Chapter 79

Agr20–243

A British work growing out of the necessity of conserving and increasing the food supply. The author is reader in agriculture in the University of Cambridge, and late editor of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the preface and one of the chapters are contributed by F. H. A. Marshall, lecturer in agricultural physiology, Cambridge. Contents: Introduction; Store cattle; Grass beef; Winter beef; Beeflings; Dual-purpose cattle; Pedigree breeding; Possibilities of the future; Physiological (by F. H. A. Marshall); Breeds of cattle (four chapters); Index.

“There are many signs that the line of reorganisation which Mr Mackenzie indicates is the one which British agriculture is most likely to follow, and it is sincerely to be hoped that his book will circulate widely amongst the leaders of agricultural opinion and the farming community generally.” C. C.

“Mr Mackenzie’s book is all the more stimulating because he does not profess to deliver a final opinion on any matters.”

“Mr Mackenzie is original and daring in some of his suggestions.”

MACKIE, RANSOM A.Education during adolescence. *$2 Dutton 373

20–4028

“Basing his arguments very largely on Stanley Hall’s ‘Educational problems,’ the author proceeds to describe what are the essentials of a high school curriculum.” (Cleveland) “In the introduction, Dr Hall states that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and so-called formal studies and methods of discipline are largely a delusion and a snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. In chapter I the author states that the purpose of education, based not only on the needs of society but also on the needs of the adolescent, are, according to Dr Hall, ‘to train character, to suggest, to awaken, to graft interest, to give range and loftiness of sentiment of view, to broaden knowledge, and to bring everything into touch with life.’ During this age every effort possible should be made to ‘fill and develop mind, heart, soul, and body,’ especially with a view to vocational training. Such training demands vitalized and humanized materials of education and methods of instruction.” (School R)

“A good summary written with forceful simplicity.”

Reviewed by Paul Shorey

“Taken as a whole, this book is quite suggestive and inspirational. Those persons who find the original works of G. Stanley Hall a little weighty will have their minds refreshed with some of his doctrines by reading Mr Mackie’s book, in which Dr Hall’s philosophy is presented in a very readable style, yet with less tonnage than is found in his own works.” J: B. Clark

MCKIM, WILLIAM DUNCAN.Study for the times. *$2.50 Putnam 150

20–21213

The author calls his study “an inquiry into thought and motive,” and this he considers imperative in these post-war times of restlessness and impatience, of fads and crazes, of hasty formulation of rights and noisy demand for their concession. Although much in this mad onward rush may be of lasting value and help towards a rejuvenation of the race, the latter, he holds, can only be accomplished through careful patient thought and a study of the limitations and frailties of our own individual natures. The book deals largely with human psychology and the findings of psycho-pathology. Contents: Introduction; Social influences; The individual mind; The knowing function; The feeling function; Conclusion; Index.

MACKINNON, ALBERT GLENTHORN.Guid auld Jock. *$1.75 (2c) Stokes

19–18839

Jock had a keen relish for other people’s affairs, especially those of Scotchmen. At the military hospital he ferreted out all such and became their father confessor, their lawyer and general confidant. The book is a collection of such confessions, of wrongs committed, of secret sins, of weighted consciences. And every story had its complement. The other man always turned up and in his turn made a confession, and, thanks to Jock’s discretion, quick wit and sense of humor, there was always a righting and a smoothing over. Some of the titles are: Jock’s neebors; How Jock healed his comrade’s worst wound; The barbed wires of misunderstanding; A prank o’ the post; A maitter o’ conscience.

MCKISHNIE, ARCHIE P.Son of courage. il *$1.75 (2c) Reilly & Lee

20–17187

Billy Wilson was one of the boys in a small settlement on the north coast of Lake Erie. He was full of fun, always ready for some boyish deviltry and the leader among his chums. The other side of his character was love of nature and animals, undaunted courage and love of fair dealing. He was afraid only of ghosts and even against those he felt secure with his rabbit’s-foot charm. His exploits are many and exasperating but he wins the heart of his stepmother and of the prettiest girl in the settlement and becomes instrumental in solving several mysteries and discovering a treasure.

