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“It is sincerely conceived and written, it shows grasp of character and its development, and it unfolds its story interestingly. It has also its distinct crudities, technically and ethically. Like others of its numerous kind, its prolonged emphasis upon sex will condemn it for a large body of readers who will feel that it gives a distorted and unhealthy view of life.”
N Y Evening Post p2 F 14 ’20
600w
“Any sincere study of ‘the woman alone’ to use Brieux’s phrase is bound to be interesting, bound, indeed, to have a certain amount of value. In ‘The swing of the pendulum’ there is much that is crude, but there is real thought, real study and some vividness.”
N Y Times 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 750w
“Miss Spadoni has done some notable work in the past. Some of her short stories were of men and women, futile, and sordid, but she cut down beneath the events of their lives to the poetry of life. She has not, in ‘The swing of the pendulum’ kept the pace which she set herself in those tales.” Lucy Huffaker
Pub W 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 700w
“There are evidences of cuts which in places make for uncertainty of delineation the only blemish of an otherwise almost perfect work of its kind.”
Survey 44:385 Je 12 ’20 150w
SPARGO, JOHN.
“Greatest failure in all history.”
*$2.50 (2c) Harper 947
20–14005
In this “critical examination of the actual workings of bolshevism in Russia” (Sub-title) the author claims to have assembled evidence which “must compel every honest believer in freedom and democracy to condemn bolshevism as a vicious and dangerous form of reaction, subversive of every form of progress and every agency of civilization and enlightenment,” and to show it up as “the curse which during less than thirty months has afflicted unhappy Russia with greater ills than fifty years of czarism.” (Preface) Contents: Why have the bolsheviki retained power? The soviets; The soviets under the bolsheviki; The undemocratic soviet state; The peasants and the land; The bolsheviki and the peasants; The red terror; Industry under soviet control; The nationalization of industry (I-II); Freedom of press and assembly: “The dictatorship of the proletariat”; State communism and labor conscription; Let the verdict be rendered; Documents; Index.
“Although most of the evidence carries its own weight the disinterested reader will wish in many cases for some critical evaluation of authorities cited.”
Booklist 17:55 N ’20
“Mr Spargo is a Socialist, and it is because he considers the doctrines of Lenin and his followers a ‘grotesque travesty of Marx’s teachings,’ and a blow to socialism, and the arch enemy of all democracy, political, and industrial, that he exposes it as it is. This is
the great merit of the book. It compels the reader to look at bolshevism as it is.” F. W. C.
Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 680w
“His latest volume attains a level of even greater detachment and cool judgment than its predecessors. The first uprush of hot revulsion of feeling against a false and violent philosophy, masked in the forms of the author’s own cause, has passed. Attacks upon the personal characters of bolshevist leaders are practically absent. The argument gains greatly in strength from this avoidance of personal invective.” M.
W. Davis
N Y Evening Post p4 S 25 ’20 780w
“Mr Spargo’s book is a stern book, but a just one. It was much needed, and it is especially timely now. ” W: C. Redfield
The author is a sworn enemy of Bolshevist rule and thinks that Russia is not ready for anything like a socialist state, lacking industrial development as she does. “At present she needs capital and capitalist enterprise.” This makes Russia an American problem and “there should be a very clear recognition, alike by the government and the people of the United States, of the great and farreaching importance of securing for this country a very large share in the immense volume of trade which Russia’s recovery and economic reconstruction must inevitably produce.” Contents: Russia as an American problem; Russia and western civilization: Russia’s subjection to Germany; Japan as Germany’s successor; Japan and Siberia; Russia’s needs and resources; Postscriptum; extensive appendices and an index.
