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“Evander is an apostle of plain living and high thinking in the early days when the gods of Olympus had not settled their respective rights in the hierarchy of worship and when marriage was still a rare thing among humble folk. Festus and Livia were perhaps the first among their neighbours to wed, under the auspices of Bacchus, while Evander, as the votary of Apollo, endeavours to convert her to the higher worship of his god. He succeeds for a time in gaining her allegiance, and she leaves her husband to follow him, but finds the mental atmosphere too rarefied for her, and finally returns to her home and husband, Bacchus being able to show his half-brother the unwisdom of vengeance on Festus.”—Sat R
“The delicate, bright atmosphere in which this enchanting book is bathed must be left for the reader to enjoy.” K. M.
“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times, the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all times.” H. W. Boynton
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly needed grace and there is none.”
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
“The vein is one of mild social satire; the touch is light and easy; and here also is the charm of imagination and fancy.”
“We should like to congratulate the author on his success in a rather limited style of fiction. We can remember nothing in English at all equal to it since Dr Garnett’s ‘Twilight of the gods,’ while it has much in common with Anatole France in the satire of the foibles of the philosopher which lies at its root. It may be perceived we are giving Mr Phillpotts high praise.”
“A pretty, though often rather cheap, little story.”
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“Mr Phillpotts’s literary cunning makes an agreeable tale out of all this—picturesque and quietly humorous.”
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.Miser’s money. *$2 Macmillan
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“The characters [of this novel] are drawn with realism and subtlety. More especially that of David Mortimer, the hard-bitten old miser, whose cheese-paring, hatred of women, and cynical disbelief in everybody and everything are so cleverly defended that they almost capture the young soul of his nephew Barry Worth, who lives with him and works his farm. David leaves his money to Barry on condition that he doesn’t marry, the fact that Barry was ‘tokened’ to a buxom barmaid having been concealed from him. Barry is true to Marian; the will is void; and the money divided between the miser’s brother and two sisters. But the lawyer who handed the will to Barry delivered at the same time a bulky letter from David to be read in solitude. In that letter is contained the mystery, the heart of the matter which makes the novel.”—Sat R
“The characters are interesting and the story moves along pleasantly and very calmly. There is less humor than in some of the earlier work.”
“After all, Mr Phillpotts has said his say about human nature on Dartmoor, and he has little new to offer in type or situation. It is pleasant and comfortable to meet some more of his people now and then—and that is all.” H. W. Boynton
“The story as a whole is an excellent example of Mr Phillpotts’s style at its best.” E. F. E.
“The novel is beautifully written. All Mr Phillpotts’s readers know how fine are his descriptions of his dearly loved Dartmoor, though there are fewer of them in this his latest novel than in the majority of his Dartmoor books.”
“An excellent example of the author’s quiet, subtle, and humorous exposition of contrasted character.”
“It is as charming a novel, and as telling a picture of family life on ‘Dartymoor’ as we ever read, or as Mr Phillpotts has ever written. Worthy to rank with the best of his many delightful novels.”
“The different veins of his talent, tragic and humorous, are here fused with happy results. ‘Miser’s money’ shows him at his mellowest and best as artist and observer.”
“The plot is simple and rather erratic, but taken as a whole the story displays that excellence of craftsmanship which long since placed the author in the forefront of his peculiar field.”
“Mr Phillpotts keeps us almost too near to life. He presents us with one more faithful and consistent study of Dartmoor people, but of Dartmoor people principally in their heavier and less significant moments. The plot, though simple and pastoral, is a very good plot; but no plot could survive this flood of conversation.”
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.[2]West country pilgrimage. il *$9 Macmillan 914.2
“A by-product of Mr Phillpotts’s researches into the lore of Devonshire has been put together in a volume entitled ‘A west country pilgrimage,’ with sixteen illustrations in color by A. T. Benthall. Here he sketches in a series of sixteen essays the scenes of heath and river, of village and shore as they meet the eye of the traveller through or the sojourner in that corner of England.”—Boston Transcript
“The book represents the happiest combining of language, printing, and art.” Margaret Ashmun
“Some of the water colors by A. T. Benthall are unusually fine, and they all display a decided originality of talent. To many, perhaps, the illustrations will seem preferable to the text, for they achieve their intended result with less effort.” B. R. Redman
“An attractive book for lovers of Devon and Cornwall.”
