The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book, parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal Mercier’s works concludes the book.
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout reverence.” M. K. Reely
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c) Appleton
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,” describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food administration, and the American relief administration. Four appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and speeches.
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
KELLY, FRED CHARTERS. Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
“Interesting but rather obvious.”
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements of conduct.”
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN. American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne
KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD. What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of the grave in France.
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a success.” I. W. L.
KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD. Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis) “Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found ‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are gathered here.” L. B.
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before, though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past. A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to justice.”—N Y Times
“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping, straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery, admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
KENEALY, ARABELLA. Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length, and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER. Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6 Macmillan 852
Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who, across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life, a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work, the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an index and three illustrations.
“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French and Italian citations.” N. H. D.
“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”
“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”
KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER. Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran
The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson, Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims, and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s innocence, true love comes to its own.
“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern Italy.”
“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know his Venice.”
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN. Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822
An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.
“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton
“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught, and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues of its journey.”
“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment, falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is, is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”
KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230
“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the theology of the developing church.”—Ath
“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”
KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE. Jesus’ principles of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232
“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the other in political science, have worked together to expound the teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript
“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this volume.”
“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal and of the abstract.” F. W. C.
“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”
“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the reader.” B. L.
KENT, ROCKWELL. Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il *$5 Putnam
Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is that which we believe it to be.”
“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art, we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.
Reviewed by H: McBride
“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening
“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like ‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the wilderness.” M. F. Egan
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’ is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys is not a mere surmise.”
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is ‘Wilderness.’”
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
KEON, GRACE. Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and felt that she really could not take him into her household of six small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father, Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times
“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”
“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”
“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”
KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL. Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia univ. press 940.373
Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia, and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American scholarship; What have we learned?
KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS. Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1
“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review
“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”
“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist, not only without effective protest but largely with their acquiescence.” E. A. S.
“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”
“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood
“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”
“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America. Typographically the book is not attractive.”
“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134
Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy, while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.” Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its details.”
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane
This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”; Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s ‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression of their real greatness.”
“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means destitute of revealing touches.”
“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”
KERR, R. WATSON. War daubs. *$1 Lane 821
This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.” Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.
“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD). Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran