Chapter 78

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“Miss McGilvary during the progress of the war was the secretary of the Beirut chapter of the Red cross and hence had unusual opportunities for following the trend of events. The story which she tells, and of which she herself was a part, is of deep interest; how an American printing house was converted into a relief bureau; how American philanthrophy did its part in ameliorating the condition of the unhappy people; how difficulties were thrown in the way by the Turks; culminating presently in the arrest of the entire American mission. She tells in thrilling language of a year of horror, and toward the end, of the collapse of the Central powers, the decline of German prestige, and lastly of the end of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript

“Hers is a story very well worth the reading, for it is the story of one who was upon the spot and was a witness of all of which she writes.”

“Her book contains vivid notes on the personalities of Enver, Talaat, and Jemal.”

MCGOVERN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.Modern Japan; its political, military and industrial organization; with a preface by Sir E. Denison Ross. *$5 Scribner 915.2

(Eng ed 20–9379)

“Dr McGovern spent ten years in the Far East, ‘six of which were devoted to school and college studies in Japan.’ He is, therefore, eminently qualified as an interpreter of Japanese thought and Japanese ideas. He begins with an ethnographical, geographical and historical introduction. Having discussed the early history of the Yamato race, he proceeds to give a summary of the evolution of the country since it was opened up by Commodore Perry’s famous visit. He tells of its constitution and political parties, of its organization and government, of its finances, of its efficient bureaucracy (as compared with the cumbrous British form), its imperial socialism (as he calls the centralization of all economic activity), of its military efficiency (based on German models), of its naval menace, of its industrial and commercial development, its banking system, its agriculture, its foreign trade. The concluding section is a very brief statement of the language and literature, the arts of sculpture, painting, the drama, poetry and religion in its three-fold phase.”—Boston Transcript

“His book is distinctly illuminating, although we may complain that too much space is devoted to the dry bones of political and military matters, and not enough to the psychology of the people and its expression in literature and the other arts.”

“A clear, forceful condensation.”

“Much of Dr McGovern’s book is the expression of a full knowledge and an open mind. It is perhaps the fairest exposition of the whole field of Japanese thought and accomplishment to be found in the vast number of books which have been written about Japan. Dr McGovern’s style is not noticeable for grace.” N. H. D.

“To those who wish to gain an insight into the potentialities of this forward pushing nation Dr McGovern’s book offers information that is well worth having.”

“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if, instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether unexplored.”

MACGRATH, HAROLD.Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–17960

The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether “Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the drums of jeopardy.

MACGRATH, HAROLD.Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday

20–26106

The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored his family name to new honor.

“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”

“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and sufficiently rapid in movement.”

“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the ‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”

MACHARD, ALFRED.When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee

20–17171

A story of child life translated from the French. Popaul, a little boy of ten whose father is at the front, adopts Marie, a Belgian refugee and takes her home to Madame Medard. The two have many adventures, humorous and serious, and a deep devotion develops between them. A blinded soldier tells them the tale of Paul and Virginia and they see the parallel to their own story. Deeply in love they go through a marriage ceremony and regard the affair with great seriousness, accepting Tytie, the American doll, as their child. Popaul, following his father’s death, is adopted by a rich countess who, finally moved by his sorrow, sees that the children cannot be separated and takes Marie to live with her also.

MACKAIN, F. E.Buzzy; the story of a little friend of mine. il *$1.50 Jacobs

This story for little children relates the adventures of a teddy bear. In the first of them Peggy, Buzzy’s little mistress, takes him out into the snow and sets him up, back to a tree, while she makes a snow man, and then the tea bell rings and she runs away and forgets all about him. But Buzzy, left alone, enters into an interesting conversation with the snow man and makes the acquaintance of a rabbit who invites him to his home for the night. Buzzy has other adventures, meets a princess and takes an unexpected journey to London in a suit case. There are pictures in color and humorous drawings in black and white by the author.

MACKALL, LAWTON.Scrambled eggs. il *$1.25 Stewart & Kidd 817

20–6377

“A diverting tale of barnyard life. Eustace the duck and his wife, who believes in a communal incubator, Martha the hen who believes that the female’s place is on the nest, and her frivolous husband Clarence, who is always finding an attractive new pullet, have various adventures that parody amusingly the complications of present-day life.”—Cleveland

“The skillfully ludicrous is not half plentiful enough in this sad world of printed pages. ‘Scrambled eggs,’ however, is just that.”