Booklist 16:276 My ’20
Lit D p95 My 1 ’20 1400w
“The ultimate political advantage for the world of a Russia free from economic vassalage to militaristic neighbors is obvious, but Mr Spargo’s case would be equally strong if he did not magnify the danger of Russia’s position; for whatever may be the reality of Japan’s menace in Siberia the threat from Germany to European Russia or of a German-Japanese alliance belongs for the present in the realm of imagination.” Jacob Zeitlin
Nation 110:730 My 29 ’20 2000w
N Y Evening Post p3 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“Mr Spargo’s study is vitally interesting and illuminating, and it contains a wealth of precise information which will be priceless to business men in many lines when the time comes for meeting German commercial rivalry in her new Mitteleuropa.” J: Corbin
N Y Times 25:127 Mr 21 ’20 1600w
“Vital and patriotic book.”
N Y Times 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 100w
Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 9 ’20 620w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
Survey 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 200w
SPEARS, RAYMOND SMILEY. River prophet.
il *$1.50 (1c) Doubleday
20–10310
A story of the “Old Mississip” and of the vagrant population shanty boaters, pot hunters, river pirates that lives upon its broad waters. Parson Elijah Rasba, from the mountains, floats down the Tug river to the Big Sandy, down the Big Sandy to the Ohio, down the Ohio and out onto the great river, where he exclaims “If this is the Mississippi what must the Jordan be!” Parson Elijah is seeking a lost soul, Jock Drones, whose mammy wants him back in the mountains, and so he joins the motley throng that goes “dropping down” the
lower river. Among the other characters are Nelia Carline, who has left her husband, Gus Carline, the husband in pursuit of her, Lester Terabon, a newspaper man in search of copy, Mame Coape of the many divorces, Buck the river gambler, and Jock Drones, the lost soul who turns back to his mammy.
+ |Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
SPENCE, LEWIS. Legends and romances of Spain. il *$6.50 Stokes 863
20–26986
The literature of the romantic period in Spain treated by a folklorist, who says, “Since the days of Southey the romantic literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves.... I have made an earnest endeavour to provide English readers with a conspectus of Spanish romantic literature as expressed in its cantares de gesta, its chivalric novels, its romanceros or ballads, and some of its lighter aspects. The reader will find full accounts and summaries of all the more important works under each of these heads, many of which have never before been described in English.” (Preface) Among the chapters are: The sources of Spanish romance; “Amadis de Gaul”; Catalonian romances; Moorish romances of Spain; Tales of Spanish magic and sorcery; Humorous romances of Spain. There are illustrations and a brief bibliography.
“It is an honest attempt to interest the general reader in a delightful department of literature. A book of this sort is in special need of an index, especially as there are no detailed ‘Contents,’ only general chapter-headings. But though there is a useful short bibliography, there is no index at all.” G: Saintsbury
Ath p516 O 15 ’20 900w
Booklist 17:107 D ’20
Outlook 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 60w
“Extremely readable.”
Spec 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w
“The attractive page, the good print, the popular treatment, the fine coloured illustrations, render it exactly suitable for a present to an intelligent youth of either sex, while the accounts and summaries of all the important works under the various headings provide a real fund of instructive information.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 S 9 ’20 100w
“‘Legends and romances of Spain’ is not only a story book. There is a great deal of information in it and some real research. It is not quite up to date, perhaps.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p833 D 9 ’20 660w
SPENCE, THOMAS, and others. Pioneers of land reform. *$1.50 Knopf 333
This book is one of the series of economic reprints of the famous Bohn libraries. It contains an introduction by M. Beer, characterizing and comparing the three essays. The essays are: The real rights of man, by Thomas Spence; The right of property in land, by William Ogilive; and Agrarian justice, by Thomas Paine.
The Times [London] Lit Sup p195 Mr 25 ’20 1200w
SPENDER, HAROLD. Prime minister. il *$4 Doran
20–22843
In writing this biography the author has drawn upon “the memories of twenty-seven years of unbroken friendship” and in summing up the characteristics of his friend he says: “It is this combination of the slow qualities, with the swift of judgment with daring, of mercy with rigour, of slow reflection with swift attack, of the zeal of the Cambrian with the shrewdness of the Fleming—that marks him off from so many of his race. ” The first thirteen chapters are devoted to Lloyd George’s childhood and youth and earlier career up to the beginning of the war and the rest of the contents is: A war man (1914–1915); East or west? (1915); Serbia (1915): Munitions (1915): The new ministry of munitions; Premiership (1916); The
saving of Italy; The Versailles council; Victory; The peace conference; The new world; The man; Highways and byways; Through foreign eyes. There are illustrations, appendices and an index.
