The Realm of Books
WOOD, CLEMENT
The Realm of Books Capsuled Life Review by CLEMENT WOOD r#* w-sr -swour storied of Mj«M, AND THE YEAR bimh t()f THE AMERICAS short j STORY Edited by Edward j. O'Brien. Button: Small,...
...Th* Dsnc«," by Margaret N. H'Doubler...
...g with an Introduction by Aid en* Hex-ley...
...the Saturday Evening Post does not even appear on the list, being far below the requisite fifteen per cent for inclusion...
...The case for the American magazine, as the book reveals, is a pretty slim one...
...Man modifies his environment, but it modifies him immensely more so...
...Barring "Grudges," there is no story that inevitably commends itself as unqualifiedly great...
...Unless such an inherited pattern, gear or mechanism exists in nervous equipment, our responses to stimuli are more likely learned or acquired through experience, training or habit...
...The overwhelming influence of the environment, the trait-forming factors of learning, experience, imitation, habit and tradition, have been woefully neglected in the elasaicsl literature of social psychology and allied subjects...
...nuns] Psychology and Director of th* | Iowa Child Welfare Research Station I in the University of lows, and Larl* t. Stechcr...
...A devastating broadside has been fired into the camp of the social psychologists, eugenists, education...
...Boston: Stratford Co...
...However, for students in the social sciences, particularly in education, social psychology and sociology, this book is indispensable and the viewpoint of the writer is refreshingly bold, wholesome and revolutionary, His onslaught on the MacDougall vagaries in sncisl psychology and his analysis of the carelessly described "instincts" such as the supposed Criminal, Racial...
...Thomas Hardy has so often been called pessimist that Mr...
...Some are too easy and obvious—Mildred Cram's study of a thinly-moustached Charlie Chaplin an excellent example of this failing...
...N»w York...
...Civilization, however, plays strange tricks with Nature- Mr...
...The book is for the thoughtful...
...Boni A Llverlrht announce positiv* publicstion of the long-promised L«-Oallltnn* "Anthology of American Poetry" and John Mscy* "Th* Story, of the World'* Literature" In Mar...
...We will Imagine a mm standing in the street and say nig to himself: 'It is six o'clock in the evening...
...Meanwhile-, Octavus Key Cohen with his nineteen, and all the stories of George Randolph Chester, James Oliver Curwood, Kathleen Norris, Arthur Somers Roche, Albert Payson Terhune, and countless others of the more well-paid popularities, cannot scrape up even one story of one-star distinction among them...
...Qardtn City: Deuki*-day, Pag* * Co...
...Andreyev's Despair •A Review by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY LEOSID ANDREYEV...
...Almost every characteristic or trait we mortals are heir to has been neatly christened snd thrown upon an evergrowing heap, .amed instincts...
...by Katharine Mayo...
...The social psychologists and their copyists have built up an elaborate ! and imposing list of instincts, impulses and emotions...
...On the whole this little history is excellent for its purpose—"to inform the busy person of the facts about the Labor movement...
...includes also the question of "giant power"—the term applied to the utilization of natural resources, to secure hydro-electric power...
...O'Brien has combed the field well...
...With the wrath of Jeremiah, An- j dreyev has thundered...
...It is a tremendous task that Kellermann has undertaken and it is an effective work that he has prbduced...
...We meet in his story all the types that the war made familiar to us here—the swivel-chair general, relieved of his duty at the front because his myopia would not permit him to distinguish between the front and his sector of the front...
...13.00...
...and "Literature and Revolution," by Leon Trotsky, e survey ef pre*sat-day literary tendencies...
...FOUR PLAYS FOR FOUR WOMIM...
...Adapted for th* Medtta Stag...
...It is a strangely familiar picture that he unfolds...
...And even he : who hath uttered the word God— ' hath lied an utmost and terrible lie...
...And j because it sets out to prove no point, it is the more impressive proof that, i in the end, all peoples are the same...