“The satire is amusingly carried out, and the illustrations by Oliver Herford help a great deal.”

“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”

MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).Chill hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield

20–3265

Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches, Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon a time, long ago before the war.

“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of the abiding fragrance.”

“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing sketches that has come from the war.”

“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in ‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist, and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.

“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained in all her bits of prose.”

“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”

MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.[2]Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran 234

20–10742

“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib World

“Preachers especially and all students of the phenomena of Christianity will find this a fresh, stimulating book. It will add a new accent to the usually dismal discussions of sin and salvation.”

“The analogy between physical and spiritual conditions enables the writer to offer counsels for spiritual treatment which are clearly the result of a keen insight into the characters of men and the conditions in which they live. Readers may not be able to accept some of the author’s theories and tabulations, but the book is an important contribution to the study of sin, its origin, its growth, and its remedies.”

MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE.Rip Van Winkle. il *$1.50 Knopf 782

20–923

This version of the legend is in the form of a folk-opera in three acts for which Reginald DeKoven has written the music. Like Dion Boucicault’s drama, it is based on Washington Irving’s story but, the author tells us, with more differences than resemblances to both. “The differences have developed mainly from the consideration that I was writing—not a story or a play, but an opera; and this constant consideration has resulted in the two main contributions of mine which modify the old legend—the creation of a new character, Peterkee, and the introduction of a new element in the plot, the magic flask.” (Preface)

“It is fair, however, to warn the reader that he will find here some graceful verse but little poetry, many characters, but little distinct characterization, and hardly anything of either the pathos or the humor of the old story beloved of all readers of English.”

MCKENNA, STEPHEN.Lady Lilith. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–18657

The sobriquet, Lady Lilith, is applied to Lady Barbara Neave, daughter of a viceroy of India. From childhood on she has been a problem to her family and has kept their nerves on edge with her surprising escapades. Early accustomed to social prominence and adulation, her craving for sensations soon seeks wider fields than through conventional channels. Her excessive vanity makes her an adroit actress, and her heartlessness enables her to walk roughshod over everybody in search of new emotions and new rôles to play. She seems vulnerable only in one spot: her superstition. Throughout the story she toys with the sensation of Jack Waring’s blunt criticism of herself and his persistent love-making. The reader is left somewhat in doubt how much of her remorse after her final refusal of him is genuine feeling, how much theatrical pose, and how much superstitious fear.

“If Mr McKenna’s novel were witty, amusing, an aspect of the human comedy, or just nonsense—or even melodrama—we should not protest. But to butcher his gifts to make a snobs’ banquet is surely a very lamentable pastime. It would be interesting to know whether he has—a dozen, say—readers of his own sex.” K. M.

“The author gives us a picture of present day social and political life in London, but we sincerely trust that his heroine is not typical of the modern English woman.”

“An engrossing picture of English society just before and during the war.”

“Two solid volumes of Sonia richly sufficed us and we rather resent having her served up to us again; even under another name. Lady Barbara Neave is just Sonia, only more so.” V. G.

“The most striking thing in this novel is the fact that though we see and know Barbara in all her shallow selfishness, we fall under her spell, even as those who make the story with her fall under it.”

“Next to ‘Sonia,’ this is the author’s most finished and interesting work. Indeed, he sometimes attains the high level set in that admirable book.”

“One cannot fail to recognize that artistically he is at home, conveying always a very fair impression of reality in general detail, writing with ease and often with wit, drawing characters which are all recognizable as types. But the significance is the question, and here, so far, he is not convincing.”

MCKENNA, STEPHEN.Sheila intervenes. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–26313

The outstanding personages of this story are Denys Playfair, an Irishman with a family history that has made resentment towards the English governing classes a part of his inheritance; Sheila Farling, also Irish, slight, black-eyed, clever, full of the joy of life, and on occasion full of mischief, and scorn and a faculty for raillery; and Daphne Grayling, Sheila’s cousin, daughter of an old-fashioned mother who is keeping her in leading strings even to the choice of a husband for her, and who condemns her to a life of boredom and inactivity. Sheila’s exuberant spirit leads her to play providence for her friends. She engineers Denys into a political career, and noticing the blossoming out of Daphne under Denys’s friendship, does violence to her own feelings for him, while she engineers the two into a love compact. Fate intervenes in the form of a serious accident to Daphne’s ex-fiancé, which brings the latter to a realization that duty is stronger than love. It also intervenes to acquaint Denys with Sheila’s true feeling for him for when he collapses before her eyes from the effects of over-work and strain, her assumed indifference likewise collapses.