PICKARD, BERTRAM.Reasonable revolution. *$1.25 Macmillan 336.2
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“A thin blue volume entitled ‘A reasonable revolution,’ filled with economic principles and suggestions, has just been brought out by Macmillan company. It is an ardent and eager defense of the state bonus for motherhood and national minimum income scheme as evolved by Dennis Milner, the head of the state bonus league of England. This book is written by Bertram Pickard, who has been a co-worker with Milner for some time.” (Springf’d Republican) “Briefly, the scheme is for a national appropriation of 20 per cent of all incomes, without consideration of other taxes or burdens on them; the resulting fund to be pooled and redistributed in such a way as to provide every individual and family with a national minimum sufficient to sustain national standards of comfort, health, education and other essentials of a full and efficient life.” (Survey)
“Mr Pickard is thoroughly conversant with his subject, looks at it tirelessly from every point of view and appears to answer every possible question with which a careful student of economics might attack the scheme.”
PILLSBURY, WALTER BOWERS.Psychology of nationality and internationalism. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 321
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“The argument is well-reasoned throughout.” C. G. Fenwick
“Following upon much political disputation on nationality and internationality, it is very clarifying to follow this psychologist through his discussion of the mentality of nations.”
“His belief in the integrity of the national state does not take into account that growing regionalism which challenges the authority of the state at the same time that it denies the false unity of belligerent nationalism. And the temperate lucidity of the author’s psychological exposition does not equate his superficial examination of the historical groundwork of nationality and internationalism.”
“The reviewer found the most interesting chapter the one on Hate as a social force.” Ellsworth Faris
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
“Dr Pillsbury’s chapter on Hate as a social force is very apposite and suggestive. The chapter on The nation and mob consciousness is an excellent criticism of LeBon’s group psychology. The chapter on Nationality and the League of nations is the least satisfactory.”
PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.Long traverse. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
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When Bruce Rochette comes into the northland he comes with a deadly hatred of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a determination to avenge his mother’s death which he holds the fur trading company responsible for. He wins the confidence of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s manager, Herbert Morley, and then uses every trick and stratagem at his command to establish a rival post at Fort Mystery. Everything is going well, until he meets Evelyn Morley, and falls in love with her. Judged by her absolute standards of right and wrong, his policy of all’s fair in war condemns him in his own eyes as well as hers. In an endeavor to straighten matters out, he very nearly loses his self respect, his girl, his job, and even his life. But finally everything is restored to him that is necessary for his happiness and Evelyn’s.
“A pleasantly written tale.”
PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY), and PINKERTON, ROBERT EUGENE.Penitentiary Post. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
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A story of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Phil Boynton is sent to take charge of the fort known as Penitentiary Post, a place with an evil reputation. Behind him at Savant House, he leaves the girl he loves, knowing that John Wickson, the man who is sending him north, also loves her and is determined to win her, and half suspecting that personal motives were back of the appointment. At Penitentiary Post he finds himself fully occupied with the mystery of the “weeteego,” or evil spirit, that haunts it. His Indians desert the place in fear and the fur hunters refuse to come near it. Joyce Plummer, hearing tales of what he is undergoing, comes alone through the storm to find him, and Wickson follows. The three, who are forced to make common cause against hunger, come to an understanding, and the poor, crazed Indian who had watched his family die of starvation and is taking a weird revenge on the white man, meets his own fate.
