Chapter 74

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This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful, however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares Lady Edris’s fate.

“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”

LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane

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The hero is a man of great intellectual power, dynamic physical energy and sudden quixotic impulses. After he has spent eighteen years of voluntary exile in China—self imposed because he fears to compromise the girl he loves—and two years of hermitlike seclusion on the moor with a fascinating and erudite young Chinese student, a German bomb from a zeppelin shocks him into a dazed knowledge of the European war. Wide awake, action hungry, he scorns his former achievements as a mathematical genius and brilliant Chinese scholar, plunges into political activities, gets “hitched on to” the war, and becomes the man of the hour. The old distasteful personal ties are broken through his wife’s death and the lapse of the years. New ones are forged and he learns that he has a fine son of whom he had not even dreamed. Life in London has become sweet and full and he desires no change. But once more the quixotic impulse asserts itself—a sacrifice becomes necessary for the sake of his officer son’s career, and he is off to China again.

“A typically interesting Locke story. The book ends rather weakly.”

“Mr Locke has written many stories better than ‘The house of Baltazar,’ but there are few of them in which his neglected opportunities were greater. The truth is that he, like many other novelists, is obsessed by the necessity of making the war and its far-reaching effects a part of his fiction.” E. F. E.

“But, after all, it is Baltazar himself who is the book, and he is always a joy.”

“A captious reader might complain that Mr Locke has tried to do too many things at once, that a single novel simply has not sufficient space to include the big issues of feminism, profiteering, labour unrest and the thousand and one elements of contemporary social upheaval. But Mr Locke’s readers are not inclined to be captious.” F. T. Cooper

“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is exceedingly well imagined.”

“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”

“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter element is supplied by the Chinaman.”

“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”

LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE.Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan 327

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The author’s preface points out that Pan-Americanism has passed through three periods, the first, characterized by a tendency toward solidarity, the second, by an opposite tendency toward separation and distrust, the third marked by a revival of the earlier trend. This book is devoted to the first of these periods, extending to about 1830 and embracing the years of revolution and the formation of new states. The eleven chapters are devoted to: Meaning of Pan-Americanism; Formation of new states; Failure of monarchical plots; United States and Hispanic American independence; International complications; Hispanic America and the Monroe doctrine; Early projects of continental union; The Panama congress; British influence; Attitude of the United States; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. There is a bibliography of nineteen pages, followed by an index. The work was completed as an “academic task” at Columbia university under the direction of Professor John Bassett Moore.

“A thorough and authoritative study.”

“With the substance of the book little fault can be found. It is timely and valuable. The arrangement and style are likely, however, to elicit some adverse criticism. The style abounds in colloquialisms, redundant words, and inexact expressions. But these slight imperfections do not seriously detract from or obscure the thought of an otherwise excellent work.” W: R. Manning

“Interesting and scholarly study.”

LOCKINGTON, W. J.Soul of Ireland; with an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.75 Macmillan 941.5

20–824

“The gist of this [book is] that ‘Ireland is a proof, that the whole world may see, of the joy of life and sanity of outlook that spring from the Catholic church, the church of the tabernacle’: aliter that ‘the Irishman fearlessly stands before the whole world and unhesitatingly proclaims that his greatest pride and his greatest glory is the heritage that was given him by St Patrick—our Holy Catholic faith.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Father Lockington employs a bombastic style unfortunately characteristic of a class of books about Ireland, books against which nearly all the younger Irish writers have revolted. It is surprising to find an author of Mr Chesterton’s literary standing writing an introduction to ‘The soul of Ireland’: readers who care for literature will be wise to go no further.” N. J. O’C.

“Long, sickly, sentimental rhapsody, in the rococo style.” Preserved Smith

“It is written in a lofty, almost poetic, style, and a deep religious fervor pervades it throughout.”

“Even those who stand outside the sacred circle for which he writes and who can not share the glowing devoutness of his symbolism must be moved by the enthusiastic tenderness with which this Jesuit priest idealizes the land of his ministry.” H. L. Stewart

LODGE, RUPERT CLENDON.Introduction to modern logic. $2 (1c) Perine bk. co., 1413 University av., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. 160

20–5668

An introductory text book prepared by an assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Minnesota. “By ‘modern’ logic is understood that body of logical theories and methods which is usually associated with the names of Lotze, Sigwart, Bradley, Bosanquet, Wundt, Erdmann and Dewey.... The traditional or Aristotelian logic, which has played so great a part in the past history of thought, is entirely omitted from consideration, as are also symbolic logic and the various attempts at inventing a logical calculus. For all such omissions, as well as for what is included, the sole justification is the nature of an introductory treatise.” (Preface) The book is in three parts: Judgment; Inference; and Scientific method. Each chapter is followed by references and exercises and there is an index to authorities referred to in the text as well as a general index.