“This record has the force of an autobiography rather than of a detached appraisal.”
Booklist 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by D: J. Hill
Bookm 52:163 O ’20 1800w
Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 1800w
“The book is pitched in a high dithyrambic key which is too laboriously sustained to be convincing and at last becomes exasperating. The literary frills are, moreover, a trifle cheap and shabby. Either the whole thing is the most flagrant and therefore self-defeating sort of pamphleteering or Mr Spender’s once robust literary sense is suffering a sad decline.” R: Roberts
Freeman 1:571 Ag 25 ’20 1650w
“Mr Spender’s portrait of the Prime Minister can claim in one respect only to be a faithful one. It is Mr Lloyd George as he appears to himself not to his Maker. Not merely by false interpretation of events but by false attribution of qualities and acquirements Mr Spender fabricates his hero.” J. A. Hobson
Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 1400w
“It has none of the detached judgment of a historical appraisal of a completed career. Instead it has the militant interest of a brief presented in behalf of one of the most brilliant statesmen of modern times. It is not biography in the highest form of that art nor is it great literature. But Mr Spender’s work is not cheapened or vitiated by unseeing eulogy of his subject.” W: L. Chenery
N Y Times 25:3 Je 27 ’20 3550w
“Mr Spender knows no discrimination in his eulogy: whatever his hero has done is not only right but so conspicuously right that it needs neither apology nor explanation. The best we can honestly say of ‘The prime minister’ is that it will serve as a quarry from which some future biographer may draw useful materials.”
Spec 124:427 Mr 27 ’20 750w
Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w
“Much the most satisfactory part of the book is that which describes Mr Lloyd George’s birth and upbringing, his early political activities, his entry into Parliament, and the brilliant fighting years in which he marked himself out as a certain minister of the crown. The history of his career as a minister down to the outbreak of war is vague and scrappy and generally inadequate.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p189 Mr 18 ’20 350w
Elder’s people. il *$1.75 (2c) Houghton
20–5405
Through these stories of old New England we look into the hearts of the country people, hear their gossip, learn to know their homely religion, their superstitions, see the struggles they have with their baser selves and glimpse their higher natures. We also learn to love the sturdy souls that recur in all the stories and embody the best that is in them all—Elder Perry, Old Steve, Miss Mahala, and others. The stories are: The deacon’s whistle; A change of heart; A rural telephone; The step-father; John-a-dreams; Miss Mahala’s miracle; An old fiddler; The blessing called peace; Father James; The impossible choice; A village dressmaker; Miss Mahala’s will; A life in a night; Miss Mahala and Johnny.
“Undramatic, but interesting.”
Booklist 16:314 Je ’20
Lit
D p102 O 23 ’20 1200w
“Mrs Spofford is not by any means a great craftsman, her limitations are quite evident, but within her power and she is never unduly anxious to achieve what is beyond her she provides some interesting and entertaining bits of fiction.”
N Y Evening Post p2 Ap 10 ’20 480w
“The series of short stories which makes up this chronicle contains nothing particularly new or striking, but the tales have quite a good
deal of verisimilitude, and some of the characters are likable.”
N Y Times 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 280w
Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w
“Mrs Spofford has finely and strongly delineated a number of choice spirits here whom one will not easily forget. She has also incorporated much of the quiet humor of this type of people, and, all in all, has presented here not an especially great book but a very interesting one. ”
Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 250w
SPRING RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR. Poems.