PINOCHET, TANCREDO.Gulf of misunderstanding; or, North and South America as seen by each other. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 917.3
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“This book first appeared serially in El Norte Americano. Mr Pinochet is a Chilean and the author of seven books on government and kindred subjects. He came to this country some years ago for the expressed object of learning to understand the United States that he might tell his countrymen about us. He has selected an entertaining manner of setting forth the views of the two Americas. He has made no attempt to make a story of his book, yet he has introduced two distinct characters. The first is a Latin-American man, who, being in the United States, writes letters to his wife at home about whatever interests him in this country. The woman is an American, a member of the censor’s department during the war. She reads the letters of the husband and in her turn writes an accompanying letter, discussing the same subject.”—Boston Transcript
“The surprising thing about the book is that Mr Pinochet should so have entered into the United States point of view as to make one believe, while reading his instructive volume, that a native of this country had risen in its defense.”
“The book should prove a link in the chain which should finally bind closer the two continents, so many of whose interests are the same.”
“Both the imaginary writers are interesting and neither writes a page that one can go to sleep over.”
“The book has a temporary flavor, being written before the adoption of the suffrage amendment and more recent events. But it will prove interesting to anyone who wishes to know how a highly intelligent ‘foreigner’ judges our country from the front it presents to him.”
PINSKI, DAVID.Ten plays. *$2 Huebsch 892.4
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These ten one-act plays have been translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg. They depict the various weaknesses and passions of men: greed, selfishness, war hysteria, lust, war’s devastation, with at the end a dramatization of the Midrash legend. The titles are: The phonograph; The god of the newly rich wool merchant; A dollar; The cripples; The Inventor and the king’s daughter; Diplomacy; Little heroes; The beautiful nun; Poland—1919; The stranger.
“Plays which are often unpleasantly grim though not sordid. There is the same keen analysis of human nature as in earlier plays. The method is symbolic rather than literal, and sometimes the meaning is blurred.”
“Brilliant but not always clear.”
“There are few of his ‘Ten plays’ which can wholly escape the murkiness of inferior translation.” K. M.
“Mr Pinski has become an unswerving symbolist. He has deliberately silenced the voice of nature that sounded so clearly in his earlier plays. He still cultivates the ironic anecdote in dramatic form but his mind is more fixed on the bare intention than on the stuff of life. His peculiar dangers are the fantastic and the obscure, and these make several of his plays ineffectual.”
“Pinski may lack certain graces, especially graces of lightness and saving humor. But passion and power he does not lack, whether he writes in one-act or three. No American dramatist today gives such an effect of surging vitality. It will be a great pity if he does not identify himself more closely with American life and write ultimately for English-speaking audiences direct.” W. P. Eaton
“The shortest of the ten plays, ‘Cripples,’ is the strongest. Force, indeed, gnarled and ungainly, is characteristic of Mr Pinski’s drama at its best. This force, however, is accompanied by a heaviness of tread and a density of fibre which are prolific of trials for the sensitive reader.”
“Every play in the volume is readable, most of them are actable. It would, in fact, be safe to say that they would all be actable if they were in the hand of the players of the Jewish art theatre, who know as well as Pinski does how to make the quick transitions—native to the Jewish mind and heart—from tragedy to comedy, from irony to philippic, from joy to the depths of sorrow.”
PITT, FRANCES.Wild creatures of garden and hedgerow. il *$4 (7c) Dodd 590.4
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A collection of papers by an English naturalist, who says, “The following account of some of the commoner birds and beasts around us is written in the hope of interesting boys and girls, and some of the older people too if possible, in the wild life of garden, hedgerow, and field.” (Preface) Contents: Bats; The bank vole; Two common birds (blackbird and thrush); Shrews; Toads and frogs; The longtailed field mouse; ‘The little gentleman in the black velvet coat’; Thieves of the night; Some garden birds; The hedgehog; Three common reptiles; The short-tailed field vole. The illustrations are from photographs.
“Her first-hand records are set out in an easy unpretentious style, and on obscure points she makes suggestions as illuminating as they are modest.” E. B.
“Miss Pitt’s book is beautifully printed and handsomely illustrated and is especially of value for the reading of young people, many of whom are glad to make friends with the living things of the world about them.”