“A satisfying story of outdoor life.”

MCKOWAN, EVAH.[2]Graydon of the Windermere. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–21188

Kent Graydon of the Windermere is a young Canadian engineer who has gone West and made good. Since his schoolboy days he has cherished the memory of Alleyne Milburne as his ideal of womanhood. Then one summer he meets her again in his own western country. He woos her ardently and it is not until he loses out to his rival of earlier days that he realizes that it is not she who embodies his ideals, but her cousin Claire, who is “honourable and generous, sportsmanlike and fair, sympathetic and womanly.”

MCLACHLAN, HERBERT.St Luke, the man and his work. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 226

20–14133

“In a dozen chapters, Mr McLachlan, lecturer in Hellenistic Greek in the University of Manchester, discusses St Luke, the man of letters, the linguist, the editor, the theologian, the humorist, the letter writer, the reporter, the diarist, etc. The work gives in brief the views of German and English Protestants and Rationalists on every phase of the Lucan problem—authenticity, language, accuracy, doctrine and the like.”—Cath World

“This is a book from which the student of the Lucan writers will learn much, whether he is among the conservatives or the revolutionaries in textual criticism.”

“This scholarly book is to be commended to the notice of New Testament students.”

MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW CUNNINGHAM.[2]Steps in the development of American democracy. *$1.50 Abingdon press 342.7

20–8377

“A small volume comprising the lectures delivered by Professor McLaughlin at Wesleyan university. This series of lectures was the first to be given on the George Slocum Bennett foundation ‘for the promotion of a better understanding of national problems and of a more perfect realization of the responsibilities of citizenship.’ The author tells us in the preface that his purpose ‘is simply to recount a few salient experiences which helped to make America what it is, ... as also to describe certain basic doctrines and beliefs, some of which may have had their day, while others have not yet reached fulfillment.’”—Am Hist R

“In a work of this character, the presentation of new historical facts is not to be expected, but rather a new and fresh treatment of them and of their significance. This latter task is what Mr McLaughlin essayed in this series of lectures and this he has most successfully achieved. Mr McLaughlin’s firm grasp upon the history of the country is apparent throughout his treatment, and his discussion is characterized by brilliant exposition and frequently enlivened by flashes of wit and even restrained sarcasm.” H. V. Ames

“Necessarily, the treatment of the subject is broad but it is marked by a sense of proportion and by genuine insight.”

MCLELLAN, ELEANOR.Voice education. *$1.75 (7½c) Harper 784.9

20–16097

The author claims to have discovered a system of scientific vocal technique through many years of practical research work by beginning with correcting abnormalities of speech and voice action. “This means rectifying conditions such as hoarseness, thickness of the vocal cords and surrounding muscles, nodules, paralyzed vocal cords, loss of high or low notes, stuttering, and all allied phonation and action troubles.” (Preface) The contents are: Breath; Tone versus vowel; Attack and poise of tone; Consonants; Interpretation; Requirements of a great career; Emotions and characteristics of singers.

“Every teacher and singer—and just people—would do well to take the chapter on ‘Emotions and characteristics of the singer’ in this book to heart. But there the practical help of the book to a singer or teacher ends.”

MACMANUS, SEUMAS.Top o’ the mornin’. *$1.90 (3c) Stokes

20–17081

A collection of old and new tales in the Irish dialect. Some of the copyright dates go back to 1899. Others belong to the present year. The titles are: The lord mayor o’ Buffalo; The Widow Meehan’s Cassimeer shawl; The cadger-boy’s last journey; The minister’s racehorse; The case of Kitty Kildea: Billy Baxter’s holiday; Wee Paidin; When Barney’s trunk comes home; Five minutes a millionaire; Mrs Carney’s sealskin; The capture of Nelly Carribin; The bellman of Carrick; Barney Brian’s monument; All on the brown knowe; The heartbreak of Norah O’Hara.

