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“An anthology of passages (of about six pages or less each in length) from modern authors dealing with the principles of literature, art, and criticism, divided into four parts according to the nations represented by the authors drawn upon—for France, Anatole France, Lemaître, Remy de Gourmont; for Germany, Hebbel, Dilthey, Volkelt, R. M. Meyer, Hofmannsthal, Mueller-Freienfels, Alfred Kerr; for England, George Moore, G. B. Shaw, Arthur Symons, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, W. L. George, T. MacDonagh, J. C. Powys; for America, Huneker, Spingarn, Mencken, Lewisohn, F. Hackett, Van Wyck Brooks, and Randolph Bourne.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Mr Lewisohn’s group of critics are restless impressionists, almost destitute of doctrine.” S. P. Sherman

“Connoisseurs of critical personality as such will miss Mr More and Mr Sherman in this volume, inasmuch as they are men of a particularly vivid and dramatic force. The critics whom Mr Lewisohn does put in his collection speak for the most part superbly.” C. and M. V. D.

“He has done his task in commendable fashion.” H. S. Gorman

“A book which begins with selections from Anatole France and Jules Lemaitre is bound to be useful, for the critical writings of these men are less accessible than one could wish. Furthermore, Mr Lewisohn has made a number of translations of his own from German writers. It is this foreign background which gives the book its chief value.”

LEYDS, WILLEM JOHANNES.Transvaal surrounded. *$8 Dutton 968

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“In continuation of this author’s monumental work on the annexation of the Transvaal, this volume was completed and prepared for publication in June, 1914, just previous to the opening of the great world war. At that critical time its publication did not seem prudent and its appearance was delayed. In the preceding volume the relations of the Boers and the British government were reviewed from the first settlements in South Africa to the London convention of 1884.... With the events which followed this volume is concerned and especially with the British policy, which was systematically followed by each succeeding cabinet, of gradually surrounding this struggling republic by a barrier of British territory, which effectually deprived it of all opportunity of outward expansion. An appendix reproduces a large number of original documents of great value to the student of this period, who desires to make a close and exhaustive study of this really little understood feature in English-African history.”—Boston Transcript

“Dr Leyds is far too sweeping in his charges, due in large measure to his hatred of everything British and to his inexperience of native affairs. The book is one to be read and studied by all who desire to see both sides of a bad patch in our colonial history.”

L’HOPITAL, WINEFRIDE DE.Westminster cathedral and its architect; with an introd. by W. R. Lethaby. 2v il *$12 (5c) Dodd 726

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These volumes are a memorial to a great architect by his daughter. Volume 1 is devoted to the building of the cathedral and volume 2 to the making of the architect. Together the books contain 160 illustrations and numerous architectural plans. Partial contents of volume 1: The laying of the foundation-stone; Birth of the cathedral idea; The choosing of the architect and the style, 1892–1894; The plan; The structure—building progress—materials—constructional problems; Description and details of exterior; Description and details of interior; The adaptation and development of Byzantine architecture as exemplified in the cathedral; The mosaics; Appendices. Volume 2 contains the architect’s life history and the story of his architectural training and career and an index.

“Though her literary style is frequently clumsy and never particularly good, she had the necessary facts at her disposal and upon the whole has used them well. A more skilled biographer would have given us more of Bentley.”

“On the technical and intellectual side, the work might have been composed by an architect having no relation to Bentley, and this it is which gives a special attraction to these 700 pages. There is but one trace of feeling that might perhaps be deprecated: a certain sensitiveness lest, in arranging for the interior completion of the cathedral, the present or future authorities may be lacking in loyalty to the ideals of the architect.”

“The fact that so large and so admirable a book on a modern architect has appeared in this country is a matter for congratulation to the author, the publishers, and the architectural profession. Undoubtedly it was needed. One can justifiably criticize the arrangement, for it leads to a certain amount of repetition.”

“The account of the cathedral in this book is very full and interesting, and illustrated with plans both final and preliminary.”

LINCOLN, ELLIOTT CURTIS.Rhymes of a homesteader. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

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Many of these poems are in dialect, among them The varmint, Angela, An evening with Browning, The phonograph, The game of games and The old-timer remarks. Others, such as The sunflower road, Montana night, Hills, Wheel tracks, Wild geese, and A song of the wire fence, are descriptive of the wild beauty of the northwest country. Some of the poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse, Adventure, Overland and Sunset.

“Lack the poetic beauty of Piper on the same subject, but will have many readers.”

