatrical organ. Musical scores are given and there is an index.

“Not exhaustive but very suggestive to the player and illuminating to the listener.”

“It is a book we can warmly commend.”

LANGDON-DAVIES, JOHN.Militarism in education; a contribution to educational reconstruction. 80c Headley bros., London; for sale by Survey 371.43

19–12681

“The author contrasts the German and English systems of education, gives an account of the scholastic methods adopted in Norway, deals at considerable length with the aims of real physical training, devotes a chapter to boy scouts, and brings many arguments against compulsory national service, to which he is strongly opposed.”—Ath

“The faults of anti-militarist literature are usually rancour, sentimentality, and exaggeration. Mr Langdon-Davies has escaped all three. The merit of this book consists in its clearness and its shortness, in the fact that the author knows what he wants to prove, and proceeds to prove it without fuss or sentiment and with considerable moderation.”

“From the point of view of physical health, Mr Langdon-Davies gives many proofs from experienced educationists of the deleterious effects on children of military training. In a valuable chapter on the psychological aims of physical education, he points out that character must be built on the basis of instinct and that ‘the cornerstone of the superstructure is the acquirement of habit and self-control.’” B. U. Burke

LANGFELD, HERBERT SIDNEY.[2]Aesthetic attitude. *$3.50 Harcourt 701

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The author holds that a sense of beauty is as vital to the complete existence of the individual and of the race as is the sense of justice and that a nascent appreciation of what is beautiful can be developed into a strong, useful and satisfying reaction to the world of colors, sounds and shapes. The emphasis of the book, therefore, is put upon a description of the nature of appreciation and of the mental processes involved therein, ... its wider applications to the problems of human happiness. He concludes that “whenever we are able to adjust ourselves successfully to a situation, so that our responses are unified into a well-integrated or organized form of action, we call that situation beautiful, and the accompanying feeling one of æsthetic pleasure.” The contents are: Introduction; The science of beauty and ugliness; The æsthetic attitude (two chapters); Empathy; Illustrations of empathy from the fine arts; Unity and imagination; Illustrations of unity from the fine arts; Balance and proportion; Illustrations of balance from the fine arts; The art impulse; Conclusion; Index.

LANGFORD, GEORGE.Pic, the weapon-maker. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

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“Like Kipling’s ‘Jungle stories,’ but laid in western Europe perhaps 40,000 years ago, the story of ‘Pic, the weapon-maker,’ is George Langford’s popularization as fiction of such facts as science has revealed about the cave men of the Mousterian era. Pic, the ape-boy, with the hairy mammoth and the wobbly rhinoceros, formed a triple alliance of friendship and adventure. Pic was in search of the secret of cutting flints in such a way as to put a fine edge on them without spoiling them in the attempt, and before the story closes he has found it and made it the key to renewed fellowship with the tribe that had cast him out. As to the scientific quality of the story no less an authority than Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of the American museum of natural history, writes a brief approving introductory note.”—Springf’d Republican

“Anthropology and adventure are jumbled—naively, at times—in this story which, for all its prehistoric licence, still clings to the technique of Stratemeyer and other weavers of juvenile romance.” L. B.

“A troublesome fault is the author’s imaginative cocksureness. A higher degree of vagueness would actually have yielded an impression of greater exactness here. But where all is dark and chaotic, much must be forgiven to the first imaginative explorers. It is certain that Mr Langford’s book will fruitfully awaken the interest of the young in the remote past of the race, nor will maturer minds read it without some fresh light on dim places.” Ludwig Lewisohn

“The characterization of the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros is not the least clever part of this whimsical, fanciful and yet true story of this little, prehistoric man, and it is with real regret that the book is laid aside as the story closes.”

“An unusual and a powerful juvenile. The spirit and narrative of the book will be enjoyed even by children too young to attempt the reading for themselves.” R. D. Moore

LANIER, HENRY WYSHAM.Book of bravery; third series. il *$2.50 Scribner 920

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“This is a book of courage, wherein people in their daily pursuits meet with obstacles which they surmount through excellences of character. The man who is paid for his brave work, like the life-saver, the policeman, the fireman, is none the less brave and his deed is none the less fraught with the tingling quality of bravery. In the missionary field and on the battlefield Mr Lanier finds material for this volume.”—Lit D

“It is a collection worth making.”