“Splendid for reading aloud and full of fun and good Irish wit.”

“Mr MacManus has a certain delicate whimsicality of utterance that transforms his somewhat sordid characters into beings of real interest. They provide a volume of extremely pleasant little stories, all quite indelibly branded with the mark of the shamrock.”

“Mr MacManus makes potent use of the folk-flavour: he draws his inspiration from the touchstone of common humanity; but he never hesitates to take what liberties he chooses with his material.” L. B.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

MCMASTER, JOHN BACH.United States in the world war (1918–1920). v 2 *$3 Appleton 940.373

20–12608

This is the second volume of Professor McMaster’s history of the war. It deals with the work of the American troops in France and ends with the peace conference and the rejection of the peace treaty by the United States senate. Contents: Submarines off our coast; War work at home; Fighting in France; Peace offensives; The armistice; The president goes abroad; The peace conference; The treaty of peace; The treaty rejected; Appendices; Index.

“The arrangement may be registered at once as both logical and, within the scope of logic, rhetorical, even dramatic. He did not make as good use as he might have done of the reports of Pershing and March. When the chapter ‘War work at home’ is so well written it is a pity that no attention should be paid to the efforts the enemy was making to render that work futile.” Walter Littlefield

“The second volume is a distinct disappointment. Even considering the haste with which it must have been prepared, the single chapter devoted to the military phase of the war is almost absurdly inadequate and our naval participation is snubbed still more severely. The chapter headed ‘War work at home,’ however, is well done, and the one entitled ‘The treaty rejected,’ considering all the difficulties of the topic, is also handled with considerable skill.”

“We do not observe that Professor McMaster has utilized any sources of information which are not readily accessible; he seems indeed to have relied largely upon the reports in the newspapers. The book is disfigured by some careless mistakes.”

MCMASTERS, WILLIAM HENRY.Revolt. il *$1.60 Small

19–18647

“William H. McMasters has produced ‘Revolt,’ a tale of the presidential election in the year 1940. The hero is Roger Morton, a young multi-millionaire of thirty-eight, son of the world’s first billionaire, John Paine Morton, president of the Universal trust company, which has controlled both political parties of the United States for many years. This marvelous young man, being urged to do so by one of the professors on his death bed, forms the revolutionist party, outwits his father at every point, and elects Dan Holman, one of his Harvard classmates as president of the United States.”—Springf’d Republican

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“His characters are rather wooden at first, and he has to jerk hard on the strings to make them do the next thing next, but as the story gathers speed and momentum, they almost run away from him.”

MCMICHAEL, CHARLES BARNSLEY, tr. Short stories from the Spanish. il *$1.50 Boni & Liveright

20–8278

“The present volume is published with the intention of interesting American readers in the Spanish short story—a form in which the Spanish excel. There are three stories by Ruben Dario, three by Jacinto Octavio Picon and one by Leopoldo Alas. In addition there is a helpful introduction giving a short sketch of the life of each of these authors.”—Boston Transcript

“The translation is on the whole effective though sometimes awkwardly literal.”

“Exquisite little word pictures of a way of living full of delicate grace and beauty.”

“These seven tales are marked by charm and delicacy, rather than by strength and passion. Judge McMichael’s translation is generally effective, although it sometimes suffers from excessively conscientious literalness.” W. H. C.

“The publishers of this volume have performed a genuine service in offering to American readers in an attractive form these literary gems from a language in which public interest is constantly increasing.”

“There is a clear simplicity and naive directness to be found in the work of all three writers which marks them as of the same race.”

