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20–26461

“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people, though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of operating them.”—Outlook

“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets themselves.”

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.” Maurice Browne

“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic, airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn

“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the indispensable erudition.”

“Amusing and whimsical book.”

“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject, it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”

JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON).Junior cook book. $1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5

20–10578

The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain, nourishing food without any other help than the directions given. Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship. Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies; Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves; Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.

“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”

JUDSON, JEANNE.Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–2647

Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated, emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George, the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth, however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere that hangs over Gloria and her household.

“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults now in vogue.”

JUTA, RÉNÉ.Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt

20–13976

The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta, discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a woman) was a leper.

“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least. Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.” G. M. H.

“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying of the characters.”

“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W. Boynton

“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”

KAHN, OTTO HERMANN.Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304

20–11152

A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.

“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”

“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”

“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”

“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are particularly good.”

KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW.Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday 947

20–14311

The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the deliverer.

Reviewed by W: Hard

“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan

“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any such illusion.”

“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter

KANE, ROBERT.Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170

“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath

“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index has been omitted.”

KARSNER, DAVID.Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright

20–978

For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.

“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”

“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the literature of the day.”

“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”

“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter

“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait, which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol

“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the historical sources to the extent that he might under different circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is excellent.” W. L. C.

“Not needed by all small libraries.”

KARTINI, raden adjeng.Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf

20–20025

The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her achievements in that direction.

“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.” Margaret Ashmun

“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid manner.” E. J. C.

“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however, her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”

“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.

“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.

KAY, BARBARA.Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–18511

Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.

“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”

“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

KAY, BARBARA.Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–18510

After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,” Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister, and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part. And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton

20–7297

“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath

“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’ creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself—an invention rather than a copy.”

“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted, and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it, so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.

“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”

“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”

“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”

“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book ‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H. S. G.

“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly move the reader.”

“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton

“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which observation and local knowledge are happily united to very considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”

KEABLE, ROBERT.Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton

20–15963

“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times

“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”

“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”

KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580

20–10564

Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent, omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers; Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth; Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English names.

KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE.Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75 Oxford 967

(Eng ed 19–12919)

“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial

“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious, exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst

Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois

“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state is exact and scholarly.”

“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for affairs, and financial skill.”

KEITH, ERIC A.My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47

20–2039

Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of which the third was successful. This American edition of the book contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.

“Vigorously written.”

“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”

“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”

KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper

20–1213

Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.

“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore

“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is written in an entertaining vein.”

KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper

20–7299

They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”

“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”

“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”

KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper

20–18251

“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.

“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”

KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs

20–7519

“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times

“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”

KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746

20–5590

“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.

“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”

“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”

Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman

“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”

“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.

KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).Mercier; the fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton

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