“For the inspiration of these volumes, children and parents alike may well be grateful to Mr Lanier.” M. H. B. Mussey

“The stories are vividly presented, and the book is one to stir the heart of youth.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY.Secrets of earth and sea. il *$3.50 Macmillan 504

“These popularly written chapters on a wide variety of scientific and anthropological topics, such as What is meant by a species? Species in the making; The biggest beast; The earliest picture in the world; The art of pre-historic men; The swastika; etc., form a sequel to the same author’s ‘Science from an easy chair’ and ‘Diversions of a naturalist,’ and like them is mainly a reprint, with considerable additions, of articles published in daily or weekly papers.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup S 23 ’20

“The essays are entertaining but have no high literary qualities. Men like Shaler, Burroughs, Muir, Mills, and Slosson have done this sort of book far better in America.”

“Let it be said at once that ‘Secrets of earth and sea,’ though extremely interesting, is not in the best sense as diverting as was ‘Science from an easy-chair.’ The subjects treated are delightfully interesting to the layman but the style is unfortunately rather redundant and heavy.”

“The book is indicative of what will be common in that happy day when science will be written about as fully and as charmingly as purely literary subjects are today.”

“Parents and guardians who are desirous of introducing their boys to the study of natural science and who, in pursuance of that praiseworthy aim, are looking for a book which, while sound and exact in statement, is yet light and easy to read and, above all, has no tincture of the school classroom, would do well to think of Sir Ray Lankester’s ‘Secrets of earth and sea.’”

LANSBURY, GEORGE.These things shall be. $1 (5½c) Huebsch 261

In these six essays the author proclaims himself a revolutionist and downright hater of the existing order but he does not see salvation in a terrific cataclysm with hopes of a new order arising from the ruins of the old. He pins his faith upon a change of heart in individual men and women and in the message “Ye must be born again.” The spirit of the essays is faith in a God of love and in the teachings of Christ of human brotherhood and love and cooperation. Mr Lansbury is editor of the London Daily Herald.

“He has nothing startlingly new to say, but the serenity and steadfastness of his faith in humanity and in a society of individuals living the gospel of Christian love, will afford comfort and reassurance to minds tired for the moment of their searching.”

LANSBURY, GEORGE.What I saw in Russia. *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright 914.7

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In his introduction to the American edition of this book, Matthew F. Boyd, after reviewing the attitude towards Russia of the European powers, of which France is now the only one still openly hostile, finds that the United States has once more become the arbiter of world destiny and that her policy towards Russia will decide the future of the world. George Lansbury went to Russia to discover what was the spirit moving the men and women responsible for the revolution. He found it to be that of a band of people striving to build the New Jerusalem, that they are actuated by purely moral and religious motives and are doing what Christians would call the Lord’s work. Contents: Finland to Moscow; Lenin and other leaders; Lenin, bolshevism and religion; Co-operation, trade and business; Trade unions and labour organization; Children and education; Law and order; Prisoners and captives; About people; Public health; Moscow to London; Appendix.

“The chapter on religion will interest churchmen.”

“Any one who wishes to gain a vivid picture of life in Soviet Russia, drawn with entire honesty and animated by sympathy and good will should, by all means, read Mr Lansbury’s book.” A. C. Freeman

LANSING, MARION FLORENCE, and GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.Food and life. il 68c Ginn 613.2

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The book has been suggested by the new importance that the war has placed on food as a universal human need and on the desirability of a full knowledge of its potentialities even for children. “From its pages the child will learn the facts he should know concerning the great food business into which he is born and in which he is a partner.... There is hardly a virtue or an ideal of family, community, and world life which does not take a natural place in a study of the fundamental human problem of food.” (Preface) Every aspect of the food problem, the personal, the social, the economic and the scientific is entertainingly put before the child in detached stories. The contents are: A life business; The food tether; In business for yourself; Food as fuel; Our dally bread; The magic touch; Likes and dislikes; A world appetite; The first step; The moment of eating; In the world’s food market; The pitcher and the loaf; The gift of a garden; Kitchen service; Food and money; For future use; Food and health; Food and the government; At a world table. In Facts and figures are given tables, charts and lists of a scientific nature. The book has an index and illustrations.