“Elliott C. Lincoln deals with two types of verse, descriptive and dialect-narrative, with rather more discrimination than Robert Service, but by no means as much vigor. The descriptive verse is melodious, if often conventional.”

“The sociologist often can learn more about America and the American people from this homespun verse without literary distinction than from the smooth rhymes that flow in and around the poetry reviews. Eugene Field was the outstanding master of the homelier craft. A successor of his, perhaps superior in wealth and charm of diction, more direct, more sensitive, is Elliott C. Lincoln.”

LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).Portygee. il *$2 (2c) Appleton

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Portygee is the old Cape Cod term for foreigner expressive of both contempt and suspicion. It is applied with all its hidden meaning to Albert Miguel Carlos Speranza, when he comes to live with his grandparents, old sea captain Zelotes Snow and his wife, after the death of his father, a Spanish opera singer. The latter had eloped with the captain’s only daughter, who had died unforgiven by the old man. Albert, aged seventeen, fresh from a fashionable New York school, has much to live down and to live up to in South Harniss: his inclination to write poetry and his dislike for business, in the first place; and his grandfather’s expectations of him in the second. Little by little and with struggles on both sides, that endear the two leading characters to the reader, both win out. Albert comes to occupy first place in the old man’s heart and is no longer a Portygee, while he gains his own ends, becomes an author, a war hero, and marries the best girl in town.

“The reader of ‘The Portygee’ will find within its pages a somewhat conventional story, but he will find also, as in everything Mr Lincoln has written, a sure understanding of the people of Cape Cod, and an entertaining chronicle of its life and scenes.”

“Another inimitable Cape Cod story.”

“He can tell a very good story, as he does in ‘The Portygee,’ his psychology, tho somewhat obvious, is true, but his thoroly ‘wholesome’ humor lacks the faintest alleviation of subtlety. Cape Cod deserves a better interpreter.”

“‘The Portygee’ is a pleasant, amusing little story, which Mr Lincoln’s admirers will no doubt greatly enjoy.”

“There is hearty fun in the book, and there is also sound philosophy and fine Americanism.”

“This book brings back the smell of the moors, the salt sea, and the thick encompassing fogs.” Katharine Oliver

“A pleasant tale, which will be enjoyed by all lovers of Lincoln.”

LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.Red seal. il *$1.75 (3c) Appleton

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A burglar forces his way into a fashionable Washington home, is caught and taken to court where the McIntyre twins, whose house he had entered, appear against him. His sudden death in the courtroom demands an inquest and an autopsy, which reveal the fact that Jimmie Turnbull, cashier of the Metropolis Trust Company, while masquerading as a burglar, was killed by poison. His engagement to Helen McIntyre complicates the situation. Harry Kent, lover of the twin sister Barbara, takes up the case. Missing securities and a mysterious envelope sealed with a red B further complicate matters. The characters all suspect one another and the reader suspects everyone in turn. Eventually Harry Kent solves the mystery, and the miserable shoulders of the clever forger take the guilt of all phases of the perplexing crime.

“There is nothing unusually clever in the structure of the story. By concealing essential facts, by raising a new question with every incident, and by answering none, the author puzzles rather than creates suspense. The story is indeed so confusing as to be in danger of being tiresome.” G. H. C.

“‘The red seal’ has the great merit of being really mysterious. The author has managed very cleverly in the way she contrives to conceal all clues that might lead one to discover the true culprit, holding them back until the very end. The tale moves swiftly and holds the reader’s interest.”

“As in so many cinema plots, everyone seems to be ready to believe anything about anybody, to act in the most compromising manner for apparently inadequate motives, and to prevaricate with voluble insincerity at all times and in all places. With such allies at her disposal, Miss Lincoln makes so formidable a defence of her mystery that only the most experienced reader will penetrate it before the time appointed for unveiling.”

LIND, WALLACE LUDWIG.[2]Internal-combustion engines. il $2.20 Ginn 621.43

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The author has treated of internal combustion engines, their principles and application to automobile, aircraft, and marine purposes. “The endeavor has been to arrange and present the subject matter in such a manner as to bring it well within the comprehension of the average student. For more advanced students, who have a knowledge of thermodynamics, the writer has presented in Chapter III the theoretical considerations of the various cycles which are applicable to internal-combustion engines.” (Preface) There are 120 illustrations, a trouble chart and an index.

“For its purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice, although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp and appreciate.”

