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“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.”
(Eng ed 20–6135)
“No man can seriously pretend that he is able to write with equal
authority on the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, President Wilson,
M. Clemenceau, the Bishop of London, Mr Hilaire Belloc, Sir Thomas
Beecham, and Mr Frank Brangwyn—to take only a few names at
random. Another unfortunate thing for Mr Raymond is that in his
‘Uncensored celebrities’ he had picked out the largest plums.
However, even here Mr Raymond has his effective flashes, for he is a
clever draughtsman with the pen, especially upon political subjects.
There is real humour, as well as observation.”
20–20922
“He has not, in spite of the claim put forward in the title, produced
what is commonly understood by a biography. The study is, in the
first place, limited to a single aspect of Mr Balfour’s many-sided
personality, and, in the second place, objective; but to say that is, by
no means, to deny that it is worth reading. Within its limitations, it is
brilliantly clever.”
[2]
RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING. Ethics and
natural law. *$2 Putnam 171
20–11578
(Eng ed 20–9138)
Reviewed by H. J. Laski
“Mr Reade’s book is one that provokes to disagreement; but for all
that, perhaps even because of it, it demands to be read. After all,
mere assent or dissent matters little compared with the pleasure to
be derived from contact with so vigorous and sincere an intellect, and
though we may traverse every one of his conclusions, it is with the
sense that Mr Reade is, at least in spirit, on the side of the angels.”
“This book was published in 1872. Its author’s first intention was
to write on the part which Africa had played in the world’s story. But
the conception grew under his hands until it became a full-fledged
philosophy of history. His guiding principle of explanation is given in
the last pages of the book. ‘I give to universal history a strange but
true title—“The martyrdom of man.” In each generation the human
race has been tortured that their children might profit by their woes.’
The successive stages in this painful upward struggle he designates
as war, religion, liberty, and intellect, and to each of them he devotes
a section of his book. But another stage is yet to be traversed: we
must in the interests of right thinking rid ourselves forever of
anthropomorphic religion. It was mainly owing to Reade’s attack on
Christianity that his book was passed over in disdainful silence by so
many. ‘The martyrdom of man’ has now reached its twenty-first
edition.”—Review
“Everything is made simple and clear with a few bold strokes, and
the multiplicity of the trees never obscures the woods. The lively style
is an added stimulus to the reader, for the author possessed an
undeniable talent for direct and forcible statement. When he
becomes enthusiastic in his narrative he can revivify the past as
tellingly as Macaulay, whom he resembles also in the crispness of his
sentences.” W. K. Stewart
+ Review 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1000w 550w
Springf’d Republican p10 Mr 19 ’20
20–3252
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REED, EARL H. Tales of a vanishing river. il
*$3 (5c) Lane
20–22228
The river was the Kankakee, near the southern end of Lake
Michigan, and once the main confluent of the Illinois. Once it lapped
its leisurely course with many ramifications through low marsh
lands, teeming with natural beauty and bird life, the home of the
Miami and Pottowattomie Indians. Now the Indians and the beauty
and the birds are gone and a mighty ditch of straight-channelled
course has drained away the marshes. The book is an attempt at the
interpretation of the life along the river that has vanished and is
illustrated with sketches by the author. The contents are: The
vanishing river; The silver arrow; The brass bound box; The “Wether
book” of Buck Granger’s grandfather; Tipton Posey’s store; Muskrat
Hyatt’s redemption; The turkey club; The predicaments of Colonel
Peets; His unlucky star.
“Mr Reed writes with a queer, mellow philosophy and humor and
in a gently meandering style which seems to recapture something of
the slow, placid course of the river whose loss he mourns.”
20–13345
“The details are rather gruesome, but the plot is one of the best of
the year.”
“Mr Rees has set before the reader a mystery whose blind and
baffling qualities are likely to puzzle and lead astray the most astute
and skillful of lovers of detective fiction. For the author writes well,
with a good, forceful, interesting style, makes graphic and pleasing
pictures of his background, and puts vitality and individuality into
the delineation of his characters.”
“In this detective story the murderer is really ingenious, and will
not easily be discovered. Mr Rees has spent too much time at the
beginning in picturing old-world details, and elsewhere by being
‘literary’ he delays the action of the story which is everything in a tale
of this sort.”
20–10539
20–26325
“The boys are boys, and not merely the mouthpieces of ideas.”
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REIK, HENRY OTTRIDGE. Tour of America’s
national parks. il *$4 Dutton 711
20–18059
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p9 Ja 9 ’21 100w
+ R of Rs 62:672 D ’20 160w
20–22246
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
“This is the best book on the war that has appeared, and we hope it
is the last. Everybody is sick of the war, its horrors and its squabbles,
and wants to forget it. The excellence of the book consists in its
twofold claim on our attention. There is the exhaustive criticism of
the conduct of the war by a military expert of European reputation:
and there is the picture of manners in that section of society ruled by
American women, drawn by one who lived in its favour.”
“Go into a shady part of the garden, or better still, into a damp
shrubbery and lift up some big flat stone. Underneath you will find a
quantity of crawling creatures, disturbed by the light so suddenly let
in upon them.... Such a garden adventure recurs irresistibly to the
mind as one reads Colonel Repington’s diary of the war years.... As to
the enlightenment which his book should bring in regard to the way
in which public affairs are too often handled, as to the advantages of
the lessons to be learnt, and finally as to the value of this first step in
the reform which comes with knowledge, we have no doubt
whatever.”