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20–26759

This story, translated from the Danish, describes the life of poor fisherfolk and of the poorest of small farmers. It is the story of a little illegitimate girl left in the care of her grandparents, whose one joy in life she becomes. When her mother, a cold, selfish, cruel creature, now married to a rag-and-bone man and huckster, wants her as nurse for her other children, she does not hesitate to take her away from the blind, widowed grandmother. Ditte’s life is wretched, her only true friend her step-father, the jovial rag-and-bone man. She repays him by standing by him, through all his sorrows and afflictions, with indomitable good nature and courage, until she is forced to leave him to go into service.

“The loveliness in human nature and the evil also stand out in sharp relief against the simple, often sordid background. Will interest readers of ‘Pelle the conqueror.’”

“The Danish author has not been fortunate in the translation, however, which is uneven and lacking in idiomatic grace.” E. P.

“With all the straitened cruelty of its events the story has a quality which is almost glamorous. The simple telling and lack of stress somehow give it breadth; it is full of the effect of open spaces. There are passages of great tenderness, and others of fresh gaiety and resilience. Then, too a primary perception of human forces lifts the story out of any narrow bondage.” C. M. Rourke

“The story scrupulously avoids an artificial symmetry of structure and follows, so far as possible, the rhythm of life. The firmness and simplicity of the style shine even through an inferior translation.”

“The English version is a livid corpse, and the only function left for a reviewer who knows the original is that of coroner. In common honesty, Henry Holt & Co. should put on the title page of ‘Ditte: girl alive,’ ‘Mutilated from the Danish,’ and omit the name of the innocent author.” Signe Toksvig

“The characters in the book are flesh-and-blood people and their drab, dreary lives are made very real.”

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

“The book deserves to be read. It is well-written, effective, and above all, bears the earmarks of truth.”

“It is to be supposed that, as with ‘Pelle,’ this volume is but one of several dealing with the same characters, and that later Ditte will develop into womanhood. If that be so, Mr Nexö has made an interesting first movement, though it may be hoped that later ones may have the contrast of greater lightness; if this be all, then it can only be regarded as an unfinished fantasia.”

NICHOLS, ROBERT MALISE BOWYER.Aurelia, and other poems. *$2 Dutton 821

20–15351

“The sequence of ‘Sonnets to Aurelia’ gives the story of a disappointed lover with his mistress whose falseness, though ugly, intensifies the helpless passion of the man. The form of the sonnet in which the poet tells his story is Shakspearean.”—Boston Transcript

“Mr Nichols, like many of the minor Elizabethan lyrists, uses the fourteen lines of the sonnet simply for the sake of their sound, their rich baroque handsomeness of appearance. That is the principal and, to our mind, damning defect of his sonnets. They have no substance. The fountains are dry, the parched stone faces open their mouths to no purpose; we are at a loss to see why the monument was built.”

“Among Mr Nichols’s most potent qualities the quality of vision is the steadiest and strongest. Among the most recent English poets he is the richest in this endowment.” W. S. B.

“The result is, to my taste, like a dish flavoured with nutmeg and cinnamon to which has been added a dash of tabasco sauce.” J: G. Fletcher

“With some of the faults of youth, Mr Nichols has all of its virtues. He is adaptable, he is resourceful, he is restlessly eager to try new methods, to pour his soul into an unaccustomed vessel. He has force, eloquence, fire, and passion.”

“The conspicuous fault of ‘Aurelia’ is the insecurity of its style. Here is a series of quasi-Shakespearian sonnets, in which we have conceits without gracefulness, artifices aimed at intensifying rather than at easing the situations they describe—in brief a conscious author, magnifying an experience the content of which was meagre at the best in imitation of a spontaneous one the experience of which is too full to be contained.”

NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.Blacksheep! blacksheep! il *$1.75 Scribner

20–7287

“At a dinner in Washington the hero, one Archibald Bennett, whose income encourages his neurasthenia, sits next to a girl who tells him that no man whose life motto is ‘Safety first!’ is likely to have a very good time or escape a bored anaemia. Several days later the same Archie goes to Maine to look at a house for his sister, and the next thing he knows he has shot a man and is a fugitive from justice in the stolen car driven by the ‘governor’! After that you, together with the police forces of most of the states in the Union, are completely in the ‘governor’s’ power.”—N Y Times

“It is as breathlessly contrived and as diverting to follow as a crooked street in a mediaeval town, along which anything might happen.”

