Q

20–4039

“‘Snow,’ a play in four acts by Stanislaw Przybyszewski, translated into English by O. F. Theis, is a powerful production. A man and wife are living happily together. A brother comes in and falls in love with the wife. A woman friend comes in and the husband falls in love with her. Result—unfaithfulness and a double suicide.”—Springf’d Republican

“The types are not typical; they are primarily unconvincing. There is an intense and urgent attempt at drama which, were it only dramatic, would be Ibsen, even Wagner, in terms of men and not gods. The play is disappointing to read, because it does not grip; it is scarcely fitted for theatrical success, because it has insufficient sustained interest.”

“The beautiful diction and Maeterlinckian charm of the Polish original, are somewhat lost in translation.”

“‘Snow,’ which bears amusing internal evidence of its translation from a German original, is a characteristic phantasmagoria of the acutely hysterical. It is not without moments of sombre effectiveness. But action and passion are both, humanly speaking, in the void. The characters are haunted wraiths in an unrealized world who live and love and die equally without motivation.”

“The tale is true to life and truthfully presented and commendable for artistic qualities, but uselessly nerve-racking for all that.”

“Limitations of temperament may easily prevent a western reader from doing justice to characters who seem to him so morbid and neurotic, so pathologically introspective: nor can he see ‘Snow’ as a play for the western stage. Yet he must admit that the author shows at times profound psychological insight and can write occasional passages of power.”

PUMPELLY, RAPHAEL.[2]Travels and adventures of Raphael Pumpelly; ed. by O. S. Rice. il *$1.75 Holt

20–22545

The book is an abridged edition of the author’s autobiography, “My reminiscences,” for young readers. As a mining engineer, geologist, archaeologist and explorer, the author’s experiences, which transpired on our western frontier in it’s heroic days, on the mountains of Corsica, in China, Japan and Siberia, were many and thrilling and those portions of the original work have been selected that are most interesting to the young with only so much editing as was required to make a connected story. Appropriate illustrations have been added.

PURDAY, HERBERT FRANK P.Diesel engine design. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.43

(Eng ed 20–18166)

“This book is based on about twelve years’ experience of Diesel engines, mainly from the drawing-office point of view, and is intended to present an account of the main considerations which control the design of these engines. The author ventures to hope that, in addition to designers and draughtsmen, to whom such a book as this is most naturally addressed, there may be other classes of readers—for example, Diesel engine users and technical students—to whom the following pages may be of interest.” (Preface) Contents: First principles; Thermal efficiency; Exhaust, suction and scavenge; The principle of similitude; Crank-shafts; Flywheels; Framework; Cylinders and covers; Running gear; Fuel oil system; Air and exhaust system; Compressed air system; Valve gear; Index. There are 271 figure illustrations.

PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER, comp. Tabular views of universal history. il *$2.50 Putnam 902

19–16001

In this latest edition of the compilation the summary has been brought down to the peace conference in Paris; like former revisions, under the editorial supervision of George Haven Putnam. Two new maps are added showing the forfeited German colonies and Germany under the peace treaty, and there is a supplementary index covering events subsequent to August 1, 1914.

PUTNAM, MRS NINA (WILCOX).[2]It pays to smile. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–19578

Miss Freedom Talbot, of Boston ancestry and birth, is the narrator of the story, and shares honors with “Peaches” Pegg as the heroine. Her family fortunes being at a low ebb, she answers an advertisement inserted by the millionaire Pinto Pegg for a chaperone for his daughter. This combination of money and breeding Pinto hopes will result in culture for the daughter. Their course in refinement includes a trip to Europe and a stay in California, in the process of which Miss Freedom receives perhaps as broad an education as “Peaches” does. Romance and mystery enter their lives, but after an exciting course, true love runs smoothly at last.

“The story is perhaps very improbable, but not unreal.”

“Except as a study of the Boston governess and Peaches, showing how each reacts on the other, there is little to note. When the author ventures to work out a ‘plot’ she is singularly unconvincing.”

“The early chapters describing the Talbot home on Chestnut street, Boston, are much the best of the book.”