“Miss Pitt is to be congratulated on a book which takes its place in the first rank of works on field natural history. It is a personal record of clever, patient, and sympathetic observation.” J. A. T.
“The author’s work is not inspired or inspiring, but it is clean of sentimentality and of spurious nature philosophy, pleasant reading, and informative.”
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
“The photographs of the little creatures in their haunts are most cleverly taken.”
“Even if they sometimes carry a rather too large conclusion, these histories of birds and beasts and creeping things are full of fine insight and the right enthusiasm.”
PLATT, AGNES.Practical hints on playwriting. il *$1.50 (5c) Dodd 808.2
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A book of advice on writing for the professional stage. The author says “I do most fervently believe that the dry bones of stage technique can be taught—in fact, all my personal experience goes to prove this. I have been handling plays now for more years than I care to remember, and have found in case after case that a little technical adjustment will turn an unmarketable play into a commercial proposition.” Among the topics covered are: What the public want; Things that are essential in a good play; How to choose a plot; How to select and differentiate the characters; Humour; How to sell a play when finished; Casting and production. A glossary of stage terms comes at the end. The author is an English woman writing with London conditions in mind but most of her discussion is general in nature.
“A beginner, provided he were only a beginner with no idea of the drama, would do well to read this book.”
PLUMB, CHARLES SUMNER.Types and breeds of farm animals. (Country life educ. ser.) rev ed il *$3.80 Ginn 636
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A revision of a work published in 1906. The new edition contains “a more detailed discussion relative to the great breeds, and considerable space is devoted to families of importance and to noted individuals. A large amount of new data has been collected relating to various phases of production, although it is a hopeless task to bring such records down to date.... The number of chapters remains the same, but several obsolete breeds have been omitted and other new and more important ones have been substituted. Maps and many illustrations have been added.” (Foreword)
“The book gives probably the best account published of modern farm animals and there are good illustrations. Another very interesting feature is the history of the families which the author has diligently worked out.” E. J. R.
POLLAK, GUSTAV.International minds and the search for the restful. $1.50 Nation press 814
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The collection of essays in this book are gathered from articles contributed to the Evening Post and the Nation before the war. As the title indicates, they fall into two groups. The first group bears out the author’s claim “that intellect recognizes no distinctions of nationality, race, or religion.” He has selected a representative of each, from the literatures of Germany, Austria, France and America in the persons of Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve and Lowell and points out a certain similarity of attitude toward life and literature, of perception of the dignity of literary achievement, of keen-eyed observation and of a self-contained repose. The second group of essays is devoted to Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, and his book on the “Hygiene of the soul” which of late years has achieved a new fame. One of the essays gives a resumé of the book. The titles of the essays are: Literature and patriotism; Goethe’s universal interests; Grillparzer’s originality; Sainte-Beuve’s unique position; Lowell: patriot and cosmopolitan; Permanent literary standards; Feuchtersleben the philosopher; The hygiene of the soul; Feuchtersleben’s aphorisms; Feuchtersleben’s influence.
POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.Short history of the great war. *$3.25 Harcourt 940.3
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“Although several histories of the war have already appeared, only a few of them have been written by men who had an ante-war historical reputation. Dr Pollard is one of this small group. For many years he has held the chair of English history in the University of London, and is the author of numerous historical works, besides having served as assistant editor of the ‘Dictionary of national biography.’ His record of the war is chronologically complete, and includes the work of the peace conference.”—R of Rs
“Simply as an account of military events the volume leaves something to be desired, in spite however of what the book does not contain—and one cannot say everything in four hundred pages—the volume is well worth reading.” A. P. Scott
“An excellent feature of Professor Pollard’s evenly balanced and temperately written narrative is that it corrects several popular misapprehensions.”
“An excellent record of the facts, combined with a true representation of their relative importance. Some of his opinions will not be generally accepted, and he has a strong prejudice against the present prime minister. Original views will not, however, detract from the great and patriotic interest of the book. The style is vigorous and sometimes eloquent.” G. B. H.