MACMURCHY, HELEN.Almosts: a study of the feeble-minded. *$1 50 (4c) Houghton 132

20–5606

The book is a study of “the fool” in literature, the author maintaining that valuable suggestions for the treatment and care of the feeble-minded can be obtained thereby. “Sometimes the poet sees more than the scientist, even when the scientific man is playing at his own game. The novelist can give a few points to the sociologist, and the dramatist to the settlement worker.” The great writers have studied the feeble-minded from life. They have “discovered long before the modern ‘uplifter’ was born, that we must reckon with the mental defective as one of those many things in heaven and earth that are not dealt with by some philosophers, and yet that make a great difference to the community and social progress.” The writers from whom the characters are taken are: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Charles Reade, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hawthorne and others.

“The value of the book is perhaps the greatest in pointing out concretely to the general reader the common characteristics of defectives through these well known examples.”

“It is not only valuable, but it has as the clever author doubtless intended, the delight of recalling to one’s mind, old time favorites and old familiar friends.”

“Although slight and relatively unimportant, the book will doubtless reach many persons with its message of the need for segregation and institutional treatment who would not have been attracted by a work couched in the more prosaic terminology of science.” K. M. G.

“‘The almosts’ will surely help the recognition and adequate care of the feebleminded. It should help to form public opinion.” Alexander Johnson

MACNAMARA, BRINSLEY.Clanking of chains. *$1.90 Brentano’s

19–17481

“The tale is called a story of Sinn Fein, yet it is not the history of that party or a novel that deals primarily with party matters: rather it is the study of an individual, whose finer instincts are never understood by his daily companions and whose efforts do not prove immediately fruitful. Michael Dempsey, the hero, we first meet taking the part of Robert Emmet in an amateur play given in the town of Ballycullen. The novel, then, is only incidentally a story of Sinn Fein, and chiefly the tale of Michael Dempsey’s two loves—Ireland and ‘Mirandolina.’ In the first case, he wooes and loses; in the second, his victory is, one is almost sure, partly defeat.”—Boston Transcript

“An extraordinary and tragic book.” H. W. Boynton

“On the whole, ‘The clanking of chains,’ though a very readable piece of work, does not measure up to ‘The valley of the squinting windows’; its characterization is less clear, its incident less varied, its impress less lasting.” I. G.

“The story is very vivid and very interesting. Irish village life is satirized with considerable skill. But one wonders what exactly Mr Macnamara intends us to infer.... Emigration seems to be his own counsel to the better spirits, as it was Dickens’s counsel in ‘David Copperfield’ to the disappointed English Chartist. But then, as now, this was a counsel of despair.” H. L. Stewart

“This is a strong, sombre, and disquieting book.”

“The picture is painted in drab colors, and in the narration of the slender story the author is never at pains to cater to any party’s sympathies or prejudices.”

“The story is told in a confused way, and in several places the action hangs fire. The book also contains too much rhetoric. But the analysis both of the inhabitants of Ballycullen and of the problems which these individuals personify is acute and honest. Mr Macnamara is, for a writer on Irish topics, impartial, and he makes a great effort to consider the case from every aspect.”

MACNAUGHTAN, SARAH BROOM.My war experiences in two continents; ed. by her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young). *$5 Dutton 940.48

(Eng ed 19–8145)

“The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to some extent for her earlier book, ‘A woman’s diary of the war,’ but there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the description of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her soup-kitchen at Furnes, is vivid and moving. After a year in Belgium and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Macnaughtan went to give her help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships she had to endure, she was forced home by illness in the following spring, and she died a few months later. If the chapters dealing with this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her pen.”—Spec

“Though one feels that her deliberate aim was to set down faithfully what she saw—the result is infinitely more than that. It is a revelation of her inner self which would perhaps never have been revealed in times less terrible and strange.” K. M.

“The definite opinions she expresses are so often at variance with one another that the reviewer must tear up his laboured analysis and plead ignorance. But her inconsistency is only superficial; through it all she is affirming her love for what is noble and disinterested.”

