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A work dealing with the British textile industry. The preface states:
“‘Union textile fabrication’ touches, in its technological aspects and
interests, the many grades and branches of spun and woven
manufacture.... The subject, when thus viewed, assumes proportions
and bearings of paramount significance to the practitioner, the
manufacturer, and the investigator, whether distinctly associated
with the cotton, the wool, the flax, or the silk trade.” The book is
made up of three sections: Bi-fibred manufactures; Compound-yarn
fabrics; Woven unions; and the illustrations consist of “numerous
original diagrams, sectional drawings, and photographic
reproductions of spun and woven specimens in the text.” The author
was formerly professor of textile industries, Leeds university.
(Eng ed 20–8650)
20–10621
“The book contains technical information for the designing and
constructing of ordinary steel-framed buildings. ‘The principal
endeavor throughout has been to make the work broadly suggestive
rather than particular or exhaustive.’ (Preface) The appendix
contains tables useful for reference. Partly reprinted from the
Mechanical World and The Engineer.”—Booklist
19–6644
“In preparing this book the aim has been to provide means of
thoroughly and quickly acquiring the knowledge necessary to pass
the examinations for naturalization and to assist those who have
been deprived of the advantages of our modern public schools.”
(Preface) The steps required for naturalization are first set forth.
Then follows the texts of the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States and a final section is given up to
questions and answers on laws and government. There is an index.
The author is chief of naturalization, Camden county courts,
Camden, N.J.
Booklist 17:9 O ’20
20–18420
“‘The passing of the new freedom’ gives him some claims to rank
as a political satirist—that rare bird in American letters.” E. L.
Pearson
20–13591
The book gives all the outstanding facts of our political history
with such impartiality as to appeal to the reader’s critical faculty and
to challenge independent conclusions. A “habitual dislike of
thinking” the author holds to be a characteristic of Americans, which
at the present time exposes them to the danger of mistaking the
“form for the substance of democracy” and may prevent America
from being in the future what it was in the past—“a fruitful
experiment in democracy.” Contents: America and democracy; The
origins of democracy in America; The new world experiment in
democracy; Democracy and government; New world democracy and
old world intervention; Democracy and free land; Democracy and
slavery; Democracy and immigration; Democracy and education;
Democracy and equality.
“It is to be hoped that the inaccuracies will not seriously injure the
usefulness of a readable book, which is on the whole filled with
sagacious comment and treats in a telling way a number of traits and
tendencies of American democracy.” A. C. McL.
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
Nation 111:sup416 O 13 ’20 450w
19–16729
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BEERBOHM, MAX, comp. Herbert Beerbohm
Tree: some memories of him and his art. il *$7
Dutton
20–19582
Six men and the author make seven. The book contains six
imaginary sketches of six imaginary men: Enoch Soames; Hilary
Maltby and Stephen Braxton; James Pethel; A. V. Laider;
“Savonarola” Brown; with an appendix of drawings of these men by
the author. As the drawings are caricatures so are the pen sketches
satires on human vanities, weaknesses and foibles, literary and
otherwise.
“In none is the author’s authentic touch wholly absent, but there
are tedious pages.”
“The motif of each story in ‘Seven men’ is slight, the working out of
it spread thin—very thin.” C. K. H.
“The fragrant quality of the book, the solemn malice of the papers
on Brown and A. V. Laider; the imaginative subtlety of the account of
Enoch Soames, and the glorious remedy of the rivalry between
Braxton and Maltby—they all show Max at his best.”
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BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN. Connecticut
wits and other essays. *$2.25 Yale univ. press 814
20–22823
“Mr Beers is a clear expositor, is at ease with facts, and can make
them agreeable by almost imperceptible departures from the jogtrot
of chronicle. Without humor, he has something of the buoyancy of
humor.”
20–5263
In the preface to this life of the founder of the Salvation army, the
author says: “William Booth is likely to remain for many centuries
one of the most signal figures in human history. Therefore, to paint
his portrait faithfully for the eyes of those who come after us—a great
duty and a severe responsibility—has been my cardinal consideration
in preparing these pages. Only when circumstances insisted have I
turned from my attempt at portraiture to examine documents which
will one day be employed by the historian of the Salvation army.” The
work opens with an account of social conditions in England at the
time of William Booth’s birth and reflections on the probable effects
of his early surroundings on his mind and character. Volume 1 covers
the years up to 1881 and volume 2 continues the story to his death in
1912. There are a number of portraits and other illustrations and an
index.
“The world may be divided into people who pray with General
Booth, people who are angry with General Booth, and people who
turn their face away and look out of the window. Mr Begbie,
unfortunately, seems to have considered that it was necessary for his
official biographer to pray perpetually with the General, and his
1,000 pages of biography even conform to the tradition of prayer in
their repetitions, vagueness, and verbosity.” L. W.
Reviewed by O. L. Joseph
“Mr Begbie has done his work well. We could have dispensed with
some of his own observations concerning Darwin, Bergson,
Nietzsche, and other figures of interest which are unhelpful to the
story and whose omission might have sensibly reduced the size of the
volumes. But where he has been content with simple narration of
events and the selection of letters and writings, he has proved
himself a good biographer.”
“The life-story of the man who created the Salvation army, written
with a sympathy and understanding such as Mr Begbie puts in it, is
an extraordinarily welcome book.”
“Mr Begbie’s life of William Booth would be for the general reader
twice as good if it were half as long.”
“Though to the modern man this modern story has more to say
than most of the annals of hagiology, it is as a romance, as a love
story, that William Booth’s ‘Life’ is perhaps most to be valued. The
pawnbroker’s assistant and the half-invalid girl from Brixton are the
hero and heroine of a love romance which for passionate intensity,
for sublimity, for tempestuous vicissitude, stands head and shoulders
above the tales of Paris and Helen, of Tristram and Iseult.”
19–15567
“An almost incredible story” says the subtitle, and so it is. The
major had been given a ring by an old Turkish priest in ransom for
his life. This ring was found to possess the magic property of making
its bearer invisible. It first brought the major into repute as a lunatic,
then into all manner of scrapes and out again and so from one
Arabian nights’ entertainment into another until the war was over
and we leave him returned to England and in the arms of his best-
beloved.
“We thought the humours of the ring that makes the wearer
invisible had certainly been pretty well worked out by now. But this
was a delusion.”
20–19932
“In every chapter sidelights are cleverly thrown upon the habits
and daily lives of the rather unpractical citizens.” E. G. C.