...much even sounder and more "•miting than the enjoyable Barbara...
...Herbst, crazed by the loss of his only son, the young captain to whom life has become a succession of horrors at the front nnd of women picked up at random to relieve his ennui, the stay-at-homes who profit from the blood of the common mass...
...Kellermann introduces as to the chaos behind the German lines after the beginning of 1918...
...Wilbur Daniel Steele has four out of four so guerdoned...
...Bernard attempts a classification of the numerous inborn traits that are supposed to reside In the original nature of man...
...By Mrs...
...Certain magazines, the Century, Trans-Sllsntic Review, and Dial, get 100 per cent rating as to their number tf distinctive stories included...
...There are few modern scientific subjects upon which there is more confusion than the study of instincts...
...or I can climb upon the tower to watch the sunset...
...alists and the host of pseudo-scientific romanticists upon the theme of human nature and our individual and social traits...
...Sew York: George H Oman...
...Kaun sum-, up his as-1 complishment, in well-chosen final i words: "He has spent 48 years on | this earth, years of restless seeking, j of futile attempts at solving life's riddle, In vsin efforts to reconcile contradictions, to find n pacifying and harrtionizing synthesis...
...that the story of one country in the war is the story of every country in the war...
...3.60...
...Bernard insists that no trait, characteristic or ;nnate tendency can be classified or described as instinctive unless ft has f-r its basis an inherited action pattern in our nervous system that will respond automatically to a stimulus...
...Then there is the role which the Labor movement is taking in studying the business cycle, and the efforts expended in checking the disastrous effects of industrial depression...
...Sew York: B. IV, ' Hc.nbr.ch...
...The book was written for the German public...
...the secret police, always on their trail and yet never succeeding in crushing them out...
...Mrs Beard, in her concise and well written outline of the American Labor movement, has not at tempted the epic which must some day be written about the life history of our workers, but she has given us an excellent prisentation of facts sans interpretation...
...Not much of German post-war fiction has reached us either in the original German or in English translation...
...this conversely brings him humbly to her "•at, The girl meanwhile has found * man she really loves, but her former struggle has cast her in a mould 9 Independence that she cannot —until the author brings "»rold in timely return to be the agent of Barbara's revenge on her-m and on life...
...In other words, our learned or acquired traits are more numerous than our instincts...
...Beit Poems of 1924," selected by Thomas Moult...
...his attitude toward life, t erefr-e, is readily gathered from the manifold ways which men devise to fatten upon the bodies and souls of otrtr men...
...After Barbara's sudden fall, the P'»y comes to a close in a thought-ful tone that shows life's problems are not swept away in final solution v the convention of matrimony...
...BUND MAN'S BUFF...
...Instead of the swift rush nf dramatic events that drove the Kaiser into Holland, that freed Licbknerht and ended the war in two days, we get a vague, misty reflection of great events, as though the euthor saw them through tear-stained spectacles...
...Th* Cracked Teapot," by Charles CtldwtH Dobie, is marvelous until the snd...
...I was startled at times to see how uni...
...O'Brien is neither Old Men ffiwlom himself nor the Great Amer-Isan Public—the last word pro...
...and "Mockbegger," a novel by Laurence W. Wej n«ll, S new English writer...
...This deep-set feeling stirs Andreyev, according to his own circumstances,1 to rage, to hope for the ultimate i triumph of freedom nnd love, or to utter despondoi.cy...
...Anything and everything partially understood is conveniently labeled an instinct...
...Tho same house announces for j February publication th* memoirs ef Count Michael Ksrolyi under th* title, , "Flghtinj the World...
...but he ji s let closer to the former than the litter Here comes his valuable snivel volume, ss a corrective to the •et-rot and dry-rot that afflicts the typical American magazine—the iry-rot by which life is dessicated of ill reality, and the wet-rot by which this lifeless pulp is saturated with ' the easy tears of the sob-sister...
...and "Isles of Fear...
...Brtntano'a...