“Her delightful grandfather is one of the best characters and Sheila herself is irresistible.”

“Despite this slightness of plot, the story carries its own sentimental interest and is continually a matter of touch and go. Moreover the characters are delightful.” M. E. Bailey

“An earlier work has been resurrected from the obscurity of the novelist’s earlier career to share the success of his later books. In many cases the act is justified. But in Mr McKenna’s case it seems to us decidedly a mistake.”

“Yet in spite of its failings and its extremely weak—at times almost ludicrously weak—motivation, the novel is not without its good points. Sheila herself is attractive, and the dialogue is easy and not infrequently even bright.”

“Imagine a new ‘Dolly dialogues’ with a serious motive behind it, and you get somewhere near the aim and substance of this earlier work by the author of ‘Sonia.’” F: T. Cooper

“It is all very interesting, for Mr McKenna’s people are brilliant, and the dinner parties, social gatherings and political conferences scintillate with wit and sharp exchanges of opinions on public questions of the moment. Meanwhile, the principal romance is handled with skill by the author.”

MACKENZIE, COMPTON.Poor relations. *$1.90 (2c) Harper

19–19599

A successful playwright, suddenly grown rich, is surrounded by a host of poor relations, brothers and sisters with wives, husbands and offspring, all more or less failures, all tactlessly anxious to drink at the golden fountain. They drive him from his country home, they assail him in his town house, they turn against him their slanderous tongues when their expectations are not fulfilled. He is a good sort and goes the full length of the bearable, but at last, in desperation, elopes with his long-loved secretary on a honeymoon to America after committing one revengeful act. Mindful of the internecine warfare among his relations, he makes a present of one-fifth of his country home to each family group respectively.

“The Touchwood family is one of those detestable, fascinating families that we cannot have enough of.” K. M.

“Mr Mackenzie has here the material for a short story or, let us say, a well-balanced novelette. But instead of selecting, and sorting, and packing it down, he lets it take possession of him. There is of course a lot of amusing stuff in it, no end of satirical material, no end of clever and witty touches. But the book as a book is without form and void.” H. W. Boynton

“‘Poor relations’ is a farce. Any number of children and adults pass through its pages, all acting exactly as children and adults act. A plot of quite exceptional banality and incidents of incredible age and vulgarity serve to display these life-like wares. It would be easier to think lightly of Mr Mackenzie’s failure if one did not have to remember what Henry James said of him. Remembering that, and remembering Jenny Pearl, the brief story of Mr Mackenzie’s career takes on some of the proportions of tragedy.” Gilbert Seldes

“‘Poor relations’ shows, moreover, that recognition of how strange people really are which has always been one of Mr Mackenzie’s virtues. He has resisted that persistent underwriting of character and circumstance which has been the curse of refined English literature ever since the days of Gissing, and has not been afraid to allow fantastic people to do fantastic things.” Rebecca West

“Written in a light ironic manner, with much deftness of phrasing and a thorough understanding of the follies and meannesses and hypocrisies to which his ‘poor relations’ are so exceedingly prone, it yet usually and skilfully contrives to keep the reader in sympathy with its vain, generous, sentimental and self-deceived hero.”

“Though marred toward the end by that longwindedness which is his besetting sin, it is exceptionally amusing.”

“Mr Mackenzie may object to the expression: ‘this well known author writes in an entirely new vein’ but it seems to fit the occasion. He handles his hero with affectionate jocularity bordering on farce. Yet the complete picture of John Touchwood is fine, human and lovable—perhaps just because of its convincing defects.” Doris Webb

“It was with some trepidation that we opened ‘Poor relations.’ Our delight was therefore doubly great on finding no taint of the Scarlett novels marring its pages. Quite early in the book the principal character remarks: ‘This passion for realism is everywhere.... Thank goodness, I’ve been through it and got over it and put it behind me for ever.’ Let us pray that he is speaking with the voice of his creator.”