“In contrast with some other writers on the subject, he has succeeded in being more historical than hysterical. Having mastered the sources, as far as they are available, he presents his conclusions with admirable impartiality. But his book is conclusive proof that the true history of the war will not be written in this generation.” Preserved Smith
“It is written from the British rather than from the world’s point of view.” Walter Littlefield
“He has vision, he has perspective, and almost more, he has style. In reading this book, we are clearly conscious that a discriminating spirit of power and clearness is ever preserving a proper balance, and so resisting the temptation of overcoloring and undercoloring. Professor Pollard has written a capital book, packed with common sense; it will be hard to surpass it.”
“His book undoubtedly represents the best that English historical scholarship can do at this stage by way of outlining the five-years’ struggle.”
“Professor Pollard’s lucid narrative and caustic comments are highly interesting. His very able and stimulating book deserves careful reading.”
“Professor Pollard’s is a notable achievement; and he who has been looking for the one small volume which shall tell him what innumerable more bulky ones have failed to impart may be confidently recommended to purchase this short history. We cannot, however, invariably follow Professor Pollard in his military appreciations.”
POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD.English Catholics in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 to 1580; a study of their politics, civil life and government. *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 282
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“Father Pollen has written a history of the English Catholics under Elizabeth from the fall of the old church to the advent of the counter-reformation (1558–1580). He himself gives us the reasons of his beginning with the reign of Elizabeth; ‘Henry’s revolt is indeed the proper starting-point for a history of the reformation taken as a whole; but Elizabeth’s accession is better, if one is primarily considering the political and civil life of the post-reformation Catholics. Reform and counter-reform under Henry, Edward and Mary were transitory. The constructive work of each was immediately undone by their successor. But the work done by Queen Elizabeth, whether by Catholic or Protestant, lasted a long time. There have, of course, been many developments since, but they have proceeded on the lines then laid down. On the Catholic side the work of reorganization began almost immediately after the first crash, though it was only in the middle of the reign that the vitality and permanence of the new measures became evident.’”—Cath World
“The soundness of his assumptions, the critical value of his judgments, are certainly for us to consider. An internal history of Catholic organization such as Father Pollen might write would be exceptionally valuable, but this book does not contain it.” R. G. Usher
“Father Pollen has written an interesting and scholarly work on a critical period of our island history. The book is written, on the whole, with tact and discrimination: the author holds the scales more evenly than most Catholic historians do between the warring creeds and factions.”
“His present volume is well documented with printed and unprinted material. He is somewhat sparing in his references to other scholars who have laboured in the same field.”
POLLOCK, SIR FREDERICK.League of nations. *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 341.1
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“The author’s purpose is to give a practical exposition of the covenant of the League of nations, ‘with so much introduction as appears proper for enabling the reader to understand the conditions under which the League was formed and has to commence its work.’ The references to authentic documents and to other publications, which are given at the heads of some of the chapters, are of material assistance to the reader.”—Ath
“A valuable reference and guide to further reading written for the layman.”
“The veteran jurist’s exposition of the text of the covenant is lucidity itself.”
POLLOCK, JOHN.[2]Bolshevik adventure. *$2.50 Dutton 914.7
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“Mr Pollock was in Russia from 1915 to 1919, and his book pretends to be nothing more than a calm statement of facts as he saw them.” (Ath) “We gather that until the revolution of November, the author worked on the Red cross committee: when the others left the country, however, he stayed on, though he should have left with them. One day in the summer of 1918, he was told by a friend that the Red guards were in possession of his rooms at the hotel. From that date he lived under a disguise and an assumed name. He got employment as a producer of plays, and to attain membership in the second food category he joined the ‘Professional union of workers in theatrical undertakings.’ He worked in this capacity first at Moscow, and afterwards at Petrograd until January, 1919, when he decided to risk an attempt at escape into Finland.” (Sat R)
“‘The entire upper class’ is Mr Pollock’s chief concern throughout his book. Everything else in Russia is anathema, to be damned in eternity. Especially the Jews. There are so many Jews in the ‘Bolshevik adventure’ that in reading the book one has the impression that Mr Pollock uses Russia as a misnomer for Jewry.” S. K.