...The neurol mechanism of instinct is as yet a mystery...
...Yet so strongly ia the gloomy bias ingrained in tu- minds of those who approach Hardy at all critically, that five of the six chapters in this volume point ut and emphasis* qualities in Hardy's work that are part of the pessimist's preaching...
...Baron has given us an interesting study of the perversities that follow "Pen the inhibited impulses of early youth, Barbara, at nineteen, has Blade too obvious endeavors to captor* Harold, aged twenty-four...
...Andreyev's writings, as this fact would indicate clearly reflect his actions and his moods...
...however, I do nothing of the kind, but just aa voluntarily go home to my wife.' That 1* just as if tha water said: 'I can rise in mounting wsves (yes, in tha ocean during a storm), I can foamingly fall down into the depth (yea, in the cataract), I can as a free column rise into the air (yes, in tha fountain), I c»n even vaporize and completely disappear (yes, at a heat of HO degrees...
...Notes on Books John Monks Saunders and Oeerga Palmer Putnam srs tho authors of a 1 book railed "Brain Tests," which Put...
...And so it happens that we never see the "Ninth of November" at all...
...Lltsratar* ' »V THE TREASURES OP TV POX...
...1,50 The history of economic activity, involving the life struggles of men and women for a better living, makes thrilling reading Few nov els contain as much of the "human interest" element as does the epics written by Mr...
...Franeta Sh.rld.s...
...With painstaking and scholarly thoroughness Mr...
...And since the busiest persons of all are the workers themselves, they can best profit from this outline...
...Anatoli Franc*, a* w* might expect, phrase* it suavely: "Recognize the illusions, than accept them...
...Hammond on the town and village laborer of the pre-marhine era of our Indus trial development...
...of Hareourt, Brace and Company include tha following books i "William Bisk* In This World," by Harold Bruce: "North America," by J. Russell Smith...
...He shows us the crumbling of Gorman morale after the Brest-Litovsk treaty, the momentary flare-up of military pride during the last spring drives, and the long, slow, dull collapse...
...The field of Labor research is another avenue which the Labor movement is traverseing...
...Washington: Carnegie E*a**J r mint for International Peats...
...American Labor A Review by THERESA WOLFSON A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS LABOR MOVE MEST By Mary Beard...
...It is only quite recently that the work of the environmentalists has begun tu uncover the soil from which spring many of our individual, social, economic and racial traits Prof...
...There is no number by which to count, no measure by which to limit, no scale by which to weigh, that which thou askest, Anathema...
...a "best seller," to edit a patriotic daily), to soften his keen vUion by rosy spectacles, to escape from reality' into the ' .midst of illusions...
...Brennecke presses the en**-(stum "It Is immaterial whether a man plays for nuts or for crown*) but whether a man Cheat* or play* fairly, that Is the essential thing...
...It Is admirably suited SS s gam* and, asida from being s source of entertainment, baa Its serious and psyeholoflea] aide...
...Appieton publishes th* book | this week...
...The average magazine story is about as good ss the average movie, the average bedtime talk ever the radio, the average American brain...
...She has also arranged with Harcourt, Brace snd Company for the publication ef the new novel on which ah* has boon St work line* har return from Frsneo last summer...
...Bernard claims that most of the so-called instincts, i traits and characteristics of human j natuie or behavior are too complex j and varied iB their responses to be ' inherited...
...We are, therefore, the more deeply indebted to MacBride for having selected precisely this work...
...If e man becomes fsirly convinced that every good action will be repaid him a hundredfold in a future life, such a conyiction affect* htm ia precisely the **m* way as a good bill of exchange at a very long date, and he can give aim* from mar* egoism a* from another point of view he would steal from egoism...
...OAS...
...New York: MseesUUa...
...By * great summoning of will she gath-•w strength to break away...
...Everything—what m*n c .lis chance, what he think* he decides for himself—ia determined by and subject to the "autonomous will," necessity, Fate...