“The tale furnishes pleasant diversion.”

NICHOLSON, WATSON.Anthony Aston, stroller and adventurer. *$1.25 The author, South Haven, Mich.

20–19783

This brief monograph forms a footnote to stage history. Little has been known of Tony Aston, the author says, “save that he was a strolling player for many years, the author of an unsuccessful play and the much more important Brief supplement to Colley Cibber’s apology.” An autobiographical sketch which he happened upon in the British museum in 1914 has been made the basis of Mr Nicholson’s account. This sketch is appended, as is the “Brief supplement.”

“The reprint is welcome and every student interested in ancient Bohemias will be delighted to hear Aston tell, with complete disregard for syntax and in the authentic pot-house style of Ned Ward and the other blackguard wits, of his amazingly varied career.”

“The student of the stage and society will find his career interesting for the light it throws upon the provincial and illegitimate stage of the time, concerning which practically nothing is known.” J. W. Krutch

NICHOLSON, WATSON.Historical sources of DeFoe’s Journal of the plague year. $2 Stratford co. 942.06

DeFoe’s “Journal of the plague year” which has hitherto been classified as fiction and has been accounted as a “masterpiece of the imagination” is here proven, by the aid of extracts from original documents in the Burney collection and manuscript room of the British museum, to be “a faithful record of historical facts, that it was so intended by the author and is as nearly correct as it was humanly possible to make it from the sources and time at his command.” The contents are: Originals and parallels of the stories in DeFoe’s Journal; The historical sources of the Journal; Errors in the Journal; Summary. The appendices consist of excerpts from the original sources of the Journal and from hitherto unpublished documents illustrative of the plague. There is a bibliography.

“Dr Watson Nicholson’s book suffers a little from the researcher’s usual impatience with those who preceded him; a little more from his sometimes odd and slack English; more still from careless proof-reading. But those who are interested in DeFoe should read the book, because the author does more than work his case out closely.”

NICOLAY, HELEN.Boys’ life of Lafayette. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper

20–16920

The author writes of Lafayette as “a very gallant, inspiring figure uniting the old world with the new.” She tells her young readers in the preface: “This is no work of fiction. It is sober history; yet if the bare facts it tells were set forth without the connecting links, its preface might be made to look like the plot of a dime novel.” The book is illustrated and has an index.

“Even tho this is pure history, as the author declares, there is a deal of romance in the life of Lafayette to fascinate the young reader.”

NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM.Antichrist. (Free lance books) *$1.75 (5c) Knopf 230

20–4092

Mr Mencken has made a new translation of “The antichrist,” Nietzsche’s last work with the exception of his “Ecce homo.” The introduction states: “The present translation of ‘The antichrist’ is published by agreement with Dr Oscar Levy, editor of the English edition of Nietzsche. There are two earlier translations, one by Thomas Common and the other by Anthony M. Ludovici.... I began this new Englishing of the book, not in any hope of supplanting them, and surely not with any notion of meeting a great public need, but simply as a private amusement in troubled days. But as I got on with it I began to see ways of putting some flavour of Nietzsche’s peculiar style into the English, and so amusement turned into a more or less serious labour.” Mr Mencken’s introduction offers a critical interpretation of Nietzsche.

“Mr Mencken’s translation of Nietzsche’s last considerable work is lively and energetic, and his introduction is a happy example of his critical writing.”

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

NIVEN, FREDERICK JOHN.Tale that is told. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–17825

The simple uneventful chronicle of a Scotch clergyman’s family, told in a leisurely manner. The father is a genial egotist who had preached to Queen Victoria at Balmoral and who never lets this fact be lost sight of. The story follows the course of the six children’s lives after his death, telling of their worldly success, business affairs, love affairs and marriages. For a time three of the brothers conduct a book store and circulating library, of which an amusing account is given.

“He takes such a ‘slice of life’ as might delight Mr Hugh Walpole, and he treats it quite in the manner of Mr Walpole, only—and it is an important difference—he lacks something of his vitality. The substance is more level, a level quality not due to restraint but to quality of vision.” D. L. M.