MCPHERSON, LOGAN GRANT.Flow of value. *$2.50 (2c) Century 330.1

20–1957

Proceeding from the premise that human energy ought to be directed to the service of human kind, it is the author’s object to ascertain how human activities can be so coordinated as to result in the general good. His problem is to assemble the findings of economists and sociologists into a body of scientific facts from which the trained investigator can draw correct conclusions. The book is a continuation of the presentation embodied in a previous volume: “How the world makes its living,” and presents the sequence of cause and effect in determining prices, wages, and profit. A partial list of the contents is: Human effort and human wants; Property in matter and property in force; Utility and utilities; The exchange of utilities and the unit of exchange; The actual development of industry and commerce in the United States; The relativity of human effort and the relativity of human wants; The interrelations of effort, prices, and profit; Value; Capital; The ultimate units of production and consumption; Money; The trend of the monetary and banking system; Sound minds in sound bodies; Index.

“The value of the present work lies in the clearness with which the fact is developed that all commodities and services are the product of human effort. The vigorous enforcement of this truth at a time when the world seems bent on a hunger strike is a real service.”

“Teachers of college courses in economics will find in Mr McPherson’s ‘The flow of value’ an admirable book for collateral reading. The clarity of exposition, the wealth of concrete illustration, and the refreshing novelty of some of the analysis deserve special commendation.” E. R. Burton

MCPHERSON, WILLIAM LENHART.Short history of the great war. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.3

20–6967

This volume “dealing particularly with its military and diplomatic aspects and the part played in it by the United States” (Sub-title), offers a general outline story of the war with the main object of giving a clear and accurate running account of its origin and progress. It is a complement to the author’s other book, “The strategy of the great war,” and gives in detail all the outstanding facts and principal operations of the war with appendices and an index.

“Because this book relates to military policy, it is equally interesting to the trained soldier and to the intelligent civilian.” X. Y. Z.

“The only regret of the reader in regard to Mr McPherson’s one-volume history of the war is that it has no maps; otherwise, within the limitations of space set, it leaves nothing to be desired.” Walter Littlefield

“Clear and good it is, but it leaves the impression in one’s mind of newspaper material dished up into a book. On the score of originality of presentation, freshness of statement, vigor of style, it suffers by comparison with Pollard’s, nor does it exhibit the same nicety of proportion and balance.”

MACQUARRIE, HECTOR.Tahiti days. il *$4.50 (7½c) Doran 919.6

20–19772

The author was ordered to the Tahiti Islands for his health and found it there, and now invites the reader to step onto his magic carpet and follow him thither, to the fairy land of the South seas, to the “Island of tranquil delight” where the gentle Polynesians will pluck oranges for him, climb the cocoanut palms for nuts for him and regale him with their bananas and breadfruit and where he can see the natives diving for pearls. Among the contents are: Raratonga; The Moana; Tahiti; Babies; The hula-hula; Hikuero, the pearl island; Pearl diving; Breakfast on Hikuero; The Marai and Miggimiggi; Firewalking on Tahiti; The epidemic. The book is profusely illustrated.

“He writes of his stay in Tahiti in an interesting fashion, although he spoils his book by his coarseness and his contempt for the moral law. He is at his best when he describes the pearl diving near Kikuero Island, the pagan rite of the fire-walkers of Tahiti, or the customs of the natives.”

“It is a charming book, and one well calculated to disturb the contentment of any city dweller.” B. R. Redman

“It is one of the most entertaining of the recent books about adventure in the islands of the Pacific.”

“Hector MacQuarrie’s ‘Tahiti days’ is a much more creditable book than some other recent works on the same subject. Mr MacQuarrie writes with appreciation of the islands and the people, he writes with directness and humor, and best of all he writes like a man, not like a snickering little boy with naughty stories to tell.” E. L. Pearson

MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER, ed. Famous detective stories. *$1.50 (2c) Crowell

20–15065

The stories selected for this collection are: The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; An interview with M. Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau; A scandal in Bohemia, by A. Conan Doyle; The adventure of the hansom cabs, by Robert Louis Stevenson; The adventure of the toadstools, by Sax Rohmer; Gentlemen and players, by E. W. Hornung; The black hand, by Arthur B. Reeve; The grotto spectre, by Anna Katherine Green; The mystery of the steel disk, by Broughton Brandenburg; The sign of the shadow, by Maurice Le Blanc; The mystery of the steel room, by Thomas W. Hanshew.