...Of foreign authors, Kath-erine Mansfield has seven, Chesterton six, Thomas Burke and Somerset Maugham five...
...Kellermann did not see, or failed to record, this ecstatic moment...
...1*11...
...It is not propaganda...
...THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BIB-TORY OF THE WORLD WARV Outline ef Plsn...
...Th* newly organised International Publiaheri Company announces fer publication In February and March ''Flying Oalp," a colUctlon of abort atari** translated from the Rossis** "Foundation* ef Christianity," by Ear) Kautsky, an analysis ef th* origin* ef Christianity from th* materialist viewpoint...
...Boston: Small, Maynard & Co...
...I can also visit this or that friend—yes, I can run out of the city into the wide world and never return...
...In this recent work of Prof...
...The tremendous power of the man's work is vividly portrayed, his sincerity, his earnestness, his devotion to his ideals, his hatred of majtkind nnd his lo'-* for his suffering fe!!ow-men—ro thst when the war came he was unable to go on with bis creative work, and from 1914 to his death in 1919 wrote nothing but propaga: ua and social appeals...
...A Play in Five Acts...
...Prof...
...and Mrs...
...The great Influence of knowledge on action Is to be recognized, but the essential nature and character is unchangeable...
...Furthermore, our highly complicated civilisation and its multi-varied psychic, soriologic and economic activities exert a tremen-i dous influence and pressure upon our j delicate neurol structures and is more likely the origin of many, if not ! most all, of our human traits or "Instincts...
...Time and again ho has been tempted by , life—Delilah—to acquiesce, to bow down to earthly considerations (to write a popular pla...
...nami will publish immediately...
...Thomas Hardy's Hope -A Review by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY...
...J. T. ShetweU, Oenwel Editor...
...By Alexander Kaun...
...Sew York: Henry Holt & Co...
...BOOKS RECEIVED •eclat Selene* THE GREEK VIEW Of LIFE...
...WM, however, displays a natural-"*•* «f dialogue, an avoidance of •"'stressing, and an ability to de-!™*» character, that ought to pro-¦ye...
...But when • man is moved by th* mysterious forces of life, hia intelligence, and the motives and ekuiea he finds, are Inconsequent matters...
...They did not then know that a longer agony was still to come...
...Tho story of their heartaches, sufferings, joys, and gams under a system of production containing none of the complicated machine processes of mod ern industry, varies from the story of the struggle of the American worker only in the typ economic forces to be contended with —not in the quality of the emotions involved...
...And Bella Cohen, who once worked on the New York Call, has two triply starred...
...1 Dc.--pite the certainty of failure, man must continue his search...
...And Thorns* Hardy, with every artist, Is an optimist...
...By L. L tfer-j Hard, Professor of Soioluyy, Uni-\ versify of Minnesota...
...As to the twenty stories included, all are not equal in value, of course, but all are obviously excellent stories...
...By Alice Geratenberg...
...Beginning with the origin of trade unions in the United States, the author traces the development of Labor tactics and policies both on the political and economic field of activity...
...merit...
...Th* Spirit Sinister in "The Dynasts" praise* N*pcl*oai "Ho tops all human greatness, in that he To lesser grounds of greatness sdds the prims Of being without ¦ conscience...
...Tha complete series of tests will provide s mental profile ef say one person...
...Out of this thorny of the universe, as bound by some incomprehensible power, rise* the idea that, no man being responsible for his acts, remort* la silly and wasteful...
...By O. Lowes Dickinson...
...Verily, man must have as many "instincts" as a cat has hair...
...REAMER LOU...
...It should have been published here immediately after its tppearan:e in Germany, but we all know that that would have been impossible...
...its Mythological interest bearsi the {•"n of an excellent novel...
...The late January and February publication...
...Many of its chapters are extremely technical and require considerable psychological background for their comprehension...
...There is food for some reflection here...
...Pessimism, if It entered into th* cor* of hi* being, would destroy the srtltt's deaire t* crest...