“The scenes in the library are especially good.”

“The novel as a whole reflects the commonplace lives of the vast majority of us, ‘such poor little figures struggling along in the jungle’ with considerable accuracy.”

“I wish I could feel the glow that so many writing people seem to be feeling about Frederick Niven’s ‘A tale that is told.’ It is pleasant enough, human enough in its somewhat lacklustre fashion; but in the end not much more than ‘a long preparation for something that never happens.’”

“The characters are unusually alive; it is a pity that they all lack charm. The book is well constructed; the author has distinct ability.”

“It is refreshing to come upon a man who can write both lightly and profoundly and who can mingle tenderness and humor without losing the force of either.”

“It is not a story with a pattern, but there is a frame to it that gives it bounds and a focus that gives it coherence; there is sunlight in it—the pale northern sunlight of Scotland. The characterization is clear and the more pungent for its tolerance.”

NOGUCHI, YONÉ (MISS MORNING GLORY, pseud.).Japanese hokkus. *$2 Four seas co. 895

20–20445

The hokku is the seventeen syllable poem of Japan which the author describes at some length in the preface. This preface is in itself a prose poem in its quaint English and with the vista it opens into the Japanese mind. The real value of the hokku, we are told, is not in what it expresses but how it expresses itself spiritually: not in its physical directness but in its psychological indirectness. It is “like a spider-thread laden with the white summer dews, swaying among the branches of a tree; ... that sway indeed, not the thread itself, is the beauty of our seventeen syllable poem.” Of the translating of the hokku the author says, it is like the attempt to bring down the spider-net and hang it up in another place. The epilogue is a reflection on the introduction of western civilization into Japan.

“‘Japanese hokkus’ is remarkable for at least two reasons; one, because its poems are of that sensitive and illusive loveliness that is rare in the realism of contemporary publications, and another because the book links the literature of the Orient and the Occident rather more than any other poet whom we recall.” K. B.

“Whether it is because he is writing in a foreign language, or because English cannot have packed into it the associations of thousands of years and the treasure of half-forgotten philosophies, the Japanese poet fails to produce the effect achieved by Waley in his translations.” Babette Deutsch

“To enjoy this present volume and to be deaf to Mr Walter de la Mare—or to Shakespeare’s songs, for that matter—is to enjoy the art page of the newspaper more than a visit to the originals in the art gallery.” Llewellyn Jones

NOLEN, JOHN.New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages. il $1 (3c) Am. city bureau, Tribune bldg., N.Y. 710

20–211

“The cities of the United States have not yet made many of those public improvements that are so essential to modern life, especially for the new era.... They have not yet applied in a businesslike and economical manner the methods characteristic of the modern city planning movement. Therefore the American city still suffers in many ways from haphazard, piecemeal and shortsighted procedure.” (Part 1) To show how these shortcomings are to be remedied, how the new civic spirit is growing, what has already been done and what is the promise of the future is the object of the book. Among the topics discussed in the first part are: Two main divisions of city planning; Specific needs of the smaller city; How to replan a city; How to get a city plan into action. Part 2 contains in part: The city planning movement; Local data as basis of city plan; Types of city plans; Elements of city plans; Professional training and experience; New towns and new standards; Public opinion and city planning progress.

“We have never seen within such small compass a clearer description of the processes of town planning or of the principles that underlie good planning. A special merit of the book is that it reckons with the limitations and difficulties of the small town where at the present time such leadership as this is most needed and where examples taken from the costly improvement schemes of large cities are not helpful.” B. L.

NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).Harriet and the piper. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–13977

Harriet Fields had an emotional adventure when she was seventeen, and her romantic fancy was captured by Royal Blondin’s talk on Yogi philosophy, oriental religion and poetry. She even went through a bogus marriage ceremony with him when her youthful timorousness saved her from further disaster. Ten years later, when she is filling a position of trust, as companion to the wife of the rich Richard Carter and governess to his daughter Nina, Blondin crosses her path again holding their former relationship over her as a sword, to enlist her aid in the furtherance of his new schemes, i. e., marrying young Nina Carter and possessing himself of her fortune. It involves Harriet in many temptations. Twixt the overcoming of and yielding to them her character is clarified. After Mrs Carter’s elopement and sudden death, Harriet enters a marriage of convenience with Richard Carter, whom she secretly loves and admires and the wooing by the husband of his new wife forms part of the interest of the book.