“There is much entertainment in J. Walker McSpadden’s eleven ‘Famous detective stories.’ One thing is certain, the detective story, entertaining as it may be, is the most thoroughly standardized product in modern literature, as bright and hard and competent as a jackknife, and hardly one iota more humane.”

MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER, ed. Famous psychic stories. *$1.50 (2½c) Crowell

20–16801

Mr McSpadden, who had compiled an earlier collection of ghost stories, touches on the difference between the “psychic” and the “ghost” story in his introduction. In the latter the “old fashioned spook” predominates, while the wide range possible under the term psychic is disclosed by his analysis of the twelve stories. These stories are: The white old maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; The dream woman, by Wilkie Collins; The open door, by Margaret Oliphant; The stalls of Barchester cathedral, by Montague Rhodes James; The man who went too far, by E. F. Benson; Moxon’s master, by Ambrose Bierce; The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey; From the loom of the dead, by Elia W. Peattie; The ghoul, by Evangeline W. Blashfield; The shadows on the wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The widow’s mite, by Isaac K. Funk.

MACVEAGH, EWEN CAMERON, and BROWN, LEE D.Yankee in the British zone. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 940.373

20–3186

The object of the book which has a foreword by Major General Wood, and which gives an account of the good understanding and mutual helpfulness existing between the British and American troops is to point a lesson for preparedness so that we may not “become too well satisfied with the outstanding fact that the war was ultimately won,” but may plan during the new phase of our history upon which we are now entering what to retain of and what to add to our hastily constructed military machine. Among the contents are: Getting acquainted; Reasons for the Yankee in the British zone; Tommy Atkins’ estate in France; The Yanks explore and rehearse: Off for the battle of a hundred days; The breaking of the Hindenburg line; Hun opinions of the Yankee; Accomplishments, discoveries, and results of the Yankee in the British zone. There are many illustrations and four appendices.

“The humorous tone saves the book from the charge of propagandism.”

“The book contains a wealth of anecdotes, which throw light on the failings of both American and English soldiers towards each other.” O. McK.

“It is good-humoured, accurate, full of incident, and a bit ‘hurrah.’”

“A frank, brave, sportsmanly record.” Coningsby Dawson

“The humorous as well as the serious side of soldier life comes out in strong relief.”

“The authors are announced as ‘trained observers,’ and the reader concedes the title, adding that of trained or naturally facile writers, for they have dressed their material with real skill.”

MAGNUSSEN, JULIUS.God’s smile; tr. by Daniel Kilham Dodge. *$1.75 (4½c) Appleton 134

20–13992

A work translated from the Danish. The author is a Danish dramatist whose plays have been produced at the National theater. At the age of thirty-seven and at the height of his popularity he suddenly lost interest in the comedy he was writing and found his attention turned to psychic matters by a series of curious experiences. These are described in this book. They began with table rappings, which aroused only amusement and derision, and continued with automatic writings which finally routed his scepticism. The book is said to have run thru ten editions in the first month of publication in Denmark.

“There is little imaginative power and no trace of originality in these supposed communications from the spirit world, which bear a familiar stamp of vague and grandiloquent optimism. The translation does not impress us as particularly good.”

“Deeply sincere, and well told in spite of excessive egoism and introspection.”

“The book is spiritism watered and sugared; its ‘God’ will make converts for atheism, and its ‘smile’ will beget pessimists.”

“As a matter of fact, his self-revelation is more interesting than are the psychical experiences that he narrates.” Lilian Whiting

“Mr Magnussen begins his account in a vein of naive egotism, which—at any rate when in the dress of another language—sometimes approaches the comic; but as he proceeds his story assumes a literary quality by means of its directness and simplicity.”

MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE.Books and their writers. *$2 Dodd 824

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