...This is forever denied them: "There is no nsme for that which thou askest, Anathema...
...By Louii FergieaK N.w York: Dutten...
...but just at present I do nothing of all this but remain voluntarily quiet and cleat, in th* smooth pond.' Aa th* water can do all these things only when the determining causes arise, so the man mentioned above can do what he thlnka he is able to do, only on condition that the necessary motive* •re presented...
...He has examined some 495 books written by 412 writers and from them he has collected no less than 5,759 sepa rate and composite insti ids, and lie remarks that there are probably as many more floating around in other books that he has not trapped as yet...
...But even out of the depths surges his question, the insistent demand all men must maki for the ultimate aecrct of life...
...Dorothy tanrleld Fiihsr baa delivered tha manuscript of hsr new bosk for children, "Made to Ordar Stories," to Harcourt, Brace and Company for publication this year...
...The spring of the year and of one's years is, as countless poets have remarked, Nature's time for l*Ve...
...It is not an apol-| ogy...
...Bernard contends that "an adequate control of social progress and of social and individual welfare lies mainly through the analysis and organization of the environment instead of through the control of heredity, although the latter is also important...
...Sexual, Maternal, Paternal, Herd, Altruistic, Acquisitive, Hoarding, Religious and Fighting "instincts" is annihilating, ami he reduces these and many more hasty generalizations to a mass of absurdities...
...Translated from the German by Caroline V. Kerr...
...A society that has all Its property at the top and all its discontent at the bottom will tumble over into ruin...
...With varying degree of discernment, but with unfailing unanimity ef practice, artist* reveal that one may believe In the doctrine of determinism—yet will live aa though he could exercise free will...
...A Play of Youth By H. S. Baron...
...Initiation/' by Gtorg* Shivsly...
...it will help make the exceptional the average...
...By Ernest Bteniucke, Jr...
...F^or there is no number, no measure, no scale, no name for that, which thou asketh, Anathema...
...I can now take a walk...
...The resume of recent Labor developments in which the American Federation of Labor was a moving factor includes such topics as International Relations—the influence upon Lstin-American Labor movements, particularly that of Mexico...
...Since the creative need persisti, there mutt underlie hie consciousness a sen** of the vain* ef creation, therefore an ultimate value to the world...
...that wars are not made by peoples but forced upon them by forces beyond their control...
...only Elsie Singmaster of the others has ss msny...
...Konrad Bercoviri leads American authors again, with seven out of his nine stories triple-starred...
...the other stny-at-homcs who revel in luxury, while the country suffers...
...j. T. S. Eugenics vs...
...The story limps at times because Kellermann feels that his Messianic functions transcend his duty as an author...
...To get at his story, to get at his characters, we must wade through barbed-wire entanglements in the form of sermons, prose poems, ecstntic visions on the theme of peace...
...Profeisor," by Stanley Johnson...
...he naturally will have none of her...
...Button: Small, Maynard , ¦!$ Co...
...The "Ninth of November" is not without flaws...
...vernal were the emotions and reactions, recorded for us by Barbusse, in France, by Gibbs in England, by Stallings in America, and now by Kellermann in Germany...
...Sew York: Robert M. McBride & Co...
...Kaun presents this biographical and critical atudy of Andreyev...
...To th' contrary, Prof...
...Mr...
...Brennecke has devoted an entire volume to the assertion of the poet's optimism...
...But, like Samson, he has been impelled to tear off the veil of Maja, and, hearkening ' to the voice of God, to shake the pillars of Philistia's stronghold, to smash and deny and destroy—and to perish amidst th* ruins...
...This book contains the exceptional stories...
...Whoever hath said the word I Reason—hath lied...
...THOMAS HARDY'S UNIVERSE...
...By George Kaiser...
...llaniy Is shown as deeply concious of human misery, while convinced at the same time of the impossibility of humanly planned redemption...
...Youth Dramatized BARBARA...