“A lively and interesting story.”

“Well worn, even threadbare as her material is, Kathleen Norris has contrived to concoct from it a very pleasant little story, and one which holds the reader’s attention until the last half dozen chapters, when it begins to drag badly. It is smoothly written, and agreeable to read.”

“Readers who can put aside the insubstantial theme and the artificial dilemmas attributed to the principals, will find some entertainment in the flow of life and color through their vaguely troubled days.”

NORWOOD, GILBERT.[2]Greek tragedy. $5 Luce, J: W. 882

(Eng ed 20–16119)

“The summaries and criticisms of the extant plays constitute the main body of the book, forty-eight pages being given to Æschylus, fifty-four to Sophocles, a hundred and forty-one to Euripides. The book, as the author says, ‘aims to cover the whole field of the Greek drama, both for the student and the general reader.’”—N Y Evening Post

“We think that, for Euripides, his present work is sound as well as interesting. When we turn to his treatment of Æschylus and Sophocles, we feel that in attempting to cover the whole ground, Mr Norwood has undertaken more than he is at present ready to perform.” J. T. Sheppard

“It is certainly a convenience to have in one volume the literary criticism of the extant plays and the general history of Greek tragedy and the antiquities of the theatre, instead of looking for them in the two volumes of Haigh. In these subsidiary matters Professor Norwood’s scholarship though not independent is sufficient for his purpose. He still retains the British awe of any and all German scholarship and the British habit of ignoring American work.” Paul Shorly

“He writes throughout as an enthusiast, and illustrates his points by modern parallels which are always ingenious, and often happy. Reference might have been made to the modern performances of various plays, for the best way to understand any drama is to see it acted. The chapter on ‘Metre and rhythm’ at the end is an excellent idea well carried out.”

NOYES, ALFRED.Beyond the desert; a tale of Death valley. *$1 (7½c) Stokes

20–18658

The story is symbolic of a soul losing itself in a desert of ideas before it emerges into the light of clear understanding. James Baxter, an I.W.W., is a prisoner in transport and escapes from a stalled train into Death valley in the Arizona desert. His hardships bring on delirium and in a trance he finds himself among a halted pioneer party of 1849. In exchanging notes on their respective civilizations with them he comes to see the error of his ways and when he is finally rescued he goes among his I.W.W. comrades to convince them also. He is successful with the crowd but the infuriated leaders kill him.

“Though Mr Noyes’s work is earnest and readable, we wish that so experienced a hand had not permitted polemics, poetics, and melodrama to crowd the same pages.”

“The very qualities that one admires in such a poem as ‘The highwayman,’ depreciate when used in the prose form. It is possible that in verse the story would not seem so lacking in vitality. The descriptions of the desert are good; the style is fairly clear; and yet there is a quality of unreality, of dreaminess, of sentimentality.”

NOYES, ALFRED.Collected poems. v 3 *$2.50 Stokes 821

A volume containing all of Mr Noyes’ poems written between October, 1913, and the present. With the two volumes published in 1913 it forms a complete edition of the poet’s verse to date. It comprises The Lord of Misrule and other poems; The wine-press; A Belgian Christmas eve; The new morning; The elfin artist and other poems.

“Mr Noyes possesses a delightful singing gift in his carefree moments—and can bore us almost to tears when the sense of his ‘message’ to the world descends upon him. When he turns to glamourous romantic ballads and to brief, sincere, intensely spiritual lyrics, such as ‘Paraclete,’ he is at his best.”

“Whenever he writes sermons and dissertations and criticisms in verse he fails. Whenever he writes ballads he succeeds. However, there are a few other poems in this volume for which we should thank Mr Noyes, notably ‘Old gray squirrel,’ the pathetic ‘Court martial’ and ‘A victory dance.’”

NOYES, ALFRED.Elfin artist, and other poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821

20–17329

The elfin artist is the initial poem of this collection of verse written by the author since the spring of 1919. Some of the other poems are: Earth and her birds; Sea-distances; The inn of Apollo; The Sussex sailor; In southern California; The riddles of Merlin; The isle of memories; A ballad of the easier way; A Devonshire Christmas; Beautiful on the bough; The bride-ale; A sky song; A return from the air; A victory dance; The garden of peace; Four songs, after Verlaine.