“In this purpose to develop comprehensively the constructive theory of ‘modern logic,’ the author has admirably succeeded. The presentation marches. Compactness, explicitness, the constant use of illustration, and clarity in development are its outstanding features.” C. I. Lewis

LOEB, MRS SOPHIE IRENE (SIMON).Everyman’s child. il *$2 Century 362.7

20–17501

The author is the president of the New York city Board of child welfare and has personally studied the child welfare work done in various European countries and in the United States. The book describes the urgency of state laws to protect the children of the poor and what has already been done in that direction through the Widow’s pension law. Among the contents are: The cry of the children; What is being accomplished; Homes instead of institutions for the children of Uncle Sam; Importance of home life to children; How children keep out of children’s court; How the other half dies; The unwanted child; Boarded-out children. There are illustrations and an appendix.

“Miss Loeb’s book is written with care and out of her manifold experience; but it is written also in enthusiasm. The book represents the most progressive thoughts on these problems and is worthy of a careful reading.”

LOFTING, HUGH.Story of Dr Dolittle; being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts. il *$2.25 Stokes

20–18925

A very jolly nonsense story. Dr Dolittle loves animals and fills his house with queer pets, to the dismay of many of his patients. His sister warns him that if he keeps on none of the best people will have him for a doctor. But he loves animals better than he does the best people and the result is that his practice all falls off. So he gives up being a people’s doctor to become an animal doctor. He learns their language, Polynesia his parrot acting as his teacher. When the opportunity comes to go to Africa to cure the monkeys of a strange disease he is ready for it, and there he has most curious and interesting adventures. The illustrations are by the author.

“The most delightful nonsense story of the year.” A. C. Moore

“An invigorating, fascinating tale, its quaintness enhanced by the droll illustrations.”

“It is a pleasant surprise to open a volume whose illustrations appeal because of their inherent nonsense, and to find the author, who is as well the illustrator, maintaining a delightful sense of proportion in his imagination.”

“This is the best ‘animal’ story we remember to have come across in a long time, imbued with a real love and understanding of animals and with a humor which is fresh and quaint.”

“Is as fascinating as it is queer.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

LOMAX, JOHN AVERY, comp.Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp; with a foreword by William Lyon Phelps. *$1.75 Macmillan 811.08

19–18742

“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert H. Knibbs.”—Booklist

“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”

“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book, the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’ are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation of that life.” Natalie Curtis

“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.” Marguerite Wilkinson

“The volume is essentially a book of the soil, truly interpretative of an element of our national life which has practically faded away.”

“This new collection of songs written by and for cowboys is more interpretive of the American spirit than the third-rate material from Greenwich village with which most of our literary periodicals fill their pages. Somewhat surprising, perhaps, to those whose idea of its life is taken from films and fiction, is the chastity of thought and diction in this folk-literature of the Far West. Its realism, and often its humor, is altogether delightful.” B. L.

LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA.Cry of youth. *$2 (1½c) Appleton

20–5773

Margaret Randolph, an American girl alone in Rome, meets Fra Felice Estori, a young Franciscan monk. He is as beautiful as a youthful god and quite ignorant of the ways of the world, for almost all his life has been spent within monastery walls. Margaret is also a devout Catholic and she knows their meetings are unwise but the two are drawn irresistibly together until both are faced with the fact of their love and the necessity for separation. The young monk, altho he has not taken his final vows, is to be sent to South America on a mission. With breaking hearts they part. But an artist friend who takes an interest in the two tricks them into coming to his lonely mountain castle and leaves them there alone. The outcome is that they resolve never to part and Fra Felice becomes lost to the world. Then follows the strange story of their lonely life, the birth and death of their child, separation, misunderstanding and final reunion, with the ancient title of Prince Estori restored to its rightful owner.