LINDEN, HERMAN VANDER.[2]Belgium, the making of a nation; tr. by Sybil Jane. (Histories of the nations ser.) *$3.75 Oxford 949.3

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“This volume is a translation of Professor H. vander Linden’s ‘Vue générale de l’histoire de Belgique’ with the addition of three chapters dealing with the history of the modern kingdom since 1831, written specially for this English edition. The original title tells us that the reader must not expect to find in this work more than a historical sketch. The writer makes no higher claim for it.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Monographs are valuable if their scope be limited, but any small volume covering centuries has the defects of its qualities. In this instance the reader might have gained had the author limited himself to a consideration of modern Belgium. The later chapters are richer in individuality and indicate what the author can do in character-sketches.”

“The best portions of this book are the numerous sections dealing with the social and economical conditions and progress of the Belgic provinces at various epochs of their chequered history. The strictly historical narrative does not deserve the same unqualified praise.”

LINDERMAN, FRANK BIRD.On a passing frontier. *$1.75 Scribner

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“These glimpses of past or passing phases of life in Montana get a sure grip on the reader, in spite of their sombre quality. Bad men, bad language, and bad whisky figure prominently in the sketches, but most of the experiences ring true.” (Outlook) “His characters run the usual gamut of western tales, and each possesses a picturesque individuality, correctly shaded.” (Boston Transcript)

“These sketches of the Little Rockies will rank well in the front class of fiction.”

“The stuff of good literature, though not in any final form, appears in ‘On a passing frontier,’ short stories without too much art, but also without too much decoration, which bring the Little Rockies very near home.”

LINDSAY, MAUD MCKNIGHT.Bobby and the big road. il *$1.50 (9c) Lothrop

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Bobby has always lived in the city but when he is five years old his father and mother take him to live in a little brown house by the side of a country road. The story tells of his little adventures while making friends with the birds and animals and flowers. He makes other friends too and goes to the circus and spends a happy Christmas. The story is suitable for children who have just learned to read.

“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for grown-up readers, too.”

LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.Golden whales of California; and other rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

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In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan, John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II, Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is crumbling down, and others.

“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M. Weaver

“With this volume Mr Lindsay certainly regains all he seems to have lost in his previous collection, and he now settles permanently in the very forefront of the half a dozen contemporary poets whose fame will last beyond the generation in which they were born.” W. S. B.

“Two impulses dominate Lindsay’s latest volume; two tendencies that are almost opposed in mood and mechanics. Sometimes the Jerusalem theme is uppermost; sometimes the jazz orchestration drowns everything else. Frequently, in the more successful pieces, there is a racy, ragtime blend of both. But a half-ethical, half-aesthetic indecision, an inability to choose between what most delights Lindsay and what his hearers prefer is the outstanding effect—and defect—of his new collection.” L: Untermeyer

“There is an impression abroad that ‘The golden whales’ falls a little below ‘General William Booth,’ ‘The Congo,’ and ‘The Santa Fe trail.’ It does do that; yet it stands well up among Mr Lindsay’s better poems, which is to say, among the better poems of contemporary America.” M. V. D.

“In this volume it is poems like Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan and Kalamazoo and The golden whales and The comet of prophecy and My lady is compared to a young tree and The statue of old Andrew Jackson and the Roosevelt poems and the Alexander Campbell poems which show the increasing self-possession of a singer who really lives with wonder and abides with dreams. The fascination of Lindsay is that this wonder and these dreams are drawn from common American life.” F. H.

“‘The golden whales’ is a book thoroughly alive, thoroughly jolly and thoroughly fit for chanting in typical Vachelese. His idiom, as well as his whimsical exaggeration, roars on every page.” Clement Wood

“The book, taken by and large, might be a parody on Mr Lindsay, all the Mr Lindsays.... And yet one knows very well what has happened. The superstition has got him, the group-consciousness has sucked him down. Mr Lindsay has listened too readily to his kind public, his critical faculty, never strong, has been smoked and blurred by incense.” Amy Lowell

“In this writer there have always been two elements: the poet, and what I shall unceremoniously, but not disrespectfully, call the urchin.... The poet and the urchin lived apart: they could not find each other. They have found each other, in my judgment, in the ‘Golden whales,’ and their meeting is the signal for Mr Lindsay’s emergence into the upper air of song.” O. W. Firkins

“Many persons have become needlessly alarmed and excited over Mr Lindsay’s importance as a poet. He is original, very original, both in form and in substance, and he is exhilarating—if it be only the exhilaration induced by the jingling tambourine.... The new book shows Mr Lindsay performing at top speed—facile, self-confident, clever, sometimes brilliant, his viewpoints as healthy and entertaining as ever.”