“No Elizabethan could conceivably have written one of his poems. The conscious romanticism, the sentimentality, the imperialism expressed with a catch in the voice, the blurred, soft, unprecise language, the barrel-organ tunefulness—all these things, so characteristic of Mr Noyes, would have been impossible to an Elizabethan.”

“So sharply do these poems recall the poet of ‘The barrel-organ’ that we wonder whether the recent neglect of Noyes was reasonable; surely, with such books as these, he will yet sing his way back into the hearts of English readers.” S: Roth

“Not in any of what may be termed the petulant and irritable, spirited poems of this collection, striking as some may be for their frank and vehement qualities, is Mr Noyes’s reputation either sustained or enhanced. One may truly say that the poems that spring out of the Sussex scene, with their half-bucolic and traditional mood, alone retain the admiration of Mr Noyes’s readers.” W. S. B.

“Their redeeming features are Mr Noyes’ ability to handle metre and the very evident pleasure he takes in writing. That pleasure is a quality quite lacking in many modern poets who write far better than Mr Noyes.”

“Mr Noyes continues to write his pleasant anachronisms and it must be admitted that he does them with the usual dexterity and mellifluousness that is so much a part of his charm. He does possess charm and no one will actually die of ennui while reading his lines. But readers could far better occupy themselves with other poets, for Mr Noyes brings nothing new to his readers, not even his thought.” H. S. Gorman

“‘The elfin artist’ is the product of the author’s mature lyric gift, rich in variety or form and theme, and offering an equal appeal to the emotions and to the mind.” Philip Tillinghast

“Mr Noyes continues to annoy the devotees of all the varieties of free verse by his ability to use rhyme, and to observe the rules of prosody.” E. L. Pearson

“His gift to literature is twofold. He can write well himself and he can prevent others from writing badly.”

“With one or two exceptions, each of Mr Noyes’s poems is no better and no worse than any of the others. To study the volume is to get the impression of sameness, of easy fluidity, of lack both of thought and of labour. His simplicity is not the simplicity of compression and refinement. His responsiveness sweeps away his thought.”

NOYES, FRANCES NEWBOLD.My A. E. F.; a hail and farewell. *$1 (12c) Stokes 940.373

20–11506

A book in the form of a familiar talk to A. E. F. boys by a girl who was a Y. M. C. A. worker in France. It is an appeal to them to remember the ideals they fought for, and to apply them in the new war “against selfishness and materialism and intolerance and hatred.” It is reprinted from McClure’s Magazine.

“A very fine and moving bit of writing is Miss Noyes’s little book, simple, comradely, full of memories, and wise with the wisdom of Eve. The book ought to be read by every man who served on the other side and also by every person at home who has ever said a slighting word about any of the phases of the welfare work for the army.”

NUTT, HUBERT WILBUR.Supervision of instruction. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.80 Houghton 371

20–10064

“The shifting, unprofessional character of the teaching body makes the provision for competent supervision of instruction not only desirable, but necessary.... The undertaking of training supervisors involves the setting-forth of the job or activities of supervision, and the organizing of the means by which supervisors can best be trained to perform their duties.” (Introd.) The book is, accordingly, an analytical discussion of the principles underlying class-room supervision, and the devices and technique which should and which should not be employed. It falls into two parts. Part 1, The job of supervision, is a general survey of supervising activities. Part II[or 2?—see above], Principles underlying the supervision of instruction, is divided into the following sections: Supervisory method; Devices of supervision; Technique of supervision. There is an index.

“The book is to be welcomed as one of the first serious and successful attempts to create a specific literature for supervisors.”

NYBURG, SIDNEY LAUER.Gate of ivory. *$2.25 (1½c) Knopf

20–19577

This is the story of Allan Conway who loved a beautiful siren of a woman and loved her so well that he allowed himself to be saddled with her and her husband’s crime, in order to shield her and to become an outcast for her sake. The remarkable part of the story is that, as an outcast, he loved her still, that he did not become a cynic—although he did take to drink periodically—and that he was even happy in the dream life that he now lived with his Eleanor. This life he elaborated in every detail from the house he built for and the conversations he had with her even to their dream child. A Peter Ibbetson with a difference is this Allan Conway.

