D

(Eng ed 21–120)

Of the many dramatists of the century of Shakespeare, says the author of this volume, none seem more worthy of affectionate consideration than Philip Massinger. Comparing his writings with the masterpieces of his contemporaries, which, though displaying rich gifts of pathos, poetry and humor, are often marred by waywardness, unnaturalness, want of proportion and grossness, Massinger’s work is sober, well-balanced, dignified and lucid. While he shares with them the atmosphere of romance and adventure, he is the most Greek of his generation. The book contains, besides the text, appendices and index, a frontispiece portrait, a facsimile of the Henslow document at Dulwich, and of the “Believe as you list” Ms. in the British museum.

“It is a conscientious work, which contains, we suppose, all the information and nearly all the serious speculations possible, about its subject. In expression of judgment and comparison, it is useful; for if any opinion is to be expressed of Mr Cruickshank’s criticism, it is deficient rather than aberrant.” T. S. E.

“In every detail, Dr Cruickshank’s book is carefully documented.” E. F. E.

“He has thoroughly mastered the large amount of material collected in dissertations and technical journals during the last half-century, and within certain definite limits has made an adequate study of which the chief merit is the warm and well-reasoned admiration of Massinger which glows through every page. The scope of the book is unfortunately strangely limited.” S: C. Chew

“Professor Cruickshank’s scholarly and illuminating and, to us, provocative book will, we hope, do something to revive interest in Massinger’s work.”

CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.History of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–20533

As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization,” indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece, traces the development of education throughout the western world for the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race. The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world; The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.

CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.[2]Readings in the history of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9

20–22845

“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume. It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth century come the beginnings of national education which gradually bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.

CULLUM, RIDGWELL.Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam

20–18301

Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years, and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him years before.

“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots even inspired.”

“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber in its treatment.”

“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a cumbersome, prolix style.”

CUMMING, CAROLINE KING, and PETTIT, WALTER WILLIAM, comps. and eds. Russian-American relations, March 1917–March 1920. *$3.50 Harcourt 327

20–11098

The documents and papers have been compiled under the direction of John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood, and William Allen White at the request of the League of free nations association. They cover three years beginning with the first declaration issued by the Provisional government of Russia after the revolution, March 16, 1917, and ending with the statement made by the supreme council at Paris, February 24, 1920. Their object is to facilitate an inquiry into the relations between the United States and Russia since the revolution of March 1917, the general purport of which is indicated by an extract from a letter by the chairman of the association: “It is not intended that this study should go into the question of the relative merits of Bolshevism or of the forces fighting Bolshevism in Russia, but that it should be merely an attempt to make clear to the American people what the actual facts have been in our governmental dealings with the various groups in what was the Russian empire.” The documents fall into three main categories: (1) Documents already published in English in Senate reports, State department publications, the New York Times, Current History Magazine, the Nation, etc.; (2) Original translations from various Russian official and unofficial newspapers; (3) Materials hitherto unpublished, contributed by Colonel Raymond Robins and others. There is an index.

“Gratitude for the publication should not impose silence as to its faults, which are of such a character as to impair greatly its usefulness. First of all, the selection of documents, besides being very slight for the period of the provisional and Kerensky governments, has also somewhat of an ex parte character. The reader will not fail to be struck with the entire absence of papers derived directly from the State department, except for five that are taken from one of its publications.”

“It is made up entirely of authentic documents. This moderation in aim is an excellence, for not the most vindictive interventionist could deny the impartial, objective nature of the information now made conveniently accessible, and much of it made for the first time available.” Norman Hapgood

CUMMINGS, BRUCE FREDERICK (W. N. P. BARBELLION, pseud.).Enjoying life, and other literary remains. il *$2 Doran 824

20–16882

The present volume shows the versatility of the author’s genius in that it is equally divided between his love of nature and his love for literature. The first four essays are a hitherto unpublished part of the “Journal of a disappointed man” and breathe the joy of life and passion for life in rare exuberance. The rest of the contents are five essays on literary and speculative subjects, two short stories: A fool and a maid on Lundy Island; and How Tom snored on his bridal night;—and essays in natural history.

“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power and originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its quaintness or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the literary exercises of an unusually able man.”

“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual sketches are very readable.”

“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a keeper of journals.”

“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”

“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing, cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”

CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd

20–26882

The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr Cunninghame Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known as Antonio Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet and saint and who with his followers became involved in civil war. A long introduction describes the scene of action, that region of Pernambuco and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable only as “wooded, back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted to cattle raising and it has developed a people described as “a race apart—a race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong, honest, revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life to an extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.

“Mr Cunninghame Graham gives us the story with a certain graphic effect and some picturesque detail. Unfortunately, the picturesque detail is not chosen so as to throw light on the points that are most obscure and of deepest interest. It is a pity that the value of a book containing so notable a record should be impaired by grave defects of style and taste.” F. W. S.

“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction as well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I. G.

“His story Mr Cunninghame Graham tells vividly, with rather too many nagging philosophical comments, but with a richly colored background of strange, wild customs.”

“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives him everything in narration which delights him.”

“‘A Brazilian mystic’ possesses an exotic charm that sets it apart from volumes of the commonplace.”

“All is told with an artistry of penmanship that is a revelation to those who were, perhaps, too near events at that time to see them in their romantic aspect.”

“His narrative of the successive sieges of Canudos is an admirable piece of writing.”

“Fascinating and exciting story.”

“If the result looks to be unworthy of the trouble the author has taken, the responsibility for the failure to make a really interesting book rests with Antonio Maciel and his followers.”

CURLE, JAMES HERBERT.Shadow-show. new ed il *$2.50 (6c) Doran 910

20–19281

The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The tortoise’s head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The dream city of Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the waters of Babylon”; A grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through the seventh gate.”

“It is all very fascinating, with none of the dreariness of the traveler who talks and says little.”

“One feels that it all might have been much better done than it is, and that it probably would be much better indeed, if one might forget the book and sit down for a chat with the author.”

“The showman is always interesting, though not always to be believed implicity, especially when he forgets the pictures and goes to moralizing.”

CURLE, RICHARD.Wanderings; a book of travel and reminiscences. *$5 Dutton

910

“The ground-plan of Mr Curle’s travel-book is autobiographical, like that of a picaresque romance; the twenty-five chapters, each complete in itself, are placed intentionally in a seemingly haphazard order, thus evoking different atmospheres, and allowing the author opportune moments for uttering occasional opinions. Asia, Africa, America, and Europe are the fields of travel.”—Ath

“His descriptions, if rather impressionistic, are capitally done, and there is no taint of monotonous sameness in the record of his adventures on land and sea. As a whole, ‘Wanderings’ is a very good book; better than that, it is a very interesting book, and one which loses no interest by many readings.” G. M. H.

“Is it Mr Curle’s weakness that his Europe is rather threadbare, that he has so little to tell us that is interesting about France and Spain, that he achieves his effects best when the strong colours are, as it were, given to him by those ‘more outlandish places’ that yield, among more sensual trophies, the rich anodyne of sadness and disillusion which is so assuaging to the neurotic of our day?”

“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien

“Of local color and atmosphere there is a satisfying amount, and the autobiography which is the basis of the book but not its motive is no more obtrusive than the hooks on which one hangs his garments.”

CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT.Wanted: a fool. *$1.75 (3½c) Harper

20–18762

Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in the hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen by her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with seem to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The key to the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a double life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns that since his retirement to the country he has been picked by a leading theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture prominently displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight visit has played quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be even more important in O’Mara’s.

“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very fragile threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle strained. Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed delight.”

“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits and ‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as is proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”

“A slight, but in its own way, engaging tale.”

CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER.Valley of silent men; a story of the Three River country. il $2 (2½c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–15535

James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to a murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the latter free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A mystery girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape. Their scow is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and Marette is apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of silent men” is now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last strength he finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices prompted by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark deeds—all of which come to light in the Valley of silent men.

“This is by no means a remarkable western adventure tale, but for undiluted romance, tinged with the flavor of adventure that always accompanies mention of the R. N. W. P., ‘The valley of silent men’ cannot be surpassed.”

“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes too trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”

CUSHING, CHARLES PHELPS.If you don’t write fiction. *$1 (5c) McBride 029

20–11318

This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs; Finding a market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet street”; Something to sell; What the editor wants.

“A rollicking but practical account of how one free-lancer succeeded.”

“It is extremely enjoyable and rather helpful ‘how-to’ book.”

“It will pay any beginner—and perhaps some writers of experience—to run through this book for suggestions.”

“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”

CUSHMAN, HERBERT ERNEST.Beginners history of philosophy. v 2. Modern philosophy. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 109

(19–243)

In this second and revised edition “much new material has been incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the ‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural science period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of the natural science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment (1690–1781); John Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in France and Germany; Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of the thing-in-itself; The philosophy of the nineteenth century; illustrations, diagrams and index.

CUTTING, MRS MARY STEWART (DOUBLE-DAY).Some of us are married. *$1.75 Doubleday

20–6842

“In this new volume Mary Stewart Cutting relates a number of those pleasant, semi-humorous little stories of married life with which her name is associated, as well as two others which she calls ‘Autobiographical stories.’ The first, The man who went under, is the tale of an embezzler, told by himself. The second, The song of courage, is a story of a woman who might have been a great singer, had not life thwarted her-life, and her own affections.”—N Y Times

“While as a whole not equal to Mrs Cutting’s best work, will no doubt give pleasure to many people.”

“None are dramatic or tragic in the accepted sense. Indeed, some of the little plots seem almost trivial in their beginnings and consequences. But married folk will quickly appreciate their truth and the deft skill of the author in presenting them severely on their merits.”

CYNN, HUGH HEUNG-WO.Rebirth of Korea; the reawakening of the people, its causes and the outlook. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 951.9

20–8302

“This story is of the Korean rebellion of March, 1919, and the establishment of the republic. The author who was educated in an American university, and is principal of the Pai Chai school in Seoul, is temperate but shows clearly the wrongs of his country under Japanese rule. Appendixes contain material on the relation of missionaries to the revolution and also Japanese-Korean treaties since 1876. No index.”—Booklist

CZERNIN VON UND ZU CHUDENITZ, OTTOKAR THEOBALD OTTO MARIA, graf.In the world war. *$4 (4c) Harper 940.48

20–6768

The author disclaims any intention of writing a history of the war but says of the book: “Rather than to deal with generalities, its purpose is to describe separate events of which I had intimate knowledge, and individuals with whom I came into close contact and could, therefore, observe closely; in fact, to furnish a series of snapshots of the great drama.” (Preface) The result, with his introductory reflections, is a conception of the war as a whole. One of the features of the book is an intimate characterization of the Archduke Ferdinand. Contents: Introductory reflections; Konopischt; William II; Rumania; The U-boat warfare; Attempts at peace; Wilson; Impressions and reflections; Poland; Brest-Litovsk; The peace of Bukharest; Final reflections: Appendix; Index.

“Among the swarm of revelations that are appearing in connection with the diplomatic history of the war. Count Czernin’s book is one of the really notable ones. It is true he is disappointing, for he continually makes us feel that he might have told us much more if he had chosen to, but, as far as he goes, he is well worth attention.”

“It is greatly to be regretted that this translation of an interesting and important book should have been entrusted to someone with a half knowledge of German, and a complete ignorance of the elementary facts about Austria.”