LASKI, HAROLD JOSEPH.Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham. (Home univ. lib.) *75c (1c) Holt 320.9

20–14002

The author holds that the eighteenth century began with the revolution of 1688, that it was a period of quiet after a storm and can make little pretence to discovery, but that its stagnation was mainly on the surface and that the period was fruitful of much thought resulting in future activity. The significance of Locke—who alone in this period confronted the general problems of the modern state—of Burke, Hume, Adam Smith and their contemporaries, forms the subject matter of the book. Contents: Introduction; The principles of the revolution; Church and state; The era of stagnation; Signs of change; Burke; The foundation of economic liberalism; Bibliography and index.

“The method of treatment is not coldly analytical but genial and speculative. Care is taken to relate political theory to ethics; there are flashes of penetration into matters psychological; but economics receives scant consideration. To the present reviewer neglect of economics seems fatal. The truth seems to be that Mr Laski has written a conventional story, bolstered up English political mythology, and left the great muddle of so-called ‘political thought’ just about where he found it.” C: A. Beard

“A really admirable little book.” F: Pollock

“There are a few obscurities of phrase throughout the book, and a few far-fetched judgments. But, on the whole, Mr Laski writes brilliantly and suggestively, evincing a clear comprehension of essentials, against a background of necessary learning. It is his most broadly considered and best-balanced work.”

LATANÉ, JOHN HOLLADAY.United States and Latin America. *$2.50 Doubleday 327

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“This book is based on a smaller volume ... ‘The diplomatic relations of the United States and Spanish America,’ which contained the first series of Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history. That volume has been out of print for several years, but calls for it are still coming in.... I have revised and enlarged the original volume, omitting much that was of special interest at the time it was written, and adding a large amount of new matter relating to the events of the past twenty years.” (Preface) Contents: The revolt of the Spanish colonies; The recognition of the Spanish-American republics; The diplomacy of the United States in regard to Cuba; The diplomatic history of the Panama canal; French intervention in Mexico; The two Venezuelan episodes; The advance of the United States in the Caribbean; Pan Americanism; The Monroe doctrine; Index and maps of South America and the Caribbean.

“The American people are thoughtless, careless, heedless concerning the questions that affect them as regards Latin America, because they are ignorant of those questions. But should they be fed with misstatements like this?” S. de la Selva

LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.Jimmy Quigg, office boy. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan

20–18923

A new story for boys by the author of “Under orders” and “Marty lends a hand.” At fourteen Jimmy goes to work as office boy in a big publishing house and the story shows the opportunities for advancement open to the boy who is industrious and willing to learn. One of Jimmy’s fellow workers, Fred Garson, has different ideals. He introduces Jimmy to the Office boys’ league and attempts to organize a strike. Fred disappears and with him some of the company’s funds. Jimmy, who refuses to believe his friend guilty, does some amateur detective work, clears Fred’s name and circumvents a group of bomb plotters in the bargain.

“There is a pronounced moral flavor, but it is quite wholesome.”

“Mr Latham improves in his narrative style and cumulative interest of plot.”

“The author understands the types he has drawn, and he understands also the universal boy.”

“The theme of Americanization inspires the book, but first of all it is a good story, a delightful bit of character study, and it is written by a man who knows his job.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

LATHAM, HAROLD STRONG.Marty lends a hand. il *$1.60 (3½c) Macmillan

19–16144

Marty, the young hero of this story for boys and girls, is in his sophomore year in high school. He has won first honors in the sophomore oratorical contest and is to play “Tony Lumpkin” in the class production of “She stoops to conquer.” And then just at that happy moment an accident to his father takes him out of school to shoulder the responsibilities of a bread winner. He finds an original way of earning a living—growing mushrooms in an abandoned mine. The mine proves to be the secret hiding place of German plotters and Marty sees that they are brought to justice. But the chief interest of the story is in the mushroom experiment, and thru cooperation of his loyal friends, it succeeds beyond Marty’s fondest hopes. His father recovers and takes charge of the new business and Marty looks forward to a return to school.

“A distinct advance over his book of last year.” A. C. Moore

“Mr Latham knows his boys and girls, and he makes them not mere automatons but living figures on the stage he has set so skilfully.”

“‘Marty lends a hand’ is a good story for young readers for the same reason that ‘Under orders’ was a good story for them, because it is what they are themselves when they are what they should be—simple, wholesome, natural and unconsciously democratic.”

LATZKO, ANDREAS.Judgment of peace. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

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