LONDON, JACK.[2]Brown Wolf, and other Jack London stories; as chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews. il *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan

21–380

These stories have been collected into one volume by the chief scout librarian of the Boy scouts of America, in the hope that they will serve to exercise both the boy’s mind and conscience by teaching him to see and feel life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it, and thereby to develop the emotional muscles of the spirit that open up new windows to the imagination and add some line or color to life’s ideals. The stories are: Brown Wolf; That spot; Trust; All gold canyon; The story of Keesh; Nam-Bok the unveracious; Yellow handkerchief; Make westing; The heathen; The hobo and the fairy; “Just meat”; A nose for the king.

LONDON, JACK.[2]Hearts of three. *$2.50 Macmillan

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“A posthumous story by Jack London, in which descendants of the famous pirate, Sir Henry Morgan, engage in a rival hunt for his treasure buried somewhere in the South Sea islands.” (Outlook) “‘Hearts of three’ is not an original work; it is the translation of a scenario by Mr Charles Goddard, who, as Jack London himself informs us was responsible for ‘The perils of Pauline,’ ‘The exploits of Elaine,’ and similar alliterative masterpieces. The result of this collaboration, as might be supposed, is a novel with a wealth of action, piled up without discrimination.” (Freeman)

“It has occasional moments of good writing when Jack London, the novelist, snatches the pen away—impatiently and not without considerable vexation, one likes to imagine—from the scenario-writer.” L. B.

“The idea of the tale is bold and its execution is spirited.”

LONES, THOMAS EAST.Zinc and its alloys. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 669.5

GS20–328

The preface points out important changes in the zinc industry due to the war. The chapters then take up: Zinc: its history, properties, and uses; Zinc ores and other sources of zinc; Dressing zinc ores; Calcining and roasting zinc ores; Zinc smelting; Hydrometallurgical processes; Alloys of zinc. The book is illustrated with twenty-three figures and is indexed.

“The book possesses the virtues of being up to date and reasonable in price.”

“An excellent example of what such books ought to be. It is a pity that the author did not keep clear altogether of chemical equations, which he might easily have done in a purely popular treatise, as he has been somewhat unfortunate in their use. In a future edition the author might with advantage devote a little space to the galvanising of iron.”

LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.Wood-folk comedies; the play of wild-animal life on a natural stage. il *$3 (4c) Harper 590.4

20–18326

It is the author’s contention that animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome comedy; that there is absolutely no such thing as a struggle for existence in nature; that the woods when they are white with snow are quite as cheery as the woods of spring or summer; and that the wood-folk are invincibly cheerful. On this basis the tales are written and great is the fun thereof. Contents: Morning on Moosehead; The birds’ table; Fox comedy; Players in sable; Wolves and wolf tales; Ears for hearing; Health and a day; Night life of the wilderness; Stories from the trail; Two ends of a bear story; When beaver meets otter; A night bewitched; The trail of the loup-garou; From a beaver lodge; Comedians all. There are eight illustrations in color.

“Very readable.”

“Mr Long is least satisfying when he is forcing the note of sentimental optimism (‘animal life is from beginning to end a gladsome comedy’), and best worth reading when he tells a plain tale of animals’ habits or adventures in the landscapes which he describes so well.”

LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.Mac of Placid. *$1.90 (1½c) Century

20–14293

Mr Longstreth, who has written a book on the Adirondacks, as well as one on the Catskills, here makes his appearance as a novelist. His hero, Anson MacIntyre, is born in the “wolf winter” of 1869 and he tells his own story up thru the eighties. His beginnings are not promising, but two things unite to make a man of him, his deep love for his native woods and his love for Hallie Brewster. These two forces and one other, his friendship with R. L. S. For no less person than Stevenson appears as a character in the story. The two skate together on Saranac lake and become intimate companions. Mac’s romantic devotion to Hallie and his rivalry with Ed Touch appeal to the fiction writer’s imagination and he takes a hand in the wooing. Other real people, the Bakers and Dr Trudeau, are mentioned in the story.

“Lovers of Stevenson, the man, must add ‘Mac of Placid’ to the volumes of Stevensonia which have been accumulating so rapidly in the past decade.... The fundamental difficulty with Mr Longstreth’s book is that his characters, no matter how real to him, even though they may be actually alive, often fail to live.”