Longmans 821
20–17907
“Mr Bernard Holland reminds us in his preface that the late ambassador to the United States published two books in his lifetime, a book of verse with interludes in poetic prose ‘adapted from the Persian’ and a prose version of a Persian love tale with a veiled mystical meaning. Besides the Persian sonnets this volume contains ‘In memoriam, A. C. M. L.,’ and a number of miscellaneous poems. ” The Times [London] Lit Sup
“His poems are like his personality and please us by some charm which is not quite analysable. They are strangely different from the
Spec 125:782 D 11 ’20 850w
Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 720w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup O 14 ’20)
The Times [London] Lit Sup p654 O 7 ’20 90w
“They are true poetry. The volume may not add one to the list of great English sonnets; but the beauty and the sincerity of these claim attention.”
+ work of most men of action. There are only a few poems in this book which are absolutely bad, but, on the other hand, there is probably none which is not marked by some flaw.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20 720w
SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER). Cornelli; tr. by Elisabeth P. Stork. (Stories all children love ser.) il *$1.50 (3½c) Lippincott
20–17408
In his introduction to this story for children Charles Wharton Stork regrets that its author should be known for one of her books only, altho that one is the justly popular “Heidi.” In the present story, he thinks “ we find a deeper treatment of character, combined with
equal spirit and humor of a different kind.” It is the story of a happyhearted little Swiss girl who is changed into a sullen, morose and unattractive child through the misunderstanding of two women in whose care her father leaves her. A woman of different type, the mother of a family of four, finds the secret of Cornelli’s unhappiness and brings back the old sunny disposition.
“There is a breath of the mountain freshness which suggests ‘Heidi.’ The translation of the children’s speeches into formal English gives them sometimes a rather stilted effect.”
Booklist 17:163 Ja ’21
SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER). Toni,
the little wood-carver; tr. by Helen B. Dole. il *$1 (9c) Crowell
20–15071
From earliest childhood Toni had carved animals out of wood and his dearest ambition is to be a wood-carver. But the cost of instruction is beyond his mother’s means and he is sent up into the mountains to herd the farmer’s cows. Here, overcome by the loneliness, he breaks down and falls into a lethargy from which nothing arouses him. He is taken to a great sanitarium where he finally recovers and finds a good friend who provides the money for the desired training.
Wis Lib Bul 16:199 N ’20 90w
SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.). Birds, and other
poems. *$1.25 Doran 821
(Eng ed A20–244)
Birds, the first poem of this collection is based on the thought that the birds are older than man and that in the days of his infancy they built their nests in the self-same way and with the same perfection they do today. The other poems are: Processes of thought, Airship over suburb, Harlequin, Winter nightfall, Two songs, and A far place.
“‘The birds’ is an interesting poem full of felicitous things. But it seems somehow to lack intensity. The three poems called ‘Processes of thought’ are naturally more personal, more intimately felt; for they are a record of introspection. In these we seem to be getting nearer our ideal of what the lyric inspired by science or philosophy should be like.” A. L. H.
Ath p783 Ag 22 ’19 1000w
“His nature minutæ, his tenderness, his color are Wordsworthian, with a drama, a music, a diamond-cut-diamond quality, as well as a quality of the noblest oratory, that the old bard never knew.”
Bookm 52:367 D ’20 280w
“The poem after which the collection takes its name has a common idea but one which Mr Squire expresses with uncommon vigor and suggestion. The advantage of Mr Squire over the average American poet of similar gifts is his ability to express sentiment without sentimentalizing the mood.” W: S. Braithwaite
Boston Transcript p9 D 1 ’20 1500w
“The difficulty with his poetry, for there is a difficulty lies in the unfortunate fact, that despite the obvious care he lavishes upon it, it is too lax, too impersonal. Like everyone else who has something new to say, Mr Squire has discovered that a new idea depends on a new form of utterance being found to fit it. It is only a pity that he has so few new ideas, and that he is content instead with writing poems in which neither the idea nor the utterance is of the slightest importance.”
J: G. Fletcher
Freeman 2:284 D 1 ’20 900w
“His head is clearer than his poetry is fine; he is sober, and he has a vein of reflection not wholly resembling other men ’ s, but the strength that he has displayed rather than implied, and his metaphors, of which he apparently is proud, are painfully overdeveloped.”