“This is an ingenious and at times diverting recital, bordering on extravaganza, but not too remotely detached from reality to be incredible, and not too malicious in its satire to be unenjoyable.”

“‘Poor relations’ is engagingly light-hearted in all its phases, with a discernible grain of reality beneath the shell of comedy and satire.”

“The oppression which has seemed of late to brood over the work of Mr Compton Mackenzie has cleared away, we hope never to return. In ‘Poor relations’ the sun comes out brightly from the clouds, a gentle breeze of humour blows the story along, and the reader from the first page to the last enjoys himself immensely.”

MACKENZIE, COMPTON.Vanity girl. *$2 (1½c) Harper

20–7724

It is the story of the clever scheming of a vain, selfish, heartless but very beautiful girl. Her first step to use her beauty as an asset was to go on the stage. As “Vanity girl,” opportunities offered to cast her net for a titled husband. She captured the fifth Earl of Clarehaven and was received by the family on equal terms. Her first disappointment came when the fates denied her a son to inherit the earldom, and her second when her foolish husband, with cards and horses, succeeded in losing the family estate. When he is killed in France, and the sixth Earl of Clarehaven at last arrives, the impoverished countess still has one trump card left. She marries the millionaire Jew, who is now owner of Clare, on the condition that he make over the entire estate to her son.

“In whatever contempt Mr Mackenzie may hold his public—how is it possible that he should dare to invite them to partake of such sickly food? We should not waste space upon so pretentious and stupid a book were it not that we have believed in his gifts and desire to protest that he should so betray them.” K. M.

“This writer does have the instinct for action and, once you accept his people as figures in a picaresque novel, you have something to tie to, as you never do with Mr George. The ‘trouble’ here, indeed, is that Mr Mackenzie, not being aware of his true job, deviates into sense, that is, into interpretation, just often enough to queer his real pitch.” H. W. Boynton

“As his art approaches its maturity, he adds to his native wit and cleverness a sure mastery of technique which puts him unmistakably in the forefront of the English novelists of the day. So clever and interesting is Mr Mackenzie’s new novel that one regrets the more to find, if anything, an increase in the smart nastiness that occasionally blemishes his writing.” Stanley Went

“Mr Mackenzie handles it all in exactly the right spirit, never mawkish and never brutal. He is satirical, but not youthfully cynical. Although I think his clock struck twelve with the novel called ‘Sylvia Scarlett,’ I wish that he may live a hundred years and go on writing novels about every one of the Vanity chorus.” E. L. Pearson

“For the reader, unless he likes flippancy and fireworks for their own sakes, the end of it all is not much better than vanity. Mr Mackenzie, at least, is a story-teller of a sort. However encumbered with facts, his narrative always has the charm of an adventure which, if it never quite gets anywhere, is at least always amusingly on its way.” H. W. Boynton

“That this plebeian girl should step into her exalted social station and so speedily absorb the new life and arouse love and veneration for the Clarehaven tradition and inheritance is little short of a miracle. But Mr Mackenzie makes it seem natural.”

“Mr Compton Mackenzie will receive praise for this new novel from those to whom it was chiefly intended to appeal; it will receive adverse criticism from those whose judgment Mr Mackenzie has by now, perhaps, ceased to take into account. It will have earned the one and thoroughly deserved the other. Deliberately he has written a story of a snob for snobs.”

MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.Korea’s fight for freedom. *$2 (2c) Revell 951.9

20–2360

Instead of a new edition of the author’s “Tragedy of Korea,” this is a new book including some of the old matter and bringing the story of Korea up-to-date. It is the story of the injustice and the cruelty practised by Japan against Korea in its policy of imperial expansion. “In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long sleep, under conditions of tragic terror, that has seized hold of and is clinging fast to, things vital to civilization as we see it, freedom and free faith, the honor of their women, the development of their own souls.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Opening the oyster; Japan makes a false move; The Independence club; The new era; The rule of Prince Ito; With the rebels; The last days of the Korean empire; The missionaries; Torture à la mode; The people speak—the tyrants answer; Girl martyrs for liberty; World reactions; What can we do?

“This book deserves a wide reading. It breathes a real humanitarian interest in the present unhappy fate of over ten million people; and on its constructive side suggests a way out of a far eastern situation full of dangers for the American people.” W. W. McLaren

“A well written account.”