“Mr Lindsay’s ‘The golden whales of California’ is a disappointment. In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the ‘jazz bird’s screech’ and ‘monkey-shines and didoes.’” E: B. Reed

LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, and O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.Doughboy’s religion, and other aspects of our day. *$1.25 (8c) Harper 940.478

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In his introduction Harvey J. O’Higgins, giving an appreciation and brief survey of Judge Lindsey’s career, says that it is as an advocate of a moral alliance that he speaks in the book—“for although the actual writing of the book has been a work of collaboration, the message is his message and the spirit of its utterance is, as nearly as possible, his.” This is the message: “The Christian religion is not a religion of individual salvation and selfish virtue. It is a religion of love and self-sacrifice and humility.” It is a religion of doing rather than of church-going and the American junker will have to accept it if the lessons of the war are to be fruitful ones. The four essays of the book are: The doughboy’s religion; The junker faith; Horses’ rights for women; A league of understanding.

“There has been so much nonsense about the religion of the American soldier written and spoken by members of the Y. M. C. A. that it is refreshing to hear the subject treated intelligently by a real man. It is not strange that the famous judge of the juvenile court should be the man to understand the doughboy as others have failed to understand him.” G. H. C.

“The publication, at this date, seems to be an afterthought. However, the book will have some interest, since it presents the thoughts of a man so well-known as Judge Lindsey.”

“These essays are thought-provoking and written with Judge Lindsey’s usual fiery sincerity.”

“Judge Lindsey spares no one in his discussion and is judicious in his summary of the case.”

LIPPMANN, WALTER.Liberty and the news. *$1 (7c) Harcourt 323

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Two essays, on What modern liberty means and Liberty and the news, are here reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, prefaced by a brief introductory essay on Journalism and the higher law. In the latter the author says, “Everywhere today men are conscious that somehow they must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or school had prepared them to understand. Increasingly they know that they cannot understand them if the facts are not quickly and steadily available. Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated private enterprise. For in an exact sense the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” The aim of the two main essays is “to describe the character of the problem, and to indicate headings under which it may be found useful to look for remedies.”

“Mr Lippmann’s contribution is neither a panegyric nor a tirade. He has approached a perplexing problem in dispassionate, sane and judicial fashion and with a beneficent purpose.” H: L. West

Reviewed by H. J. Laski

“Mr Walter Lippmann is one of the editors of the New Republic, and consequently may be presumed to know all about liberty; but he has never been a newspaper man and, while he knows a good deal about news, most of what he knows is not true.”

“The programme which the author proffers is a worthy one. Would that it could be attained! Progress toward its attainment will, however, require considerable soul-searching and inner reformation on the part of responsible persons connected with the handling of the news; and this is likely to require rather large drafts on the bank of time.” W. J. Ghent

“However much one may disagree with some of Mr Lippmann’s statements and views, there is no doubt that he renders a public service by directing his critical mind to the press and its influence. It is courageous thinking of this kind that will help the public to become more exacting in its demand on the press.”

“A calm, impersonal and general survey.” J. G. McDonald

LISLE, CLIFTON.Diamond rock. il *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt

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A boys’ story of the revolutionary war. The Quaker settlement in Chester county, Pennsylvania, had been very remote from the scene of war and had taken little interest in its progress, but with the battle of the Brandywine in the summer of 1777, it is brought close to them. On that very day Joe Lockhart, fishing along the creek, encounters an attractive stranger who teaches him how to catch trout with a worm. Later Joe and his chum, Amos Rambo, pick up a paper which shows the stranger to have been a spy. Joe carries the evidence to Washington’s headquarters and reports and is sent on a mission thru the British lines. He meets the stranger again and learns that he is a spy on the right side. Thereafter the two boys see something of all the stirring events that follow, including the Paoli massacre.

LITCHFIELD, PAUL WEEKS.Industrial republic. *$1 (8c) Houghton 331.1

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The booklet is a study in industrial economics by the vice-president and factory manager of the Goodyear Tire and rubber company. Government and management, says the author, are synonymous terms, the one being applied to the political, the other to the industrial world and the war has focussed attention on the faults of both. After a brief outline of the evolution of capital and the wage system and its present antagonism the author points out the necessity of giving labor the control of the management of an industry while safe-guarding the interests of capital. In illustration he describes the Goodyear representation plan. Contents: Expansion of political democracy; The labor-capital opposition—genesis and growth; Present status of the labor-capital opposition; Clues to the solution; Rights involve duties; The industrial republic; Industrial citizenship; The Goodyear representation plan.