PYLE, KATHARINE.[2]Tales of wonder and magic. il *$2 (3c) Little

20–19078

This is the third volume of old-world fairy tales and folk lore translated, adapted and illustrated by the author. The stories are: White as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven’s wing—Irish; The wonderful ring—East Indian; The three sisters—Georgian; The golden horse, the moon lantern, and the beautiful princess—Swedish; The lady of the lake—Welsh; The beaver stick—American Indian; The enchanted waterfall—Japanese; Fair, brown, and trembling—Irish; The demon of the mountain—Transylvanian gipsy; The Lamia—Hindoo; The three doves—Czech; Mighty-arm and mighty-mouth—East Indian; The beautiful Melissa—Louisiana; The castle that stood on golden pillars—Danish; The twelve months—Czech.

QUENNELL, MARJORIE, and QUENNELL, CHARLES HENRY BOURNE.History of everyday things in England. v 2 il *$4.50 (v 1 and 2 in one volume *$9) Scribner 914.2

(Eng ed 19–6495)

“The second volume of a history which applies real historical research to the making of children’s books. As in the first book the authors have described changes in building, furniture, dress, and games as ‘history in stone, wood, and fabrics.’ It is their desire to present work as a ‘joyous sort of business’ which shall give boys and girls the desire to take the pains with their labors which distinguished the craftsmen. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist

“Charming volume.”

“This second part is not nearly so good as its predecessor. Its authors have been spoilt by success, and the latter pages of the book in particular show, to put it mildly, signs of haste. The first chapter, on the sixteenth century, is the best.”

“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be given.”

QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.[2]English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29 Broadway, N.Y. 817

20–6982

“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican

“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of Poe’s style.”

“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody. Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every collector of Dickens or of Poe.”

“Unfortunately, the attribution of the work to Poe is sustained by neither internal nor external evidence.”

QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS (Q., pseud.).On the art of reading. *$2.75 Putnam 028

20–16869

The spirit of the volume can perhaps best be illustrated by two extracts from the preface: “The real battle for English lies in our elementary schools, and in the training of our elementary teachers. It is there that the foundations of a sound national teaching in English will have to be laid, as it is there that a wrong trend will lead to incurable issues,” and “that a liberal education is not an appendage to be purchased by the few; that humanism is, rather, a quality which can, and should, condition all our teaching; which can, and should, be impressed as a character upon it all, from a poor child’s first lesson in reading up to a tutor’s last word to his pupil on the eve of a tripos.” Contents: Apprehension versus comprehension; Children’s reading; On reading for examinations; On a school of English; The value of Greek and Latin in English literature; On reading the Bible; On selection; On the use of masterpieces; Index.

“We find it as hard to conceive that undergraduates did not enjoy hearing these lectures on ‘The art of reading’ as that ‘Q’ did not enjoy delivering them. The elements of an ideal professor were always in him. To communicate a gusto, a vivid and thrilling delight in literature for its own sake, as a delectable duchy where no passport, save the fact of your own enjoyment, is required, is a gift given to few. ‘Q’ is among them.” J. M. M.

“Especially useful to elementary teachers.”

“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly, so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the pedagog.” M. J. Moses

“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the subject characterize the volume.”

“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King Edward VII professor?”

“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their printed form.”

RADICE, SHEILA (JAMIESON) (MRS ALFRED HUTTON RADICE).New children; talks with Dr Maria Montessori. *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 371.4

20–15392

The object of the book is to sketch in broad outline the Montessori system of teaching, for which and for Dr Montessori’s insight into child psychology, the author has a profound admiration. She holds that with a full recognition and adoption of the Montessori methods, the psycho-analyst’s vocation will be gone. Contents: Dr Montessori in England; Two Montessori schools; The Montessori apparatus; Dr Montessori herself; Dr Montessori as a lecturer; The ethical basis; The psychological basis; What is psychology? The psychology of the new-born; What is suggestion? What is music? Montessori and Bergson; Training for citizenship; Training for vision; Liberal education; A new theory of work; The education of the adolescent; The new children; The English nursery school; Appendices; Bibliography.

“In spite of a good deal of vague romanticism and loose writing the book leaves the impression that Dr Montessori herself is an unusually sane and sensible personality, who regards her own methods as not necessarily final.”

“Her book is quite entertaining. It is also exceedingly combative. Like many of those who believe in Mme Montessori, she regards any criticism of the Dottoressa’s methods as almost blasphemous and quite wanton and unnecessary.”

“The book is fragmentary and, as the author herself admits, ‘somewhat hastily done.’ Since the range of topics is so wide, the argument is brief and sketchy, giving glimpses of vistas for possible exploration rather than settling the discussion.” A. E. Morey

RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA), princess (COUNT PAUL VASSILI, pseud.).Secrets of dethroned royalty. il *$3 (6c) Lane 920

20–9932

These secrets pertain to the love affairs of royal personages and the book is accordingly divided into three parts, Russia, Austria, and Germany. The author seems possessed of much intimate knowledge and the book is well illustrated.