...Whoever ha* aaid th* word Love—hath i lied...
...his war-saddened daughter leaning to a dreamy pacifism, induced by her fanatic lover...
...Bounced as if spelled Moron...
...All this is completely within my power, I have pe.'fert freedom to choose what I please...
...One further recognizes thst the political policy of the A. F. of L. has its roots in the policies of its predecessors...
...New York i Deran...
...This work is by no means easy for a layman to read...
...Prof...
...with the: might of blind Samson he has' fought...
...The affinity between the English-msn's outlook on "this unintelligible world" snd ttia' of Schopenhauer is developed in detail, with innumerable quotstions from both...
...Bernard the subject of instinct, impulses, tendencies, emotions and sentiments receives a most necessary overhauling...
...Even the noted authorities seem to be hopelessly at sea...
...And Mr...
...New York...
...Environment A Review by AUGUST CLAESSENS ISSflSCT: A STUDY IS SOCIAL PSYCHOUJGY...
...the day's work ia done...
...By teal* Bemon...
...By Bernhard Kellermann...
...Thus Hardy speaks of himaalf aa a mellorlat, and "in th* most pessimistic novel*, 'Teas' and 'Judo,' there is Implied the hope that the world will become happier when the lew* of man are made to conform mora elotely to the law*, or 1m-pultes, of nature...
...The same house hss Juet | published "Twenty-five 8hort Plays" I International), an anthology of plays J edlt.-d by Frank Shay...
...Beard indicates that the American Federation of Labor succeeded where other Labor organizations failed because of the conscious appreciation on its part of just how far along the road of pure idealism the American workers would go...
...i A hook lo be used as a guide by anyone responsible far the training of a i little child Is "The Psychology of th* ! Pre-sehool Child," by Bird T. Baldwin, | who is Research Professor of Eduea...
...In •J™* of its technical details the **»¦ is ineptly handled, but on the *¦«• it Is effective and sound...
...the secret conspirators, plotting a revolution to end the slaughter...
...For a splendid story, "Grudges," by Rupert Hughes, for all his best-seller back, ground, stands forth: "Shoes," by Frances Gilchrist Wood, is next in...
...One --ecognizes that the struggles of the radicsl philosophers of the '40's snd '50's to inject their ideas into the National Labor Union and the Knights f Labor bears a close resemblance to similar movements of today...
...All these we see and many more...
...It contains s series of ontertslnlng-psychologies...
...It is the sort of story that faun by not ending...
...Boa-ton: Small, Maynard A Co...
...Behind the Scenes A Review by DAVID BliRLNBERG I THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER...
...Translated front the Carman by Herman Stheffener...
...Hedi, the war flapper, skipping from excitement to ewci]/-ment...
...It is particularly opportune that the book should reappear at this time, for the death of Samuel Gornpers, President of the American Federation of Labor, has been considered as marking the end of an important epoch in the history of American Labor...
...By Eden Phillpotta...
...Workers' education —the realization that workers must be "educated into the Labor movement and not out of it '—is one of the most recent developments of the organized Labor movement...
...and it repays their reading amply...
...The original nature of man, his neurol or instinctive basis, is so swamped by environmental pressures that very little of it remains in our behavior, traits or nature...
...We miss the note of relief that must have prevailed in the hearts of the German people when they realized that their long agony was over...
...tfaemKlan...
...I _ I "Young Mischief and th* Perfect i Pair," by Hugh d* Solineourt, author ; of ihe much discussed novel of boy j adolescence, "One Little Boy," has just i been published by Albert snd Charles I Boni...
...One* in s Bin* | Moon," by Marion Strobel...
...THE DISCOVERY, A Comedy {ajftv* Acts...
...or I can go into my club...
...tests for sueh montsl trstta aa concentration, memory, detail, mathematical facility and msny others...
...I —Bishop Frederic D. Huntington...
...I can also go to the theatre...
Vol. 2 • February 1925 • No. 6