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD.Prize stories, 1919. *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday

20–8630

A volume published as a memorial to O. Henry and composed of the fifteen short stories which a committee of the Society of arts and sciences of New York city have decided on as the best short stories of 1919. Blanche Colton Williams writes the introduction. Contents: England to America, by Margaret Prescott Montague; “For they know not what they do,” by Wilbur Daniel Steele; They grind exceeding small, by Ben Ames Williams; On strike, by Albert Payson Terhune; The elephant remembers, by Edison Marshall; Turkey red, by Frances Gilchrist Wood; Five thousand dollars reward, by Melville Davisson Post; The blood of the dragon, by Thomas Grant Springer; “Humoresque,” by Fannie Hurst; The lubbeny kiss, by Louise Rice; The trial in Tom Belcher’s store, by Samuel A. Derieux; Porcelain cups, by James Branch Cabell; The high cost of conscience, by Beatrice Ravenel; The kitchen gods, by G. F. Alsop; April 25th, as usual, by Edna Ferber.

“One can only wish that more of such volumes might be issued, for many of our American writers are at their best in the short story. The ‘O. Henry memorial award’ volume of 1919 is a book well worth reading.”

OAKESMITH, JOHN.Race and nationality; an inquiry into the origin and growth of patriotism. *$4 Stokes 320.1

19–16466

“As the result of an attempt to arrive at a lucid conception and precise definition of ‘a nationality,’ the author thinks that he has discovered the explanation of nationality ‘in what may be formally called the principle of “organic continuity of common interest”‘; and the constructive part of the book is devoted to the elucidation of this principle. The author considers that universal and lasting peace will be secured, not by ‘the sudden imposition of hastily manufactured machinery,’ but by the gradual extension of the above principle from national to international life.”—Ath

Reviewed by F. J. Whiting

Reviewed by I. C. Hannah

“This is a treatise of ability, displaying considerable knowledge of the literature of the subject.”

“It would not be difficult to show that there are inconsistencies in the discussion and conclusions arrived at by Mr Oakesmith; inconsistencies traceable largely to his desire to do justice to the representatives of all shades of opinion. It may be more profitable than dwelling on such points to note one or two omissions from the volume, in particular the demands of what may be called pseudo-nationality; that form of it which is not the slow result of continuously operating influences, but is artificially created.”

O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON (ARTHUR MIDDLETON, pseud.).Best short stories of 1919. *$2 (1½c) Small

The authors represented in this year’s volume are: G. F. Alsop; Sherwood Anderson; Edwina Stanton Babcock; Djuna Barnes; Frederick Orin Bartlett; Agnes Mary Brownell; Maxwell Struthers Burt; James Branch Cabell; Horace Fish; Susan Glaspell; Henry Goodman; Richard Matthew Hallet; Joseph Hergesheimer; Will E. Ingersoll; Calvin Johnston; Howard Mumford Jones; Ellen N. La Motte; Elias Lieberman; Mary Heaton Vorse, and Anzia Yezierski. The book contains also an introduction by Mr O’Brien, discussing points raised by Waldo Frank’s “Our America,” and the usual features of the Year book of the short story.

“Of the twenty stories an indifferent half-dozen barely pass the average.... Sherwood Anderson’s ‘An awakening,’ and Joseph Hergesheimer’s ‘The Meeker ritual,’ have the distinction of subtlety and style, irrespective of theme. You feel about the other authors that each might with a little effort have written the other’s story, but these two of Anderson’s and Hergesheimer’s could only have been written by themselves.” W. S. B.

Reviewed by Doris Webb

“Mr O’Brien’s standards define themselves with precision, and a summary of his tests will serve as test for Mr O’Brien. He has no eye for style. The second point in literature to which Mr O’Brien is insensitive is tone. The third and final want is the sense of workmanship. Mr O’Brien, however, has qualities which are as incontestable as his limitations. He has a keen, if not infallible, sense, of the powerful in motive, the original and trenchant in conception. Mr O’Brien’s collection will be of service to those readers who are wise enough to grasp its limitations.”

O’BRIEN, GEORGE A. T.Essay on mediaeval economic teaching. *$4.75 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.9

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