“There is not much, of course, in all this that is new, but some of the instances are not well known, and now and then the author throws a light upon familiar incidents that makes them more intelligible to the American reader.”

RAEBURN, HAROLD.Mountaineering art. il *$3.75 Stokes 796

“In this volume an endeavour has been made to trace and indicate the broad principles of climbing and mountaineering, from ‘bouldering’ to the conquest of the highest summits of the earth. The book is the outcome of more than twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader in many parts of the Asio-European continent, and on almost every kind of rock, snow, and ice formation. In preparation for it, almost every published work on climbing and mountaineering, in English, and in the principal continental languages, has been consulted.” (Introd.) The book is in five sections: Mountaineering art; British mountaineering; Alpine mountaineering; For the lady mountaineer; General principles. The chapter on dress for women climbers is contributed by Ruth Raeburn. The work closes with a short list of books, glossary, and index.

“In general Mr Raeburn’s technical chapters are first-rate. His remarks on rock, snow and ice work are stamped by the seal of expert and up-to-date knowledge. Of exploration, bivouacs and camps he writes with the knowledge that many years of wandering in unexplored ranges have yielded him. On equipment he has also much to say which is new and needed saying. The book, as a whole, suffers a little from redundant chapters.” Arnold Lunn

“It is severely practical and written for use, not for entertainment. The numerous illustrations have all been chosen with regard to their instructional rather than their pictorial value. Mr Raeburn writes with conviction and refreshing candour.”

“Apart from the instruction he gives to the novice, Mr Raeburn has done the mountaineering public a service by composing a work which sets forth the latest views on the best mode of ‘climbing and mountaineering.’”

RAGOZIN, ZÉNAÏDE ALEXEÏEVNA, ed. and tr. Little Russian masterpieces. 4v *$7.70; ea *$1.25 Putnam 891.7

20–18302

A collection of Russian stories brought together with the object of presenting American readers “with a selection which may not only prove acceptable in itself, but reveal to them some less familiar aspects of Russian thought and character.” There is an introduction, repeated in each of the four volumes, by S. N. Syromiatnikof, who also contributes biographical notes. There is one volume devoted to the work of Pushkin and Lermontof. Authors represented in the others are: Lesskof, Dombrovsky, Dostoyefsky, and Tolstoi; Saltykof-Stchedrin, Mamin-Sibiriak, Slutchefsky, Niedzwiecki, Uspensky and Helen Zeisinger; Staniukovitch and Korolenko.

“The stories that she presents are fresh, original, and full of dramatic incident. It is one of the most interesting collections ever got together. Her translation reads with exemplary smoothness and accuracy; she is a mistress of English style.” N. H. D.

“That there are here many names not familiar to the casual reader of Russian literature is not among the least attractions of the collection.”

RAGSDALE, LULAH.Next-besters. *$1.75 Scribner

20–11498

“Robert Lee Poindexter—‘The boss’—was of the old South, the courtly and sweet-natured master of the ancient and impoverished plantation of Cherokee in Mississippi. But Pat and Polly, the Misses Poindexter, were very modern, up-and-coming young people, who shouldered both hard work and responsibility and evolved an energetic philosophy, though Patricia was only twenty and Polly was just eighteen. The story of their work and responsibility, and of how their philosophy resulted in action is the story of ‘Next-besters.’”—N Y Times

“A pretty and amusing little story that is always entertaining, and not without charm. Assuredly, ‘Next-besters’ is a pleasant piece of ‘light reading’ for a summer day.”

“An excellent story for young people.”

RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.[2]Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton

20–19181

This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners, whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here. There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for the deserving.

“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”

“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”

“Mr Raine has written many another good story of the West, which he knows so well, but he will find it hard to beat this one.”

“The story has ‘punch.’”

RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.Oh, you Tex! il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton

20–6711

A story of the Texas Panhandle in the period following the Civil war. Jack Roberts, a line-rider for Clint Wadley, one of the big cattlemen, gets into trouble with Wadley’s son Rutherford and gives him a well-deserved trouncing. This is unfortunate, for Jack has just been promoted and is in love with Wadley’s daughter Ramona. A few hours after his dismissal, he enlists with the Texas Rangers. Rutherford Wadley, who has become involved with a band of cattle rustlers and outlaws, is shot by one of them. Suspicion falls on a young Mexican and to save him from a lynching mob, led by the real murderer, Jack puts up a brilliant bluff and risks his own life. His later adventures have to do with the pursuit and capture of the Dinsmore gang and the winning of Ramona.

