Chapter 86

19–19138

“The fascinating story of the projection and welding of the leading American railway systems and the careers of the men of vision who pushed out across the Mississippi valley and the Rocky mountains in this bold enterprise.” (R of Rs) “Has photographs and drawings of first locomotives and trains in America. Maps of routes. Author founded and edited until 1907 “Moody’s manual of railroad and corporation securities.’” (St Louis)

Reviewed by V: S. Clark

“A piece of high-class journalistic history that avoids obvious pitfalls without gaining any special elevation of interpretation. In the absence of the careful studies based upon original research in transportation that ought to be available and are not, Mr Moody’s volume is entitled to rank among the best of our summaries. His bibliography is sensible and his maps are good.” F. L. P.

“The final chapter in this volume, ‘The American railroad problem,’ is an excellent historical summary of this question as it presents itself at the present time.”

“Popular works in this field are not many, and Mr Moody has contributed to the ‘Chronicles of America’ series one of its most distinctive volumes. The narrative as a whole makes one of the most vital and thrilling chapters in nineteenth-century achievement.”

MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD.Local government in ancient India; with a foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford 352

20–4025

“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all sources of information. The systems of self-government, which communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare, were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations, which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term ‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern Europe.”—Eng Hist R

“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson

MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL.Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5

20–20904

Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman. Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books; Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in the text.

“The volume’s special contribution is its discussion, neither sentimental nor over-theoretical, of the psychology of children’s reading.”

“Her vast experience in weighing the tastes of young people is drawn upon on every page, and she approaches her task with freshness and with an abounding love for childhood necessary for the work.”

Reviewed by Annette Wynne

“Miss Moore knows these roads and talks of them delightfully.”

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

MOORE, EDWARD CALDWELL.[2]West and East. *$4 Scribner 266

(Eng ed 20–12838)

“After a long time of waiting we now have the Dale lectures delivered at Oxford in 1913 from the hand of a master in the related sciences of history and missions. The publication of “The spread of Christianity in the modern era” by the University of Chicago press in 1919 increased the desire to have this treatise. There are eight lectures, setting forth the impact of the forces of the West upon the East.” (Bib World) “Many of the stock objections made to missions take no account of the fact that a large number of modern missionaries have conceptions of their work and of the Christian message very different from those of missionaries fifty years ago. Professor Moore sets forth the modern theory of missions. The great point upon which it insists is that missions should not seek to destroy the native religious traditions, but Christianize them from within.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“Dr Moore marshals his facts with consummate skill. He is able to hold our sustained interest through the complex story, which he renders clear and fascinating by his style. We enjoy the freedom of the page from a multitude of footnotes and references.”

“It is the breadth of view which gives its special quality to Professor Moore’s book.”

MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT.Garden of peace. il *$3.50 (4c) Doran 710

20–19679

The book is rightly named in its sub-title “A medley in quietude,” for it consists of a succession of sallies from the safe retreat of “The little sheltered garden” of Yardley Parva into the surrounding world, past and present. Mingled with domestic pleasantries between the author and his family are reflections on historical, literary, artistic and philosophic subjects. Contemporary history—the war et al—comes in for a goodly share of the author’s animadversions. A number of illustrations of beautiful gardens adorn the pages.

“A good book to while away an evening of leisure. Has only slight value as information.”

“Personal reminiscence and gossip reaching over a half-century; shrewd criticism and philosophy on a hundred subjects, make up a running commentary pleasant to read. Like the famous after-dinner speaker that he is, Mr Moore has put his medley tactfully together.”

“Mr Moore has given us a charming book that has no end of rambles into the fascinating realms of nature, literature and life.” W. S. B.

“‘A garden of peace’ is a gracious book, a haunt of healing from the stress and agony of the great war.” K. L. Bates

“The book will delight people who like to mix imagination and reflection with their gardening and their reading.”

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

“To amateurs of the quieter pleasures this book may be confidently recommended.”

“Mr Moore’s ‘medley in quietude’ is spoiled by a good deal of elderly jocosity and ferocious jingo politics.”

MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.Isle o’ dreams. il *$1.50 (3c) Doubleday

20–5120

A party of three Americans hire a schooner in Manila and go out in search of an island of gold, on the say-so of a crazy ex-captain. The captain of the schooner and the crew, with a few exceptions, are a criminal gang who are bound to come to their reckoning whichever way the trip turns out. The island is reached but no gold is found, except the gold of love between Marjorie Locke and Robert Trask. The wicked captain and crew are outwitted, after a trial of strength, and the party returns safely to Manila.

MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.Sailor girl. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton

20–5774

A tale of adventure in the China sea. Eleanor Glendon, sole owner after her father’s death of a fleet of ships, has reason to believe that all is not well with her affairs in the Far East and she goes out to investigate on her own account. With a friend, Harriett Wade, she arrives in Manila to find that the “Coral Queen” is on the point of sailing for Hong Kong, and without warning to the captain, goes on board. She finds that the first mate is one John Strang, accused of complicity in a recent daring piece of piracy, and on hearing rumors of a plot to sink the ship readily connects him with it. But she is to learn that he is not the culprit, and following a series of stirring events, the truth comes to light and there is a reorganization of her company with a new man at its head and a wedding in prospect.

“A satisfactory adventure-comedy-romance, stirring enough but never distressing.” H. W. Boynton

“The reader will probably feel that the love story is perfunctory, while the adventure story is hair-raising enough for anyone.”

MOORE, FREDERICK FERDINAND.Siberia today. il *$2 Appleton 915.7

19–19482

“As one of a number of intelligence officers dispatched by the United States to Siberia in the summer of 1918, Mr Moore had opportunity to see something of the diplomatic and political conditions of that distracted country, as well as much of its peasant life. His volume is a lively narrative devoted rather to description than to analysis.” (N Y Evening Post) “He has much of interest to tell about the people, the prisons, the Cossack chiefs, the work of Bolshevists, and the German propaganda, and there are a great number of photographs.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“A breezy account with serious convictions set down in journalistic style.”

“Captain Moore has a good journalistic sense, and he has enlivened his criticisms by many vivid and lively pictures of life in Siberia today.”

“An interesting journalistic account.”

“It is an easy, chatty chronicle that Mr Moore writes, filled with apparently insignificant details, the cumulative effect of which is to create an arresting portrayal.”

MOORE, GEORGE.Avowals. *$8 priv ptd Boni & Liveright 801

19–15898

“A literary criticism in beautiful prose, much of it in the form of imaginary conversations between Moore and Gosse in which they discuss achievements in English fiction. Another conversation between Moore and an American gives the author an opportunity to state his opinion of censoring literature according to standards of morality, instead of according to art. Discussions of Tolstoy, Tourgueneff, Kipling and Pater, whom he admires greatly. A lecture in French on Shakespeare and Balzac is reproduced, together with Paris impressions.” Booklist

“With all its side-issues, its personalities, its portraits, its wisdom and wit and perversity, ‘Avowals’ is fundamentally an essay on the English novel of quite extraordinary subtlety and of rare charm and stimulating power.” S: C. Chew

“Mr George Moore’s ‘Avowals’ is one of the most companionable books of criticism I know.”

“Here is Mr George Moore talking about books, and giving us the most delightful example of printed talk that we can remember to have met with in English.”

MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, comp. World beyond. (World Bible ser.) *$1.50 Crowell 208

20–12826

The compiler has selected passages from oriental and primitive religions bearing on life, death and immortality. The selections are arranged under three headings: The world beyond; The higher knowledge; Life.

MOORE, JUSTIN HARTLEY, and HOUSTON, CHARLES A.Problems in business law. (College of the city of N.Y. ser in commerce. civics and technology) *$2.50 Appleton 347.7

20–9488

The present volume confines itself to stating all the various problems of a legal nature that a business man has to deal with. It is a case book, pure and simple, designed for use in classroom discussion and quizzing, giving carefully selected cases, that have actually come up for decision in court, without the answers. It is intended for business colleges, corporation training schools, commercial high schools and universities where business law is a subject of study. After giving a table of the cases cited, the subjects are grouped under: Contracts; Quasi contracts; Sales; Personal property; Chattel mortgage; Lost property; Pledged property; Bailments; Agency; Carriers; Master and servant; Suretyship and guaranty; Negotiable instruments; Checks; Insurance; Partnership; Corporations; Bankruptcy.

“This is perhaps the most interesting and excellent case book of commercial law ever published for use in the classroom.”

MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.Little school. *$1.50 Harcourt 821

This is an enlarged edition of the book by the same title, and contains children’s poems on subjects of everyday life and of special interest to children as some of the titles show: Beautiful meals; To cook; Leaf-land; A song of cleanness; Picture folk; Nursery enactments; The house we built; The wild cherry; A child muses; Snow.

“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.

“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”

“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G. Fletcher

“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown, ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren

“Strange to say, he is successful in several of the poems. For the most part, though, he does not quite hit off the elphin twist and whimsicality of de la Mare.” H. S. Gorman

MOORE, THOMAS STURGE.Some soldier poets. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.09

20–17758

A series of essays on a group of young poets who are associated with the war, concluding with an essay on The best poetry, written for the Royal society of literature in 1912. Contents: Julian Grenfell; Rupert Brooke; A half pleiade [Robert Nichols, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon]; R. E. Vèrnede; Sorley; Francis Ledwidge; Edward Thomas; F. W. Harvey; Richard Aldington; Alan Seeger; The best poetry.

“Mr Sturge Moore’s volume is interesting because it contains, besides much acute and serious criticism, an illuminating summary of the poet’s artistic psychology.”

“Within a fixed circle, Mr Moore’s criticism is honest and impassioned, but his vision is limited by the horizons of the nineteenth century and he abhors anything modern or irregular.”

“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman

“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here praises.”

“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He is also a master of the comparative method.”

MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE.Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960

(Eng ed 20–22707)

The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2) Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation and reform.

“Mr Morel writes in a clear, hard style, without prejudice or sentiment, and it will be impossible for any normal human being of white origin to read these two hundred and forty pages without a feeling of profound shame.” Llewelyn Powys

“His attitude toward the black men is that of the liberal Englishman: that is to say, he is opposed to the past atrocities and wants Africa helped in every benevolent and philanthropic way. He has, however, no conception of a self-governing, independent black Africa.” W. E. B. Du Bois

“The book can be judged on its merits. The merits consist in recalling and setting forth undoubted and glaring injuries inflicted upon Africa and the Africans by European individuals, companies, and governments, and in warning against the danger of repeating the injustice and wrong. The warning is needed at the present time. On the other hand, like other books of the kind, it lends itself to criticism both in detail and on general grounds. Though the author can discriminate and does, when he likes, discriminate, there are wholesale and one-sided statements and generalizations which are far too wide.”

MORELAND, WILLIAM HARRISON.[2]India at the death of Akbar. *$4.50 Macmillan 954

“The opening of the seventeenth century—the period selected by Mr Moreland—was a critical epoch in the history of India. It was immediately antecedent to the appearance of new forces destined to influence India profoundly, and may be described as the close of the medieval history of India and the beginning of its modern history (it was in the year 1608 that the English ship Hector reached Surat.) For the economic story of the next three centuries substantial sources of information are available, and Mr Moreland’s aim is to supply an introduction to the study of that period. List of authorities, 5pp.’—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Certainly no one could accuse Mr Moreland of forcing from the facts a too confident conclusion. His judgment is so cautious, so balanced, so hesitating, that if the one object of his book had been a definite comparison in material wealth and prosperity between 1605 and 1914, a captious critic might complain that the results arrived at hardly compensate for the sedulous care lavished on the inquiry. There are many shrewd reflexions on matters political and financial, the outcome of independent study and an original survey.” P. E. Roberts

“Mr Moreland’s excellent study of the condition of India in 1605, at the death of Akbar, shows how the subject should be approached. If we are to determine whether India has advanced or declined in wealth, we must have some standard by which to measure the changes.”