“The book should prove of real interest to social workers and to business men. It maintains a consistent point of view throughout and develops logically to its conclusion.” Alexander Fleisher

LITERARYdigest history of the world war; comp. by Francis W. Halsey. 10v il with subscription to Literary digest *$12 Funk 940.3

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“This work covers the titanic struggle as it was fought on land, by sea, in the air, on all fronts in all parts of the world, by the thirty nations involved in the conflict. The first six volumes deal chiefly with the outbreak of the war and its causes, and the long and bitter struggle on the western front, including America’s entrance and participation, and carrying the story down to the signing of the armistice, the occupation of the Rhine valley, and the meeting of the peace conference in Paris. The seventh is devoted to Russia’s share in the war, the revolution, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the rule of the Bolsheviki. In the eighth is to be found the story of the war in the Balkans, Turkey, and Palestine, while the ninth deals with Italy’s war effort and the story of the submarine warfare. The tenth contains the history of sea battles and of commerce raiding, an adequate description of the work of the Peace conference, sketches of fifty military and political leaders, a chronology that fills forty pages, and an index to the whole work. The volumes are all copiously illustrated.”—N Y Times

“The internal political events in the various countries are nearly altogether neglected, except of course the revolutions in Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. In this method of treatment there can be only a feeble attempt to evaluate the significance of the various factors entering into the huge conflict. The account lacks, too, as is natural, the simple direct style of Usher’s ‘Story of the great war.’ Nevertheless it is a comprehensive piece of work well done and extremely well suited to the clientele to whom it is directed.” G: F. Zook

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

“Mr Halsey approached his task with a true perspective and justly saw and accurately described the part taken by each nation involved in its due relation to the whole conflict and the final victory.”

“The present work is certainly full of fine material and will itself be constantly and permanently valuable for reference and study.”

“In common justice to the author, we must give him praise for his skill in so reducing, condensing, and digesting the immense mass of material at his command as to produce a continuous and even narrative.”

LIVERMORE, GEORGE GRISWOLD.[2]Take it from Dad. il *$2 Macmillan 817

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Letters from a father to his son in preparatory school, letters full of friendly advice and good counsel with a mixture of homely anecdote from the father’s experience. There are amusing illustrations by Bert Salg.

“A new kind of boys’ book—and a good kind, too.”

“It is not difficult to imagine that fathers with boys of eighteen will find Mr Soule an altogether enjoyable companion.”

LIVERMORE, THOMAS LEONARD.Days and events, 1860–1866. il *$6 (3c) Houghton 973.7

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This posthumous book, published by the author’s family and recording Colonel Livermore’s experiences in the Civil war, was begun immediately after the conclusion of the war, while its events were still fresh in his mind. Henry M. Rogers in his introduction gives a brief sketch of the author’s life.

“Colonel Livermore has been known for a long time by his work on ‘Numbers and losses in the Civil war,’ which has been one of the most valuable contributions to our military history. The work now before us is of an entirely different character and reflects the ability of the author from a new and no less interesting angle.” Eben Swift

“The volume ought to take its place as a real ‘source book’ for commentators on the history of that conflict. There is much of entertainment in the narrative, which is frank to a degree and often vigorous, fresh, and significant in its criticisms.”

LIVINGSTON, ROBERT.Land of the great out-of-doors. il *$1.75 (9c) Houghton

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When they are about five and six years old, Penrose and Penelope, known as Pen and Penny, are taken to the country to live on a farm. This little story tells of their daily life, beginning in the spring time and continuing to Christmas. In some of the chapters Pen tells of his doings, in others Penny gives her view of things. The colored pictures are by Maurice Day.

“The impersonator frequently forgets, in his desire to have the valuable information imparted, that he is under contract to use the speech of childhood. However, the stories will undoubtedly find favor with the little folk, and their atmosphere is fresh and wholesome.” M. H. B. Mussey

“It will prove excellent to read aloud, or to give to children who are just beginning to read for themselves.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

LOCK, H. O.[2]Conquerors of Palestine through forty centuries. *$3 Dutton 956.9

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“The history begins with the ancient Egyptians, relates the campaigns and conquests of the Jews, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, the picturesque warriors of the Crusades, the French, and then the British. The intervening history is briefly sketched, to make a connected narrative. The book has an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, commander-in-chief of the British forces in Palestine.”—Springf’d Republican

“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”

LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON.Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas co.

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