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

“It is impossible not to feel admiration for the Koreans in reading the history of its people as written by an author who understands and sympathizes with them.”

“A few minor statements are incorrect. But none acquainted with the situation can deny the accuracy of its statements of fact, or the propriety of its positions.” A missionary

“Of Mr McKenzie’s trustworthiness as a witness there can be no question.”

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

MCKENZIE, FREDERICK ARTHUR.Pussyfoot Johnson. il *$1.50 Revell

20–20628

“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled ‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A. McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d Republican

“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.

“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg

MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES.Future of medicine. (Oxford medical publications) *$5 Oxford 610

26–26322

“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of ‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four closely printed pages.”—Spec

“One lays aside the book with a feeling of great respect and admiration for this great and honest physician. All the same, one cannot help feeling that the disadvantages of the present system of teaching in the medical schools is exaggerated by the writer, and that, were the attempt made so to alter it as to meet the demands of a man of so keen an intellect as Sir James Mackenzie, a few giants might be reared, but that the work of the average man would suffer.”

“The social worker who expects to find in Dr Mackenzie’s book on ‘The future of medicine’ a discussion of the socialization of medicine and the solution of many of the medical problems of the future will be disappointed. The medical and perhaps the lay reader, however, will be amply rewarded by the brilliant and, sometimes, scathing criticism by Dr Mackenzie of the present laboratory research and specialty aspects of medical science.” G: M. Price

“Much thought has been devoted to the composition of this attempt to influence the future of medicine. A good deal of this material is highly technical, which is doubtless unavoidable, but has the disadvantages of making the weighing of the evidence exceedingly difficult for any except members of the medical profession.”

MACKENZIE, JEAN KENYON.[2]Story of a fortunate youth. $1.25 (7c) Atlantic monthly press

These “chapters from the biography of an elderly gentleman” (Sub-title) are sketchy bits from the career of a minister who began life as a little Scotch boy in the East Highlands. His first fortune was a “bawbee” found in the dust, then came real earnings—beginning with six-pence and the duties of a shepherd—to help eke out the family income—until the great country across the water beckoned him. There the usual course from farm hand and country school-teacher to college and the ministry are gone through, all told lovingly and in whimsical style by the old gentleman’s daughter. The chapters are: The boy and the bawbee; The boy and the half-crown; The boy and the dollar; The wages of youth.

MACKENZIE, JOHN STUART.Arrows of desire; essays on British characteristics. *$3.75 Macmillan 914.2

“The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is as misleading as Ruskin’s ‘On the construction of sheepfolds.’ Professor Mackenzie’s book consists, in fact, of essays on our [England’s] national character. He discusses ‘Henry V.’ on the assumption that Shakespeare regarded the king as a typical Englishman. He then considers the English character, taking in turn each of the reproaches hurled at us by native and foreign critics. He contrasts the sister-nations with England, and incidentally repeats what we believe to be the fallacious statement that the Scotsman is more democratic than the Englishman. In the end Professor Mackenzie seems to conclude that we are not so bad after all, and that our chief danger lies in a ‘superficial optimism.’”—Spec

“An analysis of British characteristics by a British professor is a difficult task for any fair-minded man, which is probably why Mr J. S. Mackenzie draws upon a consensus of other people’s opinions with which to support his own. This continual reference to authorities is a little wearisome to the flesh, the more so since Mr Mackenzie shows himself a really competent judge of the matter, avoiding self-gratification without the obverse fault of detraction in order to prove himself just.”

“He is too attentive to detail, too eager to back up what he has to say with chapter and verse. The professor in him is uppermost, to the detriment of the writer. Nevertheless, in spite of these handicaps, there is acute analysis in Professor Mackenzie’s book. In its parts his book is good; as a whole it lacks coherence and smoothness.”

Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan

“It is an entertaining book.”

“With such fair promise it is the more regrettable that we should be compelled, as we are, to admit that the performance is not answerable to the high intent of the author. Not once nor twice, but repeatedly throughout the book, we are confronted with a looseness of thought, a disinclination to get to the heart of his subject which is certainly surprising in an emeritus professor of logic.”

MACKENZIE, KENNETH JAMES JOSEPH.Cattle and the future of beef-production in England. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 636.2

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