“It is pleasant to record a further advance in the study of Indian economics. All scholars will be delighted that Mr Moreland has resisted the obvious temptation to defer publication until the sources of our information had been more fully explored. No pioneer can hope to write the definitive work upon a subject of this magnitude, and Mr Moreland may reasonably hope to earn the more enviable distinction of founding a school and seeing others build upon his foundation.”

MORGAN, ANGELA.Hail man! *$1.25 Lane 811

20–86

With a few exceptions—which include the title poem, reprinted from the New York Times—the poems of this book appear here for the first time. They are arranged in eight sections: Symbols; Man in light; Man in darkness; Enchantment; Contrasts; Fancies; Tributes; Man tomorrow.

“Her note is ecstasy con fuoco; her exaltation is unremittingly fortissimo. Often on the point of a crashing success she fails because of this very too-determined vigour. Miss Morgan can and has done far better than this. Gifted with an ease and fluency, she lets her rippling sentences run on till they become a mere babble of words.” L: Untermeyer

“The best things in this book are the shorter and less pretentious poems, ‘Common things,’ ‘Steam’ and ‘Gardens.’ Many of the others have the energy and feeling essential to the making of poetry, even the imaginative touches, occasionally, and the love of natural beauty, but lack the masterly touch of proportioned art which might make of these spiritual conflagrations a serene and permanently shining light.”

MORGAN, ANNA BLUNT.Little folks tramping and camping. il *$1.75 (3c) Lothrop

20–17826

A bird book for children with information presented in story form. The Marsden children learn about birds from an uncle who is an enthusiast. Their study begins in the winter with tramps through the snow to the haunts of cedar waxwings, grossbeaks and other winter habitants, and for Marshall, the eldest, who is an invalid, a feeding shelf is arranged outside the window to attract nuthatches and chickadees. The expeditions are continued into the spring and early summer and in July the children are taken on a camping trip where they learn more about wild life and where Marshall grows strong and well. The birds studied are those native to Wisconsin.

MORGAN, BYRON.Roaring road. *$1.75 (3c) Doran

20–9273

Stories of automobile racing, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. The titles are: The junkpile sweepstakes; The undertaker’s handicap; The roaring road; The hippopotamus parade; Second-hand ghosts; The bear trap. The same characters appear in all the stories.

“A chain of stories, that stir the blood and keep the attention in a manner that is sometimes called ‘breathless.’”

“Mr Morgan’s style is perfectly suited to his matter; the sharp staccato of his sentences is like the clean-cut crash of a flaming exhaust, and the sustained, compelling flight of his narrative matches the speed of the plunging, pounding cars of which he writes.”

MORGAN, JOHN DAVID.Principles of electric spark ignition in internal combustion engines. il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 621.43

(Eng ed 20–12283)

“During the past few years a large amount of research has been carried out on ignition problems, and the object in the following chapters is to bring together the main results which are of direct value to designers and students interested particularly in the patrol[petrol] engine. Discussion of design and constructional details of ignition apparatus has been excluded, for the reason that the need for information of this kind is already well supplied.” (Preface) Contents: Gas characteristics; Spark characteristics; Interaction of spark and gas; Spark plug and test gap characteristics; Spark generator characteristics; Index. References follow the chapters and there are thirty-nine figure illustrations in the text.

“A wide circle of readers will feel grateful to the author for providing in this convenient form an account of the more important work along these lines, and for the reference which he provides to the sources from which information in fuller detail may be obtained. Mr Morgan puts them still further in his debt by the lucidity with which he writes.”

MORGAN, WILLIAM THOMAS.English political parties and leaders during the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710. (Yale historical publications) *$2.75 Yale univ. press 942.06

20–7448

“In this book the author embodies the results of many years of painstaking and fruitful research. He has carefully studied ‘the new evidence that has become available in the last thirty years’—in the archives of England and Holland, in the recent reports of the Historical manuscripts commission, as well as in a mass of pamphlets and periodicals—and has reread, with a keen eye, all the older literature on the period, including the materials on which it has been based. He has been able to show that Queen Anne was a much more assertive person than is commonly believed, and that, from the beginning, the Duchess of Marlborough exercised much less influence on the policy of her sovereign than most writers on the period have assumed. On this perplexing period when personalities counted for so much, and when cabinet and party government were still in such an inchoate state, new lights are thrown; moreover, much fresh vivid detail is presented on the iniquitous methods of conducting elections which had come into vogue.”—Am Hist R

“Building on such secure and broad foundations he has succeeded in constructing a sound and enduring work.” A. L. Cross

“The author has been able to gain access to a large amount of hitherto inaccessible material which has enabled him to produce a critical discussion of this era of much value to the historical student.” E. J. C.