Nation 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“The writing of verse is only one of Mr Squire’s innumerable activities, and yet he is a poet of no small talent. Unlike most of his brother Georgians, he is at his best when he is most metaphysical. At his best he is fantastically powerful; at his worst he is florid and bombastic. The present volume shows him more in the latter mood.”
“Mr Squire in his present volume has lost none of that quiet controlled distinction which was always his; but he seems to have got rid of the rather hard, metallic note which was noticeable in some of his former work. The most remarkable poem of the book is called ‘A far place.’ To us it seems one of the most original and absolutely successful and complete poems that Mr Squire has ever written.”
Spec 123:376 S 20 ’19 620w
“This little book is not merely a joy in itself and additional to what is now a considerable body of work, but extremely rich in promise.”
+ + N Y Evening Post p11 N 6 ’20 180w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p409 Jl 31 ’19 980w
SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.). Books in general. (2nd ser.)
*$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 824
20–16289
This is the second series of short essays, reviews and squibs on books and writers, collected from weekly contributions to the New Statesman. They are brilliant, witty and full of originality. Some of the topics are: The descendants of Shakespeare; Scientific management for Pegasus; The inferior poems of Keats; One’s favourite author defined; Shelley’s letters; The essay in America; The
humours of hymnology; Dialect in literature; Verhaeren; On submitting manuscripts; Rupert Brooke in retrospect.
Booklist 17:107 D ’20
“Even more interesting than technical success, in this sort of thing, is the quality of mind we see at work. Mr Squire has an admirable sanity.” K. F. Gerould
Bookm 52:263 N ’20 780w
“Mr Squire’s style is distinctly conversational. The fluent grace of such table-talk, however, neatly disposes of the adage that all men talk in prose. ”
Dial 69:665 D ’20 70w
“Somehow the sense of leisure in ‘Books in general’ is not richly filled; the notations are too fluent, the writing lacks spring, and more often than not it lacks the effect of enjoyment. Scarcely one of his papers can be read without expectancy. But the promise is seldom fulfilled.” C. M. R.
Freeman 2:382 D 29 ’20 210w
“The comments on books, politics and things in general are thoughtful, amusing and suggestive, worth reading and thinking about.”
Ind 104:68 O 9 ’20 320w
“They are informative, witty, often merely playful. Critical acumen is shown at times, but more often the evident purpose of the papers is to amuse. ”
N Y Times p10 O 8 ’20 550w
“Mr Squire mentions books and publications from this country only for the purpose of jeering at them; it is gently done, but still a jeer. ‘Books in general,’ however, includes such pleasing essays ... that most of us will forgive ‘Solomon Eagle’ for tweaking a feather or two of the American eagle’s tail.” E. L. Pearson
Review 3:229 S 15 ’20 180w
Reviewed by P. U. Kellogg
Survey 45:27 O 2 ’20 680w
20–666
“This small book of one hundred forty-five pages contains a vast store of information concerning the principles of human nutrition and the application of these principles to the problem of feeding the community in times of peace and war. ” (N Y Evening Post) “Dr
Starling was chairman of the Food committee of the Royal society which took up the study of the problem of feeding the nation before the government realized that there was a problem, and afterwards scientific adviser to the ministry of food.” (Survey)
“An extremely able and attractive presentation of a difficult subject.”
N Y Evening Post p5 Mr 20 ’20 500w
Survey 43:656 F 28 ’20 1050w
STEARNS, HAROLD EDMUND.
Liberalism in America: its origin, its temporary collapse, its future.
*$1.75 (2½c) Boni & Liveright 321.8
20–1878
“The core of liberal philosophy” writes the author, “is respect for the individual and his freedom of conscience and opinion.” To trace the foundations of this philosophy in America and to account for its complete break-down during the war is the main purpose of this book. The ten chapter titles are: What liberalism is; The English heritage and the American development; American liberalism to the eve of the war; The emotional breakdown before warhysteria; Timidity and the seductions of office or career; President Wilson, the technique of liberal failure; Political symbolism and the mob; Débâcle of pragmatism; Leadership; The future. A bibliography of two pages follows. The author was formerly associate editor of the Dial.