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

“The portrayal of Stevenson is vivid. Not the least interesting detail of the work is the colorful description of the Adirondack country and the rigorous joys of a winter there.”

LOONEY, J. THOMAS.“Shakespeare” identified. *$5 Stokes 822.3

20–7795

A book written to prove that the plays of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. The author states that his interest in the problem was awakened after years of study of “The merchant of Venice,” thru which he gained “a peculiar sense of intimacy with the mind and disposition of its author.” Convinced that this author had nothing in common with William Shakespeare of Stratford he set about finding the contemporary who best met the requirements. His search led him to Edward de Vere. The one play which does not fit into his scheme is “The tempest.” The book has a frontispiece portrait and an index.

“The effort of Mr Looney to solve this conflict is a little unfortunate in some respects, though most interesting in many others. A schoolmaster by profession, he is inclined to speak like one. Mr Looney thinks he has proved his theory. Of course, he has not. But he has opened most promising vistas, and it is to be hoped that his leads will be followed up.” Edwin Björkman

“Mr Looney’s dominant fault is that his work is wholly inferential. However much we may be convinced that De Vere, had he been a genius, might have written such plays as Shakespeare’s, there is no tangible fact to connect them with him.” Joseph Krutch

“The argument connecting Oxford with the Shakespearean plays has the abundance of strained literary and personal analogies, and the amazing absence of common sense which characterize most Baconian endeavors.” J: Corbin

“The volume appears to have all the paraphernalia of scholarship but little of its critical spirit.”

“That we cannot agree with his conclusions we attribute partly to some grave defects which seem to us to exist in his reasoning, and partly to some general considerations which he appears to have overlooked.”

“Mr Looney’s honesty enables us to see, a little more clearly than was evident from the essays of previous adventurers of the same kind, how this zeal for attributing the plays and poems of Shakespeare to some titled contemporary originates and grows.... Unencumbered by any inconvenient knowledge at first hand of what he is writing about, Mr Looney proceeds to build up his case very easily. Almost any man’s life could be illustrated from Shakespeare’s plays, and Mr Looney makes them illustrate the life of the Earl of Oxford.”

LORD, ARTHUR.Plymouth and the Pilgrims. *$1.50 Houghton 974.4

20–19250

This book comprises the Colver lectures for 1920 given at Brown university. The three lectures are entitled: Plymouth before the Pilgrims; The Pilgrims before Plymouth, and Plymouth and the Pilgrims. The first discusses “some of the political, geographical, and legal conditions which determined the settlement at Plymouth”; the second considers “some of the economic, social, and religious influences which directed and shaped the Pilgrim migration from England and Holland to the New World.” The third lecture takes up those incidents of special interest in Pilgrim history which may be useful in considering present problems and may “perhaps serve to illustrate in what particulars the lives and examples of the Pilgrims have contributed in shaping the American policy.” Mr Lord is president of the Pilgrim society and chairman of the Pilgrim tercentenary commission.

“Mr Lord throughout displays the depth of his legal attainments.” E. J. C.

“Altogether, the book moves swiftly and is well documented. Perhaps, however, his sympathy with the movement inclines him to an overestimate of the Pilgrim attitude toward freedom of worship.”

“An outline of the essential facts the American citizen must know if he is to celebrate intelligently the landing of the Mayflower.”

LORD, KATHARINE.Little playbook. *$1.50 Duffield 812

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The plays have frequently been produced by the author and others and are intended for the needs of schools, clubs, settlements and playgrounds. Pantomime and dancing play a large part in them and music is desirable, but they do not require elaborate staging or costumes. In the introduction the author gives advice and suggestions for their production in order to insure the greatest amount of self-expression on the part of the children. The plays are: The greatest gift (a Christmas play); Katjens’ garden; June magic (a little play for the garden); The minister’s dream (a Thanksgiving fantasy); The day Will Shakspere went to Kenilworth (a pageant play); The Yuletide rose (a Christmas miracle play). Directions for the scenery and costumes are given at the end of each play.

“All of the plays are written in an amusing and simple manner and should prove a delight for children.” H. S. Gorman

LOREBURN, ROBERT THRESHIRE REID. 1st earl.How the war came. *$3 (3c) Knopf 940.311

(Eng ed 19–15817)

The book is a plea for open diplomacy under all conditions. Although the author puts the immediate responsibility for the war on the shoulders of the military power of Germany, he shows that the indirect but more fundamental cause is to be found in the clandestine transactions in the foreign affairs of all countries. He throws much light on the historical antecedents of the war in continental Europe, and exposes the unprecedented schemes of conquest all over the world undertaken by England and her allies even during the war itself. Contents: Introductory; Storm centre in the Balkans; Storm centre in Alsace-Lorraine; Great Britain is drawn into a French alliance; Attitude of Great powers in 1914; How the continent came to war; How Great Britain came into the war; Sir Edward Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914; Belgium; Was it inevitable? Remedies; Appendix (Sir E. Grey’s speech on 3rd August 1914); Map of the Balkans.

“Whatever be one’s personal views upon this thesis, it is impossible not to admit and to admire the ability with which the book is written. And it has something more than mere ability.” L. W.

“Lord Loreburn’s pages, an analysis as dispassionate as may be of the whole miserably intricate business of the telegrams of July, 1914, destroy whatever remains of the unphilosophic hope that all the evil was compact and corruptingly on one side.” Sganarelle

“Such an application of commonsense, honesty, and plain speaking should go far towards allaying the virulence of war hatreds and deflating national conceits.”

“If the book is to be regarded merely as a historical essay, still it is one of the neatest and clearest ever written. Those who do not believe that the work of peacemaking was completed once for all at Versailles will place a far higher value on Earl Loreburn’s book.” Alvin Johnson

“Lord Loreburn has done the present and succeeding generations a real service by disentangling and rearranging, with all the skill of his profession, the capital events. Everybody should read the book, though everybody will not agree with the conclusions of its learned author.”

“One may dissent from his reading of the facts, but it is impossible not to respect the admirable forensic temper with which they are presented.”

LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON.Einstein theory of relativity. *$1 Brentano’s 530.1

20–5628

“‘The Einstein theory of relativity’ has an introduction of twenty-four pages reprinted from various sources, followed by a small forty-page article by Lorentz, translated from a Dutch paper. Lorentz, it may be added, is one of the greatest of living physicists and came perilously near anticipating Einstein’s work of fifteen years ago. The article is devoted almost entirely to the gravitational aspect of relativity.”—Freeman

LORIA, ACHILLE.Karl Marx; authorised tr. from the Italian. *$1.50 (6c) Seltzer 335

21–881

A sketch of Marx’s life and an exposition and criticism of his doctrines compose Professor Loria’s monograph. The long foreword by the translators, Eden and Cedar Paul, is an analysis and criticism of Loria and of Loria’s attitude toward Marx.

“A brilliant appraisal of the life and works of the ‘Father of modern socialism.’ Contains an excellent foreword by Eden and Cedar Paul.”

LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.With other eyes. *$1.90 Brentano’s

20–8363

“Much of this pleasant story is alluringly set in the ‘Island valley of Avalon.’ The heroine is of Acadie, and is fittingly named Evangeline. She and her widowed mother have come from Nova Scotia, and settle at Glastonbury, where the mother marries an amiable old doctor, and the daughter falls in love with his son. But while Evangeline is on a visit to a Welsh manor belonging to her friend, a young clergyman arrives on the scene. Later after losing a foot at the front, he comes to an understanding with Evangeline. The story incidentally gives some sort of answer to the problem whether women ought to be ‘saddled for life’ with men whom they no longer love or respect, merely because they have ‘given themselves to their country.’”—Ath

“The story proceeds along lines that remain unhackneyed, even when the book becomes, virtually, a war novel. It is a grave, thoughtful piece of work that does the author credit. Its principal defect rises from an error in judgment, which seeks to divide interest and space almost equally with a secondary story.”

“The novel contains some gracefully written descriptions of Glastonbury and of Wales.”

“We recommend it as much above the average of the ordinary novel.”

LOVETT, WILLIAM.Life and struggles of William Lovett in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom; with some short account of the different associations he belonged to and of the opinions he entertained. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf

20–26886

The books belong to the series of Economic reprints and come with an introduction by R. H. Tawney who says of them that they are more than an autobiography inasmuch as Lovett “was the spokesman of the political labour movement which started with the formation of the London Working men’s association and which developed into Chartism.”

“Not a wholly reliable historical document.” R: Roberts

LOW, BARBARA.Psycho-analysis; a brief account of the Freudian theory. *$1.50 (4c) Harcourt 130

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