“A fascinating story from beginning to end—in spite of its well-worn material.”

“An exciting, old-fashioned tale of the western cattle country.”

RAINSFORD, W. H.[2]That girl March. *$1.50 (*8s 6d) (1c) Lane

20–20431

Curiosity draws Philip Gray to Blaisham. Some thirty years before, his mother, falling in love with the chapel minister, had defied her family, run away with her lover and been disowned in consequence. And now, father and mother dead, the son had returned to look on her old home. He does not reveal his identity and does not learn that his aunt, Lady Delwyn, has set her lawyers on his track, bent on reconciliation. In the meantime he meets and falls in love with Edith March, niece of one of the neighborhood farmers. The reconciliation with the aunt takes place, but in his new position Philip finds that his wooing does not proceed smoothly. However he has some of his mother’s spirit and “that girl March” stands in no awe of Lady Delweyn and it ends well.

“If this tale is representative of Mr Lane’s selection of first novels, that selection must be astonishingly excellent, for Mr Rainsford, or possibly Miss Rainsford, spins an enchanting yarn. The only fault of the novel is its length. Here and there, it drags a trifle.”

“This book is not cheap or unsuccessful in an ordinary sense. It is simply 366 pages with the book not there. One constantly apprehends cleverness, vividness—but gets not one clear visualization in much description.”

“‘W. H. Rainsford’ adopts a method that irresistibly recalls the seaside acrobat courting attention by means of ridiculous somersaults as a prelude to the display of more special powers. These affectations being suddenly discarded, to reappear only intermittently, it becomes possible to take a mild—a very mild—interest in the fortunes of Philip Gray.”

RAINSFORD, WALTER KERR.From Upton to the Meuse with the Three hundred and seventh infantry. il *$2 (4c) Appleton 940.373

20–2288

The volume is a history of the 77th division and of the 307th regiment. This division Colonel J. R. R. Hannay in the introduction calls the cosmopolitan division of New York city, “New York’s own.” He also states that this division consisting of men unused to the sturdy activity of outdoor life conducted itself as the most perfectly trained and disciplined army in the world. The sketches and photographs in the book are of the best, the author being a graduate from the École des beaux arts, Paris, in 1911. Besides the introduction by Colonel Hannay, the foreword by General Alexander, and two poems by the author, the contents are: Camp Upton; With the British; Lorraine; The chateau du diable; Across the Vesle; Merval; Sheets and bandages; The forest of Argonne; The dépôt de machines; The surrounded battalion; Grand Pré; The advance to the Meuse; The home trail; Appendix.

“Very telling photographs and drawings which suggest a beauty which is the antithesis of war.”

“Captain Rainsford has succeeded in making his narrative clear, expressive, and entertaining—thanks in good part to a never failing sense of humor. We must give credit, too, for his having provided the maps necessary to follow his narrative—a too unusual provision in books about the war.”

RAMSAY, ROBERT E.Effective house organs. il *$3.50 (3c) Appleton 659

20–2516

A book treating of “the principles and practice of editing and publishing successful house organs.” (Sub-title) Chapter one describes a house organ as “a small magazine or newspaper published once a month, sometimes more frequently, sometimes less, and made up wholly or in part of advertising from the house sending it out.” The treatise which is profusely illustrated with specimen pages of typical house organs, falls into three parts. “Part 1 lays down the underlying principles of editing and publishing house organs of all classes. Part 2 gives you the actual practice among successful house organs in applying principles previously laid down. Part 3 is made up of appendices containing valuable reference data on the general subject of house organs which may be of use to both student and practitioner.” There is an index.

“A book much needed by the amateur editor in business organizations.”

“His style is easy and readable.”

“The book contains many interesting examples of how a sound knowledge of psychology is valuable in producing a successful house organ.”