“The title of the book should really be ‘Czernin in the world war,’ but this does not say that the story is lacking in universal significance. The hasty-pudding character of the text, the very lack of scholarly caution, brings us so much nearer to the personality of Czernin himself; and it is this opportunity to see an important elder statesman in mental action that gives the work more interest than the technical narratives of the military leaders. The sidelights that Czernin’s analysis throws upon colleagues and adversaries in the same official station as himself, are an important contribution to the psychology of statesmen.” L: Mumford

“Count Czernin has two advantages over the other statesmen and commanders who have published their personal records of the war. He writes remarkably well, and he has no motive to distort the truth. His fault is diffuseness and repetition, but it cannot spoil an eminently readable book.”

“Czernin treats the war in a very fair and objective spirit. He reveals his limitations most clearly in the chapter on the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.” A. C. Freeman

DANA, ETHÉL NATHALIE, comp. and ed. Story of Jesus. il $16.50 Jones, Marshall 755

20–26575

The text has been taken entirely from the New Testament and it is arranged to alternate with the pictures, which are full-page reproductions in color from the paintings of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Duccio, Ghirlandaio and Barnja da Siena. The introduction touches on the place of the church in medieval times and gives a brief sketch of each painter. There are forty pictures, so arranged as to give the complete story of the life of Jesus.

“An important book for any art collection.”

“The most beautiful American book of 1920 and the most noteworthy of books for children since the ‘Joan of Arc’ of Boutet de Monvel, is ‘The story of Jesus.’ Regarded as a substitute for any one of a number of sets of books, costing from ten to twenty dollars more, I am confident that Mrs Dana’s book will fill a larger and more permanent place in any home or library.” A. C. Moore

“The book would be of much educational value to children, from both the artistic and the religious standpoint; and it is also a treasure to art lovers, since its color reproductions are excellent, and copies of many of these paintings cannot be obtained elsewhere.”

“Such a book as ‘The story of Jesus’ is one of the few that seem capable of fertilizing minds indifferent to or skeptical of the greatness of much Christian art. There are forty reproductions all in full color, and their quality is exquisite—even to the gold, which appears as gold, not as spotted yellow. A finer gallery of color reproductions of the primitive masters would be very hard to find.” Glen Mullin

“The book is a pleasure to the connoisseur even when he criticizes. Any one who loves Italian painting will enjoy it, and the child who opens it, to learn for the first time the story of the Passion, will find himself in a dramatic wonderland.” G. H. Edgell

DANE, CLEMENCE.Legend. *$1.60 (4c) Macmillan

20–817

A short novel, occupied wholly with a two hour’s conversation. A woman of genius has died, and her friends, members of the literary circle of which she had made one, are discussing her and her life story, piecing it together and puzzling out the motives that had led her to abandon her art at its height, to marry a humdrum country doctor, and retire into domesticity. Bit by bit they piece together the legend—the legend that is to live for the public in Anita Serle’s “Life.” And bit by bit the reader of the book tears it apart and comes to see the real Madala Grey, as she is known to the two present who had loved her, and to the young country girl who had never seen her, and who tells the story.

“To our thinking the real problem of ‘Legend’ is why Miss Clemence Dane, turning aside from life, should have concentrated her remarkable powers upon reviving, redressing, touching up, bringing up-to-date these puppets of a bygone fashion.” K. M.

“Very well done, but will never find many readers.”

“The book has its faults. Clemence Dane, as in her earlier novel, writes with an almost personal vindictiveness against one of her sex. In her dissection she is as merciless as Anita herself. Her pen drops venom and as the result Anita becomes too cruel in her mental indecencies and just fails to convince.” M. E. Bailey

“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.

“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.” H. I. Gilchrist

“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other literatures its structural method is not unknown.”

“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem artless in its basic simplicity.”

“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s ‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater clarity.”

“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton

“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional current.”

“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary achievement, particularly on the technical side.”

“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident limits in the understanding of men.”

DANE, EDMUND.British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42

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