“Mr Morgan has written ably for scholars, and has performed just that sort of task which it is incumbent upon contemporary scientific historians to accomplish.” J. W. Krutch

“The book is extremely interesting, too, for its sketches of the leading politicians, as illustrated from their correspondence. Mr Morgan would have added to the value of his numerous citations from unpublished papers if he had dated them. It is sometimes difficult to follow his argument for lack of the dates of the letters to which he refers.”

“Professor Morgan has his merits, but he takes himself very seriously. His predecessors on the same voyage are swept aside with minute omniscience. He seems to us to mistake the phases of influence for the permanence of character, and to be indiscriminate in the party labels he applies. But in the process of his criticism he has rendered a real service to history.”

MORGENSTERN, JULIAN.Jewish interpretation of the book of Genesis. il *$1.50 Union of Am. Hebrew congregations 222

19–11743

“This book is addressed to two publics: teachers in Jewish religious schools, that their instruction may be more authoritative and effective; and non-professional students of the Bible, to help them in getting a first-hand knowledge of Judaism. The author stands squarely on the assured results of thoroughgoing critical scholarship, recognizing clearly the presence of myth, legend, and tradition in Genesis, and relative little authentic history, but he is not content to stop with analysis. Whereas most scholars wholly ignore the motives and ideas controlling authors and editors in the process of producing the book as it now stands, the investigation of these motives and ideas is the point of departure for Rabbi Morgenstern, for whom Genesis is ‘a Jewish work, written by Jewish authors, and edited by Jewish thinkers, the product of Jewish religious genius, and a unit of Jewish thought and doctrine,’ hence to be interpreted from a positive Jewish standpoint.”—Bib World

“The author selects his materials wisely, and his comments, critical and practical, are discriminating. Rabbi Morgenstern has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his purpose.”

MORISON, JOHN LYLE.British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–1854. *$2.50 Oxford 342.71

“In ‘British supremacy and Canadian self-government, 1839–54,’ Professor J. L. Morison of Queen’s university, Kingston, Canada, makes an interesting study of the manner in which imperial ascendancy and colonial autonomy were reconciled in the years of early Victorian Canada. He emphasizes the thought that the evolution of colonial Canada into a self-governing dominion was the wisest and best solution of the great problem that confronted the British and Canadian statesmen; through it, he holds, there was great gain to all concerned—gain to the empire as well as to the people across the Atlantic. That it caused no weakening of the tie between the mother country and the daughter land was demonstrated, we are reminded, by the magnificent conduct of Canada in the great war with Germany.”—N Y Times

“The volume is indeed thrice blest; it is felicitous in expression, scholarly in treatment, and broad-minded in its interpretation of public affairs. Notwithstanding its limitations, this volume easily stands out as the best contribution to Canadian history in recent years.” C. D. Allin

“By far the most important contribution of the volume is the series of vitally human studies of the four Canadian governors-general from 1839 to 1854—Sydenham, Bagot, Metcalfe, and Elgin. Apart from the personal equipment of the author in scholarly training, fair-mindedness, absence of racial prejudice, and attractive literary style, his work has the great advantage of a first-hand study of documents, hitherto unavailable, or but slightly employed by writers on Canadian history. The closing chapter, The consequences of Canadian autonomy, is much the least satisfactory.” Adam Shortt

“In thanking Dr Morison for a very able and stimulating volume one may be allowed to enter a caveat against the attitude of somewhat contemptuous superiority assumed towards past statesmen.” H. E. Egerton

“Excellent book.”

MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.Hide and seek. *$1.50 Doran 811

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