“The like of his book for misstatement, weakness of thought, and excited imagination is not to be found even among books on Russia.” Jacob Zeitlin
“This book should have been written in two parts, the first containing Chapters I to VI and the second Chapters VII, VIII, and IX. Then the first part should have been filed with the Minister of propaganda at London and pigeonholed in an asbestos-lined receptacle. This treatment would have left us with eighty pages of rather vivid narrative by an English eye-witness.”
“It is a pity that Mr Pollock’s style of writing is not better: some of the confusion of Russia appears to have crept into the construction of his sentences. Apart from such minor defects as these, the book is a magnificent and crushing indictment of the Bolsheviks by one who has lived under their misrule for nearly sixteen months. No other work on the subject has conjured up for us such a vivid picture of the loathsome misery and degradation to which communism can drag a country.”
“Where Mr Pollock tells his own story he does succeed in adding to the volume of evidence against them. But the other portions of the book, written in the early days of the bolshevik régime, are too violent and too superficial to be convincing.”
POLLOCK, WALTER.Hot bulb oil engines and suitable vessels. il *$10 Van Nostrand 621.4
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“The objects of this book are: (1) To popularise the engine, to explain what it has done and what it is capable of doing; (2) To enable those interested to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the various designs; (3) To facilitate the study, and add to the general knowledge of this form of prime mover and its application to vessels of various types.” (Chapter I) There are 369 illustrations and an index.
“The photographic reproductions and clear and carefully executed drawings are calculated to give sufficient detail without introducing unnecessary complexity.”
POOLE, ERNEST.Blind. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan
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The theme of this novel is stated in Chapter 1: “I am blind—but no blinder than is the mind of the world, these days. The long thin splinter of German steel which struck in behind my eyes did no more to me than the war has done to the vision of humanity.” Larry Hart, who tells the story, begins with his boyhood, describing the happy home life that his Aunt Amelia created for himself and his sister Lucy as well as for her own children in the old Connecticut homestead. After college he goes to New York as a journalist, lives in the slums with his friend, Steve McCrea, a doctor, has a part in the budding reform movements of the nineties, mixes with radicals, interests himself in strikes, writes plays, is swept into the enthusiasm of the Progressive movement and in 1914 goes to Berlin as correspondent. Later he goes to Russia to report the revolution and when America enters the war enlists, and, as the first chapter foretells, is blinded. In its closing chapters the book becomes largely a commentary on America’s part in the war, arriving at no definite point of view or conclusion.
“Little plot, but real people and much earnest seeking after truth.”
“On the whole, it is newspaper correspondence worked into the shape of a novel. The parts dealing with Russia immediately after the fall of the Czar are especially interesting.”
“The author is more than a seer of social progress; he has the sense for individuality which a novelist must possess. It suffers not because it is, in large part, about the war period, but, like its blind, hard-thinking hero, because of the war. It is like many an ex-soldier, just perceptibly shell-shocked. As a book it should have been restrained, cut down, cooled, simplified. But so should the war.”
“‘Blind’ is just one more testimonial to the incompatibility as bookmates of art and argument, one more example of their mutually fatal effect upon each other. When ‘the will to convince’ comes in at the door, artistry flies out the window. Some of the descriptive writing in ‘Blind’ is excellent.”
“It must not be thought that the novel is one of social propaganda alone. It has fictional vitality because of the variety and realism of its shifting scenes, the good and bad human qualities of its actors, its rapid movement, and its precision in description.” R. D. Townsend
“It seems incredible that so soon after a devastating war anyone could write so sane a book as ‘Blind.’ Best of all, it is a book that compels thought, without a shred of the sentimentality that so many novelists feel is a necessity in any successful novel recipe.” E. P. Wyckoff
POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.Japan’s foreign policies. *$3.50 Dodd 327