RAPEER, LOUIS WIN, ed. Consolidated rural school. il *$3 Scribner 379.17

20–4557

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and contains articles by leading specialists and successful workers in this field. Its object is to elucidate the general aim of the consolidated school: social efficiency, with its subordinate aims of vital, vocational, avocational, civic, moral efficiency. It shows how the new method fosters cooperation, and socialization, how children may be physically and mentally changed by suitable methods and how the consolidated school can furnish opportunity for a school farm, homes for teachers and a community centre. The first chapter, National and rural consolidation, and many of the subsequent chapters are by the editor, Louis W. Rapeer. Other chapters are: The American rural school, by Philander P. Claxton; Community organization and consolidation, by Warren H. Wilson; Rural economics and consolidation, by T. N. Carver; The growth of consolidation, and Transportation of pupils at public expense, by A. C. Monahan; A visit to a consolidated school, and The country girl and the consolidated school, by Katherine M. Cook; Methods and facts of consolidation, by W. S. Fogarty; The difficulties of consolidation, by L. J. Hanifan. The book is indexed and has a bibliography.

“The book is to be commended on its attempt to use the problem approach to the various topics.”

RASHDALL, HASTINGS.Idea of atonement in Christian theology. (Bampton lectures, 1915) *$5.50 Macmillan 232.3

20–9571

“Mr Rashdall traces the history of the doctrine of the atonement down from its pre-Christian origins through the New Testament, and then by way of the Apostolic fathers, the Latin theology, the Schoolmen, and the Reformers down to modern times. His main interest lies in the controversy between the subjective and the objective types of atonement doctrines.”—Nation

“Even so competent and scholarly a discussion as this of Mr Rashdall’s carries with it a suggestion of belonging to a stage which we have left behind us. Those who are acquainted with Mr Rashdall’s work will find the sincerity and thoroughness of discussion which they have learned to expect from him.” R: Roberts

“This is one of the most important theological works that have appeared for more than a generation. Its quality is scientific.”

“It is probably the most important constructive treatise on systematic theology which has been published by an English divine during the present century. Parts of it will be found difficult by readers who are not experts in theology, for it deals with problems of great complexity. But it is both subtle and lucid; it is a unity and not patchwork; and, as compared with the reticence of some fairly recent work, it is remarkably outspoken.”

RASKIN, PHILIP M.Songs and dreams. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811

20–9428

In a foreword the author tells something of the conditions under which his poems have been written. He learned English after the age of nineteen, published his first book of verse in English, with an introduction by Israel Zangwill, in London in 1914, and has since come to New York where he now makes his home. The poems are in five groups: Love and longing; Autumn flowers; Echoes of exile; Chequered shadow; The dawn of a nation. Some of the poems in the third group, such as To free Russia (1917), The Torah and “No news” are racial in theme, but the one purely Jewish section of the book is the concluding one, devoted to the Zionist ideal.

“Despite Israel Zangwill’s opinion that ‘the best of Mr Raskin’s poems might have been written by Robert Browning,’ there is much in them that is merely ‘pretty work’—though the same thing might be said, heaven knows, of the famous Victorian poet. In fact, the first of this volume, dealing, as it does, with love, is fairly puerile. But toward the end of the volume we happen upon a collection of poems entitled ‘The dawn of a nation’ which contains one or two verses worth while. The one poem which makes the collection notable is that called ‘After the British declaration.’”

RAVEN, CHARLES E.Christian socialism, 1848–1854. *$6.50 Macmillan 335.7

“This work is based on the Donellan lectures delivered by the author, who is dean of Emmanuel college, Cambridge, at Trinity college, Dublin, in May, 1919. It traces the ‘Christian socialist’ movement from its origin in the reaction against the ‘laissez faire’ principles of the early 19th century to the apparent failure of the effects of Maurice, Neale and Ludlow in 1853, after the passing of Slaney’s act, which gave recognition to the cooperative movement. The concluding chapter deals with the ‘Foundation of the working men’s college’ after the breakdown of the earlier hopes of the Christian socialists.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The volume as a whole is a genuine contribution to English economic history and will doubtless be received as such. Mr Raven would have been a little more convincing in some parts if he had been less profuse in praising his heroes and at the same time had shown more charity for Mrs Sidney Webb and other critics of the Christian Socialists.”

“Mr Raven’s contribution to the history of economics is valuable, and has obviously entailed much research. But he does not go deeply enough into the philosophic and historic interrelation of things, such as the relation of socialism to liberalism, or to anarchism, or to naturalism and supernaturalism.”

“Mr Raven has found a good subject for a book and has studied it industriously. The best part of his book is his account of the men who made the movement, especially of Ludlow, a man far less known than he deserves to be. But it is a pity that he tries to exalt his heroes by depreciating every one else.”

RAYMOND, E. T.All and sundry. *$2.25 (3½c) Holt 920

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